Aline Brosh McKenna: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend made me an "honorary millennial"

The New York Times

McKenna is 20 years older than her fellow Crazy Ex-Girlfriends co-creator Rachel Bloom, which means she learned to work "in the ways and language of the older people who ran the business" in the 1990s. But by working on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, McKenna writes in a New York Times essay, "I found that I related more to these younger writers than I ever would have expected. I learned quickly that their thoughts, opinions and values really spoke to me and to how I liked to work.... As a woman of her generation, Rachel draws no arbitrary social distinctions. She doesn’t distinguish between young and old, performer and nonperformer. She respects few hierarchies, follows her instincts, and speaks her truth, as the young kids say. She’s a product of her generation. I’m a product of mine, too. I may privately disdain the rules of the old guard, but I’ve learned to obey them."

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