7.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
A woman escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City.
Starring: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane, Jane KrakowskiDrama | Insignificant |
Comedy | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Eight-disc set (8 BDs)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
It's the end of the world...as she knows it! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, follows the life and times of a young woman who was led to believe that life and times were all but a thing of the past but who suddenly finds herself thrust in the thriving modern world. The show is certainly funny and builds up from a strongly devised premise, but its also imperfect, failing to dig more deeply into the title character's psyche, often favoring more shallow and superficial pursuits in her journey to rebuilding her life than truly dig deep into her mind. That's not to say the show is devoid of more purposeful content, but it's a sitcom and follows those rules and guidelines, upping the laughs and downplaying the drama, generally.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The Complete Series emerges onto Blu-ray with a generally effective 1080p, 1.78:1-framed transfer. The presentation offers high yield sharpness and clarity throughout the series. Details border on exacting, revealing complex facial textures with ease across a wide gamut of character appearances, including freckles, pores, wrinkles, and other distinguishing characteristics. Dense city locations enjoy firm location command, showcasing challenging details with efficient command that pulls the audience into the show's New York world. Clothes are likewise crisp and revealing, capturing garment complexities, across a wide range of casual and classy attire and costumes, with ease. Speaking of clothes, colors are bold and brilliant, extremely well saturated, loud but not too aggressive. Clothes are one of the highlights; there are almost always examples of splashy attire on the screen, and even when costumes are more subdued the intense city tones certainly take over to keep the screen filled with wondrous splashes of color. Skin tones appear perfectly locked in and black levels are nice and deep. The image does suffer from some modest to moderate compression issues; right out of the gate, when the "mole women" are pulled from the bunker, macroblocking dances through the sky. Compression artifacts are regularly occurring but do not usually rise to a level that reaches "distraction." More breathing room and encode efficiency would have certainly alleviated many of these issues, but that's the trade-off for a relatively low priced full series outing. Fortunately, no other major issues, like noise or banding, are particularly bothersome. This is a good image in the aggregate, but the compression issues do get in the way of an otherwise excellent presentation.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The Complete Series features a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The presentation delivers a good listen, generally, though there are moments when it leaves audiences wanting a little more, such as when music at a dance club in one of the early episodes fails to really ignite the soundstage, to totally immerse the listener into the sort of intense din one would expect to hear. There's enough information in play but it's not engineered to fruitful excellence. The track does recover in other areas and even under somewhat similar circumstances. Though not inside a dance club, the end of episode one features several characters out on city streets. A symphony of familiar city sounds create a detailed, immersive din that spreads throughout the listening area and perfectly draws the audience into the location. It's lively and energetic and perfectly detailed. Music enjoys nicely robust spacing and clarity with some impressively enveloping surround details. Dialogue drives the show beyond its other elements, of course, and presents with a solid front-center foundation. Prioritization and clarity are excellent.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The Complete Series contains no extras. The set ships in a thick Amaray case with most of the discs housed on folding leaves. The set ships inside a basic slip box of modest quality.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a good show that works well within its comedy-first approach. It could stand a little more depth but the laughs usually hit and the quick pace often leaves the audience wanting more. Ellie Kemper shines as the title character and there are some well written and strongly performed support characters, too. It would be interesting to see the show reworked with a more grounded and dramatic approach, just to see the story from a different perspective, but it certainly works pretty well as a humor-heavy sitcom. Mill Creek's Blu-ray release of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The Complete Series is unfortunately devoid of bonus content but the video and audio presentations are fairly good, though certainly flawed upon closer inspection. Recommended.
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