The Top 50 TV Shows of All-Time: #7
#7- "30 ROCK" NBC 2006-PRESENT--------------------------------------
Is it too early in the run of this madcap series to start calling its ensemble cast the best ever? There's elegant Alec Baldwin engaged in ice-box cool self-parody as the network honcho overseeing a fictional variety series; Broadway songbird Jane Krakowski in fine comedic form as an aging diva; Jack McBrayer as Kenneth, a wholesome NBC "super-page" of sorts, who's probably home right now blogging his favorite TV shows; and unstable but loveable Tracy Morgan as unstable but loveable Tracy Jordan, who might "hug people too hard and get lost at malls, but (he's) not an idiot." They're all bringing their individual talents to bear in the series that may be the most descendent of the many "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" clones, except that here, everybody's playing Ted. This includes the nucleus of the series herself, Tina Fey, who created it, and holds the center of a sitcom in place as well as any of the greats, the Moores and the Newharts, even as she proves herself more willing then these standard-bearers to leap off the diving board of zaniness along with her co-stars. Her character hasn't been above dressing up as Princess Leia to get out of jury duty or running off with someone else's baby to help pacify what Baldwin's character calls her "Big Ben-sized biological clock," but she remains our grounded protagonist, battling corporate cutthroats and egomaniacal employees, all with, as Baldwin's character says, "the boldness of a much younger woman." A top 10 show after just three seasons? I want to go to there.
The fantabulous Tina Fey in action.
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