34 stories by "Allie Pape"
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has had a few strong outings here and there in its final season, but with this episode marking the two-thirds point, I have to confess that I'm just not enjoying the show…
On the surface, this episode seemed like it would be silly fun. We finally get to go to Raging Waters! It's Rebecca's Paris! But the waterslides are just window-dressing, because the real th…
We're still a long way from the finale, but in many senses, this is the episode that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been building up to for the past four years. Of all the genres the show has parod…
Heading into its home stretch (sports analogy!) seems to have tightened Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's focus, leading to its best back-to-back pair of episodes in a long while. While last week's outi…
Even by the standards of a show that thrives on fanservice, this episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is really for the heads. Longtime viewers know that Rebecca despises Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cat…
It's the episode we've all been waiting for: the introduction of New Greg. With Santino Fontana off doing his best Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Bloom's college chum Skylar Astin has taken on the r…
As Paula mentioned earlier this season, Rebecca's list of unfinished business is long, and her mom is near the top. We last saw Naomi a full season's worth of episodes ago, when she out-and-…
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's biggest annoyance is that it crams way too much plot into some episodes, then twiddles its thumbs in others. This episode is a prime offender. Clearly an attempt to pai…
There are shows that are unafraid to dispose of cast members at will, and there are shows that desperately try to keep every last minor character in the fold. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend definitely …
Even Crazy Ex-Girlfriend diehards could be forgiven for forgetting that Rebecca has a 13-year-old half-brother named Tucker. He's only been mentioned a couple of times on the show: in the pi…
Boo! Halloween greetings from the scariest place of all: Rebecca's past. This spooky, silly outing was a fun departure that reminded me of the show's first season, when there was more time f…
Welcome to senior year of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend! I hope Rachel Bloom & Co. are hard at work on a parody of "Time of Your Life," because I'm already getting sniffly at the realization that …
Over three seasons and dozens of songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has covered nearly every topic and musical genre imaginable, fearlessly mocking everything from hip-hop to punk-pop, on subjects b…
Rebecca's recovery isn't going very well so far, and while that's bad news for her, it's great for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. As exemplified by Nathaniel and Rebecca's "Horny Angry Tango," this ep…
Over three seasons and dozens of songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has covered nearly every topic and musical genre imaginable, fearlessly mocking everything from hip-hop to punk-pop, on subjects b…
I wasn't sure what Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would do after the holiday break, given how intensely this season has careened from revenge fantasy to full-blown mental-health crisis to tentative rec…
Rebecca has had a very rough year, but let's not underrate what's happened to Paula. She unexpectedly got pregnant and had an abortion. Her husband cheated on her. Her new boss is a huge jer…
The episode title this time really says it all: "Josh Is Irrelevant." As disconcerting as it might be for Josh Chan himself to hear, he was never the point of this show. Instead, as the old …
Rebecca Bunch has burned her bridges and run away before. In season one, after Josh recommitted to Valencia, she took the first flight out to New York while all her friends back in West Covi…
Kristen Bell and Ted Danson might be the marquee names of The Good Place, but for many viewers, the breakout star of the afterlife comedy is William Jackson Harper, who portrays anxious, ind…
Even in the depths of its third season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend still finds new ways to surprise. Every time it seems that the show is going to rest too much on the charms of its ensemble, it do…
Considering season one's theme song was absurdly catchy and season two's turned out to be a surprise major plot point, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had a high bar for this year's opening theme " and …
When we last saw Rebecca Bunch, she just experienced the ultimate blow: After two years of obsessively courting Josh Chan, he left her at the altar to join the priesthood, ending all possibi…
Very big spoilers ahead for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.The second season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is already available to stream on Netflix, just a week after the finale aired. Whether you're watchin…
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has pulled off some mighty tricks this season, from delicately off-boarding one main character and bringing on another to completely fragmenting, and then rebuilding, its…
