You're the Worst
It's Always Been This Way
TV Flash files “It's Always Been This Way” as the last listed hour of season 4 — You're the Worst (2014–2019) on FX/FXX, season 4, episode 13, aired 2017-11-15, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E13: listed hour 49 of 62 in the You're the Worst guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 2017-11-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Like People” (S04E12). Next is “The Intransigence of Love” (S05E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jimmy and Gretchen go for a long drive to force a conclusion on the confusing state of their relationship. Edgar finds closure with Max while Lindsay figures out a way to solve Becca, Vernon, and Paul's problems all at once.
Viewer FAQ
Where does It's Always Been This Way sit in the You're the Worst guide?
S04E13 is listed hour 49 of 62 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 13.
When did You're the Worst S04E13 air?
It's Always Been This Way aired 2017-11-15 and is listed at 30 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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