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TV: There She Is, The Old Radiation King

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S3 Ep 12 - 13 of Crazy Ex GF were great. The show has really been slipping so it was good to see it turn in a good effort back to back.
 
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I dont think the show was slipping at all. In fact you mentioned earlier Scott was in a bunch of it and I think he had like 4 scenes all season and none of them lasted more than like 2 minutes. I have enjoyed the season a lot mainly cause Rebecca isnt getting away with her crap which was becoming implausible anyways.
 
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I have enjoyed the season a lot mainly cause Rebecca isnt getting away with her crap which was becoming implausible anyways.
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Scott wasn't the trouble this year.

I am worried about where they are going. The only point of the show is that Rachel is irredeemably awful. The songs are funny but the bite in the show is a mirror for exactly the kind of people who watch it and their (our) infuriating self-absorption and teflon life positioning.

To make it a redemption story would be a crime on par with making Hot Lips likable.
 
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I disagree. The point of the show is her friendships and the truth is none of those people should even look in her direction anymore. You can only go so far down the rabbithole before it loses its luster. If they kept having her be awful then the other characters make less sense to have around.

She will never be redeemed, but she cant be the raging sociopath she was either or the minuscule audience the show has will just stop watching.
 
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I disagree. The point of the show is her friendships and the truth is none of those people should even look in her direction anymore. You can only go so far down the rabbithole before it loses its luster. If they kept having her be awful then the other characters make less sense to have around.

She will never be redeemed, but she cant be the raging sociopath she was either or the minuscule audience the show has will just stop watching.
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There are a thousand shows like that. I don't disagree that's the show the TV people thought they were getting. But I think it's a lot better than that. There are aspects of the show that are so smart that I don't think it is just a dumb cliche at a foundational level.

Now, it may be eroding -- it's not unusual for interesting shows to regress to the dullard norm as they go on. And there's obviously a lot of pressure on it to conform because a smart show is ratings poison. But I wanted to believe it was a much stronger middle finger to background tropes -- much like Community.

Don't disabuse me of my illusions. There are so few TV shows that are even remotely original or interesting. "Radio is the theater of the mind and TV is the theater of the mindless." So, if I've fooled myself into believing this is better, don't tell me there's no Santa. I'll figure it out in time.
 
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There are a thousand shows like that. I don't disagree that's the show the TV people thought they were getting. But I think it's a lot better than that. There are aspects of the show that are so smart that I don't think it is just a dumb cliche at a foundational level.
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The TV people have little control over the show. They have pretty much let them make the show they wanted despite the fact that no one watches it. This is the creators story it will go where they want it to and my guess is they want her happy at the end. (which my guess will be next season)
 
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The TV people have little control over the show. They have pretty much let them make the show they wanted despite the fact that no one watches it. This is the creators story it will go where they want it to and my guess is they want her happy at the end. (which my guess will be next season)
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Of course she'll be happy at the end.

Daisy Buchanan is happy at the end, in the smoldering wreckage of everyone else.

That's the point.

According to Dr. Mrs., the 4-year arc is ironclad. It ends next year, hell or high water.
 
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Lost in Space is being rebooted and will be coming to Netflix on April 13.
 
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