You're the Worst
Try Real Hard
TV Flash files “Try Real Hard” as a desk essential hour — You're the Worst (2014–2019) on FX/FXX, season 3, episode 1, aired 2016-08-31, 34 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 24 of 62 in the You're the Worst guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 2016-08-31 (34 min). The listed hour before it is “The Heart is a Dumb Dumb” (S02E13). Next is “Fix Me, Dummy” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “Try Real Hard”. Try Real Hard is the depression season's on-ramp — sitcom craft people still cite, effort as the title's dare.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jimmy and Gretchen adjust to life after saying I love you. Edgar and Dorothy have sexual problems. Lindsay and Paul start a new hobby.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Try Real Hard sit in the You're the Worst guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 24 of 62 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did You're the Worst S03E01 air?
Try Real Hard aired 2016-08-31 and is listed at 34 minutes.
Is season two the depression one people mean?
Gretchen's depression season is the sitcom-craft landmark the show is still cited for. Edgar's PTSD arc widens the ensemble. Start at season one so the bruise has a relationship to land on.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Two terrible people try something like love while the jokes stay mean and the landings go soft. Aya Cash's depression season remains the sitcom craft people still cite; Edgar's PTSD arc expands the ensemble. Anti-rom-com honesty for cynics — a romance that refuses the makeover and still lands the kiss.
The flash is a mean joke with a soft landing. Two commitment-phobic jerks fall into something like love while friends circle the drain of adulthood — Stephen Falk's FX/FXX comedy (2014–2019), Aya Cash's Gretchen, Chris Geere's Jimmy, Kether Donohue's Lindsay, Desmin Borges's Edgar in the blast radius. Rom-com grammar inverted on purpose. Terrible people trying, without a makeover montage to wash them clean. The museum guard wanted likable leads. **They are terrible on purpose. The try is the plot.**
Filed against
- Aya Cash as Gretchen Cutler
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- Kether Donohue as Lindsay Jillian
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- Desmin Borges as Edgar Quintero
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