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30 Rock: Season 2

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Description: Relive the second season of the Primetime Emmy® Award-winning comedy 30 Rock, the show that the guy who writes stuff on DVD boxes calls “my current assignment” and that Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly has named “simply the best TV.” Created by Golden Globe® and SAG Award winner Tina Fey, 30 Rock features Fey (as TV writer Liz Lemon), Golden Globe® and SAG Award winner Alec Baldwin (as corporate executive Jack Donaghy), Tracy Morgan and Jane Krakowski (as Lemon’s unpredictable stars, Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney) and Jack McBrayer (as the naive NBC page Kenneth Parcell). Co-workers and friends, they are all trying to balance work and life, with the inevitable result of failed relationships, disastrous parties, at-work drunkenness, hard-core coffee addiction, world-class sandwich eating and occasional attempts to chop down Christmas trees. Join in the behind-the-scenes fun with lots of exclusive content and all fifteen episodes of the acclaimed second season of 30 Rock from executive producer Lorne Michaels.

Amazon.com: "I really feel like this is going to be my year," an uncharacteristically optimistic Liz Lemmon proclaims in 30 Rock's season two opener. Reality quickly intrudes on the hapless Liz, but for Tina Fey and 30 Rock, the year couldn't be better. Nominated for 17 Emmys, the series repeated for Outstanding Comedy Series and earned Outstanding Actress and Actor honors for Fey and co-star Alec Baldwin as GM CEO-in-waiting Jack Donaghy. TV icon Tim Conway was also honored as Outstanding Guest Actor as Bucky Bright in "Subway Hero"--just one of the strike-shortened season's benchmark episodes--as a faded TV star from the 1940s and '50s who shatters the illusions of television-loving NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) with appalling (and unprintable) stories about "the good old days." If you're going to make a television show, Bucky tells him, "things are going to get weird." And from one of Kenneth's lame parties that turns dark and twisted to the "Page Off" between Kenneth and his nemesis (Human Giant's Paul Scheer) things get really weird behind the scenes of TGS, the SNL-ish sketch show where Liz oversees a motley crew of writers and her tempermental, demanding stars, insecure diva Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) and all kinds of crazy Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan). 30 Rock is rarefied television, each episode brimming with quotable dialogue ("Never go with a hippie to a second location"), brilliantly absurd bits (Tracy Jordan's novelty hit, "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah," the TV series "MILF Island," Liz's Cathy moment), and edge of the frame silliness that rewards close attention ("Anne Heche Leaves Husband for Pony," reads a network news scroll in the episode, "Somebody to Love"). Stellar guest stars rise to the occasion. Edie Falco was an Emmy nominee for her recurring role as "C.C.", the liberal Democratic Congresswoman who becomes conservative Republican Jack's "hippie dippy mama," as was Carrie Fisher as former Laugh-In writer Rosemary in the instant classic episode, "Rosemary's Baby." It's this episode which features Tracy's therapy session during which Jack channels Fred Sanford and J.J. from Good Times. Making welcome returns this season are Will Arnett as Jack's corporate rival, Devon Banks, Chris Parnell as unethical Dr. Spaceman, Elaine Stritch as Jack's castrating mother, and Dean Winters as Dennis Duffy, Liz's sleazy former boyfriend and New York's unlikeliest hero. But the real muffin top on this two disc set are the awesome bonus features, including a revelatory table read of the season finale, "Cooter," the benefit live performance of the episode "Secrets and Lies" (complete with an improvised commercial), a 30 Rock panel discussion with cast and creators moderated by Brian Williams, and a backstage look at Fey's Saturday Night Live homecoming last season. Most sitcoms are as bad for you as the offbrand Mexican Cheetos that Liz gorges herself on, and as Jenna tells Liz at one point, employing "a weak metaphor," you deserve a good meal. 30 Rock is a feast. --Donald Liebenson

Stills from Season Two of 30 Rock (click for larger image)







