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<em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt</em> Feels a Bit Stuck

Tina Fey’s charming Netflix show offers more of the same in Season 3, suggesting the series could use a shake-up.
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The second season of was a . Though its first year on Netflix was actually produced for NBC (coming with all inherent network strictures), the show’s second really took advantage of the freer creative environment of streaming TV. It indulged in and surprisingly intense plot arcs about trauma and recovery, with its bizarre, emotionally stunted, but morally resolute title character voyaging through New York’s ever-growing crisis of income inequality and gentrification. It was maybe the best argument for what Netflix

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