10 TV Shows To Binge-Watch Before They Return This Fall

5. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Crazy Ex Girlfriend
The CW

Don't let the title put you off. While the show does have its soapy elements, the situation is actually a lot more nuanced than that.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend both reclaims and subverts its title, delivering one of the oddest, smartest, and most joyously entertaining shows on TV. With an insane amount of energy, it's an engaging, ambitious affair that can deliver sing-along musical numbers one minute, and an effective study of a character with mental illness the next.

The characters aren't always likeable, but that just makes them more human, and allows it to provide an effective commentary on real life relationships while being its own weird self at the same time.

Return Date: October 13

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.