Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

I still love this show. Nathaniel's songs have been uniformly fantastic; he is an excellent addition to the cast. White Josh is always great. And when Trent reappeared and did his own BLAM!, I laughed a lot.

I admit I tried to get back into this but I really hated the big number that opened this season so I stopped there. I should give it a shot again huh

I've had problems with my mental health for a long time (not BPD though) and I've got to say that this show deals with these issues better than any other comedy I've seen

Catching up on S3 at the moment - it's definitely less funny, but it couldn't have gone on eliding* Rebecca's mental illness and the damage / displacement that Paula's doing to her own life much longer. Hopefully it can come out of treatment-related or life-evaluating plots for various characters and find new paths for them, but being so desperately marginal a show must make it hard to invest in long-term plotting.

*or: not that the creators or the text did, but that the audience was asked to accept the tension and stay invested with the protagonists for the sake of laughs and songs, while that tension kept building. Valencia going from being the only person who saw Rebecca for what she was, to an accepting friend & also an actual nicer person, is the biggest fumble / "oh just go with it, it's a sitcom" that they've pulled

It is one of the struggles that I've always had with the show, its juxtaposition of pretty horrible behaviour with humour and whimsy. That's a combination that can curdle in the wrong hands (see Three Billboards, for example), but I think Crazy Ex-Girlfriend just about walks the right line. I partly think this because the show often does address things when they come to a head, and I partly think it because if one of those male anti-heroes from one of those prestige AMC shows was doing this stuff and ruining the lives of everyone around him, everyone would think he was dark and fascinating.

Valencia going from being the only person who saw Rebecca for what she was, to an accepting friend & also an actual nicer person, is the biggest fumble / "oh just go with it, it's a sitcom" that they've pulled

Yes, I miss Valencia as a worthy antagonist. She has been defanged to the character's detriment.

i suspect things will twist further with her next week.

Sunday, April 8 • 8 PM
LIVE NATION PRESENTS
MY CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND LIVE starring RACHEL BLOOM
Public on sale Wednesday 2/14
The cast of CW’s award-winning musical dramedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is taking their show on the road in this live tour. Join RACHEL BLOOM, the rest of the cast and the “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” songwriters as they bring the show’s songs to life in this very special event.

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oh good it's a tour

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Live Starring Rachel Bloom
3/31—Portland
4/1—Seattle
4/4—Chicago
4/5—Boston
4/6—Washington, D.C.
4/7—Philadelphia
4/8—New York
4/10—Los Angeles

never watched this show before tonight. really funny so far.

Idk about this third season…

I’ll see where it goes. I loved seasons 1 and 2. And I understand they need to grapple with the fact that some of the stuff Rebecca’s been doing has been extremely destructive, you know, not cute.

If i was valencia i would never forgive rebecca and paula lol wtf

“It was never about Josh. Josh was just a symbol of effortless normlacy from which you felt excluded.” Lmao.
Me too Bunch, I feel ya.

this feels like a thread to maybe discuss schmigadoon