
I couldn’t find a pic of this episode (synopsis here), so I approximated “Tom Selleck,” Liz Lemon’s mustachioed secret.
The 2nd of the 30 Rocks tonight paralleled Tracy’s exploration into feminism (recruiting a female member of his entourage and treating her like a daughter) with Liz’s exploration of sexual harassment (using her power as head writer to seduce the newest TGS cast member). Meanwhile, Jenna’s dealing with ageism for female actors in Hollywood, finally agreeing to play a mother who dies of old age at 41.
I don’t have all that much to say about this episode (I liked it), except this: I absolutely adore Tina Fey’s willingness to “uglify” herself. For a while, it looked like she was going to fall into the Hollywood cosmetic-industrial complex, but the last few episodes of 30 Rock have made it abundantly clear that she’s recommitted to fighting societal pressure to look like a cookie-cutter Hollywood actress (at least onscreen). It’s no accident she chose to do it to the extreme when feminism was an obvious theme. Hey, that rhymes!