30 Rock Watch: Season 6, Episode 15 - The Shower Principle
21.05.12
If self-reflexive comedy were a food,
30 Rock would be of the
Epic Mealtime variety; a big unorganized, but technically sound, heaping of arguably unnecessary comedy calories. Its strange how this entire sixth season would work better as a first season for some other wit-com with characters we havent seen reach pinnacles of illogical redundancy. It goes completely against my enjoyment for a show like
Castle , whose predictable mold of twisty mysteries Im wholly comfortable with. Because it never asked me to accept it as anything but a twisty mystery. But you,
30 Rock , you promised me the world! And you gave me Pluto, and then took it away.
Lizs day is a near-replica of the same day last year, starting with a visit to her accountant where we see her yearly evolution from buying a restaurant-grade onion ringer to actually eating the onion inside to eating the piece of lettuce beneath the onion ring. (If shes doing this at home, why is she even using
Source: Cinema Blend