MartinHafer
"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" is one of the best television shows on today....so why is it I never heard about this? Only when my oldest daughter came home for a visit did I learn about this one...after the second season?! Fortunately, the show is supposed to return for season 3...and you should binge on them like I am in order to catch up and be ready once the show returns.Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) is a super-well educated and successful young lawyer. After all, she went to Harvard AND Yale and now is working a great job in New York City...and is about to be offered a partnership in her firm! Yet, she just ain't right in the head. When she sees an old boyfriend from summer camp a decade before, she learns that he's moving back to his old home town in California...she impulsively quits her job and moves to this city!! Why? Because she is highly delusional and imagines he'll soon fall in love with her and they'll live happily ever after! What's next? See this very weird and surreal show and find out...and it's a show that always keeps you guessing...and is filled with some of the funniest songs I have ever heard. The writing for this show is amazing. While the show COULD lose its momentum quickly, episode after episode it keeps your interest...and features some of the strangest and most screwed up characters on TV. Well worth seeing...and there is nothing like it!!
mitchmcc
I have never been as mixed up about a title as I was with this one. On the plus side of the ledger, Rachel Bloom has true star quality. You cannot take your eyes off of her, and she has great hooters. The other cast members are also extremely talented. But the premise is, even giving it slack for its inventiveness, "crazy". Nothing about Josh made it seem like he would be the object of such non-stop stalking, other than the fact that he was her teenage summer romance at camp.But the thing I found most objectionable was that in every single situation, the so-called comedy went so far over the edge to pain that it was: not funny.Listen to what I am saying. I feel like they took a plot and songs that could have been edgy and *cute*, and made it painful to watch.I am pretty sure I would not be the only one who feels this way, so I am just forewarning anyone else.Because of this, although we finished watching all of Season 1, we are not going to continue. Life is too short, and it is really too bad, because I wanted to like this.
Kim Ren
Okay, just to start with I really like this show. However season 2 has been a little harder to watch especially since Greg is no longer in the picture. In fact, according to just about every article I have read about it, he will not be returning at all to the show. I don't know about anybody else, but I quite liked the love triangle for once. It was fun and entertaining and even though Rebecca is supposedly crazy for Josh Chan, I think it would have been a good story line for her to end up with his best friend. Afterall, they fit well together and he was so head over heels for her. Sometimes actually always most often life is like that. We don't know what we have until its too late but for a show like this where anything is possible, all I ask is that you bring Greg back and lets see how life really would work out for a change. I don't think I like the show without Greg. Again another show that builds you up only to disappoint you by killing off the most favorite characters so to speak. My rating would be higher if Greg was still in it. Bring Greg back!
wendybob
I just watched Episode 4 of Season 2, which hit every note I could think of, hope for, and more. Not only is this show wildly original, with adorable absurd yet relatable characters, it is smart and funny, unpredictable and politically incorrect, in the best possible way. I just read all of the reviews before I wrote this, and I think I am probably older than most of the reviewers, and watch less TV. Not only am I from the Seinfeld Generation, I am from the All In The Family Generation! This show has a similar renegade spirit, which might be lost on some people because they only have the reference of what is on TV now There is so much on TV these days (after a TV Desert for years!), most of which, when I cast a glance at them (trying to find things that are captivating) look, well, like TV shows. Maybe the ones that are truly original (which I can recognize) are simply too young for me :-(This show transcends its genre, with its kind of heartfelt absurdity and wacky musical numbers (yes, most of the ones from Season 1 are better so far than Season 2) but every time they break out in song it's still a crack-up, and actually advances the plot! If you like surrealism, absurdist humour, original characters and don't take things too literally, give it a shot!