I'm a 50 year old woman who watches this show with my husband and our teenage daughter. We love this show for its focus on women characters, humour(love kernels and generalize about men are two of my favourites) and effortless representation of diverse characters.
What I love most though is the extraordinary telling of Rebecca's mental health issues. The way it was paced over the 4 seasons gave the subject more substance and authenticity. I can't say I've ever seen anything like this show before.
Thank you Aline and Rachel!
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As your former college roommate and first crazy friend in Dunster House, I think you play yourself down as a "late blooming Wild Woman." I can personally attest to your brazen opinionated nature, crass and "masculine" sense of humor and to your glorious head of 80's (pre Devacan and smoothing gel) curly hair. I had it too, and you let me use your Deneman brush until I ruined it. I can also attest to your apple polishing as I saw it in its full splendor.
Congratulations on your hard-earned success and on making me feel old.
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Love this piece.
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One of my me-time pleasures is sitting down for some quiet time in front of the TV and getting an episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in. It's rare that I have any time to watch TV, and it's my go-to. I'm slowly relishing it, and I'll be so sad when I reach the end. It's a gem of a show, and I can't wait to start all over again from episode 1.
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it's was such a wonderful, fun show. I guess my problem with the show is that is was so short-lived. Why is that? Who makes those decisions (I supposed if it was possibly the writers, Aline or Rachel, wanting to bow out, then there is no way around that). But I always am perplexed by why these hits burn out so fast. Same feeling about the show AnnE which I loved and it fizzled out too.
Anyway on with the next right? Oh one more thing... that each year's show only has maybe 8 episodes and then it takes another half year to come around again. I don't know about you, but my attention span isn't that good.
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I attended the live event in LA and last Friday and was dazzled by the performances, humor and camaraderie on stage. I was also delighted to be "adopted" by the people (Crazy Ex-fans) ahead of and behind me in line because I'd mistakenly ordered 1 ticket instead of 2 for the event.
I've loved the show from the very beginning, and I was happy to realize that I agreed with Rachel when she described the Crazy Ex audience as intelligent and empathetic. The people around me in line, who insisted we sit together for the show, all had touching, personal, and funny stories of how various storylines, songs, and characters resonated with them. And I relate. To them. To the show. To the show's characters and actors. To the show's creators.
Thank you! And go see the live show!
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A little over two years ago my family and I rented a cabin in Idyllwild, California, high in the mountains above Palms Springs. It was freezing cold, and the cabin's heater stopped working. My daughters insisted on watching a show which I thought for sure was aimed at girls: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I wasn't enthused, but I complied with the feminist mandate. We all squeezed on the couch for warmth and put a few heavy sleeping bags over us.
About 15 minutes in to the first episode I realized I was really going to like Crazy Ex. The show is, well, crazy. I loved all the characters, and the setting of bland West Covina, California was in itself a brilliant stroke. We laughed so hard over the course of a dozen-plus episodes over three nights that I am surprised that old couch did not collapse from all of our collective convulsive giggling.
I check out a few episodes of most of the new shows on Netflix, or wherever, and most of them don't do much for me. But Crazy-Ex and I bonded.
I'm sorry it is ending after this season. I was up for another half dozen seasons at least.
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Thank you so much for this amazing show! I'm sad to see it go, but I'm so grateful that we got to experience it in the first place!
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This show has filled a hole in my life that I didn't even know was there. It encouraged me to start therapy and acknowledge that life doesn't make narrative sense. Thank you Aline and Rachel for creating a beautiful show that has been so meaningful to so many people.
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Ms. McKenna - love your work! But shouldn't it be "Radio Freaking City Music Hall"? :)
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@Jack. The "freaking" always comes at the conclusion of the adjectivial phrase before the noun it modifies. In "Big blue freaking car" freaking modifies car. If we said "Big freaking blue car" we would be talking about a particularly freaking shade of blue. Thus Ms. McKenna is telling us the Music Hall is what' s freaking, rather than the City.
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Love this piece and love the show. And I'm older than you--discovered it through my 20 year old daughter.
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As a 50 something woman who has worked with Millennials and always sensed they had gotten things right somehow, in their disregard for hierarchy and other cultural norms, I loved this piece.
We can all learn from each other!
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@City Girl What's interesting to me about this is: why are Millenials being given the bandwidth to disregard hierachy when those of other generations have tried and not really succeeded? Are they just better at it? Are there more of them?
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@Kate
Nobody can disregard "hierarchy". That is a far left fantasy. Hierarchy's are a real part of life and always will be because they are natural. Any millennials supposedly disregarding hierarchies probably aren't working. The bandwidth probably comes from the trophy for everyone movement of the 1980s and 1990s.
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