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.
“It’s not about the jizz in my balls, it’s
about the jizz in my brain and in my heart.”
- Edgar (Desmin Borges)
In a quest to get Gretchen (Aya Cash) out of her depression, Jimmy (Chris Geere) decides to have her participate in a spooky Sunday Funday with Edgar (Desmin Borges) and an equally distraught Lindsay (Kether Donohue). Each of them have their problems. Edgar is considering sex with Dorothy (Collette Wolfe), but is worried that his lack of it in three years will cause problems. Lindsay wants to have the power turned back on, but doesn't know how. When they attend a haunted house, everything becomes clear. Lindsay gets up the courage to call the electric company and Jimmy believes that he has fixed Gretchen's blues. Meanwhile, Edgar decides to just have sex with Dorothy in the haunted house. Everything works out, though Gretchen hides the fact that it wasn't the haunted house that cured her from Jimmy.
WVP:
Halloween
You're the Worst managed to combine one of its high points of Sunday Funday with a mixture of Halloween and a fright-filled afternoon of visiting houses that you've likely seen in the credits to Better Off Ted. While it's only the latter half that's scary, the episode manages to use every concept of horror to their advantage, even using it as a cure for depression and being a responsible adult. Unlike the past few weeks, this isn't a WVP in the sense that it does something bad. In fact, it ingeniously does a lot of great stuff, and presents some of the funniest moments in the show's history. The third act alone is a masterpiece of comedy worthy of elevating this episode to the all time Halloween greats.
Worst Moment
With the world falling apart around her, Lindsay gets trapped in a scene literally right out of The Silence of the Lambs. In her moment of fear and vulnerability, she turns to her "killer," who is giving her advice as she calls the electric company for the first time. It is a move that is made funnier by the fact that the man who's helping her actually commits to character. While this is only one moment in a series of great moments, it seems very strange that the time to grow up and take responsibility would be when you're practically naked and stuck in a pit while a "killer" looks down at you. If nothing else, it's one of the most genius scenes that the show has ever concocted.
Was This the Worst?
I would love to know how the show pulled off the hat trick of doing a really great episode about depression then thought that the cure was to go to a haunted house. It is very ingenious and has set the series on its strongest set of episodes yet. While the mystery of Gretchen's emotional core remains mysterious, it's Jimmy's ego of trying to make her feel better that inevitably makes the drama work so well. I love the way that the series managed to throw in over a few dozen horror references (including The Babadook somehow) and still manage to make them all compliment the story in important ways. This isn't just among the funniest episodes, it's among the best made in every sense of the word. Not a moment is wasted. It may in fact also go down as one of the greatest Halloween TV episodes in history, if just for its sheer lunacy and ability to mix ongoing stories with the novelty concept. I love this episode and I never would have suspected it after last week. Bravo, Stephen Falk and crew. Bravo.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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