The Irish Mail on Sunday

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND

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QUIRKY FUN

If you haven’t caught one of the quirkiest and most entertaini­ng comedy dramas on TV, you’d better get a move on: Ex-Girlfriend is about to take its boatload of Emmy awards and depart from Netflix. The premise is simple — a high-flying New York lawyer ditches her career and heads to California to pursue her high-school boyfriend — but the execution is deliriousl­y over the top, with each episode regularly interrupte­d by musical numbers as the cast burst into song and dance. The result is a weird and addictive show with a fantastica­lly talented cast, not least creator Rachel Bloom (below), whose performanc­e as the unhinged title character is simply spectacula­r.

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