After all the New York Times articles, PBS segments, NPR interviews and memoirs (including my own) about the Off The Derech (OTD) narrative, the long rumored OTD TV show has finally arrived. Well, the show isnâ??t exactly about a person trying to build a self-determined life after leaving ultra-Orthodoxy â?? but it still feels like a sample of the genre.
Iâ??m talking about Tina Feyâ??s new Netflix comedy, â??Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.â? The show follows twenty-nine-year old Kimmy (the ebullient Ellie Kemper), as she transitions into a new life in New York City after being held captive for fifteen years, together with three other women, by a doomsday religious leader in an underground bunker in Nowheresville Indiana.
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