this is the best season
This season goes through a lot of ups and downs (in my opinion), but the ups come quickly enough to keep it entertaining and it ends super strongly!
This is where it goes from a really good show to fucking amazing. I laughed to tears and realized they were tears of sadness. The musical numbers are out of this world, the themes are interesting and everything is so well written. Amazing show, even though I kinda feel it sometimes feels a bit stretched, with too many episodes.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is not a perfect show. It straddles that line between good and great. The artistry in the musical numbers, the sets, they're undeniable. But the writing straddles this line more than anything. This show can so often be Tina Fey-esque White Liberal. Rebecca almost ruins a man of color's life- Josh- with false accusations by using society's inclination to view the white woman as vulnerable against him, and the racial aspect of this is never brought up. Likely because the writers just didn't think about it! The pregnancy plotline is messy, almost obligatory. Valencia's bisexuality, while welcome, springs up during a timeskip and doesn't get the time and attention Darryl's romance got. This season- like the previous seasons- is messy!
And yet.
Despite the undeniable whiteness to Rebecca's journey, I still related to it intensely. The excuses that nothing's ever your fault, because of your illness, your trauma, your upbringing. The mistakes, saying this is the last time and feeling so sure in the moment and baffled when you do it again, like you were in a trance. The latching onto someone because they're the only one that makes you feel like you matter, that anything does. That they can save you. The feeling of being trapped in an endless loop of misery and delusion. The mental illness is real, raw, and honest. But even this, like everything else, is caught in that surface level liberalism when the season ends with Rebecca thinking the prison system is some ultimate way of taking responsibility for your actions. This show can never escape its whiteness. But it manages to be worth it anyway.
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Shout by Andy GilleandVIP 6BlockedParent2018-03-28T00:53:15Z
I liked Season 3 a lot better than Season 2. There were some really incredible episodes this year, and possibly one that could hold the potential for an Emmy.