I was passively reading the New Yorker this morning and they had an article on one of my favorite shows, 30 Rock, so of course I wanted to see what they were saying. Needless to say, I think the stuffed shirts over at the New Yorker don't have much of a sense of humor. This quote really burned me:
"Fey has surrounded herself with a cast that has one spectacular member and
a couple of really good ones, but that averages out to only fair. Her own
performance falls into the not-so-great category. ... Fey’s intelligence comes
across, of course, but it’s a kind of managerial intelligence, a high level of
competence."
"So it moves at a pretty good clip and is full of zingers, but in the first
season I found myself fast-forwarding through many of the scenes that didn’t
involve Alec Baldwin or Jack McBrayer..."
Ouch.
I will be the first to agree that this show would be nothing without Jack Baldwin, he is absolutely hilarious, dry, etc., but to say that the scenes without him are completely not worth watching really burns me. Maybe the folks over at the New Yorker just have an easier time laughing at jokes about marketing, corporations, etc.
At least one good thing came out of this article, this picture is hilarious:
