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This post contains spoilers for Season 4 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

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The first half of the fourth and final season of the Netflix comedy premiered on May 30. And co-creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock appear to be going out with a bang, holding nothing back.

The jokes feel more thoughtful, biting, uninhibited, and timely than any previous season. The show tackles everything from #MeToo (with direct shout outs to Harvey Weinstein and Bill O'Reilly) to the sexism of tech startup culture.

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Here's a selection of some of the most savage burns to tide you over until the remaining six episodes of Season 4 arrive on Jan. 25, 2019.

1. Being complicit in men's abuse

In one of the many fantastic cameo appearances, SNL's Aidy Bryant is revealed to have been the Reverend's (Jon Hamm) oblivious girlfriend. Kimmy's not pleased with her, and doesn't buy that she believed the kidnapped girls kept in his bunker for fifteen years were "Victorian ghosts."

It's a satirical way of bringing attention to just how easy it is to become unintentionally complicit in bad men's abhorrent behavior, even for women.

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2. The Netflix documentary that deserves every award

There have been countless parodies (and knock-offs) of Netflix's runaway 2015 hit Making a Murderer. But the "HouseFlix" Party Monster: Scratching the Surfacedocumentary in Episode 3 stands out. MRA dude Fran Dodd (Bobby Moynihan) champions the innocence of the Reverend -- a literal monster -- while demonstrating all the behaviors of current apologists bending over backwards to forgive harassers and predators in Hollywood.

It's also pretty ballsy to call out the specific style of streaming documentary popularized by Netflix, the show's own home network. At one point, HouseFlix's tagline can be heard over the phone as boasting that the service is "bringing you the best of what’s left in entertainment.” The mockumentary also calls into question the journalistic integrity of these gonzo journalism-type streaming docs that insert the filmmaker into the story, like The Jinx and Evil Genius.

3. LORD VOLDEMORT INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!

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In the same episode, the Party Monsterdoc praises the good work of The Innocence BROject, a bro-centric version of the very reputable Innocence Project. This one's catered to saving the innocent lives caught in the crossfires of the "war on men." The wrongfully convicted include: Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and none other than He Who Must Not Be Named himself.

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To paraphrase a retro bad Kanye tweet from 2016, "LORD VOLDEMORT INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!"

4. The only other female at her tech startup is a literal robot

This one felt personal to me as a games and previous tech journalist. A running gag about Kimmy's workplace, Giztoob, is that the only other woman is an artificial intelligence. S.H.E.R.Y.L is a hoot, potential alcoholic, and a simulation of femininity that Kimmy's male coworkers are comfortable with. It's also very true-to-life that, as the only human woman, Kimmy's saddled with all the emotional labor of the office as the only member of the HR department.

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6. Make the bunker great again

There are too many salient jabs at Donald Trump to count, including several actual clips of the United States President. Chief among them is his appearance on Party Monster, with his inspiring speech about how the women who've accused him of harassment and assault are lying because they're not attractive enough.

Dodd later gives a speech that sounds a lot like Make America Great Again, only replacing Trump with the Reverend and America with the bunker. “Society used to make sense!" he exclaims. "Nuclear families, straight marriages, white quarterbacks. That’s the world the Reverend was trying to get back to. The bunker was a return to traditional values."

Or, you know, it was a rape dungeon that held four women underground against their will for four years. Same diff!

7. HouseFlix's Al-Gore-rhythm gets it right

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Honestly, every throwaway Netflix gag is absolute gold. I'd take four seasons of the Sex in the City-esque Gals on the Town (a story about four young women written by "a rich, mean gay man," that asks "can they be good at their jobs?") or Slinky on Escalatorover more 13 Reasons Whyany day.

But the Netflix joke that made me feel truly seen was Kimmy's unwilling realization that, despite her traumatized past, even she cannot resist the pull of true crime shows. I'd watch several seasons of the fake To Have and To Murder. And sure enough, Kimmy also finds herself sucked into becoming the trend of women who love true crime.

8. America doesn't care about victims who are women of color

This one is very relevant to recent discussions on how black women weren't given credit for starting #MeToo, and how their assaults often get less attention than white women's. People are much more willing to overlook R. Kelly, for example, because he is accused of targeting vulnerable, underage black girls.

The media's treatment of Donna Maria Nuñez, the hispanic mole woman rescued with Kimmy, exemplifies this inequality. Not only is she othered by the white journalist, but also the court finds the Reverend guilty of "three accounts of white kidnapping, and one account of oopsie, no bueno"

Luckily, Donna gets the last laugh, becoming a successful business woman and Shark Tankjudge in her post-bunker life. Though she's still dodging birth certificate questions from DJ Fingerblast.

9. Stepford Wives for the modern age

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Jacqueline's (Jane Krakowski) ex husband winds up replacing her with a literalyounger clone version of herself. It's not only an hysterical recurring joke, but shows how men spare no expense for technological and scientific advancements that further the oppression of women.

10. Is that you, Punisher?!

So not necessarily savage, but this joke could lead to the MCU crossover of the century. The sixth episode ends on a cliffhanger, revealing a Jessica Jones-style investigation into Kimmy. Only, it's a different Netflix Marvel superhero doing the voiceover: None other thanPunisher's Jon Bernthal.

Does this mean a Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtand Punisherexist in the same fictional version of New York?! Please, bring them together, Netflix gods! I mean, they're both currently single and survivors of traumatic backstories!

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