Customer Reviews

 
One more reason to love 30 Rock
Reviewer: D. Boone (Gilbert, AZ USA), Date of review: April 26, 2010
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are one of the great comedy teams ever. Thats enough to love this show. But watch the "30 Rock Live" special feature and that appreciation will turn into affection for this cast. The cast of 30 Rock does a live show to benefit the PA's put out of work during the writer's strike. So not only are they incredibly talented, smart and funny, but they are terrific human beings, putting their concern for their fellow humans into tangible action. I love this ensemble, not in a creepy keeping-their-used-kleenex way, but in a over-the-top annoying telling-everyone-I-know-how-great-they-are way. 30 Rock Forever!
Can't stand to watch
Reviewer: iffy droplight (Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo), Date of review: April 04, 2010
RAvg. Customer Rating: 1 Star
This is like the Office. I can't stand to watch either. Poor, poor acting. Characters I care nothing about. Equally as bad as Seinfeld.

Too bad I have to give any stars at all.
Funny
Reviewer: mark twain (minneapple, MN), Date of review: February 17, 2010
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
I love 30 Rock, and will probably buy more seasons as it is something I will watch again and again. Great for sick/hungover days in bed
Its a good show.
Reviewer: Robert K. Dando , Date of review: February 04, 2010
Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
30 Rock has become a very popular show on the NBC Network. Many of the shows catch phases can now be hear in everyday sentences, I heard someone use the phrase "Shark farts" at Wal-mart . One reason that the show has become so popular is because they reference many different current events. 30 Rock's witting writing and great cast have caused it to influence our culture.

The episode Seinfeldvision in one of my favorites because of its guest star Jerry Seinfeld. In this episode Jack uses Jerry Seinfeld's image with out his permission. Seinfeld goes to 30 Rock to confront Jack and stop him from putting him in all of their programs. It was nice to a new side to Liz in this episode as well. Liz is usually content to be single or just date, which is fine, but here you get to see that she does want to settle down and get married. The one major problem I had with this episode was Liz making Kenneth, Tracey's "Office wife." I thought that it was taking the joke just a little to far and did not add much to the story line.

Will Arnett, who is one of the stars of Arrested Development, guest stars in this episode, Jack gets in the game. Jack must try and prove that he is still fit to Run GE after having a heart attack. I personally didn't like this episode as much as some of the others in this season. One of the main redemptive parts of this episode is when Tracy and his wife get back together even though Tracy still doesn't seem like a great husband. I just wish that TV fathers/husbands would be more responsible. It makes the dumb dad stereotype seem like it is okay and that there is nothing wrong with it but then it glorifies it and men then fall into the same pattern.

Jack is up for a promotion in GE so he hires a private eye to look into his past to see if anything could prevent him from getting his new job. You might expect some big secret like a murder or something just as bad but what he finds is a cookie jar collections. Jack must decide if he wants to keep his collection or give it up so that he might progress in his carer or keep his treasured possession. I thought that this was funny but it was also very sad. I don't think that we should have to hide who we are so that we can be accepted or get a head in life. It seems as though we shouldn't have to sacrifice something we love so that we can get a head.

Rosemary's Baby was a funny episode which guest stared Carrie Fisher. I thought Fisher was a good guest star because several times in previous episodes Liz dresses up as Princess Leah and makes quite a few Star Wars references. While there were many funny parts to this episode it was just really crude. I do think that it has a good point to the story. Fisher plays a writer that Liz had looked up to for many years. As Liz gets to spend time with Fisher she starts to realize that she might not have been the best role model. I think it makes a good point about how we have to carefully choose who are role models are and how we need to make sure that we have a right perspective of who they are.
Outstanding! THIS is what Emmy award winners look like!
Reviewer: Carol L. Lewis (Miami, FL), Date of review: February 01, 2010
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
This is the funniest series I have ever seen! I am just so loving every episode. I savor them! Actually, I exercise in front of the TV and this is my reward! Beware because you could actually fall off the treadmill laughing so hard!