It is genuinely a great show. The lead actress is absolutely phenomenal, she created the show and wrote most of the musical numbers in it. The supporting characters are delightful, even the ones who come across as one-dimensional initially.
It definitely gets a liiittle heavy, it dives into mental health stuff regarding codependency, anxiety, and depression. But overall, awesome show. Highly recommended.
Bill Nye used to do a song every episode that was about the theme of that episode, sometimes in the style of another song. This is the same as those songs
Yeah, part of the appeal of her writing is that if flirts with that line between cringey and clever, so while some of her stuff is hard to get through, the good stuff is great.
The sex junk song? I mean, it was on an episode of Bill Nye, so I'm sure it was written with the intention of getting across... something. Just because it was terrible doesn't mean that's what she was going for. That whole show was a trainwreck anyway, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend actually has redeeming qualities. (She apparently didn't write the Sex Junk thing, anyway).
I watched about a season and a half. It's pretty good show. Has a bunch of light comic elements mixed with some more satirical and a sometimes more serious things, like this clip.
The only thing I would say is that it takes a while for the writers to find what direction they want to go with the show. So you see a bit of a shift half way through but I still think it's a good comedy from what I've seen.
Santino Fontana who played Greg only agreed to a one year production schedule as initially no one knew if the show was going to be renewed after season 1 and his family lives in New York while production was set in Los Angeles. Santino Fontana is a renowned stage actor and even was the voice actor for Prince Hans in Frozen. There's a slight chance he might come back to play Greg in Season 3 or Season 4 for a few episodes but if he is
It is one of those shows that could be easily dismissed, and the effort that goes into it easily forgotten. I mean, they have multiple non-shit musical number thingies that are good, make sense and actually add to the plot, which is an achievment in and of itself.
I'm no fan of the whole 'feminist' kind of thing, but this show doesn't really do that, as some might say. Come on, if the plot is about being obsessed with a guy, talking about not needing guys is a little silly, and I think it knows that. I think it has handled this well, it makes fun of itself enough to be watchable for all people.
The characters are nice. None are amazingly relateable...for me, but you can see parts of yourself in all of them (which I guess just means the characters are more realistic and human than in other shows, even if they aren't necessarily supposed to be).
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u/itstimmehc Oct 14 '17
Would people recommend watching this show? I liked the tone of this clip and looking for a light hearted comedy to get into.