Vincent Rodriguez III

Vincent Rodriguez III plays Josh Chan on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom’s 2010s West Covina musical: rom-com deconstruction with showstoppers about obsession, OCD, and the lie of the grand gesture. Songs that should not work on The CW, do. Network comedy at its most formally daring. Rodriguez is the crush the plot keeps using as a compass — charm, sincerity, a face the fantasy can project onto.

The CW put Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on 2015–2019 as 2010s craft. A New York lawyer impulsively follows an ex to West Covina and processes obsession through elaborate musical numbers. Vincent Rodriguez III is Josh Chan in that grammar — 2010s rom-com craft: the nice guy as a structure the heroine had to outgrow in public. Stay for him when the hour still needs a person, not a sticker.

First code: s01e01. Josh Just Happens to Live Here! ignites the West Covina musical: Bloom's rom-com deconstruction, obsession as a showstopper. Then s02e01, where Where Is Josh's Friend? keeps the grand-gesture lie as the engine, songs still working on a network that should not allow them. s04e18 remains the turn: The concert special files the dare — stigma-breaking as a titled sing-through, not a Very Special, last on the list. Essentials as seating. Rodriguez is the reason to sit there.

Stigma-breaking as structure, not a Very Special episode. On TV Flash he is 2010s ensemble heat: not a trophy in a number, the nice-guy architecture the hour had to argue with. Watch the meet-cute lie. Josh is why the deconstruction still has a person attached.