Remember last March when Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt debuted on Netflix? Ah, those were the days. For a good three, maybe even four weeks everyone on social media was obsessed with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s spiritual 30 Rock sequel about a lady starting over in the big city after spending 15 years in a bunker. Ellie Kemper was everywhere you looked on the promotional tour. The “Pinot Noir” song went so viral Titus Burgess landed an endorsement deal out of it. Many an op-ed was written about Kimmy Schmidt‘s treatment of mental abuse and gross mistreatment of Native Americans.
That was so last year. We binged. We obsessed. We moved on. And the same thing will soon happen to Fuller House and Love. Netflix’s binge-all-at-once model puts an instant expiration date on the pop culture currency of its shows.
That is until the second season comes around, and Kimmy’s is right around the corner. Coincidentally, for the first time in almost exactly a year I re-watched some season 1 episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt last night. Conclusion: Still as hilarious as ever, although wow does that Native American storyline with Jane Krakowsi ever seem worse now in the wake of all the recent controversy over diversity in Hollywood.
Moving on. Netflix dropped the first full length trailer for season 2 today.
Things we learned:
- Kimmy’s friends want to her to get therapy.
- Kimmy gets a job at a year round Christmas story which is pretty much the perfect job for her.
- Jane Krakowski is back as a trophy wife who wants all of the old perks just without the husband.
- There will still be flashbacks to the years in the bunker.
- Kimmy might get a boyfriend this season. Didn’t she have one of those last year? You can’t remember, can you? That’s because you binged the whole season over a weekend, and it all blends together in your…dammit! There am I on that freakin’ soap box again.
- Kimmy thinks that an offer to try some nose candy sounds perfectly harmless because of course she does.
- Most importantly, the show looks as funny as ever.
Here’s the trailer:
The whole season drops April 15th. According to SlashFilm, the episodes will be longer this season, ranging between 27 and 33 minutes long.