What is that strange tingling I feel all the way from the top of my head to the tips of my toes? Could it be the unfamiliar effervescence of unbridled excitement, or is it just heartburn? Well, for once—and perhaps the first time in 2015—the answer is the former! Because the trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the new Netflix series from Tina Fey, a woman who needs no introduction, has just been released, and in the words of Queen Elizabeth I (the Cate Blanchett version of her, anyway) it is marvelous in our eyes.
I had the great good fortune of reading the original script for the pilot of the series, back when it was still called Tooken (otherwise known as the past tense of “take”). I read a lot of scripts these days, and most of them seem relatively dead on the page; it takes a special kind of skill to be able to see what will come alive when it’s actually cast and filmed. But this one, even in embryonic Final Draft form, was one of the funniest pieces of writing I have ever read—so funny, in fact, that some of the other diners in the airport restaurant I was reading it in shot me looks of irritation. (Nobody actually came over to tell me to shut up, because I was in the Midwest.)
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