The third episode of You're the Worst: Season 3 saw lead characters Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) faced with a new obstacle in their relationship, and creator Stephen Falk didn't initially mean to make life so tough for the couple after the major clinical depression storyline in Season 2. But he found when breaking story on the new season that, as much as he wanted to see the trouble-making duo having fun and wreaking havoc around Los Angeles, it didn't feel true to the story they're telling.
Spoilers for You're the Worst: Season 3 continue below.
"We played around with the idea for a long time of just having Jimmy and Gretchen have fun together, and we could have, but I think at the end of the day it's impossible to write story without conflict," Falk said on the set of the season's third episode, "Bad News: Dude's Dead." "No matter how much we wanted to let them have a good time together -- and they certainly do have a lot of good times together this season -- that's not really how life operates. Something always comes up. Even in times of peace, you're always expecting the other shoe to drop. What's fundamentally interesting about relationships to me is what you do when there's a crisis. I'm less interested in what you do when everything's going fine."
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Spoilers for You're the Worst: Season 3 continue below.
"We played around with the idea for a long time of just having Jimmy and Gretchen have fun together, and we could have, but I think at the end of the day it's impossible to write story without conflict," Falk said on the set of the season's third episode, "Bad News: Dude's Dead." "No matter how much we wanted to let them have a good time together -- and they certainly do have a lot of good times together this season -- that's not really how life operates. Something always comes up. Even in times of peace, you're always expecting the other shoe to drop. What's fundamentally interesting about relationships to me is what you do when there's a crisis. I'm less interested in what you do when everything's going fine."
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