NewsChannel 3’s Laila Muhammad interviews the stars of insane Ex-Girlfriend

Rachel bloom plays Rebecca.

Rachel Bloom plays Rebecca Bunch, a high-powered New York attorney who moves to California to chase after a romantic interest from summer camp in “Crazy Ex Girlfriend”. Think of prematurely murdered classics like My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Wonderfalls, Terriers, Veronica Mars, Firefly, and even Lone Star, a show cut down so swiftly, it didn’t have time to become great (or not).

Peak TV is a glass half-full, glass half-empty situation. Paula is her unintentional sidekick and Greg is a possible love interest – he likes her, anyway – but there needs to be more chemistry in order for any of these relationships to fly. Ratings are down, buzz is stretched thin. Bloom struggles into a pair of Spanx, looking like a scared animal-but, you know, a sexy scared animal. They aren’t missing anything. It’s in that moment that you realize what angle Bloom is really going for here, and if she didn’t have your attention before, she absolute had it then. She has a fine Disney-Broadway voice, and the lyrics, melodies and choreography are just about as good – or as bad – as those in the average modern musical number. Needless to say, the already-committed-to-someone-else ex-boyfriend Josh isn’t exactly jumping through hoops to get back together with Rebecca, who is now off her meds, but that obvious arc is just the leaping-off point for what is best called contained craziness – in what could be the best way depending where the show goes next. The writing demands so much of you. They agree they should hang out, however, Josh informs her he’s on the brink of leaving NYC and heading back home to West Covina, California where people are, in his words, “happy”.

With little encouragement from the man of her neurotic dreams, she pursues Josh from Manhattan to the West Coast, sort of. But she’s not moving there for him.

“I think the show was a little too bubbly for them”, Ms. McKenna said after an August CW press conference.

This description makes Rebecca sound like a very contemporary unlikable protagonist. In fact, via a butter advertisement, it’s clear that she is profoundly unhappy. TV heroines, from Lucy Ricardo to Rachel Green, have been flawed and particular.

When I got to NYU, I was a musical theater major, and I also auditioned for and got on a sketch comedy group. The only thing we can guarantee, though, is that you will definitely be seeing her face more often after you fall in love with the CW’s new show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”. Rebecca in nearly every way checks the “unlikable” female protagonist box. “We were never labeling her as an other”.

Bloom co-created the series with Aline Brosh McKenna, whose movie screenplays include The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses. It’s called “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and promises to be unlike any show you’ve seen on TV. It wasn’t until people started saying, “This show’s sexist”, that I was like, “Oh, right, there’s a whole other version of this show where she’s a sketchy character and it’s like, “Look at that insane bitch!” Her coworker, Paula (Donna Lynn Champlin), is immediately suspicious.

Don’t worry about remembering West Covina.

Check out our list of the top three things fans can expect to see on the premiere episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” below! There will even be a Bollywood-style number and a Katy Perry-esque pop song in the second episode.

Just as much attention has been paid to the very amusing dialogue as it has to the musical numbers. She’s hired as a lawyer by Darryl (Pete Gardner), who mostly likes the idea of having a hardcore Jewish New York lawyer to do battle with the firm hired by his soon-to-be ex-wife. It’s kind of uncomfortable to watch, but it’s also pretty amusing to see the lengths that Rebecca goes to. “My Jew went to Yale!”

“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is both deliriously amusing and stunningly ambitious. It is, after all, a musical.