‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’: New season finds Josh in a quandary
One of the lasting images from the Season 1 finale of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was the stunned look on Josh Chan’s face when Rebecca Bunch admitted she moved cross-country to West Covina just to be with him — a guy she crushed on during summer camp as a teen.
How stalkerlike loco is that?
When Season 2 of The CW’s deliriously offbeat musical comedy kicks off on Friday, we learn that Josh — played by Daly City native Vincent Rodriguez III — has been staying at Rebecca’s (Rachel Bloom) apartment and having lots of spirited sex. Just one problem: While she believes their “love story” has finally begun, he’s not so sure.
Josh is still weirded out by the bombshell Rebecca dropped. And he believes his best friend Greg (Santino Fontana) still might have a thing for her. So he figures the live-in situation is just temporary — until he can find a permanent place to park.
“I care about her,” he tells a pal. “We’re close. I can talk to her in a way I can’t talk to other people, but ...”
Despite being showered with critical praise and earning a Golden Globe award for Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” generated only modest ratings in its freshman season. Still, The CW renewed the series, giving Rodriguez a chance to extend a wild prime-time ride that allows him to show off the singing, dancing and acting skills that he began honing as a teenager in community theater productions all over the Bay Area.
He recently told Enter-- tainment Weekly that he and his quirky cast are still having a ball. “When we’re all on set in scenes together, we’re like bubbles that never touch the ground,” he said.
In Season 2, “Crazy ExGirlfriend” continues its push to deliver at least two original songs per episodes. Friday’s opener includes a kooky duet between Josh and Rebecca called “We Should Definitely Not Have Sex Right Now.” ‘DOT’ COMES TO SPROUT: Randi Zuckerberg’s latest television project is an animated show geared toward preschoolers. “Dot” premieres at 8 a.m. Saturday on Sprout.
Based on Zuckerberg’s popular picture book, “Dot” follows the adventures of its title character — an inquisitive, tech-savvy 8-year-old girl.
Zuckerberg insists that “Dot” isn’t a show just for girls, but she clearly wants to see more females in- volved in the tech world.
“I have sat in so many rooms in Silicon Valley where I’ve been the only woman — in rooms where people said, ‘How do we get more girls into tech? How do we get more women starting companies?’” she says. “And I thought, well, Silicon Valley isn’t the answer. The answer is what all of us are doing in pop culture and media. It’s making it exciting and fun, giving girls and diverse children people who look like them on the screen using this technology.”