NEW SERIES ALERT

Anna Whitehouse finds Netflix's new series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt a mad delight: uplifting, funny and perfect with a cuppa (read: wine) and a slab of Green & Blacks

If you're missing a slice of the Big Apple, mixed with witty repartee but couldn't face reruns of Sex and the City for the age-shaming, then Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, debuting on Netflix tomorrow, is where its at.

A bombastic, borderline whimsical comedy penned by the doyenne of comedy Tina Fey, this watch-it-in-one-go series is about a naïve young woman, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) who is released from a doomsday cult’s underground bunker after 15 years. Forced to contend with the real world and all its shittiness, Kimmy Schmidt has a cheery, honest charm that's surprisingly not irksome.

Following a manic press tour with the other “mole women”, who were saved from the bunker, Kimmy decides to stay in New York and carve out a life for herself. After some early setbacks, she finds an apartment, a basement unit in Brooklyn owned by a kooky, gravel-voiced landlady. Kimmy's roommate is a flamboyant, aspiring, but mostly failing, musical-theater actor named Titus (Broadway vet Tituss Burgess, who was also 30 Rock's D’Fwan).

Titus and Kimmy’s roots couldn’t be more opposed, but that makes them sterling comrades – the one thing they do share is the same relentless optimism, which gets them into and out of scrapes with plucky, laugh-out-loud humor. The key to their union is that neither of them are total saps and they call a spade a spade.

Most brilliantly, all the episodes of the first season will be available tomorrow – in time for parental Friday (scoffing carbs on the sofa with Netflix while the youths partay the night away). Oh and if you’re not sold on the pilot, stick with it through Episode 3. That’s when the series really gets going and we challenge you to not rattle through the series in a week.

Pass us the Green & Blacks.