"newyorker:  In Defense of Liz Lemon  Well, I can't get on board the hate train, especially after last  week's tour-de-force episode, in which Liz morphed from a crazy old  subway lady (every New Yorker's dream: she gets her way at every turn)  into Heath Ledger's Joker. Someone needs to speak up for the Lemon, and  for the Fey. Because from the beginning Liz Lemon was pathetic. That was  what was enthralling, and even revolutionary, about the character.  Unlike some other adorkable or slutty-fabulous characters I could name,  Liz only superficially resembled the protagonist of a romantic comedy,  ready to remove her glasses and be loved. She was something way more  interesting: a strange, specific, workaholic, NPR-worshipping,  white-guilt-infected, sardonic, curmudgeonly, hyper-nerdy New Yorker. In  the first episode, Jack nails her on sight as ""a New York third-wave  feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it,  over-scheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says 'healthy body  image' on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for … a  week."" Even Liz had to admit he scored a point.   - There's been a backlash to ""30 Rock"" this season, particularly the character of Liz Lemon; which is why you should read the rest of Emily Nussbaum's impassioned 1,700-word defense of her: http://nyr.kr/xDdxKc"
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