“Sometimes if you want Justice, You have to get it yourself.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytkjQvSk2VA&w=560&h=315] Well this looks fantastic. The first full trailer for Luke Cage has been unleashed by Marvel and Netflix, and it looks like it gives us a pretty good taste of what’s in store on September 30th.
I think some of my favourite types of story are the ones where you take a character who is fundamentally good, then you throw a cynical, uncaring and frankly horrible world at them, and watch how they react. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is this idea down to a tee. One of Netflix’s newest Original Series, it’s the brainchild of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and the 30 Rock influences are very much noticeable in the writing and comedic style. The programme follows the titular Kimmy Schmidt, played by Ellie Kemper, as she tries to bring her small town sensibilities and earnest nature to New York City so she can survive and thrive. It’s a lovely, conventional and heartwarming story. Except that the title is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. And it’s named such because when Kimmy was 15, she was kidnapped by an Apocalyptic Preacher and forced to spend the next 15 years underground in a bunker with four other women before being rescued. Which understandably, could be pretty dark as a plot line. Repressed trauma, flashbacks, deep rooted issues and all that.
