Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

First of all, this show is hilarious. Of course, anything created by Tina Fey is hilarious. Robert Carlock also serves as co-creator. Ellie Kemper, you know the girl who keeps talking about having a husband on Bridesmaids, stars in this Netflix show as Kimmy Schmidt whom is one of the four women who was lured sometime in the 90s into a bunker someplace and has been told that the apocalypse was on 06/06/2006. She was held there for 15 years before they get rescued and sent back to their normal lives. However, after an interview with Matt Lauer in New York, she has an epiphany than she does not want to go back to her hometown and wants to live and adjust to the world in New York City. Equipped with an "almost" 8th grade education, she meets Titus, a crazed and broke but talented singer who needs a roommate and their land lady, Lillian. She also gets a job with socialite Mrs. Voorhees who is played by the HILARIOUS Jane Krakowski. There is also some cool supporting characters, like the other three "Mole Women". One who is Kimmy's best friend, one who is still stuck in the bunker and there is a Hispanic lady as well. Buckley, who is Jackie's son, Xanthippe, the spoiled step-daughter, and  Charles, Buckley's cute tutor.

This show is so funny. I think that they did such a great job with the script and Ellie and Jane do absolutely fantastic comedic performances! Kimmy is such a great and bubbly character who is mostly still stuck back in the 90s because that's all that she knows. I can see her struggle with herself as a kid as well a woman that is 29 years old and the show really does a great job giving her a few seconds to evaluate herself and her environment and what she needs to do and what she thinks is right. She didn't have a mirror so in the episode where she meets Mrs. Voorhees plastic surgeon she looks in a mirror and sees herself pretty much for the first time, at least that we see on the show.  I'm only on a few episodes in so I'm really excited to see how she progresses throughout the show.



Mrs. Voorhees is probably my favorite character of the show. She is so crazy. I feel so bad for her because she just wants to do a good job and be a good mother and a good wife and her husband is out of town and just keeps postponing coming home. She holds her heart on her shoulder which I love. She is also eccentric and over the top fun to watch. I love positivity from the outside looking in, where she would smile and do poses to make herself feel better. It's a great concept. I envy that she has a lot of money though, it would be great to be able to hire anyone under the table and be able to go to pilates classes and plastic surgery and just do what you want. My favorite so far was the episode where we found out that she is actually Native American and she stand up to her step daughter, who is a huge menace and I absolutely loathe her character, when she acts out against Kimmy and Mrs. Voorhees tells her that her past doesn't matter, that people come to New York and try to help themselves. I think she sees herself a little in Kimmy.



Titus is also really funny. He kind of reminds myself of me, who is a struggling singer with an immense amount of talent that is broke and still trying to work on acquiring his dream. It was sad to hear that he has such a great voice and that he hasn't sang publicly in three years. I think the thing that reminds myself of his the most is that when someone talks or asks a question or makes a statement, he sings out response. I do the same dang thing and I love how I can relate to that. It makes it so much funnier to see it on TV. Also, he used to be skinny and cute and I did too. It sucks that he has tried out for the past how many years and has not gotten his big break yet. It reminds me of how I tried out for American Idol twice and for Glee and didn't make it. So close... yet so far.

Like I said, I'm only a few episodes in and so far I love it. I think the acting is great, the characters are great and it reminds me of the fun sitcoms that they had before like Ugly Betty. I can't wait to watch the rest of the show, I highly recommend it to people who love comedy and quirky and fun shows but have drama to it and character development. Watch the entire season on Netflix and let me know what you guys think of the show!

In Your Eyes - Movie Review

Image is from Vimeo.Com, it is the image for the trailer for the movie.

