![]() (I wouldn't be surprised if an upcoming episode shows Edgar's POV of this story and some others, because he's in a bad place now.)īy making Paul ambulatory and pain-free again, the Lindsay corner of the show is in a healthier place, even though her own situation keeps getting worse, here with her discovering that she has a natural (bordering on supernatural) mothering instinct, even as she begins to understand how little she actually wants to have a child. ![]() But even Gretchen's most altruistic impulses only go so far, and she's relieved when he declines to share with her. (*) Though there's definitely some sincerity in there, and in her later reluctant query to a clearly drunk and troubled Edgar about how his day went. It's a surprising, and yet very You're the Worst, way to approach the idea, and one that gave both Chris Geere and Aya Cash lots of good material to play, like her broad impression of his father at the English pub, or his near-explosion right before he farts instead of crying. Gretchen spends the entire half hour struggling to get Jimmy to have an epiphany about his father – not even really because she thinks it's the right thing to do(*), but because she doesn't want him to go on a crying jag during their cruise – and though he seems to come close a few times to a breakthrough,eventually he comes to realize that he's just fine with the loss of a man he'd already essentially lost decades earlier. If last week's episode was a spiritual sequel to the season 2 party episode where Gretchen's depression became overt, “Men Get Strong” felt like an inverse of the that episode and others where Jimmy tried to get through to Gretchen in the midst of her depressive episode – and of the sorts of delayed catharsis stories so many shows do. ![]() A quick review of tonight's You're the Worst coming up just as soon as I perfect the bum metaphor…
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