{"id":78,"date":"2024-04-04T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/?p=78"},"modified":"2024-04-04T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:20:41","slug":"recurring-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/uncategorized\/recurring-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Recurring Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite the show initially seeming like a lighthearted romantic-comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em> depicts several heavy themes. Below are some of the most common to make an appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mental Illness<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Arguably the most important recurring theme of\u00a0Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em>\u00a0is the show’s portrayal of\u00a0mental illness\u00a0and treatment.\u00a0This aspect of\u00a0Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em>\u00a0has garnered wide praise both throughout the film and television industry and within the show’s own\u00a0fandom.\u00a0Psychology Today<\/em>\u00a0has also acknowledged and praised this aspect of the show. In addition to the\u00a0psychological evaluation\u00a0and development of Rebecca, other major characters are similarly depicted as suffering from\u00a0psychological traumas\u00a0that influence their personalities and relationships. This has also inspired the show’s fandom to engage in discussions of mental illness, specifically regarding\u00a0social stigmas\u00a0and treatment of said illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Feminism & Sexism<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em> centers around just that: the \u2018crazy ex-girlfriend\u2019 trope. One of the reasons that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em> works as a series is precisely because it\u2019s a show that is intent on skewering the sexism that keeps women shoving themselves into various boxes rather than embracing their identity as fully complex people. The show\u2019s insistence that women don\u2019t have to be perfect to have a chance at happiness doesn\u2019t merely upend our assumptions about women\u2019s roles in romantic comedies; it radically reimagines romance altogether, not as a fantasy we pine for, but a world that we ourselves help to create.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Parenting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Parenting\u00a0is a major theme depicted in the show, as the personalities of several major characters are shaped by their parents’ inattentive or cold, distant demeanors. In particular, Rebecca, Paula, Nathaniel, Darryl, and Greg are all affected by parents who exhibit these behaviors. Rebecca’s overly critical and\u00a0overbearing\u00a0mother\u00a0and\u00a0negligent father\u00a0has greatly impacted her\u00a0sense of self\u00a0and\u00a0self esteem. In contrast, both Paula’s\u00a0and Nathaniel’s\u00a0fathers were revealed to have been\u00a0emotionally abusive, resulting in both Nathaniel’s\u00a0inferiority complex\u00a0and Paula’s lack of\u00a0self confidence. Greg’s\u00a0absentee mother\u00a0after his parents’\u00a0divorce\u00a0resulted in him resenting her and helped Greg develop his\u00a0cynical\u00a0personality. This show uses this recurring theme to emphasize the impact that one’s upbringing has on the kind of person they turn out to be and how one can fight against that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the show initially seeming like a lighthearted romantic-comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend depicts several heavy themes. Below are some of the most common to make an appearance. Mental Illness Arguably the most important recurring theme of\u00a0Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\u00a0is the show’s portrayal of\u00a0mental illness\u00a0and treatment.\u00a0This aspect of\u00a0Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\u00a0has garnered wide praise both throughout the film and television industry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaynabsiddiqui.com\/project-3\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}