This article contains discussion of the Season 1 finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Proceed with caution!

Last fall, the CW took a chance on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend—a dark musical satire centering on the titularly crazy Rebecca Bunch (played by series writer and co-creator Rachel Bloom) and her desperate attempts to reconnect with her old boyfriend, Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez). Unless audiences recognized Bloom from her viral videos about the likes of Ray Bradbury or Rebecca’s other suitor, Greg (Santino Fontana), from being the voice of the evil prince in Frozen, the cast was largely filled by talented unknowns. But 18 episodes, 49 original songs, and one Golden Globe win later and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has built itself a passionate fan base.

The Season 1 finale sees Rebecca explode her burgeoning relationship with Greg in order to dive back into the fairy-tale romance she associates with Josh. The series cast—including Rebecca’s growing West Covina family of friends and co-workers—gather as Josh Chan’s sister gets married and a real-life Disney princess—Broadway legend and Aladdin star Lea Salonga—takes the stage. Series co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna—who made her directorial debut with this week’s finale—weighs in on her favorite Season 1 song, what to expect from Season 2, and why you shouldn’t be rooting for Greg or Josh. You should be rooting for Rebecca, instead.

VF.com: We’ve seen Rebecca go through a lot of extremes, but in the episodes leading up the finale, she’s the reasonable one—at least compared to Paula. Did you always intend for her to swing so far away from the original premise? Can it be Crazy Ex-Girlfriend if she’s not a little crazy?

Aline Brosh McKenna: It’s going to be a push/pull for her. She’s obviously extremely intelligent, so she’s always going to be pulled between her rational side and her irrational side. Her irrational side has been obsessed with Josh since she was 16 years old, and so I think her ability to make good decisions sort of waxes and wanes.

And the way the finale ends, it looks like she’s going to swing back toward crazy in Season 2.

Something we’re really exploring in the finale is the role of fantasy in her life, and how much she wants things to conform to some very neat love narrative that she can recognize. Real relationships are not like that; they’re messy and they’re complicated. She wants something that’s “prince and princess” because that allows her not to engage with her own issues. She sees, and is always seeing, Josh as that perfect prince figure. In this episode, he really comes through for her in a way that Greg does not.

If being with Greg is her accepting the realities of a relationship, and being with Josh is diving into the fantasy, are we supposed to be rooting for her to be with Greg because that’s the healthier option?

As you see in the finale, Greg is not exactly in the healthiest position to pursue a relationship himself. Dealing with the nitty-gritty and someone who is also a bit broken and needs help, those are not things that she really is equipped to deal with either. When the real world gets complicated, and she realizes that he’s kind of flawed and broken, she’s offered a fantasy right away that’s a very easy, natural place for her to retreat to.

But for us, the show is never about this boy or that boy. The show is always about her struggle for identity, and her coming of age. In those years of your life, you tend to ascribe meaning to your love relationships that maybe they don’t totally have. She’s very much experiencing this time in her life as this boy, that boy, but the show knows that no boy is an answer to the problems that she has.