Crazy Ex-Girlfriend review: The Bunches have a lot to talk about
When Tucker Bunch shows up to greet Rebecca on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, there are too many similarities between the two siblings, including Slumbered.
Rebecca Bunch’s brother on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is like…well, Rebecca. In a twist of fates, Tucker Bunch shows up on Rebecca’s doorstep telling her that his mother knows that he is there and that he just wanted to get away to visit his sister. Unsurprisingly, that’s a lie. Much like his older sister, Tucker is doing everything for himself and wants to use Rebecca to get what he wants.
There is a great message about Rebecca though, because while Tucker is very much a little Rebecca in the making, she takes measures at the end to make sure that he doesn’t end up going down the same path she did.
Tucker comes to Los Angeles for an audition for Peter Pan, and he uses Rebecca’s old diary to get her to trust him. Meanwhile, Nathaniel is trying to find ways to get Rebecca to love him in return, recruiting one of his employees to track her down and find ways to win her back. When he learns about the diary, he goes to Tucker to try and get it from him, and, in the end, ends up losing whatever affection Rebecca had for him because she discovers what he’s doing.
Tucker’s game is called out when Nathaniel has the diary, and soon Rebecca realizes that, despite his conning, Tucker isn’t that different from her. To help him, she forces him to give up the role of Peter Pan and go back home to their mother, but calls up their father and makes him promise to get Tucker a therapist and into theatre camp to make up for what Rebecca didn’t get to have growing up.
While Rebecca is dealing with fixing the childhood she should have had, Paula is learning that she doesn’t really know her boys at all. Tucker, who says he’s claustrophobic to get out of going to an Escape Room (he has his audition at the same time), forces Paula and her two sons to go do it by themselves.
She figures it is a way to get to know her sons a little better and learns while there that she doesn’t really know them at all. They’re best friends, love solving puzzles together and are a bit of nerds when it comes to the Renaissance. In the end though, they all three work together to succeed — and she is a bit closer to her sons.
The episode did a great job of showing how both Paula and Rebecca are growing. Paula is returning to her family, taking care of her boys and opening herself up to them; Rebecca recognizes the negative forces in her own life and takes action against them. We can’t say the same for Nathaniel, though.
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