Aya Cash as Gretchen and Chris Geere as Jimmy in FXX's 'You're the Worst'
The function and nature of what it means to be in a family has concerned sociologists and moral blowhards for centuries. We don’t choose our parents or siblings, and the randomness of biology sometimes connects people under the umbrella of “family” to truly awful human beings, who mistreat us and hurt us in ways they’ll never really understand.
But we do choose who we care about, and on whom we spend the only real natural commodity we have in this existence: our time. And even then, even when we should know better, we still connect with people who, in one way or another, may be the worst things for our lives. Maybe it’s because we’re lonely, or because we’re just as broken as everyone else in our lives. Maybe, just maybe, all the annoying shit and bad nights become worth it for those moments when it feels like love works and everything feels right. Or maybe a bad relationship becomes the definition of toxic because it’s a destructive cycle of addiction, where we chase those good moments like a junkie chasing a fix?
Created by Stephen Falk, FXX’s You’re the Worst follows the exploits of four dysfunctional friends, who can be objectively horrible people and are trying to make sense of their lives. And while the series involves excessive day-drinking, cuckolding scenarios, one character’s relationship with a “financial dominatrix,” artificial-insemination-by-turkey-baster, as well as a lot of explicit sex, the road there usually touches on tragedy and suffering that’s dealt with in very incisive ways that comment on subjects like clinical depression, PTSD, and modern romance.
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