Netflix's 'Kimmy Schmidt' reunion special, 'Kimmy vs. the Reverend,' uses a choose-your-own-adventure format as a nonstop joke delivery system. Alan Sepinwall's review
special is Netflix’s second major foray into the world of choose-your-own-adventure storytelling. The first entry, theturned itself into an ouroboros in which the main character was designing a game that allowed its users to pick where the story went. A cool idea in concept, there was never enough substance to the game designer or his misadventures to make it worth the bother of following all the different paths.
Speaking of credits, I know this sounds counterintuitive for one of the best theme songs of the last decade, but IFor the most part, this works out just fine.had already largely left behind any interest in plot to focus on jokes for their own sake. By bringing the Reverend back to the forefront, the special is actually a bit more emotionally grounded than the series had been in a while, even though Jon Hamm’s eagerness to make a fool of himself may never have been on stronger, funnier display.
But the real pleasure comes in seeing how many different amusing variations on the same idea Fey and company can devise and execute. The main story is always roughly the same, and it can be a headache to navigate through everything multiple times just to get to new jokes, but the comic rewards are almost always worth it.
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