Aline Brosh McKenna and Rachel Bloom talk about the finale of the "crazy ex-girlfriend"

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the finale of tonight's series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

It's time to say goodbye to West Covina – at least for the moment. the Crazy ex-girlfriend The season finale was aired tonight and instead of releasing a full musical number with a fanfare of joy, creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna presented an intimate show that played like a love letter to fans while celebrating the unique tale and heroine of CW Comedy. But if you are looking for a party, do not worry. The CW broadcast Yes, it's really us singing: the special concert for a crazy ex-girlfriend! after the final, which was essentially a preparatory evening so everyone could celebrate the show.

While Bloom's Rebecca Bunch is waiting for the end of the final, she was thoughtful and comforting – like saying goodbye to her best friend who was a high school geek. McKenna, who co-wrote the episode with Bloom, also directed the finale titled "I'm In Love," supposed to tell us who Rebecca was with: Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III) , Nathaniel (Scott Michael Foster) or Greg (Skylar Astin). This is very reminiscent of the moment when Felicity had to choose between Ben and Noel – with the exception of a lot more musical.

The episode begins in the future of Valentine's Day and Rebecca is preparing to make a show at an open micro party, where she will reveal her chosen love to an audience made up of her dear ones and totally strangers. That feeds back a year earlier, as Rebecca was following a therapy session with Dr. Akopian (Michael Hyatt) – a dream that turned out to be a reality for Rebecca drinking green juice in the bathroom.

Rebecca's dream is a bit like A Christmas Carol scenario where she sees her future with each guy but turns out that she is happy in any scenario. She shares her dream with Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin) and also reveals to her how she escapes her own musical fantasies to solve her problems. She even welcomes him into his private musical universe – and that's when things start to get a little meta.

Instead of thinking that she's crazy about her mind, Paula encourages these musical flights and encourages her to write these amazing songs in her head – which leads her to a montage showing she's trying to Learn to write music. It turns out that she really I did not know how to sing. After all, they were only his internal musical fantasies.

In the last moments of the episode, Rebecca prepares to perform her song, but before she gives her love to all her friends and basically gives an update of the lives of all the main characters of the past year. It is then revealed that she is ready for a fully developed relationship – but does not "end up" with Josh, Nathaniel or Greg. She chooses herself. Just before starting to play her song, the series ends, leaving us satisfied – but the door remains open for Rebecca's more story.

Deadline was sitting with McKenna and Bloom and they talked about the significance of these last moments, why they chose to put an end to this situation and the legacy that he had. they hope the musical leaves behind them. They also shared their plans for the future of the show, including a potential revival and a Broadway musical – but before all of that, they go to Disneyland to celebrate the finale.

DEADLINE: Now that the show is over, do you see it as bittersweet or rather as the release and relief of sending an adult child to college?

RACHEL BLOOM: I have the impression – that's how much I have experienced little sorrow in my life – it's the best version of this show and all that's good has to die. It sounds a bit like a happy sorrow … as if my grandmother was old and she was leading a good life. Aline has actually sent a child to the university so that it can be good for her.

ALINE BROSH MCKENNA: Yes, I feel liberated but I feel very nostalgic even though it was last week. As if I were going to go, "Oh my God! Remember that guys ?! "And people are pointing out to me that it was a week ago (Laughs).

DEADLINE: For the finale, I was expecting a huge musical number, but it was personal, intimate and unexpected. Was this the end you had planned from the beginning?

FLOWERING: Yes, it was the end we had planned from the beginning. When we say that, we are talking about big things. The last sentence [of the episode] It was the last sentence for almost six years, which is pretty crazy. We knew that she would be in this club, but there were so many unexpected things that we could never have started. In the end, it was a woman's journey with her inner life and her own happiness. It's a very intimate story.

MCKENNA: It's a first-person story and we always knew that the finale was going to be a little more intimate. Frankly, we spent more money going to Vegas for episodes 15 and 16 and doing a lot of groups. But it's also a very technical episode. We had the dream sequence and the number of the turntable, and both had a complex job.

DEADLINE: When writing the final and even throughout the series, how did you balance what you wanted for the series with the pleasure of satisfying your loyal fan base?

MCKENNA: I do not think it worries us so much. We are happy that they like it and we love our fans, but we never really do. We knew people would be surprised by Greg [recasting] but they really went with us and that's what we really trust.

FLOWERING: All you can do is make sure that the show you want to watch is not a fan reaction, but in a room with other writers, in the editing room and talking to people who work for Series. Pleasing the fans is a little nebulous – I do not know what the fans would like. Fans are a symbol of the quality of the show and all you can do is make the show you want. And I think we have a lot of similarities with our fans. Our fans come from all walks of life and there is a reason why the majority of fans, from my point of view, are musical theater, Harry Potter geeks with anxiety. It's similar to me.

DEADLINE: Which series finals will you never forget?

FLOWERING: It's weird because I like the finale of the original series Roseanne because it justifies writing shit in a really very intelligent way. I loved the finale of the series Crazy of you because it shows the realities of a wedding and closes things up in a way that felt as the show.

MCKENNA: I loved the finale of Americans. Interestingly, the final of Americans was also discreet, emotional and personal. I really got involved with this approach.

