Do not be fooled by its name. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, created by Rachel Bloom and Aline McKenna, is way more than an impulsive, insecure and depressed woman with a promising law career in NYC and a miserable emotional life chasing her first love - 10 years after their breakup - across the country. It is a comedy with the perfect combination of drama, romance, satire and brilliant musical numbers.
Sometimes it seems like we’ve had enough of the stereotypical representation of women in pop culture. And although Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is guilty of portraying women as crazy and emotionally unintelligent, it is never boring to watch the mess of Rebecca Bunch. Add a psycho new best friend, a closeted bisexual boss, a love triangle and a repertoire of hilarious
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To escape her own reality – a failing marriage, a boring routine and a dysfunctional family – Paula gets deeply involved in Rebecca’s pursuit of Josh, making use of her clever mind to scheme plans on a par with any conspiracy theory in The Prince by Machiavelli.
Although we’ve witnessed Rebecca’s madness, near the first season’s denouement, Paula becomes so possessive, crazy and pathologically obsessed over Rebecca’s love life that one might have the urge to change the name of the series from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to Crazy Best Friend. In the season’s finale, “Paula Needs to Get Over Josh,” Paula delivers a hysterical and mic-dropping musical number called “After Everything I’ve Done For You” that makes everyone, including Rebecca, question her sanity.
But Josh Chan and Paula Proctor are not enough to make the series work. Rebecca also needs a rebound, and Greg Serrano has the two single characteristics that makes him the perfect candidate to serve this purpose: he is needy and
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This is actually what makes Crazy Ex-Girlfriend so successful. Viewers relate to it and, at the expense of Rebeca, laugh at the stupid things they’ve done. Not only in the love department, but also in their lives in general. And if not, at least they relate to the things they want to do—because who in a big city like New York doesn’t dream with what West Covina represents if you are able to see past Josh and Rebecca’s craziness: being brave enough to pursue happiness.
On another note, if you think first impressions are everything, let me tell you that so are finales. Without being predictable, one must set the tone for the next season and leave fans feeling that it was worth spending 20 hours of their lives following a fictional story. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend did quite a good job closing its first season; just when we thought that Rebecca would start making sense again, the creative team came along with a giant twist, honoring the show’s name and making her crazy again. Consequently, after great improvement, Rebecca is back to the starting line--which hints that she’ll come back even more deranged in the next
Both Alex and Clinton struggle with problems of their family and others. Alex feels as if he is treated different when hes is, but thats not what he wants everyone to treat him as,by his family, Jennifer, and other people. Clinton is treated as an outcast, his friends don’t want to hang out with him no more and his little sister treats him as a monster. He begins to realized what he ha...
During a season of Saved by the Bell, two characters, Jessie and Kelly are replaced for 12 consecutive episodes by a new girl Tori (Klosterman, 145). The new girl Tori possesses traits that both Jessie and Kelly exhibit and is immediately accepted and brought into Kelly and Jessie’s group of friends (Klosterman, 145). While the aforementioned girls are gone and Tori is around, none of the girls’ friends mention them at all, Klosterman concludes that this is the most realistic part of the show (Klosterman, 145). This conclusion is come to after Klosterman does some psychoanalysis and evaluates his own experience with the “Tori Paradox,” (Klosterman, 146). When he first considers the idea of the “Tori Paradox,” Klosterman describes it as “idiotic, borderline insulting, […and] unreal,” (Klosterman, 146). After looking back to his high school and college experiences, he realizes that he as well as some of his friends disappeared for long stretches of time just like Kelly and Jessie did (Klosterman, 146). In addition, as on Saved by the Bell, whenever he or one of his friends was not around they were not mentioned (Klosterman, 146). His initial rejection of the authenticity, he concludes is the result of his “memory always [creating] the illusion that [they] were constantly together, just like those kids on Saved by the Bell,” (Klosterman, 146). Nevertheless, in reality, there were “long stretches where somebody who […] seemed among [his] closest companions simply wasn’t around,” (Klosterman, 146).
“Everybody Loves Raymond” is a television show that only few people today can actually say they had not seen this sitcom. It was one of the highest rated show during it run on CBS television network but has anyone ever noticed how much of a gender stereotype bonanza this show was? Most sitcoms follow the same pattern with the primary goal to make us laugh that, we tend to ignore the obvious and just assume this was the expected behavior for men, women even children in our society. I watched the first two episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, the show was about a stay at home mother Debra and her husband Raymond who goes to work, while her in-laws who lives across the street are always barging in to her home without a thought about what
The romance wasn’t my favourite thing in The Girl from Everywhere. I am not a massive fan of love triangles, like I hate them most of the time. But it was different in The Girl from Everywhere. It was a love triangle of sorts –ish. It is hard to explain. I didn’t hate it, but then again I didn’t love it.
