Sometimes you just need to cry.
Tonight we get answers.
Gretchen drives away, to an off-the-road cliff overlooking Los Angeles and just… cries.
Credit: Byron Cohen/FX
She doesnt want company.
She likes to playSnakeon her burner flip-phone.
She just wants to cry.
On the screens, reactions usually have causes.
Especially not your live-in boyfriend who doesnt trust you.
And now, the Worstie rankings.
Nope, not the worst.
In fact… least worst: Edgar
Edgar!
(Yes, dipping your testicles in paint and tea-bagging a piece of pottery counts as sexual harassment.)
Literally, nothing goes wrong for Edgar.
His life is swell.
She doesnt want to mediate her rap clients counseling due to fake-turned-real rap beef.
She doesnt want Jimmy to go through her top drawer and find her burner phone.
She doesnt want to go to a bar that serves only water.
She doesnt want her boyfriend to follow her into the night.
And she certainly doesnt want him to stick around while she cries.
The final scene of the ep shows Jimmy confronting Gretchen in the car.
It goes like this:
Jimmy: What are you doing?
Gretchen: Nothing, just crying in my car.
Jimmy: Is it something I did?
So youre not sleeping with someone else?
Gretchen: No, Jimmy.
Jimmy: Should I leave you alone then?
Gretchen: Yeah, probably.
Jimmy: Okay, see ya.
So whyd you bring the phone?
Gretchen: I like to playSnakewhile I cry.
Jimmy: Thats a classic game.
Youre The Worsthas constructed Gretchen as a strong, independent, DGAF woman, whos complicated and weird.
We always knew she was tough, but the last scene in tonights episode exposes another layer of depth.
No person is just one thing.
Realistic little messages like these are what makes FXXs bizarre show about classically bad people so excellent and surprising.
Gretchen: not this weeks worst.
It gets worse: Lindsay
And now to Lindsay, who doesnt really know how to be a person.
She cant pay bills.
She cant find her way home.
She cant even cash a check.
But she can break her way into her brother-in-laws safe and steal a bunch of his prescription drugs.
Good for you, Lindsay!
Absolute, hands-down, no-questions-asked worst: Jimmy
Ah, Jimmy.
We deem him the worst this week for a few reasons.
And that,YTWdevotees, is why theyre so exciting to watch.
