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The last time Rachel Bloom was on TV on a weekly basis, it was with a show she co-created, starred in, and wrote. On The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, she would sing anywhere between three to five songs each week—songs that she also wrote. On a given episode, she might tap dance, do a waltz, rap about her big boobs, croon about period sex, impersonate Marilyn Monroe while singing about love triangles, and also chart one of TV’s most realistic, moving depictions of depression and mental illness. She did this 18 times a year, for four seasons.
“I think Crazy Ex-Girlfriend both raised the standard for anything I want to do—there’s a high bar— but also: I did it,” Bloom tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed.
In her new series, Hulu’s Reboot, all she does is act. Which is to say: When did Rachel Bloom become so lazy?