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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 3, Episode 13 (Patreon)

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2023-08-10 18:43:13
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Nathaniel Is Irrelevant

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 3, Episode 13

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Rachel Phipps

I watched the 3rd season as it aired and I vividly remember screaming at the TV and scaring my roommate when the episode ended, and then having an agonizing wait until S4 started. I think I felt similarly to you both that things escalated so quickly in this episode. I appreciated the symbolism of her taking responsibility for her actions (you can see in the past couple of episodes a lot of people tell her that she's not at fault for the things she does and watch her get progressively more uncomfortable with that) but I definitely felt like it was completely the wrong time for making that stand. I don't want to spoil anything obviously, but I'd just say to continue having faith in the writers. They're very self-aware when they write misguided characters doing/saying stupid things (see the "nothing is every anyone's fault" song this episode). It'll work out, even if it's not in the way you expect :)

Jamie D

I think this finale was a bit contrived, but oh well. I think it's not unreasonable to think that Rebecca may act irrationally by not screenshotting and not calling the police when Trent sent her threatening messages. BPD is basically an inability to regulate emotions, and panic/fear is one of those emotions. Other notes: I love the little nods to past songs written into the dialogue like Group Hang, Having a Few People Over, Stupid Bitch, Everything You Made Me Do That You Didn't Ask For, etc. I love the end song. Such a great love ballad. I like how they kind of psych you out thinking that they're making excuses for Rebecca, but then "Hitler's brother died and it made him super sad" and that confirmed that the writers knew how ridiculous the conversation was. Oh, and of course The Miracle of Birth was hilarious. There's a video of Doctor Mama Jones (OB/GYN youtuber) reacting to that song, which is great.

DelGuy03

Answer to your question: When I first saw this episode (and then had to wait through the summer to discover what happened next), I too thought that there were lots of smarter choices that Rebecca might have made that wouldn't result in her pushing Trent off the roof with no evidence to back her up, and I wasn't happy that it all seemed so contrived. But I trusted the writers to steer me right in the end. You may remember that a few episodes back, I said that there were maybe half a dozen clunky plot elements that I wish had been avoided; with this episode, we've basically reached the end of those. (I don't think there's any spoiler in that, as it's a purely subjective opinion and others may disagree on either part of it.)

DelGuy03
>>114960142

Another nod to past songs is the underscoring while Nathaniel is looking at Mona at the party: "Settle for Me." In fact, Nathaniel was given a vocal reprise, "Settle for Her," which ended up getting cut from the episode; but it's included in the soundtrack album.

DelGuy03

Fun song detail: Because it came at the end of a season when Rachel Bloom was fully occupied with acting, she wasn't available to collaborate on "The Miracle of Birth." So the other two songwriters, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen, wrote it themselves -- this, of all songs. They solicited information from all the mothers on the writing staff, wrote it up into a lyric, got their (apparently enthusiastic) approval, and co-creator Aline Brash McKenna chimed in and added even more graphic detail. Their goal was to write a song with beautiful music and disgusting (but completely accurate) lyrics, and I think we can agree they succeeded.

Youtalkingtome
>>114964175

It's all subjective, I'm glad that it worked for most people and it didn't lose me at all, just not where we thought it was gunna go!

DelGuy03

Your comparison to Breaking Bad made me cheer, because it's one that Rachel Bloom repeatedly made herself! She would refer to Rebecca as "a bubbly Walter White" -- unlike some of the fans, she never minimized the bad things Rebecca did.

Rozenn Keribin

I think this episode really illustrates how you misread Rebecca in that last scene of the previous episode. Her feeling dejected wasn't because she still wanted Nathaniel, it was because she was feeling guilty for all the bad things she'd done and she'd just had two conversations fishing for closure/forgiveness/punishment on them ("I'm sorry" to Paula, "I've done bad things too" to Nathaniel) and she didn't get those things because those people *didn't know* that she'd done those bad things to begin with. It directly set up her taking responsibility for her actions this episode. Also I'd never noticed before, but binge-watching "Top of the Lake" while in labor? That detective show that involves trying to find a pregnant runaway teen, who ends up giving birth alone in the woods? I mean, it works out fine for her but still, that's one hell of a reference.

Youtalkingtome
>>116295450

I had no idea that's what that is about lmao. The small details on this show are honestly so much fun. You miss them the first time and it's on rewatch that they really stand out.