Tina Fey and Robert Carlock have some unfinished business with “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
After four seasons, the co-creators and showrunners said goodbye to their Netflix comedy about a kidnapping victim who had to learn to live in the real world after spending her formative years in an underground bunker in January 2019. At the time Fey told Variety that it would have felt “reductive” to force Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) into a romantic relationship by series’ end, so instead the story focused on her reconnecting with her mother (Lisa Kudrow) and becoming a successful children’s book author. A few months later, Fey, Carlock and their streaming home announced a standalone interactive special to more fully close the series’ arc. Now, Fey shares that part of the appeal of doing one more Kimmy Schmidt story was be able to give her a romantic happy ending, but also to “deal with the Reverend,...
After four seasons, the co-creators and showrunners said goodbye to their Netflix comedy about a kidnapping victim who had to learn to live in the real world after spending her formative years in an underground bunker in January 2019. At the time Fey told Variety that it would have felt “reductive” to force Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) into a romantic relationship by series’ end, so instead the story focused on her reconnecting with her mother (Lisa Kudrow) and becoming a successful children’s book author. A few months later, Fey, Carlock and their streaming home announced a standalone interactive special to more fully close the series’ arc. Now, Fey shares that part of the appeal of doing one more Kimmy Schmidt story was be able to give her a romantic happy ending, but also to “deal with the Reverend,...
- 5/12/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
One of the preeminent voices in American independent film’s nascent boom years during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, Hal Hartley’s visibility has waned as his stylistic preoccupations have diverged from American arthouse audiences’ tastes, but his trademark sensibility is in fine form in his most recent film "Meanwhile," which, after bowing at last year’s Era New Horizons Film Festival in Poland, had its American premiere last night at the IFC Center in New York (more screenings of his films are playing with Hartley in attendance up until until April 4).
Focusing on a middle-aged, down on his luck jack-of-all-trades man who seems to be pathologically incapable of not helping people -- even when displaying his myriad talents on someone else’s behalf hinders his own struggles to get his novel published, find a new band to drum for, create a green tech start-up involving German windows and...
Focusing on a middle-aged, down on his luck jack-of-all-trades man who seems to be pathologically incapable of not helping people -- even when displaying his myriad talents on someone else’s behalf hinders his own struggles to get his novel published, find a new band to drum for, create a green tech start-up involving German windows and...
- 3/1/2012
- by Brandon Harris
- The Playlist
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