10 All-Time Great Netflix Original Series

Feminism! Themes of moving forward despite past trauma to become the best version of yourself! Genuinely hilarious moments with charming side characters! Kimmy Schmidt has everything and is still firing on all cylinders even after three seasons.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the story of a perpetually sunny, emotionally stunted young woman who sets out to make a life for herself in New York City after being abducted and spending over a decade in a bunker as part of an unwilling doomsday cult. Not exactly the subject matter that one would normally associate with an irreverent comedy, but that's why it works so well.

The show gets its laughs from Kimmy's slightly misguided can-do attitude and the series of misadventures with the deeply dysfunctional people she meets along the way.

But its pathos comes from the fact that underneath the ever present smile is an angry, traumatized woman who is learning who she is and how to live her life in a way that draws humor from tragedy and creates an emotionally honest character that engages audiences.