In Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy Finally Breaks

If Season 1 of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was all about the tenacity it takes to emerge from years of trauma with the same unflinching optimism and love of humanity as an early-aughts Disney Channel heroine, Season 2 shows what happens when that good-natured doggedness finally begins to combust.
Pinot Noir, It's the Kimmy Schmidt Season 2 Trail-oir
The trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s live action cartoon, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, dropped Monday, and features its hero (Ellie Kemper) applying for a job at a year-around Christmas store, getting dating advice from Titus, going back to school, and watching one of her fellow cult survivors “do drugs with a junkyard…
Kimmy Schmidt Was Inspired by Elizabeth Smart
Actress Ellie Kemper plays the lead in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Tina Fey’s Netflix series about a woman who was held captive by a doomsday cult leader since the age of 14. Kemper cites the story of kidnapping survivor, Elizabeth Smart, as the inspiration behind her portrayal of Kimmy. Smart was also 14 when she was…
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Is Basically a '90s Tween Disney Sitcom
Because I don't live under a rock, but rather a pile of blankets and empty Ben & Jerry's containers, I, like many others, spent last weekend watching the entirety of Netflix's new Tina Fey-penned show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. From the start, I felt there was something deeply familiar about this show, aside from…
'Pinot Noir' Is the Music Video About Black Dick That You Need, Deserve
Until this morning at 3am, I was not a fan of the Ellie Kemper-powered new show The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. But something about watching a music video making fun of the Countess Luann school of singing while being about dicks just broke me. And it will break you, too. Troll the respawn, Jeremy! And trust in Titus…
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Trailer Is Here and It's a Cult Classic
Netflix has released the first trailer for the Tina Fey/Robert Carlock produced The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which stars Ellie Kemper as a doomsday cult member who, after years in an underground vault in Indiana, learns that the world hasn't ended and moves to New York City to start her above-ground life.
Weird Prints and Pretty Hair at the Vanity Fair Calendar Party
At the Vanity Fair party celebrating the Vanities Calendar, in which actresses pose as pin-ups, there were some cute party outfits hiding out amongst a lot of bizarre prints.
Broke-Ass Lindsay Lohan Moves Back in With Her Mom
Lindsay Lohan has moved back into her teenage bedroom on Long Island with mom/"cool mom"/party friend Dina because Thomas Wolfe was wrong: you CAN go home again. Supposedly she's returned home to help pay the mortgage on the Lohan family abode (although she herself is strapped for cash, so I don't really see how…
Flirty Frocks and Hideous Hose at the Elle Women in Television Celebration
Last night at the Elle Women in Television Celebration held at Soho House in West Hollywood, the fashion was all over the place: Formal black feathers, vivid yellow fringe, a shiny metallic short suit. While many of the awesome ladies in attendance looked great, there were, as always a few misfires. Let's take a look.
That Time A Woman Dropped $20,000 Bones On An Evening With Bates From Downton Abbey
A 52-year-old Long Island woman named Sandra Doshner is the self-proclaimed "world's biggest Downton fan, complete with a "Future Mrs. Bates" t-shirt (referring, of course, to the noble, mysterious valet John Bates, played by Brendan Coyle). The retired medical technologist won Coyle's hand by placing a £12,000 bid…
Watch Ellie Kemper Execute Several Perfect Dance Bombs
This meme, executed with perfection by Bridesmaids' Ellie Kemper, is one I can definitely get behind (preferably while secretly dancing).
Megan Mullally's Home For Actresses
Peggy Dvorak, of the Peggy Dvorak Institute, teaches her students how to break out of the bland, boiled-potato stereotype and be "cool." I would totally sign up for a lesson — except that this is a video from Funny Or Die and Peggy is actually played by the hilarious Megan Mullally. Her students, however, all swear…