This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies in For Terry Gross. Our guest Rachel Bloom is

best known for co-creating and starring in the Emmy award-winning TV series Crazy X Girl Friend.

She's now co-starring in a new Hulu series called Reboot. She spoke with Fresh Air's

Ann Marie Baldenado about the show and her career. Rachel Bloom knows a lot about dark TV

comedies. She co-created and starred in the musical comedy series Crazy X Girl Friend.

She also co-wrote all the songs for the show. Her first real comedy job was writing for a sitcom

when she was in her early 20s. She'll talk about her experience in that writer's room and how

tough it was for her as the youngest writer and the only woman a little later. Now she's playing

a TV writer in the new Hulu comedy series called Reboot. Rachel Bloom's character Hannah is a writer

who has a love-hate relationship with a popular family sitcom from the 2000s called Step Right Up.

It's about a stepdad who moves in with his new wife, her son, and her ex-husband. Hannah wants

to reboot the series with the original cast but make the show darker and more current. Gordon,

the creator of the original show, also happens to be Hannah's estranged father who, like the plot of

Step Right Up, left her and her mom when she was a kid. It turns out that her dad has creative

rights to the series and wants to work on the reboot which makes Hannah want to quit. Here's

a scene from the show. The original cast members want her to stay so they all meet in her father's

office. The father's played by Paul Reiser, the cast members include Judy Greer, Johnny Knoxville,

and Kegan Michael Key.

Do you want to say what?

I want to tell the truth, okay, because you based Lawrence on yourself and your new family

and you left out the old family that you abandoned.

Didn't abandon. I sent checks.

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