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‘The Baldwins’ Is Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s Strange Response to the ‘Rust’ Tragedy: TV Review

'The Baldwins' review: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin show life with their seven children in the wake of the 'Rust' shooting on this TLC reality show.

On the two parody “Queen of Jordan” episodes of “30 Rock” — in which the sitcom’s cast members were thrust into the middle of a reality show — no character seemed quite so out of place as Alec Baldwin ’s Jack Donaghy. Things a viewer might usually bump up against — Baldwin showing his kids how to smile for a camera by referencing “Saturday Night Live” producer Marci Klein’s method, for instance — come to feel just vaguely sad. Baldwin’s involvement in the “Rust” shooting was only the latest in a series of scandals and dramas that have engulfed him over time, so much so that he once announced, in a New York Magazine cover story, that he was outright quitting public life.

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