According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cast of Eddie Murphy’s biopic about comedian Rudy Ray Moore is getting even better (or “muscular,” as THR puts it), with Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph all joining the cast. The Hollywood Reporter story says that Snipes will…
The queens who get another chance to snatch the crown on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars are necessarily subjected to additional scrutiny, having learned the (s)lay of the land already. But season three looks like it’ll be extra challenging, thanks to a diverse lineup of guest judges.
On Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Tituss Burgess’ Titus Andromedon is an unstoppable force of nature, but he has frustratingly few actual superpowers. Thankfully, that will change for Burgess’ appearance in I Hate Kids, a new comedy film starring Tom Everett Scott (from That Thing You Do and the end of La La Land). The…
Since the beginning, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has done the unexpected. It took a premise that sounds, at best, confounding on paper and spun it into a complex, funny, and often moving series that impressively balances absurdity and biting realness. Season three has followed suit, playing around with sitcom tropes and…
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s third season hasn’t been as cohesive as its second, at times spinning too many plates and then just letting them fall. The show has great continuity, especially when it comes to its ever-expanding web of recurring jokes, but several of the season’s most interesting developments haven’t…
In “Kimmy Googles The Internet!,” Titus and Kimmy both attempt to grow up, but they base their efforts on misconceptions of what it means to be an adult. Titus believes that being an adult means dating someone mature, so he tries to make things work with Reuben, who he views as an adult because he has a baby, he takes…
When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt takes on specific genres, it never does so in the obvious ways. “Kimmy Pulls Off A Heist!” skewers a high-stakes heist film to great comedic effect, highlighting the show’s bizarre, distinct voice.
For all its darkness, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a huge heart, and it finds warmth and depth in surprising places. In “Kimmy Goes To Church!,” Kimmy asks Titus to take her to church as part of her mission to accept that not all reverends are bad. There, she meets Ms. Clara, who Titus warns Kimmy about immediately.…
Even though “Kimmy Does A Puzzle!” begins where the last episode ended, it does some awkward narrative backtracking instead of following through on the momentum. Titus, fresh off his discovery that he’s a villain, confesses to eating Dionne Warwick while stranded on a lifeboat after the cruise ship caught on fire.…
Both Kimmy and Titus have surprisingly poignant breakthroughs in “Kimmy Learns About The Weather!,” which takes their storylines in the episode to unexpected places. Unfortunately, the revelations they have are far more compelling than some of the build-up, which borders on tedious, and there isn’t quite enough time…
“Kimmy Is A Feminist!” is a follow-up to “Kimmy Goes To A Play!” in the sense that it clearly has something it wants to say and yet ends up saying nothing at all. The episode is poised to critique performative allyship and faux wokeness, but it never reaches that point. Instead, it ridicules millennial attitudes…
“Kimmy Steps On A Crack!” brings back Kimmy’s fellow molewoman Gretchen, one of the more complicated characters on the show. After Kimmy accidentally encouraged her to start her own cult last season, Gretchen did just that. Now she’s living in a compound in the woods with a bunch of teen boys who treat her more like a…
There’s a lot going on in “Kimmy Goes To College,” and yet not much really happens, which is pretty par for the course with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which packs a lot of zaniness into one half hour, sprints through the story with little time to breathe. That may sound like criticism, but Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s…
While the first couple of episodes have moved Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s characters in new directions, “Kimmy Can’t Help You!” recenters on the show’s core, tapping into the initial premise by bringing some of Kimmy’s past back to the surface. The episode goes dark, delving not only into Kimmy’s trauma and the…
I had almost forgotten the feeling of perpetually gasping for breath that watching an episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt induces. With its endless, zippy jokes, the show barely allows room for breathing between laughs. It has some of the best straight-up joke writing on television, up there with Veep in sheer joke…
This post features plot points from season three of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
In the first full trailer for the third season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy is adjusting to the recess-less life of a college student. Indeed, Ellie Kemper’s optimistic one-time kidnapping survivor is taking on higher education in the new episodes, as well as divorcing cult leader Richard Wayne Gary Wayne.…
Well, we know how Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Titus (Tituss Burgess) probably feels about Beyoncé’s Grammys loss. Rather it’s best not to bother him at this point in time. He’s Lemonade-ing. To announce the May 19 premiere date for the third season of the show, Netflix released a teaser featuring the character’s take…
Julie Andrews and The Jim Henson Company go way, way back—specifically to the 1970s variety show The Julie Andrews Hour, where she duetted with Rowlf The Dog and danced with the giant blue monster known as Thog. She’d later guest on The Muppet Show and star in the primetime special Julie On Sesame Street, programs…
“I’m pretty but tough, like a diamond, or beef jerky in a ball gown,” goes one of the top 10 lines from Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, spoken by the city-hardened Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess). Either there’s more in common between Burgess and the character he plays than just a first name, or he’s going…
