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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 4, Episode 2 (Patreon)

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2023-08-25 00:20:40
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I Am Ashamed

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 4, Episode 2

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Rozenn Keribin

I can finally reveal that rewatching this whole show after having finished it, i.e. having spent a whole season with this theme song, is a trip. You'll be innocently watching the show and suddenly have the most intense feeling of déjà vu for one shot and go "Oh right THIS is when that happened!!" (OK I guess this is still technically a mild spoiler for the kind of variability one can expect from the theme song throughout the season, tell me if I should edit for future readers).

Rozenn Keribin

I really like how this show has handled the Hebecca plot so far. It feels like it's written by people who think pregnancy and parenting are interesting parts of life that are worth telling stories about, but are also aware of how formulaic and full of tired tropes it can get and so tried to mix it up. I thought how they handled Heather's pregnancy was very cool in this way, by unexpectedly timeskipping through most of it just at the point the arc would normally be starting, and also by skipping the birth itself when most shows would have it be the climax of an episode. They still gave the pregnancy experience a lot of attention but you get the sense they got to focus on the aspects they wanted to talk about, and those that informed Heather's character, instead of going through a checklist of pregnancy/childbirth milestones to hit. In this episode I think we're set up for a "bumbling young men don't know how to handle a baby" plot, with all the obligate milestones thereof (the baby wakes up! The baby needs changing! The baby spits up on one of them! They're hilariously bereft! The one who hates babies is disgusted, the dumb one tries dumb things! They call female acquaintances for advice! They finally manage to calm baby down in a heartwarming moment where the baby hater learned to Love Babies and the dumb one learned Competence!), and instead it's just like... Yeah the Joshes managed to handle a baby, why wouldn't they, White Josh isn't in love with babies as a concept but he can still interact with one and enjoy it, and Josh Chan isn't very smart but he's still capable of touching a baby without breaking it. And it is entirely possible for a baby to go *several whole hours* without causing hijinks to ensue. Instead you get a cute scene of people being cute with a baby. White Josh does get a "ok babies are cute" moment but it's more "White Josh feeling the way most people do about babies they look after" than "hard-won moment of character growth", and the point of the scene later turns out to have been about Darryl's arc the whole time. (Darryl's plot I would say is more formulaic but the "single parent trying to manage" formula isn't *quite* as beaten into the ground so whatever). (man that wasn't even intentional but I'm leaving it as is)

Jamie D

Of all the incredulous moments in the show, steam in tampon-clogged pipes making the table float is the moment that I give the biggest side eye.

Youtalkingtome
>>116020633

Yeah I think you nailed it! Darryl's character has come so far, they all have actually and none of them feel compromised in any way!

DelGuy03

Great reaction as always, guys! (Aside from the impossible-to-anticipate initial countoff, LOL) If I ever complain, please know that it's in the context of you being about the most insightful reactors around, of the 7 or 8 that I follow on Patreon. I couldn't hear every word over whatever the background roar was, so in case you didn't say it, "The Cringe" was directly modeled on "The Monster Mash." And the new theme song has fun mimicking all the theme songs for the who-can-turn-the-world-on-with-her-smile heroines of sitcoms past -- That Girl, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, and many more. Michael Hitchcock, the actor whom you pointed out as Bert Buttenweiser, has been a writer and executive producer on this show from the start. So that's another reason we get to see him here (though they may not initially have imagined his role taking this turn as the series continued). In that way he's similar to Rene Gube (Father Brah), likewise a writer and producer throughout the show's run. Rachel and Aline recognize talent and make good use of it! (Hitchcock was also part of the ensemble in all those Christopher Guest films alongside Eugene Levy & Catherine O'Hara, to connect this your Schitt's Creek discussion.)

Youtalkingtome
>>116064813

Okay! Thanks for clearing that up. We figured he was involved in some way... I still need to watch those Chris Guest movies.