Historically, the season finales of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend have been major paradigm shifts, upending the entire preceding season with something less akin to a twist and closer to an illumination. Last season’s flashback to Rebecca’s ill-fated romance with her law professor Robert yielded the scene in which Rebecca’s mother quoted the theme song in a courtroom to a judge: “She’s just a girl in love. She can’t be held responsible for her actions.” The result was that the entire season was a magic trick; it was Houdini; it was The Prestige; the answer was hidden in plain sight the whole time.
Season 3 has been just as strong as the first two in terms of humor and song quality (stronger than the second season with regards to the latter, probably), and yet something about the finale lacked that “jigsaw puzzle” completeness I have come to expect from the show. It’s not that this episode wasn’t a valiant effort—wrapping up loose ends and reframing what “crazy” means into a new context—but the strings show a bit now. The show doesn’t seem as infuriatingly, breathtakingly easy as it did previously, when it was fully apparent every plot beat had been planned in advance.
Even after Trent’s departure, Rebecca is still haunted by her stalking ex (is it fair to call him an ex?), having classic Lifetime-movie style dreams where she sees his face in her mirror instead of her own. It makes sense: he literally snuck into her house and hid under her bed, not to mention built a creepy storage facility stalker-center dedicated to her, but a sleepless Rebecca comes to the conclusion — with the help of her BPD support group — that he’s a manifestation of her guilt. There’s plenty Rebecca does have to feel guilty for: She’s lied and manipulated people, sure, but it doesn’t quite seem fair to do what the show’s been doing, which is equate her behavior (with regards to Josh) with Trent’s.
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