do not take this seriously and you will probably have some fun with it as soon as you take
kimmy schmidt versus the reverend seriously as an episode there's a lot that could be
questioned and there are a lot of things that i would say would be quite poor with it
but on its own it's pretty creative and that's an interactive episode or film certainly
if it engages you i will say that this was released in 2020 and i i watched kimmy schmidt
i binge watched it i think about six months ago over the course of about two weeks and i decided
to leave some time between that last episode and watching this just to give myself a bit of
breathing space and i'm really glad i did that because i can now view this as a separate entity
not as a sequel to the tv show and there are a lot of things that i liked about this there were
some things that i didn't i'll be honest the thing that i didn't first of all was the excessive use
of jan in the backpack i understand the role she plays in this but i just don't like the character
and the interactive element i actually didn't like i don't want to choose this path i want
them to tell me what the narrative is but again that's the novelty of it so i can't really say i
don't like the fact that i don't like the usp because that's the whole point of it
what i did like before i get in with the narrative is that there were times where you could pick
the wrong path there are certain options you could choose and if you picked it a scenario would
unfold and then we'd be told hang on you've just done a terrible thing this bad thing has happened
let's rewind and try again obviously it just means that there are only so many routes we can
take to the final destination um as far as i am aware there is only one ending to this but there
are various ways together so in this one and as i said you have to not take it seriously it is very
very unrealistic and unbelievable but it's good fun basically kimmy finds a book in jan in her
backpack and realizes that it doesn't belong to her or any of the other girls in the bunker any of
the other more women so she talks to the reverend in prison who kind of let it slip but there's
another bunker somewhere and kimmy makes it her mission to track down that bunker and locate those
girls now i'm not going to see anything else that would be even considered to be a spoiler until
towards the end and i will discuss a few things that i thought were a little bit far-fetched
but no spoilers until towards the end so the fact that there's another bunker is
certainly interesting the fact that kimmy doesn't immediately go to the police and say hey he's just
confessed that there are more women held captive and in grave danger a little bit questionable but
i was curious to find out what would happen with that and if there if kimmy would actually find
another bunker um she does go along with titus primarily to locate the bunker titus does a lot
of complaining and i think he's brilliant i just i love titus as a character um i think titus burgess
is brilliant with this role and he just oozes titus now at this point he's got a pretty
successful career as an actor with jacqueline as his agent that partnership works really well i was
really pleased that jacqueline would be kept in this i love jane krakowski so i was really
pleased to see that she was in this the same with carol kane who of course plays lillian um
i love her i think she's amazing and again for me it was important that she was in this
we do have daniel radcliffe who i'm a big fan of i'm a big fan of daniel radcliffe the character
he plays is a bit of an idiot but he also plays an english prince um to whom kimmy is imminently
getting married the way their relationship is represented is pretty quaint pretty peculiar
pretty unique um what you know it's actually one thing and this that i truly adored and it's i'm
going to paraphrase but prince frederick donna radcliffe said do you remember how we met and
then he jumped into this little anecdote about how they met obviously for the benefit of the audience
because we didn't know this and then at the end of his little anecdote kimmy just turns him and
says i know how we met frederick and i love that little bit of self-awareness because there are
so many times when films characters have to say oh do you remember when such and such happened
for the benefit of the audience when clearly the other character would have remembered that
and i just loved that i thought it was um a brief little line that really really made
me enjoy this a lot more because it made me aware that it was self-aware from very early on
in terms of the characters that are included in this i'm still longing for dong
you know i feel like the character was underplayed at the end of the last season doesn't feature here
granted not sure how we would have fit into the narrative but i feel like there's more for that
character that we just don't have enough of i miss him i really miss him jon hamm is richard
wayne gary wayne obviously um fantastic um being back in this made me really happy buckley how old
is buckley now cannot cannot quite understand that um there were a lot of fun little things in this
the editing was of course very fun the interactive element it was fine you know i i didn't feel like
it pulled me out of the episode too much um but i would have preferred it if it was just a one-off
special um feature lens it's apparently got a runtime of 80 minutes but of course a lot of that
is going to pretend pretend i'm losing my mind depend on how many um clips you choose there are
for the most part you get to choose the story um between two options but i think there was one
where there were four options and at least one of the options was defunct so you'd click on it
you'd watch the clip you'd be told hey that's a terrible idea let's try again and i think the next
one that i selected took me forward so there are a few clips in this that i probably haven't seen
which works to the film's benefit because it makes
you want to kind of go back and check out the clips that you haven't watched
um which i'd be very interested to do particularly if it's jane krakowski or carl kane clip
i don't actually think they were oh jack mcbreyer he's in it it's sandy parcell um
oh is he related to kenneth parcell obviously both being tina fey i wonder if they just decided
to call him parcell for the fun of it or is kenneth ever mentioned having like an uncle
sandy or anything if you are fully immersed in the tina fey universe and can confirm
if the parcels are connected do let me know it's a bit too much of a coincidence for that to be
the case um but i do love my prayer i think he's fantastic so in all i really enjoyed it
i'm glad that i waited until quite some time after the ending of the first of the final episode
i will also see the very i'm not going to say how this ends but i will say the last frame
had me going in right up close to the screen and watching really closely watching the main
cast members to see if they blinked and to see if they moved i can't see any more than that without
spoiling it but i found it really engaging and a really simple way of keeping you hooked
it's good fun do not take it seriously i do not consider it well i suppose i have to consider it
part of the main narrative because if they ever have a sequel after this which i don't think
they will it's kind of important to know what's happened on this little journey and there are
some important life events for kimmy but at the same time it doesn't affect my opinion of the main
series kimmy versus the reverend completely unrealistic oh yes spoilers a brief spoiler
the reference has been imprisoned for five years and he points this out himself as i think does
kimmy the mole women in the other bunker the new bunker have been there for five years pretty sure
they'd be dead by now so that i thought was a little bit like most of this i can understand
as being unrealistic but for me that was just one step too far i don't know how they could
explain that very well but i think that was the biggest issue i had with it the rest of
it was pretty great as long as you don't take it seriously i think you will genu oh and also yes
you have to have watched the tv series first don't watch this as your introduction to kimmy schmidt
or you will probably never get around to watching the tv series but as a follow-on pretty good fun