When I first saw the ads for the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, featuring a pink-clad, open-mouthed, pink-lipsticked, manic-eyed girl ferociously clutching a pink balloon string, I thought, “This show is not for me.”
The relentlessly chirpy-looking image seemed to invite mockery of the title character. I misread the title as “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and assumed the plot would ask us to identify with some poor dude who’d once dated the titular clingy and/or vicious loon. In my head, this dude and his dude-friends and perhaps his upgraded, more “relatable” just-one-of-the-guys girlfriend would deal with the pink lipstick girl’s refusal to go away. Feh.
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