“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the Ellie Kemper-starring Netflix series that follows the day-to-day ordeals of a young woman (Kemper) who has been rescued from a doomsday cult and is now trying to live a normal life in New York City, is a show that mixes its dark themes with a decidedly sunny presentation.

“In the context of cable comedy, ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ is a very odd bird,” writes New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum, “At times, it resembles a Nickelodeon tween show—which is just how its heroine might imagine her own life. Yet, without any contradiction, it’s also a sitcom about a rape survivor.”

Jane Krakowski, who worked with the show’s creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock before on NBC’s “30 Rock” and plays a socialite named Jacqueline on the streaming series, describes the oddness of the show to Indiewire.

“When I explained the premise, I would say, it's about a woman who's been in a bunker for so many years, then gets found, and she moves to New York, and... it's a comedy, she said.

Krakowski said she did not have enough details about the second season of the show yet, but she said that working with Carol Kane was amazing. She would also love for her character to be paired up with Titus.

"We all got to know each other at the studio very well, but the characters didn't cross that often," she said.

It's the reason that she loved the last episode of the first season, where she got to go on a road trip with Kane. And because the two worked so well together, there may be more of that to come.

"So, I hear rumblings that we might be paired up a bit more in Season 2," she said. "I have no idea how, but I look forward to it."

If there is a delicate balance between the horrible and the hilarious at work on the show, “Kimmy Schmidt” co-creator Fey chalks it up to 35-year-old Kemper’s natural ability to use her acting skills, physical comedy and sense of timing to make everything work out.

The 45-year-old comedian and producer tells Vanity Fair that Kemper is naturally positive and pleasant, and that it really works on the show because the actress is also smart.

Before getting her big break playing a receptionist on “The Office,” Kemper, a Princeton graduate, cut her comedic teeth by writing humor pieces for the hipster-oriented literary magazine "McSweeney’s," and submitting fake news headlines to The Onion.

Addressing the ever surfacing question about females being funny or not, Kemper said that there were both funny and unfunny women.

“It’s similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short," she said.