Chris Geere

On You're the Worst, Chris Geere is Jimmy Shive-Overly, one of two terrible people trying something like love. Mean jokes, soft landings, a 2010s anti-rom-com that refuses the makeover. Geere plays Jimmy as ego with a bruise: a writer who cannot be the joke and still is. Cash's depression season is the craft people cite; he is the other half of the dare.

TV Flash keeps him because cynics still need a romance that will not flatter them. Jimmy photographs as a smirk and plays as a man who has to live with care. On this desk Geere is 2010s comedy craft — a Shive-Overly who makes the mean hour feel like a relationship, not a roast.

Call the window 2014–2019 on FX/FXX. Call the series You're the Worst. Everything else is the job. The clean on-ramp is s01e01. The pilot is two terrible people and mean jokes: FX/FXX anti-rom-com refusing the makeover from the first date. What he actually plays is Jimmy Shive-Overly, a lead the hour still has to answer to. The hour that already speaks in full sentences is s02e01. The Sweater People names the couple: PTSD and depression waiting in the wings, cynicism still the meet-cute.

That is the filing: Jimmy Shive-Overly as the job, You're the Worst as the room, a lead as the honest label. Come back to s05e13 when a clip has replaced the performance. Pancakes is a five-season soft landing — the jokes stayed mean, the landings went soft, breakfast as the closer's joke. No extra mythology. The codes are the map. Do not skip s02e01 just because you have the open. The Sweater People names the couple: PTSD and depression waiting in the wings, cynicism still the meet-cute.