DEADLINE: In your final, Rebecca finally makes a decision – but she does not pick any of the guys. That reminded me of the episode of Beverly Hills 90210 when Kelly chooses herself instead of being with Brandon or Dylan.

FLOWERING: That was the question with us: what does it mean to choose oneself? We always knew that it would end up making your inner life outside, but what does it mean to say "I choose myself"? Aline and I have very good relationships and these relationships are very important in our lives. That's why it's really important, in the end, that we show that she was not ready for a relationship until she went on stage because, until now, she has not This 16-year-old girl was still at the summer camp. She was not ready to enter into a relationship the same way, that's what you need for a healthy relationship. It was always important that she be ready for a relationship – to give the idea of ​​that hope. We do not say she is alone forever. We say that this person is ultimately an adult and can establish a relationship on an equal footing. As Aline has said, Rebecca does not see herself "ending up" with someone else. It's part of our lives – a rich part of our lives – but it's only part of it. I think we can have our cake and eat it too.

MCKENNA: Yes, if someone has a relationship that does not work, you do not say, "Wow, you're done!" You have finished!"

DEADLINE: The end is not clear. You've already mentioned that a musical could happen in the future and that it was actually just rehearsing the songs in the series. Does this idea still float?

FLOWERING: Yes.

MCKENNA: However, there is no timetable. We are good with what we did [with the finale] there is no hurry. It's also on Netflix so people can enjoy it for a while!

FLOWERING: I also think that with Broadway musical theater, people forget that when you're mustering an existing work, you have to musi- cise it only if you can add something new or improve it. And now, Broadway does not keep that in mind. The reason we would see the show again for a musical is not because we want to rest on laurels. There is a version of this show that consists of a long TV show and an equally interesting version of a two and a half hour plot, in which you rationalize things and obviously some things are cut. The idea is that it is a complement of the TV show that does something different, that's why I think that the musicalisation of TV shows is so much more interesting than the musicalisation of films because the films already have this Simplified plot in two and a half hours. With television shows, there is a lot to choose from and it's a different narrative structure. It will end up being very interesting for us.

MCKENNA: You are so clever!

FLOWERING: Oh my God! Thank you so much!

DEADLINE: The series had a distinct perspective, but was also very inclusive with regard to the intrigues of women, people of color, the LGBTQ community, and themes such as mental health and 'alcoholism. How important was the performance for you when it came to stories in the series and how did you not feel like you were ticking boxes?

MCKENNA: It was to write and to be specific. Describing things accurately will be better and more interesting. Whether it's someone [cultural] background, mental illness or alcoholism, we always make sure to do it justice.

FLOWERING: I think that creating art in some ways is a bit like when you see the candidates on Shark Aquarium and they come with their inventions. They are trying to fill a void. They say, "It's a problem and I solve it." When we started writing the series, we were really looking for what we did not see on television and who is true to our lives. Aline said, "A sportsman who is Asian." This is the kind of person we know, especially in a show that takes place in Southern California. It was so much more interesting and dynamic for us than a white surfer. I saw that. We wanted to make it more precise. When we start [Vincent Rodriguez III]we changed Josh Chan's character to Josh Chan so we linked him to the fact that he was Filipino. Your culture is an integral part of your personality and even in this episode, the idea that he has this great warm and loving family that Rebecca does not have is really important. That's why it was really important to have a Filipino editor (René Gube) among the staff because you have details. That's why we talk about diversity in writers. We speak of diversity of experience and its writing characters authentically.

DEADLINE: Rachel, you mentioned to PaleyFest that you already have a plan for an awakening in 10 years. What would you like to see happen with Rebecca and the gang?

FLOWERING: What I find interesting that we have put in place is that in some ways, this show was a prelude. And I do not know if that recovery would come back in 10 years – that's what I said, because it's usually when you want to come back for something. The show was to last a year or two or more, in the life of a young woman where she changes everything and becomes the adult she is supposed to be. It is for this reason that what is interesting in the year is the finale of the series: we see a person who has no formal musical or musical training, who abandons everything and pursues his dream. It's funny and it's funny and interesting. You have little glimmers of her with her learning of the piano and her voice teacher. The most interesting thing is that we deliberately left out the song she's playing at the end at the open mic because it's her new sound. She does not play "West Covina" or any of the songs we've heard before, because they're comedy songs. Rebecca is not a songwriter. The comedy in these songs comes from the gap between what these genres are and what Rebecca is. Aline and I, at the moment, do not know what her song looks like. So that's what interests me: find her music now that we know who she is authentically.

DEADLINE: What kind of heritage would you like? Crazy ex-girlfriend to leave behind?

MCKENNA: I always have the feeling that you do not know it because others will tell you. People always want to talk to me about The devil dresses in Prada and We bought a zoo Jimmy Kimmel mocked the Oscars (Laughs). You do not know. Culture will tell you. You can only do what you want and let others judge what it will be.

FLOWERING: Yeah, as if someone in the cast could end up being a serial killer and that's what we know! And we can not control that. If we discovered that Vella Lovell was murdering people all the time, it would be the legacy of the series. We would watch the show to see what clues there were.

MCKENNA: This is a very good point.

FLOWERING: Yeah, you do not know.