![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the impulse that broke “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” For me and many others, it didn’t just hurt the show it undercut the legacies of “Mean Girls” and “30 Rock.”īut Fey is back in form here, as are the women of Girls5Eva. My love went sour come 2016, when accusations of brown- and blackface and anti-Asian racism in her work were lampooned on the show, all of which largely landed as stale and reactionary. A decade ago, I was a Tina Fey stan - to the point where I read “Bossypants” cover-to-cover multiple times and made and retweeted GIFs of “30 Rock” on Tumblr. Like the other shows in the Fey-Carlock-Richmond Cinematic Universe, including “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Great News,” “Girls5Eva” retains a serrated cultural savvy wrapped around a lipstick-red bleeding heart.īut it (mostly) jettisons Fey and Carlock’s least-funny impulse - the one to drag critics at the expense of jokes.Īnd, as a result, “Girls5Eva” feels like a new page for Fey. ![]() Creator Meredith Scardino probably has an outsized role in “Girls5Eva’s” greatness, but executive producer Tina Fey (and longtime co-conspirators Robert Carlock and composer Jeff Richmond) has her handprints all over the show, with its litany of rapid-fire jokes and bits coming in hot like a pitching machine. ![]()
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