Watched the first episode of "Crazy Ex Girlfriend" last night on Netflix.
OMG. I laughed and laughed and laughed. (It's billed as comedy-drama but there's a lot of comedy.)
The show has the weird distinction of being one of the few multiple season shows (four seasons) that was at the bottom of the Nielsen ratings year after year, while also being critically acclaimed and winning awards.
Based on the opener, I totally get it. It mixes song and cringe humor and other forms of humor and is fast paced, with expressive / histrionic acting while still managing to be semi-serious under it all. (And apparently it has won big kudos on its approach to mental illness later in its run.) Rachel Bloom is pretty amazing, and I'd never heard of her before. It's more 'intellectual' humor in a sense because you're responding to unmet expectations, zany behavior, whip-fast dialogue exchanges you need to actually listen to in order to catch all the comments, etc.
As one example of "funny" you have to pay attention to, she moves to CA to chase after a childhood flame, and the guy's name is in the title of EVERY episode up through most of Season 3, whereupon I assume she starts obsessing over someone else and their name shows up in the title, and then in the final season the men's names disappear from the titles and the word "I" appears in every title (so I assume either she became more of a narcissist OR actually developed a healthy self-referential mindset finally...)
It's just that the show runs 62 episodes -- as long as Breaking Bad -- about 40 minutes apiece. I don't know if I have the stamina to get to the end, but i did enjoy the first episode at lot. And I was impressed by the songs. It was like Galavant but taken up a notch.