As it continues on in its second season, You’re the Worst, now only a measly 13 episodes old, continues to bring one particular theme to the forefront. As Jimmy and Gretchen progress in their relationship and feel each other out as new roommates, they are also battling the inevitable shift toward adulthood. It was the primary focus of the first episode as the newly minted couple did everything (which meant copious amounts of drugs and alcohol) to refrain from settling down. It was there in episode two as Gretchen battled her anxieties over shopping for adult necessities at the mall. And it’s here in the latest episode, “Born Dead” as Gretchen is once again forced to see the reality that the world around her is pushing forward, no matter how desperately she needs for it to stand still.
In the season’s third episode, Gretchen hosted a get-together, sorry, a party to reunite her estranged group of gal pals. The idea was to relive the glorious and horrifyingly dangerous memories she’d had with these women, and to introduce them to Jimmy in the process. What she got instead was a wake-up call that all the people who were once as wild as her have now decidedly settled down. One has a baby, another is pregnant, the third made it through her 12-step program and found her calling. Only one member of the group resembled the person Gretchen had known, and she ended the night by referring to our dearest neighbor friend Killian as a “simple ass midget.” You’re the Worst is laying on the don’t wanna grow up sauce heavy in the first part of this season, and while it is somewhat bothersome to have it front-and-center in successive episodes, instead of showing us other fears these characters have, there must be a reason for it. I imagine that eventually Gretchen, who most of the focus is on in regard to this particular issue, will have to face the fact that she’s no longer a kid, and hell will break loose.
The other big development of note in “Born Dead” came thanks to Edgar, Lindsay and Paul. In what had safely seemed like a two-way storyline, last night saw the apparent formation of a triangle. In the hopes of making Paul jealous, because she has evolved into a phoenix of destruction since midway in Season One, Lindsay invited her possibly-soon-to-be-ex-though-who-really-knows husband to the party, where she planned to be mackin’ with a new hunny. Unsurprisingly, Lindsay’s Tinder date fell through (she was catfished), and Paul showed up with Lady Paul (whose real name is Amy, but is so definitively the female version of Paul that she doesn’t really warrant her own name. Unless that name were Paulina.) With her plan eviscerated, Lindsay turns to her next best thing. That, of course, is Edgar. It’s a truly interesting move to team up Edgar and Lindsay. On one hand, all you could ever want is for Edgar to be happy. On the other, there is no denying (as Jimmy said in this episode) that going after Lindsay is a horrible idea. Still, Edgar got some kissing action and he deserves it! As the two were mouth wrestling, there was a noticeable look of jealousy from Paul, which raises the intrigue level quite a bit. Save for Edgar’s soul, which I hope will be saved, I cannot wait for this situation to turn into the giant fireball that it will inevitably become.