The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Season One

Team Tina Fey, with co-executive producer/composer husband Jeff Richmond, deliver ever-reliable rapid-fire quirky comedy in the 13-episode (all titles with exclamation points!) Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season One," now in a DVD set sporting the cheery pink and yellow of Kimmy's clothes, room and the show's closing credits.

Kimmy (perky patterer Ellie Kemper from "The Office") is living in arrested development after being rescued from 15 years in an underground doomsday cult bunker, led by wacky ponytailed pastor Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (hilarious frequent Fey collaborator Jon Hamm) in Durnsville, Indiana.

She's labeled a "mole woman" along with the other three escaped women, but sheds her "Sister Wives" long dresses and braided hair and heads to Manhattan, where she and her fifth-grade education live with fabulous, gay, black and bald roommate Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) in the rundown house of Lillian (Carol Kane). Kimmy stumbles into assistant work for rich mom Jacqueline Voorhees (Jane Krakowski in another iteration of her spoiled "30 Rock" Jenna role).

Each of the baker's dozen episodes is jam-packed with Fey's trademark savvy, pop-culture toss-off lines, delivered by the tight cast and solid guest stars. Episode One has Kimmy keeping a notebook of "Things People Don't Say Anymore" like "word up!" and she can't walk Jacqueline's dog because "his anus is purely decorative."

In her Manhattan townhouse workplace, she learns to use an iPhone but wonders "Where is Cupertino?"

She starts to date an "off-brand Kennedy" (and remembers the Hoosier "flowers and meat" type courtship), watches "Law Squiggle Order," and is inexplicably afraid of Velcro.

Fey and co-writers poke spot-on fun at Broadway's "Spider-man" show debacle by creating "Spider-men Too: 2 Many Spider-men," directed by "the third Affleck, Myron," showing Titus auditioning for the sequel, revealing Spider-man's greatest enemy: gravity and floors.

Martin Short kills (almost literally) as a self-medicating plastic surgeon (with fingerless latex gloves) helping Kimmy (and her "scream lines") plus her employer find happiness from the outside in.

Richard Kind plays the beyond inept teacher whom Kimmy needs to get her GED. Jacqueline's divorced friend Mimi (Amy Sedaris) pegs Kimmy as somebody simple, "born near a river."

When Kimmy turns 30, her ex-cop step-dad Randy (Tim Blake Nelson) shows up to surprise his daughter with another one, then Kimmy reluctantly returns to Indiana to testify against her captor, ill-counseled by prosecutors Marcia Clark (Fey) and Chris Darden (Jerry Minor), still conducting a budget affair.

The zippy opening theme song ends with "Dammit!" -- appropriate here as it's a curse-worthy wonder that Fey can take such a dark premise and make another joyful, hilarious, topical series, as fresh as Buhbreeze, the Febreze-type product that's spoofed to mask reality.

"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season One"
DVD Set
$14.99
https://www.netflix.com/title/80025384