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The lauded laugher's inaugural season introduces the offbeat staffers at "The Girlie Show," a TV variety program produced at venerable Rockefeller Center in New York City. Presiding over the show is TV scribe Liz Lemon (series creator and writer Tina Fey). But trouble looms upon the arrival of brash new honcho Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), the head of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming. Jack incessantly meddles with the series, hiring edgy but wildly erratic star Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) and changing the show's name to the desperately hip "TGS With Tracy Jordan." All this exasperates Lemon and pushes the show's horrified starlet, Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), to the sidelines. Not only does Jack creep into the writers' room and even appear as a sketch performer (only to plug products), but he referees Lemon's sour romantic life. He sets her up on a blind date (with a woman); interferes with her bumpy reunion with her boorish ex-boyfriend Dennis (Dean Winters); and intervenes as her love blooms for affable paramour Floyd (Jason Sudeikis). Love is on the horizon for Jack, too. He dates a Bush administration official; tangles with his ex-wife (Isabella Rossellini); and woos an auctioneer (Emily Mortimer). But Jack still has time for territorial warfare against his gravelly voiced archnemesis Devin Banks (Will Arnett), a Left Coast network exec who callously eyes Jack's job. Always an omnipresent figure is naive man-child Kenneth the Page (Jack McBrayer), whose misadventures include switching roles with bigwig Jack, scoring a prime spot in Tracy's posse and trying to help the pampered Tracy reach spiritual self-actualization. Alas, Kenneth's bright-eyed idealism prevails even while working for this cast of ego-fueled eccentrics.
 
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Great Show, Okay DVD
on October 10, 2007
Posted by: warstrekkid
If you were surprised when you 30 Rock won the Emmy for best comedy, it's probably because you've never watched it.
While the viewership is small, 30 Rock is a great show. It's some of the smartest comedy on TV today, with layers and layers of comedy. Since getting the DVDs, I've easily watched each episode at least 5 times, catching something new each time.
The show is focused around the production of a comedy show, like SNL, but focuses almost entirely on the dynamics behind it. Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan get top-billing, but everyone on the show is hilarious, and it has great depth.
The DVD content is enjoyable. On the 3rd disk, there is some special content, including audio commentary, deleted scenes, and behind the scene footage.
I do, however, have a complaint, touched on by the other reviewer. First, the episodes aren't divided into chapters. It would have been easy and very convenient to split them even at commercial breaks, but instead, there's some hunting involved in episodes. Also, instead of putting separate audio tracks on the episodes, all audio commentary is on the 3rd disk with its own video as well.
All in all, it's absolutely worth it. If you're not into 30 Rock, you need to, and what better way then watching all of the first season.
What's great about it: Good quality, great show
What's not so great: Some simple mistakes on DVD design
I would recommend this to a friend!
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