30 Rock - Season 1 DVD Review

[TJ]

Emmy Award winner Tina Fey writes, executive produces and stars as Liz Lemon, who is the head writer of a live variety program in New York City (No, not that one. Well, not anymore). Liz’s life is turned upside down with brash new network executive Jack Donaghy (Vice President of East Coast Television -- formerly Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming) played by Golden Globe winner Alec Baldwin interferes with her show, bringing the wildly unpredictable Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan, in the character he was born to play) into the cast. Now it is up to Liz to manage the mayhem and still try to have a life. Join in the behind-the-scenes hilarity with the complete first season of 30 Rock on DVD.

30 Rock debuted on NBC in Fall 2007, quickly being paired up with NBC’s three other single-camera sitcoms, My Name is Earl, The Office, and Scrubs. I will admit, 30 Rock is probably third on my preference list of the four shows after The Office and Scrubs, but I still enjoy it nonetheless. It debuted in the same TV season as the dramatic show Studio 60, with the same concept on the same network. Both shows earned similar ratings numbers, however, as NBC has lower ratings expectations for its comedies compared to it’s more expensive dramas, 30 Rock continues, while Studio 60 is already off the air. 30 Rock, as well as Studio 60, are both obvious takes on the production insanity that goes on week to week at the venerable NBC hit show Saturday Night Live. As such, some of the humor is “in” humor related to the show, in which you have to have some idea of what goes on backstage in order to understand. Most, however, is just general comedy -- and extremely funny comedy at that.

Read our review by Seth here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/30rocks...dvdreview.html

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[HugeTVFan]

I just got it and it looks awesome!