The Profoundly Well-Timed Return of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’

A pre-#MeToo show about survival has exactly the right spirit for 2020 — and offers some hope, too

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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5 min readMay 13, 2020

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was a show made for dark times. When it premiered in 2015, its premise — Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) a teenage girl held underground by a John Jamelske-esque kidnapper…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.