LOS ANGELES — All good things must come to an end. It seems that goes for the “Worst,” also. The fifth and final season of the FXX series “You’re the Worst” will begin airing Jan. 9, bringing the dark and occasionally twisted take on romantic comedy to its conclusion.
The cable series has examined love and happiness told through Gretchen Cutler (Aya Cash) and Jimmy Shive-Overly (Chris Geere), two people who prove you don’t have to be a good person to be a great partner. Jimmy is narcissistic and stubborn, while Gretchen is cynical and self-destructive. In four seasons, they have gone through dating, living together, dealing with death and a long period of being apart, all presented in a dark comedic tone.
Series creator Stephen Falk knew the day would come when he would be telling the final stories of the couple. Discussions started during the third season of how to end the show and make it memorable.
“I hate ‘Breaking Bad’ for doing it so well and making that a thing,” Falk says. “I think we’re winding it down in an organic way. But we’re making no bones about it, that this is the season where they got officially engaged again at the end of last season. So this is the season leading up to, and playing with, the idea of commitment and what that means and what it means in a legal structure and in a personal structure and what it means to one’s development and what it means vis-a-vis the end of one being cool or not.”
