3. Gretchen And Jimmy – You’re The Worst
You’re The Worst has a quite wonderful knack for showing the honesty of human relationships, the strangeness and mundanity of being together played through a sometimes hilarious, sometimes excruciating picture of what it really is to be in a modern relationship.
Season three opened in a frankly surprisingly intense way, with Gretchen and Jimmy caught in the act in the middle of the day, swapping instructions and orders and switching around positions with agility and passion. And then just as she’s about to reach orgasm, she shouts her intentions and her refrain of “I’m gonna come!” has a quite astonishing response.
Instead of ploughing on, as it were, Jimmy demands to know why she must always announce it, undercutting the moment and turning what was a vigorously sexy scene into something funny and clever and horribly awkward as they debate who has the floor at any one point.
They eventually finish, warmly and sweetly, but the interruption is just a little bit of genius.
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