I just finished watching this movie on Netflix. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. A little awkward at times but perfectly understandable. I think that is what the director was going for. It's basically a movie about this woman and this man who are telepathic and are able to hear what each other is saying. It's actually really sweet as you see the two individuals unravel their truths and help each other through their struggles. They were actually telepathic ever since they were kids, he remembers whenever she had her first boyfriend and she remembers when he got beat up because they can even feel each other as well as see what each other is seeing as well.
The movie is mostly their conversations about their lives and getting to know one another after they both freak out from noticing each other in their heads. When I was watching this I kept thinking to myself, "That would be so cool to be telepathic with someone." Especially during the part where he is asking for help on questions in a magazine. I was thinking that that would be cool for help on like a test or interview or something. Except it starts to get really weird.
They are having really personal talks about seeing who they are, their surroundings, she even helps him pick up a girl for a date. Then, he even starts talking to her right after she has sex with her husband and tells her that she smells nice and that she is a little sweaty. I told you that it's weird.
It has it's redeeming parts though. The script is pretty good. I liked the romance and the story behind it. It was really interesting seeing how everyone else saw them too. Her friend and her husband think that she is having an affair and then his job fires hm because he is scaring all the customers with his imaginary friends. In the end, I was really rooting for both of them as a couple because it was just so sweet. And I love those cheesy romance movies. It almost made me cry. Not your typical love story. Very original. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

THE SIDEKICK 4G IN THE WILD!!! YES!!!!

Okay, so if you know me, you know that I love the Sidekick brand. I have had every single Sidekick there ever was at a point in my life, but since the whole fiasco with the outage and what not, I have moved on especially since it died in 2009. So sad. =[. I had my eyes fixated on the HD2 which is the phone that I had for the longest time because it was just such an amazing phone. I WAS gonna try to get it back but now that this amazing awesome fantastical news has been out, I have changed my gaze! I am now presenting the Sidekick 4G! The picture and info is from TmoNews.Com and they are the best at keeping up the TMobile official and unofficial news to everyone!



So as you can see, it has pretty much the same build as the LX 09 which I thought was a pretty decent phone. It says thats it's It has a front facing camera, which I LOVE, and is gonna be sporting Android 2.2.1. I am very anxious to see how Android is gonna be on a Sidekick. Especially since the Sidekick is NOT touchscreen, I wanna see how it's gonna factor into this new phone. Is the Sidekick gonna GET a touchscreen or not? How are we gonna move apps to the home screen from the apps window? Hmmm we shall see.

Things I'm hoping for:

1. Swivel, which I doubt, it looks like a slider which I'm fine with since I had the Sidekick Slide for the longest time when I did have a Sidekick.

2. 4" screen. Which also I doubt, just because it doesn't look like it would and it would be freaking huge if it did. The side buttons really take up a lot of space around the screen so I wanna see how it's gonna be. 3.7" is okay with me as long as it's SUPER AMOLED so I can read easily!

3. Protruding buttons. The thing I love the most about the Sidekick, which I'm sure everyone else does as well is the keyboard. 5 rows of QWERTY goodness! It looks like some of the buttons are switched around and the space bar is a little smaller than normal. What I really want is the buttons to be more out. I didn't like the SK Slides plastic buttons that were kinda indented, ickkk. Didn't help my texting at all! The SK 3's buttons were the best!



4. Flash. It doesn't look like in these pictures that the Sidekick is gonna have flash, which is kinda disappointing, I loved flash on the sidekicks. It helps a lot. I wish that it would have it.

5. 8MP Camera and 1.2MP front facing with 720p video recording. My life would be complete!!!! But I doubt that it would have this. =/.

6. Long lasting battery. When I had my LX, it had the longest battery ever. Not as much as the Blackberry but I could easily last 2 days on a single charge with all the texting, IMing and browsing I did, it was quite the trooper.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the Sidekick that I was really wishing for, but it's a good start! I would definitely still get this phone just because it would feel amazing to have the Sidekick with Android on it.

Another thing, I was looking at some comments and there was some really good points about it. This phone is directed mostly to teenagers and that demographic. But looking at how it has Android and what not, you can make it more of a business type phone. So I'm also hoping for a Dual Core Processor since it IS running Android, don't you think?

Also, it doesn't have a name. Would it just be the Sidekick 4G? Or have a name like the Gekko, LX, 3, Slide, whatever. Usually they have names. They usually have around 2 or 3 different devices one that's the low -end cheaper (iD, Gekko) that the younger people could get and then the high end version as well (LX, LX 09) so hopefully there will be one or two devices that we can choose from!

Gah! This was such a long post, LOL. I didn't imagine it to be this long but tell me what you guys think about it! I personally cannot wait for it to come out!