Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: A New Hope

Back before the end of 2016, when the lights on the Christmas trees still twinkled and we weren’t yet regretting the copious amounts of chocolate selection boxes and turkey we would consume, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was going on a bit of a seasonal break.

Apparently splitting your season into two is the “in thing” nowadays, clearly driven by marketing and money than any real need to do so. I have no inherent problem with it. For some shows, like The Walking Dead, for example, it might actually work in its favour.

In a small and hopeful way, I hope that it’ll work for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend too. See, a few months ago I met this show. She was funny, smart and had a hell of a voice. She was everything I was looking for in a show and I fell head over heels. A little while later and despite occasionally resembling the show I fell for, she had changed.

Season two was mildly disappointing, not a failure by any means. She was still funny and still smart and her voice could still surprise me but she didn’t really wow me in the same way she used to. As the season progressed, I grew more irritated that it wasn’t the show I wanted it to continue to be. That’s more likely to be a problem with our societies inability to manage our expectations, which in turn creates a vortex of disappointment, of which we cannot escape.

Yet, y’know how it is. You meet a show and you fall in love and then it just isn’t the same anymore.

Though the last couple of episodes may not have been AS good as the show I fell for, she still had a certain joy de Vivre. It’s not that I hate her, it’s just not the same as it used to be. Yet, as the eternal optimist that I am, I’m holding out hope that the rest of season two can get back on track. Or, rather selfishly, the track I want it on.

Perhaps that mid-season hiatus is really the break our relationship needed. Or maybe she’ll find out I cheated and watched another musical comedy.