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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend epitomize: 'I Never Desire to Meet Josh Again'
Rebecca retreats back to Scarsdale and a new lawyer takes her job
Can Josh Have A Jump of Religion?
I was fascinated to see how Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would follow up last calendar week's episode, which was so impressive it felt more like a magic flim-flam than a narrative arc. One would think that afterwards turning on her friends, condign the horror-movie villain in Josh'due south life, and sleeping with Greg's father, Rebecca Agglomeration had hitting rock bottom. Consider "I Never Desire to See Josh Again" a jackhammer.
Paula, for all of her maternal instincts when information technology comes to Rebecca, understands that she's not actually Rebecca's real female parent. And so when Rebecca disappeared last week, she called Naomi Bunch (the wonderful Tovah Feldshuh) who brings Rebecca dorsum to Scarsdale to get her life dorsum on track.
For Rebecca's mom, "on rail" means resigning from her West Covina task (which she does for Rebecca via fax) and getting her old task in New York Metropolis back. That's the plan, at least until Naomi looks at Rebecca'southward laptop and sees that her daughter hasn't been retooling her resume like she said she was. Rebecca had been researching ways to impale herself.
Suicide is always a delicate subject to discuss and depict onscreen — shows run a risk minimizing it, or veering into the maudlin and exploiting it for drama. Simply for all its candy-colored musical numbers, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has hardly ever misfired when information technology's come to its depiction of mental illness. The show'southward unofficial ideology seems to take been snuck into a parenthetical from the outset flavor'southward theme song: "The Situation Is a Lot More Nuanced Than That."
Then the normally controlling and overbearing Naomi Bunch becomes Mother of the Year overnight, offer Rebecca an endless stream of full-fat strawberry milkshakes and wearing matching Juicy tracksuits with the daughter she's so drastic to cheer up. "Maybe she's not such a heinous bowwow after all!" Rebecca sings in a gleeful doo-wop number, complete with blackness-and-white background dancers. Audra Levine, nemesis, comes over to bring a casserole and warn about Naomi's seemingly inexplicable mothering streak ("What do opinionated Jewish mothers do when they plough 60? They change!") but Rebecca doesn't want to hear it. Rebecca may have given upwardly on controlling her own life, but it seems playing Twister and eating popcorn with a mother finally showing her love and affection is making suicide a more distant preoccupation.
Back in West Covina, Nathaniel immediately jumps on Rebecca'south absence to rent a new replacement: the eternally professional person Cornelia, who also went to Yale and Harvard only doesn't mention it unless someone asks. Cornelia is the anti-Rebecca Bunch; she shies abroad from office drama, works diligently, doesn't talk nearly her personal life, and treats all of her co-workers with bones, non-sexualized respect. And so, of form, all of the office employees become insane projecting their needs from Rebecca onto this poor woman. Maya wants a millennial-friendly mentor; former groundwork-character Bill needs someone to replace Rebecca as his will-they-won't-they part romance (don't you remember that nonexistent plot line? Anybody saw their chemistry!); and Darryl needs someone he tin can talk to nigh White Josh, and Cornelia'south polite recommendation of a human relationship book she read a review of in the New York Times just isn't going to cut it. (Masterful music detail: the background reprise of "Who's The New Guy," reminding us probably not to get also attached.)
And Nathaniel. Poor Nathaniel, who defenseless feelings for Rebecca and now holds tight onto her stuffed alligator while moving men hired by Naomi articulate out her West Covina apartment. Nathaniel seems alternatively perplexed and outraged past the fact that Cornelia is a professional person and not the sexually electric and completely inappropriate Rebecca. (Epitomize continues on next page)
This is a dainty episode for learning more about formerly pocket-size groundwork characters. Maya veers further into her role as "young millennial" (was that a Lauren Duca reference with that "thigh-loftier feminism call out?) and her fan-girling nigh White Josh and Darryl's human relationship establishes her squarely as an audition stand-in the way Paula had been early in the fashion she rooted for Rebecca and Josh's love. And Mrs. Hernandez, the formerly silent, is revealed to exist a glorious cracking. And Bill is ripped! Yous know, Bill! The guy who'southward been here this whole time, probably.
Rebecca is thinking of the West Covina cast too, playing over the cruel things she said to her friends earlier she left. But where she had one time been suicidal, she now just feels a pleasant buzzing in her ears — brain freeze from the milkshakes, she assumes, at least until she sees her female parent's hidden stash of anti-anxiety pills. Naomi had been plying her with drugs to keep her docile and happy until she could discover an institution for her. Rebecca confronts her mother, feeling more than betrayed than ever since she had a gustation of the hope that her female parent really cared about her. Of grade, the terrible irony is Naomi does care virtually her — getting Rebecca treatment is almost certainly the best course of action at this point — simply Rebecca doesn't see information technology that way. She feels betrayed.
The Westward Covina law business firm crew has a sitcom-y run-in at the pool of a timeshare resort involved in one of their lawsuits (Paula was there trying to bail with her family, Nathaniel and Cornelia went to piece of work, the remainder of the gang followed Cornelia because they still want her to fill the Rebecca-sized holes in their lives), and Cornelia sings a genuinely funny Brazilian-inspired song about fully recognizing that all of this attention is not nigh her simply the hijinks seem downright whimsical when we're just a scene-cut abroad from a suicidal Rebecca who feels like she has goose egg left to lose.
When Naomi tin can't find Rebecca and is calling for her, I'm genuinely terrified she's going to open up a closet and find a torso. The believability and emotions in this episode made me forget that this was the fifth episode of a flavour. Just mercifully, Rebecca isn't expressionless. She's on board a plane to Los Angeles and drinking a glass of Merlot from the kind flight attendant, with a scattering of pills. And so, information technology happens: one past one, sip by sip, Rebecca swallows each of the pills in a sequence that'southward dizzying in its placid simplicity, dramatic for its lack of drama. When the earth tunnels around her and she briefly regains consciousness, Rebecca is able to button the aid button and bear witness the flight attendant what she's done.
This episode's balancing human activity was ambitious and precarious, and the squad backside Crazy Ex-Girlfriend proved once again that their show is fearless.
Tin Josh Take A Leap of Religion?
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