30 Rock - DVD

30 Rock: Season 2

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Total reviews: 38 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Is it possible to be too smart and too fast? 5 out of 5 stars.
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Yeah, probably. That's the only reason I can come up with for 30 Rock not having a larger audience. It's absolutely brilliant. There's nothing more I can say that Robert Moore hasn't covered in his fine review below.

Tina Fey is a genius 5 out of 5 stars.
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The cast, writing and concept continue to deliver. It is an intelligent comedy and season 2 keeps you as hooked as the previous. Make sure you get this DVD (and season 1 if you don't have it).

Different from the first season 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am not sure if the second season of 30 Rock is slightly better or slightly worse than the first season. Either way it is definitely worth watching and worthy of any awards heaped on it. Watch this season if you have any sense of humour.

It's unfortunate that season 3 (curently playing) is misfiring, let's hope that we get more than 2 good seasons out of this show.
I have not bought this DVD set yet. For a start it is overpriced, especially with the reduced number of episodes. I know there was a writer's strike but that isn't my fault.
There might be lots of extras but I was not too pleased with the extras on the first season, and I don't really buy DVDs for the extras.

My recommendation is to see this show, in reruns or borrow it from a friend... and come back here in a year and see if the price has dropped.

Editorial Review:

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/07/2008 Rating: Nr

30 Rock - Season 1

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Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Remember Arrested Development? Smartest, funniest show on television. A critics' darling. An Emmy-winner for Best Comedy Series. But no one watched, and it was cancelled. Will history repeat itself with 30 Rock? It's the smartest, funniest show on television. A critics' darling. An Emmy-winner for Best Comedy Series. And it finished its inaugural season in 137th place! Hopefully, people will discover all that they missed with this Season 1 set and 30 Rock will, better late than never, find the audience it so richly deserves. A behind-the-scenes workplace comedy in the grand tradition of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show, 30 Rock stars comedy geek goddess Tina Fey as Liz Lemmon, who juggles her hapless personal life with her chaotic career as the producer and head writer of an SNL-ish sketch comedy show. She has a new boss, cunning and ruthless GE executive Jack Donaghy (Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Alec Baldwin), who insists on being her mentor, and a new star, medicated, loose-cannon comedian Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), who steals the spotlight from the show's flighty star, Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski).

Briskly paced and perfectly cast, 30 Rock rewards viewers with brilliant dialogue (when Liz asks Jack why he is dressed in a tuxedo with no formal event to attend, he coolly responds, "It's after six; what am I, a farmer?") and fresh characters you haven't seen on a hundred other sitcoms. Jack McBrayer is the series' scene-stealing breakout star as NBC page Kenneth, a sweet and innocent "rube." The ensemble's seemingly spontaneous byplay invites repeat viewings to catch jokes and sly bits of business you might have missed (in "Tracy Does Conan," listen for the initial confusion over how to pronounce Tracy's less-than-ethical physician, Dr. Spaceman, or, in "The Hair and the Head," watch for the Katie Couric slur on the wall of what is purported to be NBC anchor Brian Williams' trashed office). In a season full of gems (including "Black Tie," featuring Paul Reubens as severely inbred royalty), there are only a couple of comparative clunkers, but the pleasure of this ensemble's company more than compensates. 30 Rock is highly recommended for people like Kenneth who just love television so much. And by the hammer of Thor, watch season 2! --Donald Liebenson

30 Rock: Season 1, Vol. 2

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Soars Then Falters, Still It's Great 5 out of 5 stars.
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We finished watching season two of 30 Rock feeling that the writers strike had put a damper on the quality of the final five episodes (pretty much all of disc two), and as Tina Fey explains, those episodes are missing out on the improvised dialogue that ordinarily spikes up every episode. Seems the actors didn't want to add even the slightest little thing, in solidarity with the striking scripters. So the last five episodes are a bit stiff and awkward, and on top of that the season arc had to be hastily erected and concluded in a much shorter number of episodes than it had been launched to last. Oh well, it's fine, but I'm just saying, the quality suffers a little because you're used to the Rolls Royce of shows, then suddenly it's just a tricked-out hummer. Shame because, in every other way, the season has seemed on the brink of topping season one with ease. The actors all seem much more comfortable with their roles, and Alec Baldwin is now in his own grand world of genius, in which he can say or do the craziest things and they all make sense. Tina herself as Liz Lemon must have rebelled against the way her stylists had gradually made her more and more chic during the finals episodes of season one, so she had become indistinguishable from the leading ladies of ordinary shows. Remember when that happened to Roseanne and all of a sudden Roseanne looked like Bruce Weber was photographing her for Vogue? When Liz was dating Lloyd it was the same sort of thing.

Now all that's changed and she is the hapless mess we adore, and she sticks with it, though watching her on season three's opener last night (when she is trying to adopt a baby from gruff, sadistic Megan Mullally) she had put herself all together and I was thinking, uh-oh, she's all glamorous again, but by the end of the episode things had fallen apart.

I don't know, but I'm sort of tired of Kenneth and would rather see more of Jonathan, but Jonathan himself is becoming much more like Lloyd--the other Lloyd, the one on Entourage. It's like writers in general think there's only two ways for male PA's to be, and neither of them are pretty. We didn't like it in the movies when Meryl Streep was so outrageously nasty to her assistants in The Devil Wears Prada, but on TV, and when it's a man who's doing it, it's all so super comical, but it sets my remaining teeth on edge.

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Emmy Award winner Tina Fey writes executive produces and stars as Liz Lemon the head writer of a live variety program in New York City. Liz's life is turned upside down when brash new network executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin in his Golden Globe winning role) interferes with her show bringing the wildly unpredictable Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) into the cast. Now it's up to Liz to manage the mayhem and still try and have a life.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 025195019705 Manufacturer No: 61102515