DVD/TV Series Review: You're the Worst: Season 1

 

The 10-episode first season of the show You're the Worst aired during the summer and fall of 2017. It stars Aya Cash, Chris Geere, Desmin Borges, Kether Donohue, and Allan McLeod. The show is a comedy about two cynical people, Jimmy (played by Chris Geere) and Gretchen (played by Aya Cash) (one a novelist and one a PR representative for a rap group), who meet and subsequently hook up at his ex's wedding. Although neither believes in love or relationships, they end up in one (while denying it the whole time), and hilarity ensues. It is a typical weekly sitcom about nothing in particular. The show just follows the lives of Jimmy, Gretchen, and their friends and navigating their relationship. But what it ends up being is a funny, sometimes bordering on dramatic, smartly written show on the complications of friends-with-benefits relationships, marriage, family, and friendships. It is not like any other sitcom on TV, and because it is on cable, it can get away with a lot more.

The DVD set is a two-disc made-on-demand set. The discs just have the ten episodes. There are no bonus features. Like many of Fox's shows, unless they consider it a big ticket show, they either give a bare-bones factory DVD release (and no blu-ray) or, like this one, only stream it. Luckily, for those who like the physical discs, Amazon has made a DVD-R release, which basically burns the episodes and nothing else. So you will get no extras, no subtitles (for those for whom that matters), or anything you would get on a proper release. It does suck, but it is what it is. The show is definitely not family-friendly, as there are a lot of sexual situations and dialogue. There was some nudity in the pilot episode, but not much after that, and the kind of language you get on the TV-MA cable shows. So, if that would turn you off to a show, it is best to skip this. If not, it is definitely a show worth checking out. It is well written and acted with a great supporting cast. Kether Donohue steals every scene she is in as Lindsay, Gretchen's best friend who is in a dead-end marriage with a husband she cannot stand. It is a very good adult comedy that is well worth watching.