America's NBC's 2nd entry on this list... I'm confused as to why NBC has the lowest ratings. They have two excellent shows (Office, 30 Rock), several good shows (SNL, Earl, Heroes, Medium, ER (not anymore), Chuck) and two unproven, improving, but promising new ones (Parks and Recreation, Southland). Only the Thursday ones make my weekly viewing list (not much does, I don't watch much TV but I sample the new shows and stuff), as opposed to the utter bullcrap of such ratings-grabbers as 2½ Men and The Big Bang Theory. But away from the the-masses-are-stupid spiel, and onto the matter at hand.
30 Rock is one of the few shows left on TV that is intelligent, funny, creative, unique, and genuinely fun to watch, basically all the qualities you look for in a friend on the first day at a new school. (A little cliché, I didn't try too hard. I love typing é. I don't know why. É é é é twahahahaha. I could type whatever I want here, I just type things that people might be interested in reading because I feel like it.) In fact, TV never really was the forefront of intelligent humour. But this show is literally a masterpiece. All five main actors are great, and perfectly casted. The scripts are the work of people who could be writing [good] movies and books. Tina Fey is a comic genius. This is a perfect part for Alec Baldwin. This is a perfect part for Tracy Morgan. This is a perfect part for newer faces Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer. Well, Krakowski isn't completely new; she was in Ally McBeal and apparently played Cousin Vicky in Vacation and appeared in some Flintstones movie and Fatal Attraction. Again, re-near distraction!
30 Rock is about Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), the head writer and director of a late-night comedy variety sketch show (I wonder where she got that idea...) and the colourful cast of characters around her, in 30 Rockerfeller Plaza, including fickle attention-seeking starlet Jenna Moroney (Krakowski), troubled Tracy (basically himself) whose unpredictability is one of the funnier aspects of the show, callous corporate bigwig Jack Donaghy (Baldwin), and naïve Southern NBC Page Kenneth (McBrayer). Also included are childish Frank (Judah Friedlander), Liz's absentminded and laid-back assistant Cerie (Katrina Bowden), proud African-American intellectual-type Toofer (Keith Powell), Tracy's entourage Grizz and Dot-Com (Grizz Chapman, Kevin Brown), immature semi-star Josh Girard (Lonny Ross), and Jack's creepily devoted assistant Johnathan (Maulik Pancholy). Can you say character-based? You just have to watch it.
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