Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rebecca Bunch: Finding Power In "Crazy" ❤️‍🩹 Explained

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch’s story was about many things, but one of the most central was that idea from the title – the idea of being “crazy.” This is first just a more jokey part of her so-called “crazy ex-girlfriend” status, but over time she comes to confront and eventually adapt to deal with her very real mental health issues. “Crazy” as a descriptor has long been used to put down or discount people (especially women), and over the course of its run, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend worked to unpack this to give agency and humanity back to Rachel in a way she never thought possible. So let’s take a deeper look at how Rebecca reclaimed the idea of “crazy” and found ways to use it to empower herself.

Join our Patreon to unlock the members-only series “Total Take," vote on what we cover next, and more:   / thetake  
Read articles on film, TV and culture: https://www.the-take.com
Follow our socials: https://linktr.ee/thisisthetake

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:00 Telling a deeper story with self-aware tropes
03:21 Showing how these stories affect us in real life
04:54 Being "crazy" in love
06:34 How her father affected all of her choices
07:55 Taking control of her own story



The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was narrated by Charly Bivona, written by Emma Fiske-Dobell, & edited by Jessica Babineaux