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Awesome Illustrations of Pop Culture’s Best Female Characters as Saints

By Jason Bailey on

As we’ve discussed recently, the dearth of strong female characters in mass entertainment continues to be a source of depression, but here’s a little cheer-up: artist Spencer Salberg, who posts his work on his heymonster Tumblr, has created a series of Strong Female Character portraits, which cast the likes of Buffy Summers, Liz Lemon, Leslie Knope, and Zoe Washburn as saints. Check them out after the jump, and buy (very reasonably priced!) prints of each here.  … Read More

Television

Meta to the End: Saying Goodbye to '30 Rock,' The Show That Got to Say Goodbye to Itself

By Jane Hu on

30 Rock aired its finale last night in the fashion all television could only hope to do. The beloved show and its viewers knew it was coming, and both sides could anticipate and plan, in their own ways, for the end. The critical flurry surrounding 30 Rock this past week only goes to exemplify how much The End still means to us as television viewers – a formal farewell seemed only right to a story arc so formally conclusive as 30 Rock. Such closure was nearly Austenian (Pride and Prejudice was itself celebrated in classic form this month), and that there would be a release of tears no one could doubt. Viewers, of course we cried. … Read More

Television

100 of the Best Quotes from ‘30 Rock'

By Caroline Stanley on

If 30 Rock has been a bit uneven in recent seasons, the one thing that remained a constant was the hilarious, quotable lines that the show’s talented writing team would sprinkle into each episode. We spent the past few weeks culling through our favorites to come up 100 of the very best.… Read More

Television

The Feminism of Liz Lemon: A History in Screen-caps

By Jane Hu on

[Ed. note: In celebration of the series finale of one of our all-time favorite TV comedies on Thursday night, we're going to be celebrating 30 Rock all week long on Flavorwire. Look for a new feature each day, and be sure to check out all of our previous coverage of the show here.] In the pilot of 30 Rock, Liz Lemon is sent by her new boss Jack Donaghy to find Tracy Jordan and convince him to join their NBC sketch comedy, The Girlie Show. While chasing the manic Tracy from diner to strip club, Liz learns that Jack has fired her primary writing partner – an alarming realization that sends her back to the office. “I want to tell Donaghy to his face that I quit,” she tells Tracy outside a strip joint, “and I want to do it in front of the whole crew so that they know he didn’t fired me.” Tracy Jordan’s response: “I wanna see that.” And so did I. … Read More

Television

Who Will Be the Next Liz Lemon?

By Judy Berman on

[Ed. note: In celebration of the series finale of one of our all-time favorite TV comedies on Thursday night, we're going to be celebrating 30 Rock all week long on Flavorwire. Look for a new feature each day, and be sure to check out all of our previous coverage of the show here.] Liz Lemon isn’t just a character — she’s an archetype, just as Mary Tyler Moore and Roseanne Conner were. And like those predecessors, her personality, career, relationships, and development over seven seasons provides a complex (if narrow and incomplete) portrait of what it’s like to be a woman in the 21st-century workplace, her struggles often embodying the successes, failures, and complications of contemporary feminism. Seemingly more than any other TV protagonist of her time, women relate to her, in ways both positive and negative. … Read More