Posted on 10/15/2009 9:32:22 AM PDT by pissant
0 Rock, a three-for-three Emmy winner as TV's finest comedy, finally returns tonight.
It's puzzling that I get scores of questions about the most obscure TV series, some canceled years, ago, but I have not received a single inquiry about where 30 Rock has been. Then again, given the mediocre ratings, this probably shouldn't be that great a surprise. A widespread observation is that the stories are too inside TV to strike a chord with the masses. How then do you explain the enduring popularity of the likes of Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood?
Tina Fey has ticked off some folks with her dead-on mocking of Sarah Palin but 30 Rock was a Nielsen under-achiever before anyone in the lower 48 had heard of Palin.
Whatever the reason, a lot of people are not clued in to a really wonderful comedy, whose accolades are well deserved.
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The fact that few people watch 30 Rock doesn't matter -- it makes certain Liberals feel good to know it's out there, so they keep it on the air.
Oh Lord, how did I forget about that!?
I have always assumed, based on this, that it's a huge hit, a show everyone who watches TV-- other than, coincidentally--ALL the people I know, adores.
Interesting how reality and the MSM message completely contradict each other.
I have always assumed, based on this, that it's a huge hit, a show everyone who watches TV-- other than, coincidentally--ALL the people I know, adores.
Interesting how reality and the MSM message completely contradict each other.
Overrated.
So’s Mad Men, which I enjoy infinitely more.
I, too, only watch DVDs — mostly old movies. And I would never, ever, in a thousand years and more, watch any show that featured that vicious vixen Tina Fey. Scrawny, skanky little harpy.
The twisted sisters of the TV critics’ club just loved “Arrested Development”, too.
What is wrong with those people?
The first season was alright, but after that it just got unwatchable.
Alec Baldwin is an obnoxious jerk in real life but he's just about the only good thing about the show.
Tracy Jordan's stories are alright, but on the dumb side.
Liz, Kenneth, Jenna and the rest of the characters are just awful.
Fey's self-deprecatory approach to her character was okay in the first season, but it's gotten really repetitive.
And the whole "Family Guy" thing of cutting away from the action for some inserted scene to get a cheap joke has also gotten tiresome.
The last watchable episode for me was the one where Liz went to her high school reunion remembering that everyone gave her a hard time and found out that she'd been the one abusing them.
Hey, that show was actually funny! And the caricatures were so exaggerated that it would be hard to really take offense.
There’s only so much Tina Fey one can stomach.
> Fey’s self-deprecatory approach to her character was okay in the first season, but it’s gotten really repetitive.<
I tried 3 episodes straight of the show. 3 because my GF went w/ me to a certain ‘dude” movie and that was the exchange. Cant stand it.
I absolutely believe that Tina Fey is probably the most overrated ‘comedian” on TV. Far worse than “the Ugly Betty” girl.
Two words: Alec Baldwin
He’s a bad actor and a liberal blowhard. I don’t need any more reasons not to watch.
I was puzzled when she was so applauded for her Palin skits. I only saw seconds of them on friends’ TV sets. Her coincidental—and faint—resemblence to Palin was being praised as comedic genius. I didn’t get it.
When is Breaking Bad coming back? And Friday Night Lights?
No TV show or movie will succeed if it contains Alec Baldwin. No matter how many projects his friends put him in to keep him working he has broken his plate with his audience. It doesn’t help that 30 Rock’s creator and star became a media darling attempting to destroy an adored Republican candidate. Tina Fey isn’t worthy to carry Sarah’s ammo.
I’m with you. She wasn’t particularly funny — and she didn’t bear any more resemblance to Sarah than I do to Cary Grant. Less, in fact.
This is so true. She's really only a 1-trick pony. I expect her exposure will go up sharply if Palin starts campaigning for herself or other conservatives. Fey will continue making up phrases like, "I can see Russia from my porch." and the twisted news media will continue to report them as news trying to make people believe Palin said them herself.
Isn’t this the COMEDY about the drama program that is called Saturday Night Live?
Tell your girlfriend that you hope she doesn’t get jealous as you are getting a “thing” for Tina Fey. She’ll change the channel.
She’s a semi-lib but didn’t drink the Obeyme kool-aid. Yeah, that scar is hot (sarc/)
Arrested Development was excellent. Shame on Fox for ruining it.
Maybe the audience considers Tina Fey too “divisive”, and a “hater”.
Friday Night Lights is currently scheduled to come back in the summer on NBC. I think it starts back on DirecTV this month though.
I’m hoping that something gets canceled on NBC and they bring it back before the Olympics instead of after.
It’s funny how far some FReepers go to deny reality.
The first thing I said when I saw Sarah Palin was that she looked like Tina Fey.
And Alec Baldwin is a scumbag. But he is able to portray his character Jack Donaghy, who is every thing that Baldwin is not, so compellingly.
What is that if not great acting? To play convincingly something that is 100 per cent the opposite of your very being?
Thump your chests about how you never watch TV or only use it on Sunday mornings. But don’t deny reality.
30 Rock is funny - it should have a bigger audience.
30 Rock is well written and for the most part funny.
Having said that there is no doubt it is essentially a F**k You to anyone that doesn't share Tina Fey, et al's, politics and world view hidden behind the facade of a comedy program.
Alec Baldwin is a loathsome human being but a talented actor and his timing is impeccable. He kills on that program and is completely believable as a caricature of a GE Exec.
Fey is a very ugly person. Anything the ‘critics’ orgasm over (like this show for the last 3 years), I deliberately avoid.
I don't see that. If anything, the Jenna character has been used many times to display the vacuity of Hollywood stars. (Like her confusing Obama and Osama.)
Well, it isn't exclusively a raised middle finger to everyone in flyover country but they never miss an opportunity to ridicule Christianty, patriotism, modesty, Republicans and conservatives.
Making fun of Hollywood vacuousness is easy because everyone thinks the other person is shallow but their own values...those are deep and worthy of respect.
When entertainment types make fun of themselves it is like the old Carlin joke where he said, Everyone driving faster than you on the freeway is a maniac and everyone driving slower than you is an idiot."
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