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- NBC
- Oct 11, 2006
- NBC
- Oct 11, 2006
Summary Dealing with life in a studio at NBC's 30 Rockefeller Plaza (the title is a shortening of that), the show centers around Liz Lemon, played by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, who's the head writer of The Girlie Show. When her old boss dies and a new boss comes in (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy), demanding the addition of a volatile former ...
Created By: Tina Fey
- NBC
- Oct 11, 2006
- NBC
- Oct 11, 2006
Summary Dealing with life in a studio at NBC's 30 Rockefeller Plaza (the title is a shortening of that), the show centers around Liz Lemon, played by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, who's the head writer of The Girlie Show. When her old boss dies and a new boss comes in (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy), demanding the addition of a volatile former ...
Created By: Tina Fey
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
67
68% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
26% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
67
68% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
26% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Like the best TV comedies - from "Seinfeld" to "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and all the way back to "The Jack Benny Program" - "30 Rock" sparkles not just because its central star gets to shine, but because everyone does.
30 Rock... is pretty darn funny, a bitterly merry comic jihad against corporate stupidity and mendaciousness.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 171 User Ratings
8.4
92% Positive
157 Ratings
157 Ratings
4% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
4% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 171 User Ratings
8.4
92% Positive
157 Ratings
157 Ratings
4% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
4% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
One of the funniest shows on television I've ever seen. It's insanely addictive and hilarious. Highly recommended. Tina Fey's writing is great, as well as her comedic timing. Every character is likable and at one point or other, funny.
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SEASON 1
Baldwin's sharklike momentum pulls you through a sitcom that otherwise makes little sense.
There's a lot to enjoy... But "30 Rock" is more sitcommy than most of the single-camera sitcoms on the air now, and it has none of the sharp bite of "The Larry Sanders Show."
For all the show's cartooniness, its gender-conscious take on the TV business is actually more sophisticated [than Studio 60's].
For all the rewriting and reworking, the show needs a better premise and funnier dialogue and, most of all, a more commanding performer in the starring role.
This is sorely underrated...
This is the funniest show to have ever aired on television. I am not kidding you. I have watched every single episode of this show, half of them twice.
The first season is still the best, though. The writing remains as strong until the last season, but the production values got *too* high... the kind of jury-rigged, duct-tape-fixed camera and prop action made the solid writing and acting absolutely hilarious. Once they started bringing in higher-level stuff it felt a little more corporate, which is kind of ironic considering that a theme in the original two seasons was to make fun of all that...
The music is also what kills it. When I went back to watch this season I found that less music played over these episodes, and that actually made it funnier. Once they start adding incidental music and such it gets kind of cheesy later on.
So yeah, this is definitely the best and most hilarious season of the funniest show on television. I love Tina to death. I hope she does another show soon, but I hope she keeps her husband's crappy incidental music out of it. Just use his themes.
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SEASON 1
WItty, intelligent, and hilarious 30 Rock seems to have everything going for it. Through all the seasons, the characters are sustained and the humour is current. I think for it to have become a popular show however, it needed to connect more with the audience and allow us to be a little more emotionally invested in the characters.
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SEASON 1
Unexceptional. Its fine. It has some chucklesome moments and Alec Baldwin is pretty good, having most of them. The rest of the comedy is bland. If its on and you have nothing better to do, watch it, otherwise there are so many other shows out there that are so much funnier.
Its a little sad to describe it as fast paced and witty because really, it is anything but that - but then when you see so many 10s and 0s as review scores that tells you all you need to know about the reviewers!
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SEASON 1
When I first heard about this show I was really excited because I heard it was a sitcom with Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan. Unfortunately, it's 30 minutes of Tiny Fey dating men out of her league, expressing Democratic opinions, and behaving in immature ways. 30 Rock is the perfect example why you can't give lead roles to tv writer turned "actor's".
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