If you haven’t been watching Rachel Bloom’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend airing on the CW, then you must be living under a rock—or in West Covina, California (only two hours from the beach!) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a romantic musical comedy-drama that follows Rebecca Bunch, a high-power lawyer who seemingly has it all who after a chance meeting with her former flame, Josh Chan, decides to throw away her New York life and follow him across the country back to his hometown—West Covina.

The genius of the show is laced within its self-aware musical numbers and incredibly witty writing, often subverting common television tropes left and right. Perhaps the most notable of these, and the theme that is omnipresent from the pilot is show’s portrayal of mental illness. Instead of being a side-plotline that is wrapped up with a guest character in one episode, Rebecca is introduced to the audience as someone who suffers heavily from anxiety and depression (however is later diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, which features anxiety and depression among its symptoms).

While most shows may shy away from such a subject, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend features Rebecca’s illness front and center as she tries to win back the love of her life, Josh Chan. As series creator Bloom puts it, the show characterizes “the truth behind the stereotypes.” While Rebecca is shown to be in denial about the severity of some of the actions she takes (including: stalking, blackmailing, racketeering, assault, kidnapping, etc.) to win Josh’s heart, some of them aren’t above what many people do in the real world.

For example, it is very common to stalk a paramour’s current or past significant other’s online. Though, showing up at their place of work and taking a yoga class from them might be more on the extreme side…

Though, it’s hard to argue that we all haven’t had that one crush or relationship that causes us to always wonder “what could have been?” And, the hard reality is, much like Rebecca’s, sometimes these infatuations can turn to obsession. Obsessive love is as dangerous as it is euphoric. It’s an escape, a fantasy that we can envelop ourselves in, sometimes something we can completely delve our entire identity into. And when it’s over, we question who we are without that person in our lives. The world slacks from color to shades of grey (and no, not the kinky kind, though the show addresses that as well )

The show offers a wonderful conversation on living with obsession and how it can be amplified even further when your mood is already un-regulated if you have problems with anxiety and depression.

Being in love affects you way more, with the highs and lows of a rollercoaster with those pre-existing conditions.

The show’s uniqueness is amplified by the original musical numbers in each episode, that can often boast a shade of humor while also showing the true state of (and changing) the emotional state of Rebecca and the rest of the cast. Much like Broadway musicals, the songs come at opportune times where characters are at either an emotional high or low where the only way they can possibly express their feelings is to SING ABOUT IT.

However, Rebecca isn’t the only one with her own set of issues. The rest of the starring cast each have their own traumas that have influenced the person they’ve become, and the show does nothing short of exploring each and every character’s backstory and how they perceive the world as a byproduct of that. Also explored are discussions of female anatomy and sexuality, always without judgment or filter that a show would usually place on topics as common as menstruation.

In the show’s most recent season, Bloom successfully intertwined discussions on grief, racial ambiguity, straight girls infiltrating gay bars, and parenting.

With a jaw-dropping season finale that featured Rebecca owning up to her (quite illegal) behavior over the past three seasons in front of a court of law, the future of the character hangs in the balance. While no official word has been given on whether the show will return for a fourth and (potentially final) season in the fall, it currently streams on CWTV.com and Netflix.