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Apr. 17th, 2009 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyakuzaExtremely late to the party here but I just finished watching the first season of 30 Rock, which is so good that I can't believe the world hasn't been knocked out of orbit from the sheer force of a billion people screaming "THIS TELEVISION SHOW IS A VERY GOOD TELEVISION SHOW IT IS OF SUPERIOR QUALITY TO ALL OTHER TELEVISION SHOWS"
I've had the first season DVDs sat around for months now, ever since I found them for pennies, but never got around to them until I had the whole of Easter to fill.
And it wasn't that I didn't think it'd be any good, obviously I'd seen it hyped enough to decide to buy it, but I wasn't at all prepared for it to be this good. For some reason I was expecting an Ally McBeal-style mixture of weird aside gags, work stuff (replace Court Cases with Teevee Programmes), maybe a bit of shmaltzy romance-woe soundtracked to terrible acoustic music in there too.
Where on Earth I got that from I don't know. Perhaps because it had that rival in Studio 60, which I saw a bit of on Channel Five (and I stress the tinyness of that "bit") which seemed more like that. Also Jane Krakowski was in both. Actually, it probably was just because Jane Krakowski was in it. Assumptions, ass, made out of.
So instead I find out that its fast, funny, ridiculous, cute, satirical, and bizarrely obsessed with racism. All of which, combined with the adorkable Tina Fey, make for the crackiest crack ever to hit DVD. I couldn't ever watch just one.
I'm far too late to say much else that hasn't already been said, so I'll just complain that I have to wait until next month for Season 2 to be out.
Although, I can't moan about it that much as i've just started watching United States of Tara as a replacement and I could rave about that for a whole other post. Especially as it features that rarest of characters, the non-angsty non-closeted gay teenager! Its always a big deal for me when this happens, as I get very upset that gay kids, generally, don't get to have the first awkward and/or hilarious first kiss/date stage that other kids do during high school, that theres no gradual exploration of their sexuality, going from no experience whatsoever to proper Scary Adult Sex in one go. Ugly Betty should take note and drop the bizarre "don't ask don't tell" policy on Justin. Down with this sort of thing! Gay rights for gays! Etc.
I've had the first season DVDs sat around for months now, ever since I found them for pennies, but never got around to them until I had the whole of Easter to fill.
And it wasn't that I didn't think it'd be any good, obviously I'd seen it hyped enough to decide to buy it, but I wasn't at all prepared for it to be this good. For some reason I was expecting an Ally McBeal-style mixture of weird aside gags, work stuff (replace Court Cases with Teevee Programmes), maybe a bit of shmaltzy romance-woe soundtracked to terrible acoustic music in there too.
Where on Earth I got that from I don't know. Perhaps because it had that rival in Studio 60, which I saw a bit of on Channel Five (and I stress the tinyness of that "bit") which seemed more like that. Also Jane Krakowski was in both. Actually, it probably was just because Jane Krakowski was in it. Assumptions, ass, made out of.
So instead I find out that its fast, funny, ridiculous, cute, satirical, and bizarrely obsessed with racism. All of which, combined with the adorkable Tina Fey, make for the crackiest crack ever to hit DVD. I couldn't ever watch just one.
I'm far too late to say much else that hasn't already been said, so I'll just complain that I have to wait until next month for Season 2 to be out.
Although, I can't moan about it that much as i've just started watching United States of Tara as a replacement and I could rave about that for a whole other post. Especially as it features that rarest of characters, the non-angsty non-closeted gay teenager! Its always a big deal for me when this happens, as I get very upset that gay kids, generally, don't get to have the first awkward and/or hilarious first kiss/date stage that other kids do during high school, that theres no gradual exploration of their sexuality, going from no experience whatsoever to proper Scary Adult Sex in one go. Ugly Betty should take note and drop the bizarre "don't ask don't tell" policy on Justin. Down with this sort of thing! Gay rights for gays! Etc.