In conclusion, this show focuses on many aspects, particularly gender roles and sexism. Although this show could have more diverse characters, it focuses on male and female stereotypes very well. I appreciate that there are several strong female characters who aren’t afraid to stand up for themselves and perform typically masculine
...la. These are characters that while overly dramatic at times, are relatable because they are not perfect and they don’t struggle with being the perfect wife or machismo husband. Instead they are in constant struggle with their inner demons and desire just to be loved in a way which they deserve without prescribing to society’s norm.
At this point, Justin's wife Carol is so upset by the situation and blames Dr. Lash so she decides to enter therapy with him in the hope of seducing him. She looks down on all psychiatrists after her psychotherapist many years ago had an inappropriate sexual relationship with her. She disguises herself in hopes of destroying his career.
The song I chose is Runaway Love by Ludacris featuring Mary J. Blige. The song was released in 2007 on Ludacris’s fifth album Release Therapy. The style or genre is rhythm and blues and rap. The song is very soulful and emotional. Ludacris is the main voice in the song and raps all of the verses telling a story, however Mary J. Blige is the emotion behind the lyrics and she sings the chorus. The mood of the song is sad and emotional. There is a rhythm though if beats that draws the listener in. The beat is made by a clapping noise and makes the listener want to clap along to the beat. The songs tempo is not too fast or too slow. It's slow enough to be soulful but it's still fast enough to rap to and has a beat. The instruments in this song are the guitar, base, and keyboard, along with background vocals.
When Zora Hurston wrote this novel, she wanted to explain how a young women search for her own identity. This young woman would go through three relationships that took her to the end of the journey of a secure sense of independence. She wanted to find her own voice while in a relationship, but she also witnessed hate, pain, and love through the journey. When Logan Killicks came she witnessed the hate because he never connected physically or emotionally to her. Jody Starks, to what she assumed, as the ticket to freedom. What she did not know was the relationship came with control and pain. When she finally meets Tea Cake she was in love, but had to choose life over love in the end.
Presumably, complications start to revolve around the protagonist family. Additionally, readers learn that Rachel mother Nella left her biological father for another man who is abusive and arrogant. After,
characters created to display a woman’s search for a way out of the bonds of her society.
...e relationship with men, as nothing but tools she can sharpen and destroy, lives through lust and an uncanny ability to blend into any social class makes her unique. Her character is proven as an unreliable narrator as she exaggerates parts of the story and tries to explain that she is in fact not guilty of being a mistress, but a person caught in a crossfire between two others.
The average America watches more than 150 hours of television every month, or about five hours each day (“Americans,” 2009). Of the 25 top-rated shows for the week of February 8-14, 2010, six were sitcoms, averaging 5.84 million live viewers each (Seidman, 2010), to say nothing for the millions more who watched later on the Internet or their Digital Video Recorders. The modern sitcom is an undeniable force in America, and its influence extends beyond giving viewers new jokes to repeat at the water cooler the next day: whether Americans realize it or not, the media continues to socialize them, even as adults. It may appear at first glance that sitcoms are a relatively benign force in entertainment. However, the modern sitcom is more than just a compilation of one-liners and running gags. It is an agent of gender socialization, reinforcing age-old stereotypes and sending concrete messages about how, and who, to be. While in reality, people of both sexes have myriad personality traits that do not fall neatly along gender lines, the sitcom spurns this diversity in favor of representing the same characters again and again: sex-crazed, domestically incompetent single men enjoying their lives as wild bachelors, and neurotic, lonely, and insecure single women pining desperately to settle down with Prince Charming and have babies. Sitcoms reinforce our ideas about what it is “normal” to be, and perhaps more importantly feed us inaccurate ideas about the opposite sex: that women are marriage-crazed, high-maintenance, and obsessed with the ticking of their biological clocks, while men are hapless sex addicts whose motives can’t be trusted. The way that singles are portrayed in sitcoms is harmful to viewers’ understanding of themselves...
Carrie chooses to leave her sister – the only real family she has in the city – and goes off with a Drouet, a man she just recently
The novel explores gender roles through the characters of Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and Lily. Each of these characters embodies different views in regards to gender roles. The readers are taken into their minds and thoughts and are allowed to see what each character views is the role of his/her gender.