You're the Worst 2.12: "Other Things You Could be Doing"
Chris: This is it. This is the episode that put You’re the Worst on a higher pedestal for me and this was made me determined to do a review series about it with the ultimate goal of trying to get as many of my friends hooked on this show as I am. Specifically, the moment I’m mostly referring to is the blanket tent scene that was all in the build up which made this seemingly simple moment resonate on such an emotional response with just about everyone I’ve talked to that has watched the show. No, the moment doesn’t fix Gretchen but it did make her finally feel something again, something she had been desperately tried to do over the course of the last few episodes and had reached the point where she assumed she would be like this forever. This doesn’t absolve Jimmy for wanting to go to the cabin weekend retreat with bar girl but he does finally do something right by just being there. In my own thankfully brief experience with depression, simply being there for the individual th...