The Indefatigable Kimmy Schmidt would've been better on network television, where tight running times would've trimmed the fat from the scripts and made the show much quicker and funnier.
I really loved the first season of that show, and the second season was ok, but I remember literally nothing about the third season and I've watched it multiple times. Is there even a fourth, or was that the half-season that was released?
I think the problem was that it started focusing more on the auxiliary characters than on Kimmy and it kept releasing new characters. While I am usually ok with shows that switch to aux characters, it's usually because the main character is boring and plain (like Piper Chapman in OITNB...or any of Kohan's female leads).
Kimmy wasn't boring and plain. She was a kooky, wacky character who might not have been everyone's taste but was definitely not a dull and normal character. I liked Titus and Lillian more but that's just my preference of character.
Literally all of the characters in Kimmy Schmidt were super-wacky caricatures. Jacqueline, Lillian, Mimi, Titus, Dong, Buckley and Xanthippe, Russ, Tina Fey's character, the Mole Women...everyone. There was never a pause when things switched to a plainer character.
So this constant onslaught of wacky oddball after wacky oddball just made for kind of an exhausting show. It might as well have been a cartoon. You can't overload a show with an onslaught of nonstop crazy and expect it to still be good. I felt like the writers really didn't know what to do with these characters a lot of the time besides just making them flail around and be crazy.
Plus there were a billion plot lines all over the place. Sometimes they were trying to do an episode-contained plot, but other times there were overarching plotlines, and it just made the whole thing feel busy and cramped.
