'You're the Worst', a Romantic Comedy that's Against RomCom

FX is joining HBO and Netflix, breaking the network TV mold by premiering a whole slate of new shows this summer, instead of padding the schedule with reruns and the X-Men movies. The cable network’s promising, raunchy new comedy You’re the Worst follows Aya Cash and Chris Geere as Gretchen and Jimmy: two single, misanthropic twenty-something struggling professionals in Los Angeles who get into bed together to distract themselves from the frustrations of the rest of their lives. The cast is filled out with experienced actors who for some reason have never broken out, from Cash and Geere to Desmin Borges and Kether Donahue as their respective BFFs. 

  
You’re the Worst is an inside-out romantic comedy, where the characters constantly try to out-match one another’s dispassion. It’s a friends-with-benefits arrangement where they aren’t really friends. But unlike other attempts at this kind of show, like HBO’s How to Make It in America and MTV’s I Just Want My Pants Back, You’re the Worst looks like it has some charisma and chemistry between the two leads. Meaning, the sex is good, and it’s the thing that keeps them coming back to one another. To their credit, FX seems open to including actual sex scenes, something rarely found outside of HBO.

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