'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt': the coolest show for a “Netflix and Chill” session

08 May 2016 - 02:00 By Rebecca Davis

Rebecca Davis says the 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' is essential viewing from the online TV platform 'Netflix and chill." If you are unfamiliar with the meaning of this phrase, you either don't spend much time on the internet, or you use the internet solely for high-minded tasks like reading scientific journals. In that case, to break it down for you: Netflix and chill has, in the mysterious way of the internet, become a euphemism for having sex. Please bear this in mind the next time someone you don't know very well issues you an invitation to visit, using that phrase.If I were to invite someone for Netflix and chill, however, I would most likely mean it in the literal sense. Please bear this in mind the next time I issue you an invitation to visit. I would probably be asking you round to binge-watch the second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with me, rather than engage in a suite of carnal delights. This is because the second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is, in most cases, better than a suite of carnal delights.story_article_left1I know this is a bold claim, and it is contingent on a shared sense of humour. If you don't find silly stuff funny, you should avoid Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and get back to the scientific journals. Here's an example of the kind of silliness I mean. Kimmy says: "Anonymous insults are never funny, except when you write 'wash me' on a car. That's just funny - because it's like, Is it the car saying it?" Admittedly, it's the quality of comic performances in the show that really deliver the humorous punches, so even if that left you utterly unamused, you should still consider checking it out.In the show's first season, our heroine was released from an underground bunker where she had been kept for years. As I wrote in this column at the time, that scenario does not exactly scream LOLZ. Yet somehow the show's writers and producers manage to extract something of pure joy and exuberance from an objectively nightmarish scenario. In the current second season, Kimmy continues to try to adapt to modern life armed with little more than a cartoonishly Pollyanna spirit. When a sulky teenager refers to Kimmy as a "bitch", she shoots back: "A female dog? The thing that makes puppies? Nice compliment!" That's our Kimmy, all the way.Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the brainchild of comic genius Tina Fey, and many have observed that the second season feels similar to Fey's sitcom 30 Rock, one of my favourite shows of all time. It's a Netflix-original show, so your only legal means of watching it is via the online streaming service. Winter is coming: best find someone with a Netflix subscription, and chill...

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