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Dead Giveaway: Kimmy Schmidt is Unbreakable

The next big Netflix Original Series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt comes from creative kingpins Tina Fey and Robert Carlock ( SNL , 30 Rock ), who bring us a new protagonist - one that is beaming with positivity: the stupendously awkward Kimmy Schmidt. She's a small town sweetheart who's rescued from a cult ran by a manipulative preacher, where she was kept for some 15 years along with other "mole women." The preacher told the then-young teens there had been an apocalypse that wiped out every living thing... even... the... rats! Unbreakable , Kimmy Schmidt starts anew and adjusts to life in New York City, leaving her past behind and freeing herself from the "victim image" that's accompanied with a media frenzy, leachers, and Kimmy's archenemy: sympathy. If you aren't immediately sold by the opening theme song, a "mole women" interview remixed à la Charles Ramsey's "Dead Giveaway," you will be for countless other reas