Blërg. I don’t want to be saying goodbye to “30 Rock,” a sitcom that delivers more jokes per minute than seems humanly possible. You can watch each episode two or three times and still hear new bells ring.
Even in its later years, the seven-season series has been a vital, happy tap dance of jabs at politics, pop culture, and the media – including its own desperate network, NBC, and NBC’s corporate parent, Comcast. While “The Office” is sputtering out, “30 Rock” is leaving the air at the exact right moment; it’s as spiky and relevant as ever. As proof, I offer up its fall arc on the electoral system, as well as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, with the entire presidential election coming down to Jenna’s Parrothead-like cult in a single county in Florida.
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Why did the GE / NBC executives tolerate "anemic" ratings? Could it be the liberal preachiness of Tina Fey and crowd?
It's all a liberal conspiracy
TV is "too left-leaning"? What right wing conspiracy world do you inhabit when you go home? Do you actually watch TV? Have you ever watched show ranging from law & order to bluebloods with all the NCI's and grey's anatomys and Dowton Abbeys and, well, I could go on and on. Are you aware that cracking jokes about amerikan politicans is not the same as being "left-leaning"? Are you aware that a TV schedule filled with shows that rest on the premise that anyone who talks back to a cop must be a criminal and thus waives their right to legal protections are NOT "left-leaning"?
The fact that alec baldwin votes for democrats, apparently any democrat, does mean that Hawai'i 50 is "left-leaning"