You're the Worst
We Were Having Such a Nice Day
TV Flash files “We Were Having Such a Nice Day” as hour 61 of 62 in the TV Flash guide — You're the Worst (2014–2019) on FX/FXX, season 5, episode 12, aired 2019-03-27, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E12: listed hour 61 of 62 in the You're the Worst guide, hour 12 of 13 in season 5. It aired 2019-03-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Four Goddamn More Days” (S05E11). Next is “Pancakes” (S05E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The day before the wedding, Gretchen's mom comes to town and Edgar takes Jimmy on an epic best-man date. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
Viewer FAQ
Where does We Were Having Such a Nice Day sit in the You're the Worst guide?
S05E12 is listed hour 61 of 62 — hour 12 of 13 in season 5, season 5 episode 12.
When did You're the Worst S05E12 air?
We Were Having Such a Nice Day aired 2019-03-27 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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- Chris Geere as Jimmy Shive-Overly
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- Kether Donohue as Lindsay Jillian
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- Desmin Borges as Edgar Quintero
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