The joys and perils of binge-watching are clearly defined. You can enjoy the hell out of a show for hours on end but eventually, you too must go on hiatus and wait out the long cold night until your next dose of TV watching goodness.

And it’s always more painful when it’s something you adore, something that you’ve laughed and cried with, something that touched you in an unexpected way. I can wait half a year for another season of The Walking Dead but I’m practically bereft at the fact that I have to wait just two months for the return of one of my favourite shows.

Yes, I know, Season One finished last year and it’s only because I’m late to it that I don’t have to wait so long but this isn’t any normal show. This is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a show that I hadn’t even begun a week ago and now with very little introduction or hello I’ve become completely obsessed.

Apt really, but I’d move across America to stalk this show.

I loved Stranger Things, I loved Bojack Horseman, but this, this is more. In a pure golden age of TV (has it become a cliche to say that yet?) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the crown jewel, the cherry on top of the cake, the peak of peaks. And I can’t stop thinking about it.

Don’t worry, I’m a rational human being, but I also frickin’ love TV. I love shows that are deep, nuanced character studies that weave sharp social commentary amongst incredible toe-tapping musical numbers and gut-busting jokes.

I love the grey between the white and black of good and evil and I would rather watch somebody so achingly human stumble through failed relationships then spend one minute with something that’s as empty as Reality TV.

I love pathos, I love juxtaposition, I love when music and drama make a perfect match and crescendo together and I love that within a few seconds a show can move me from tears into laughing so hard that it hurts.

And when a show really, truly does all of these things, I’ll never be able to get it off my mind.

So many shows know how to hit all my buttons that it’s a testament to the genius minds behind Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that they have produced a show that within such a short space time has given me one of the best experiences of my TV watching life.

The story of a woman who moves across the country to live near her ex-camp boyfriend doesn’t sound like genre defining Television but by the end of the pilot, you’re hooked. Particularly because the main character regularly turns her life into a musical giving us a minimum of two songs every episode. That’s just one reason to love it.

The cast is one of the best on TV, they’re broadway charisma a joy to behold, their singing voices incredible. Rachel Bloom is the star and co-creator whose talent for creating spoof songs on her YouTube channel, now greatly serves the show. She’s a gift from god, from singing, to songwriting to comedy and drama, she nails it all and though the show revolves around her, it’s not just the Rachel Bloom show.

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Everyone shines on a regular basis, from Vincent Rodriquez III as the kind but dim object of Rebecca’s affections Josh, Donna Lynne Champlin as Rebeccas best friend, confidant and schemer Paula to the wound up yet loveable barman Greg as played by Santino Fontana (Hans from Frozen).

The cast is phenomenal and I want to say something about every single person (because there’s loads more) but there’s only so many hours of the day. Their sheer talent sells every song and I must say this is one of the catchiest, funniest soundtracks out now.

I was overjoyed to see it available on Spotify and I’ve been playing the Sexy Getting Ready Song on repeat for days now. These aren’t just songs haphazardly thrown in for the sake of it, these are real artists making real songs for real singers and though they’re pastiches and parodies, they’re fantastic and individually different.

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