DVD Review Capsule: 30 Rock – The Complete Third Season
Quality sitcoms are hard to come by, but this is one of them
QUICK THOUGHTS: Insanely quotable and one of my favorite sitcoms of all-time. Right up there with the BBC's "Office," "Seinfeld" and "Arrested Development," "30 Rock" has a talented team of writers and the perfect cast to bring their words to life. From Will Arnett starting off the season as Devon Banks, selling the "E" in GE to Samsung and now saying they're going by Samesung to Salma Hayek sporting a "What the Frak?" t-shirt, this show hits your funny bone in areas you just don't expect.
I was a little down on the second season of the show as it shifted its attention far more into the direction of Alec Baldwin and less on Tracey Morgan, but the third season has found a solid balance between all of its characters, although I thought the season finale was one of those "jump the shark" moments as they brought in a fleet of musicians for a charity tribute. But I did find it funny when Tina Fey remembers something Sheryl Crow told her on set saying, "There's no way you could have got all these people together for a real charity." Well, I guess it's funny and tragic at the same time as brutal honesty most often is.
SUPPLEMENTS: There are several audio commentaries including members of the regular cast as well as guest stars such as "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm as well as a commentary track by Alan Alda on the "Mamma Mia" episode, which is 100-times better than the movie ever was. There's a group of deleted scenes, the full version of Liz's 1-900-OKFACE commercial and a Tracy Jordan spoof of Christian Bale's on set Terminator Salvation tirade as he yells at a cameraman for pointing the camera at him during a take. The features are rounded out with a full look at the table read for the season finale as well as a making of featurette for the same episode.
FINAL THOUGHTS: I said this in my weekly round-up, so I'll just repeat it again, this may be a good show to just wait until it comes to an end and just buy the complete series at once. I have fallen in love with it, but you know those complete series collections are always cooler and overall cheaper. It's up to you, you can hardly go wrong either way, but I think this is a show that definitely has a rewatchability factor.
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