Crazy ex girlfriend

Netflix is currently the global home to all 4 seasons of the often-overlooked comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend which aired on The CW between and Created by Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna, the comedy which stars Bloom as Rebecca Bunch saw 4 seasons of her character finding her way in life after following an old high school boyfriend across the country. The number of years thereafter will differ with the US having the longest stint at least based on prior departures. In the United States, titles typically stay on Netflix for 5 years after the release of the final season.

She moves to West Covina, California, to be closer to Josh, but soon realizes that she's running away from herself as much as she's running towards him. Rebecca makes new friends, starts a new career, finds love several times, and battles with her mostly-untreated mental illness. The twist? Rebecca's inner monologue isn't just words — she imagines everything as fully orchestrated and choreographed musical numbers. It's an earnest look at what it's like living with mental illness that still manages to be side-splittingly funny and has some absolute bangers in each episode. The music's not just good, it's great: late Fountains of Wayne frontman Adam Schlesinger helped co-write songs that range in style from big Broadway ballads to riffs on Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" with Bloom and music supervisor Jack Dolgen.

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Jump to navigation. By traditional television standards, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend should not work. Saddled with a problematic title, laced with tongue-in-cheek musical numbers, and centered on an extremely flawed female protagonist who uproots her entire life to pursue her teenage crush, it seems an unlikely programming choice. Many potential viewers initially dismissed the CW show for its name—how could a show called Crazy Ex-Girlfriend be anything but terrible?