CWWell, she did it…and then she probably ruined it…but did we really want her to do it in the first place?
After Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) spent this entire first season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend trying to get with Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III), she finally succeeded, and we could not be less happy for her.
We had genuinely begun to think that perhaps Rebecca's future on this show was with Greg, the sardonic, sarcastic, lovable asshole with whom she recently spent a week having nearly non-stop sex and realized she had developed feelings for. That relationship, however, took a turn tonight when Greg decided he loved Rebecca so much that his only option was to play it cool and then to let her be with her true true love, Josh Chan. So be with Josh Chan she did, until she told Josh the not inherently devastating but probably relationship-ruining truth.
All of this played out over one of the most rolleroastery of all emotional rollercoasters we have personally ever been on, starting with a big reveal we should have expected but somehow didn't: Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin) is straight up evil.
Or at least she could be. It turns out that all of Rebecca's convenient run-ins with Josh and members of Josh's family were entirely her doing, thanks to an illegal tracking device she installed under Josh's mom's car (after smuggling said device in from Armenia). As she explained in an incredible, Chicago-esque showstopper, she broke into Josh's high school to steal his grades, blackmailed Valencia's boss so she now makes yoga class schedules, and is even responsible for Rebecca being asked to be a bridesmaid in Josh's sister's wedding (which was weird to begin with).
Basically, Paula's terrifying, and crazy in a way that Rebecca has never been. Where Rebecca was a middle schooler casually and purposely waiting in the hallway to run into her crush, Paula was Olivia Pope.
They made up later at Josh's sister's wedding, but we weren't cheering for anything happening at that shindig. Greg wore sneakers in order to make it look like he wasn't trying too hard, and Josh broke up with Valencia after realizing she was trying to manipulate him (and his family members) into proposing to her…which then sent him straight to Rebecca. Greg then decided to be all noble and let Rebecca go, because he decided Josh was better for her than he was.
Rebecca professed her love for Greg, and he said he drunkenly said he liked hanging out with her, and so it was Josh who gave her the romantic, fairytale moment she had always wanted. While Aunt Myrna/Lea Salonga sang the fairytale anthem she apparently sang on Star Search in the ‘80s, Josh and Rebecca made out, and then she dropped the bomb: "I moved here for you."
Josh's face was the facial equivalent of "uh oh," but now we have to wait for season two to find out exactly how he feels about this revelation, and just how long this new "love" will even last.
Meanwhile, we're much more concerned about Paula. Sure, it was great that Rebecca forgave her, but that doesn't excuse all the crazy things she did. Will she get help? Will anyone acknowledge that she needs help? Or will she transform into the supervillain she easily could be? It's going to be a long summer waiting to find out.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend returns to the CW next season.