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| Chris Geere |
Welcome to the TV Recap series on the FXX original series You're the Worst. Join me every Thursday to unravel the chaos of TV's greatest/worst romantic couple as they try to get their lives together. Will this be the week that everything works out? Who cares. As long as they don't miss Sunday Funday, everything will be fine. So get your trash juice ready and prepare to do what normal people don't do as I review the plot and other major points from throughout the season. Hope you're ready. If not, too bad. We're doing this anyways.
“Oh great, now I have to go
back to the store for my stuff!”
- Jimmy (Chris Geere)
It's party time for Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash). As Lindsay (Kether Donohue) begins looking for a new boyfriend, Edgar (Desmin Borges) confronts Paul (Allan McLeod) about dating her. The party serves as an excuse for Gretchen to rekindle with all of her old friends, most of which have become responsible parents. It bums her out, choosing to enjoy the few that have become trainwrecks in their lives. Lindsay's new boyfriend proves to be a mess and sends her towards Edgar, hoping to fend off any problems. Paul's new girlfriend is even more similar to Paul than Lindsay was. Jimmy's paranoia about the party going well turns out to lead to more stress than it's worth. As the party dies down, Edgar and Lindsay get together and Gretchen accepts that her friends aren't as cool as they once were.
WVP:
Having children
This whole episode was supposed to be the great return of Gretchen's old friends. It was to be a momentous night of drinking and fun. The only issue is that most of her friends are now mature and responsible adults who take pride in careers and families. Nothing brings down a party worse than having having someone with a child there. It isn't even good etiquette, really. Leave your child at home for obvious reasons. While there were a lot of law breakers (nobody took off their shoes), they're a little more forgivable than the idea of going to someplace that responsibility isn't welcomed. Even if they're the best people there, they're the worst buzzkill in the episode next to catfishing with a melodramatic man.
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| Left to right: Aya Cash and Kether Donohue |
Worst Moment
A lot can be argued that Gretchen bringing up a lot of nasty old stories about her friends' past is pretty bad. They were pretty traumatic, especially as some dealt with suicidal tendencies. However, it does seem like the episode was light on doing outright nasty things for the sake of attention or self-gain. The only time that it really happened was when Gretchen and Lindsay pick on a jogger in the park, claiming that she dropped something only to laugh at her face. She may have had worse moments with her friends in the past, but this moment was a strong indicator of what bad things were to come.
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| Left to right: Allan McLeod and Desmin Borges |
Was This the Worst?
Three episodes in, and the series feels like it has only strengthened its weaknesses and has produced one of their series best. This is the wonderful birth of the great Edgar and Lindsay relationship, which has slowly been stealing the show for most of the season. This is no exception, especially with great ongoing fodder from Paul and his new girlfriend. The series reflects on how being the worst is not always a good thing that that maybe people used to keep you around because you were impossible to get rid of. It's a party dynamic that captures everything that the show does best. It's weird, funny, and has an underage bartender. What more can you want? Keep up the good work, Jimmy and Gretchen. Your lack of aging has only made for some great fodder.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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