The Hurry Up: 30 Rock

30 Rock is in a rough place this season. Community is destroying everything else on television at 8pm, and The Office is revitalized at 9pm, and 30 Rock continues to plug along right in the middle. I don't think the quality of the show has dipped at all, but it can seem that way when the shows around it improve so much.

The Kabletown merger is still going on. It was a clever idea (and very 30 Rock) to mock the Comcast merger, but it has to affect the storyline for the real merger to have gotten so sticky. It's a good thing Jack has Avery's pregnancy to focus on because his character would be completely lost now that there's no more battle to become head of GE.

Everyone else is simply solid, which makes for a boring blog post but has made for a happily entertaining season.

• Best Episode So Far: "Live Show" (similar problem to The Office last season where the big event episode happens early on and it takes a while to recover)
• Worst Episode So Far: "The Fabian Strategy"
• MVP Candidate: Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy (he's been Reaganing)
• Rookie of the Year Candidate: John Slattery as Steve Austin (honorable mention to Tina Fey's butt double in "Brooklyn Without Limits")
• Favorite Moment So Far: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss playing Liz in flashbacks during "Live Show"