You're the Worst (TV Series) LCD Soundsystem (2015) User Reviews

Dark stuff!

[ukxenafan1 · 9/10 · 6 December 2015]

The on-going story of Gretchen's depression has been handled in a very unusual way for TV, and especially for a TV comedy. There is no snap-out-of-it crap and no easy answers. Jimmy trying to cheer her up was totally in character for him, but the show hasn't gone for the easy fix.

In this dark, dark episode we follow a couple who could have been Gretchen and Jimmy a few years ago until they settled down and now have kids, mortgage etc. Has it all worked out well for them? Gretchen seems kind of fascinated and stalks them. Interestingly, the show gives up a Rashoman style episode with the couple's PoV first before we see Gretchen's. Is she stalking them? Is she going to steal their baby? (And btw, they should fire that nanny for giving the baby to a total stranger in the drugstore with barely a second thought!!!) The final act, where their happiness is shown to be bogus when the guy hits on Gretchen within minutes of them being alone and her subsequent devastation as Jimmy prattles on were very painful. This show has been jet black in terms of humour lately but I love that it has taken risks.

Fantastic Episode of Television

[fruchteremily · 10/10 · 29 June 2021]

Those who gave this episode a low rating didn't understand that this episode was supposed to be more of a standalone episode, a vignette, which provided Gretchen the opportunity to live out a different life. She thought she was observing the perfect couple, starts to stalk the family, and inserts herself into their lives. She is devastated when she realizes that the couple have different different goals and opinions of their lives. Gretchen wanted to believe and buy into a fantasy so badly and when the illusion is shattered her deteriorating mental health can further be observed.

Brilliant writing, a very different show...

[garymortgageexpert · 10/10 · 24 January 2024]

This was a very original and thought-provoking episode. I don't understand the few low reviews here. It wasn't funny, but this episode isn't supposed to be funny. The episode was described by others here, so I will not do it again.

I think this episode was a playing out of Gretchen's fantasy and hope for her future happiness for herself and for her relationship. Her feeling were amplified by her depressed state, then later, her crash to reality was more devastating after finding the true nature of the couple and their relationship. The story was unique and creative which makes this episode special, even if it doesn't contain the normal hilarious dialog.

The Worst is getting worse and worse...

[kylomon · 6/10 · 22 December 2015]

This is the exact type of episode I dislike. 80% taken up with mundane drek going on with people who are not normally part of the cast. Time we could have spent with characters we love. This season is going downhill into a cesspool of relationship mediocrity. The characters have lost their edge. The humor has been lagging. Depression is hard to watch. I live it, I don't want to see it in a comedy. Maybe for an episode or two, but if this story arch keeps going I am going to have to pull the plug on the series. I think the living together angle took away more opportunities than it provided. This episode was too dark for this show.

Wow, This Was HORRIBLE

[A9AMouse · 5 November 2015]

**Update** Thanks to the cast/studio/fangirls for taking time out of their day to give me 31 downvotes when the most votes any other review has is 2.

Wow, this was bad. It was dark, in a bad way, in a show that's supposed to be funny. Gretchen acted 100% out-of-character, and the show demeaned its lovable main characters to cast a family of liberal elitist garbage as a positive alternative to the fun people I'd grown to empathize with.

Depressed people don't stalk other people, especially the kind of people this show has mocked for the ENTIRE SEASON. Believe me, I've suffered through depression, and I have a psych degree from a top 10 psych school. This is straight-up schizo behavior from Gretchen.

Moreover, the change in tenor towards promoting hipster pseudo- professionals in worthless fields such as "landscape architecture" is laughable (pretty much a glorified landscaper you pick up from Home Depot for day labor). All of a sudden the characters that spent all season mocking the sad, wanna-be modern American family acting superior because they've "grown up" (when in reality, they just aren't good enough to get by acting young anymore) are made to look pathetic in comparison to a family of unproductive, unhappy, elitist losers. Jimmy looks like an idiot, while Gretchen suddenly wants to be what she has been struggling for so long not to be? Why weren't these people roundly mocked for being everything a person should struggle NOT to be in a relationship. A sad, stay-at-home dad who plays sh***y hipster rock, and a glorified day-laborer so-called "professional" woman. Real winners.

This just felt like propaganda, using a complete lack of logic and reason, combined with strong emotional and visual triggers, to convince the kind of people that watch this show and mock the pathetic family sweater people to become sedentary, judgmental, hipster breeders.

Just, what the ****? I'm done.

What a Waste

[injury-65447 · 1/10 · 18 September 2020]

Bin this episode! Devoted to a random couple that were obnoxious and I couldn't care less about!