At long last, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” season two has dropped! *end of “Breakfast Club”*

On April 15, Tina Fey and the rest of the gods at Netflix blessed us with the return of Kimmy, Titus, Jacqueline, Lillian, and the whole unbreakable gang. Hooray! (If you haven’t had the theme song radiating in your brain for several weeks leading up to the release, you’re lying to yourself.)

Let’s be honest: we all had season one on a loop since its release last March (about a month sooner than this year, I might add, Netflix). I watched the season again and again both alone, and with a different member of my family from last summer to this January: everyone wants to get on the Kimmy train.

For anyone who has been locked in a bunker for the past 15 years — it’s okay, so was Kimmy — here’s the skinny: Kimmy Schmidt, an optimist to rival even “30 Rock”’s Kenneth Ellen Parcell, and a small group of women were kidnapped and locked in a bunker for fifteen years, under the false impression that the world had ended in hell fire. We meet them on the day the Indiana S.W.A.T. team rescues them from their underground home, and follow Kimmy as she pursues life in New York City after a spot on the Today Show. But really- you should watch it, if you haven’t already.

Spoilers ahead! Do not read further if you haven’t finished season two! Don’t you dare!

So, we jump in right after the fateful trail where the reverend (my beloved Jon Hamm) is put behind bars and the mole woman have officially closed that chapter of their lives. Meanwhile, Jacqueline decides to get back to her (lol) Native American roots, while Titus apparently has a wife. By the end of episode one, we’ve pretty much wrapped all that up. The season already feels distinctly different from the first. Maybe it’s because the first was so brilliant and stood alone for over a year, leading us to build up a mountain of standards for season 2. Maybe it’s because the bunker section has been wrapped up. Maybe it’s because Kimmy really has (mostly) evolved from the person she was and has gained a little bit of street smarts. Who knows? All we know is this is going to be a very different ballgame.

It becomes immediately clear that we only scrapped the surface as far as the other significant figures in Kimmy’s life: Kimmy’s major story is done, so that’s the natural path to take — not that she’s done, by any means, she's just in a stable place for now. This is the first season where Kimmy is the side story: most episodes are really all Titus or Jacqueline, and even Lillian has some serious plot lines. And, of course, Tina Fey reappears, this time as Kimmy’s Jekyll and Hyde-like therapist Andrea, who Kimmy meets upon becoming as Uber driver. Jacqueline deals with her divorce, rich b*tches, being a fallen socialite, finding love again, etc. Titus is starting to get work and gets a boyfriend *awwww*. Meanwhile, Kimmy attempts to help herself and her fellow mole women put their lives back together, continues to work at her GED, has a bit of a stale continued storyline with Dong, and *dun dun na na!* finds her mom! Seriously, if you’re still reading and you haven’t finished the season and restrict yourself from IMDb ruining secrets, stop now, because the identity of mama Schmidt is something you won’t see coming, but is too perfect for words: who else than Phoebe Buffay herself Lisa freaking Kudrow?? Perfect, right? Such an awesome surprise after the little bit we’d learned about Lori Ann Schmidt.

Anyway, the new season is oozing with guest stars- seriously, no IMDb until you’re rewatching-, and new storylines. At first, I really believed that this new season was not as good as the first, but in retrospect, that’s not it at all, and it was not at all Tina’s intention. It was a big undertaking to follow the almost flawless first season, but it had to be done, and it was, and the verdict is that the show changes with Kimmy: there’s no way to go back to the feeling of the first because that’s passed, and the characters must change and the plot must evolve, or there’s no point.

Bottom line: it’s very different, but that doesn’t mean it’s not amazing. It will take more time to warm up to, and you cannot watching it while cleaning your apartment, like I attempted, because it’s just that witty. Yes, some episodes are better than others, but by the time your get to the last few minutes of the last episode, you’re just as hyped for season 3. Bring it on!