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The network promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBY0Xl6tSGU

After a little warmup, Ryan McGee interviews Stephen Falk about five (or so) shows that influenced him and YTW, and it's actually quite an in-depth interview.

Guest starring Ari Graynor as the third member G&O had to kick out long ago. Also appearing, Weird Al and Irene Choi (Annie Kim on Community). I dunno, on most levels the show largely strikes me as a good-but-not-great version of what Broad City has been doing so brilliantly, but OTOH there are the music video sketches, which are pretty great. And I loved G&O having a nemesis. And the way the episode wrapped up with a callback to the initial plot (weed card) was great. That part really made me laugh.

Don't you mean Sam? He's the lead rapper, Shitstain is the skinnier sidekick, and Honey Nuts is the stockier one with glasses. But yeah, he's great. I vaguely understand the real rapper he's based on (Tyler the Creator) is a real life awful person. Presumably Jimmy got a fat advance on the novel which paid for the house.As for Gretchen's place, we saw it before. I think Sam got into her head about why she always went to Jimmy's rather than them splitting time at both places.

And it was really good. Actually, maybe the critical reception for the ep, from critics who got screeners, oversold me on it - I mostly just liked it, on first impression. But it's settling in for me and I like it more the more I think about it. I did really like that it paid off what Jimmy said to Becca the day of her wedding. That retroactively fixed one of the few problems I had with the pilot.

A second THR piece. and Edited to add a couple more: Stephen Falk's interview with TV Guide and Brandon Smith's interview with Paste.

The premise of the hair swap leading to men and women treating Riki and Kate differently went a little too much of a straight line from the premise onwards. Little twists like the two of them passive-aggressively getting digs in at each other could have been played up more.

I'm actually really enjoying Married more as it gets bleaker. Gelman is doing amazing work with the AJ character. Don't quite think Russ shoulda gotten the longboard, though.

Jezebel still has it up for now. (Edit: gone now.) It's better than the official ending, but honestly for me the fan edit was better. I think the emotion in the aired voiceover was so moving and the one in this alt version just felt so much more phoned-in.

Oh, that much was obvious, but given what we know about Gretchen (esp her apartment!), I felt like Jimmy did - it could have been her actual packing strategy.

Well, wow. There were the romcom cliches of meeting the parents and all that stuff and also finding a hidden engagement ring, but they took some nice twists on everything. And what a gut punch of a breakup. This show wasn't even on my radar when it started, but it's very quickly become one of my favorites. Edit: the two subplots (Edgar and Lindsey) were great too, but on first draft I completely forgot about them because the Jimmy-Gretchen story just completely stunned me.

Alan Sepinwall likes the show: http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-youre-the-worst-bojack-horseman-tragedy-comedy-time-well-spent

Mayfair made a real life Cones of Dunshire game!

Again, interesting twists on sitcom formulas. Jimmy sulks a lot, but he doesn't come to any catharsis about his daddy issues. The ep felt a bit underwhelming emotionally, but OTOH it might have been the funniest one yet.

I felt Geere did especially great work in the fifth and sixth episodes. I do remember feeling like he was being out-acted by Cash in the pilot, but the character has always been pretty well written, IMO.

There's so much wrong with Lifetime's new Girlfriend Intervention that it's hard to know where to begin. But NPR has a good piece.

The Russo brothers will direct the s6 premiere.

I would defend the pairing even so by citing the pilot: they thought it was a one-night stand and so they each revealed a lot of their terrible history to the other that they normally wouldn't, and neither was repulsed.Granted, that's different from Jimmy actually being awful to Gretchen herself. (Also, I'd like to find out why Becca and Jimmy broke up.) I guess the show ultimately has to deal with the same sorts of things My Name Is Earl did with its leads and Scrubs did with Dr Kelso: they want hilariously awful characters but also want to humanize them.

Aw, I really liked Sunday Funday! This ep was about on par with that one, IMO. To be honest, when I read the episode blurb earlier, I was guessing the show would semi-break-up Gretchen and Jimmy, especially coming right after Sunday Funday. Y'know, that whole "two steps forward, one step back" thing. I'm surprised, but happy, that they went the other way. The acting and direction was so good tonight. Both Cash and Geere are so good at playing hurt with a heavy cloak of defensive mechanisms on top. And that tiny grin Gretchen had at the arcade at the end killed. The montage of all the emotional wreckage they wrought over the course of the episode was so great.

Everything I didn't like about Suburgatory (overly heightened take on reality, dumb inciting incident, using references instead of writing actual jokes) was here in full force. I'll check a few more episodes out just for the cast but my expectations are not high.

Pretty good Buzzfeed piece about why YTW is the best: http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/reasons-you-should-be-watching-youre-the-worst?utm_term=26axxye#k9sa6n

Kinda not as good as either the pilot or third ep. I missed Rob Huebel. Kate's insanely weird/innocent "porn for her" was a pretty great joke, though.

I liked that plot. Gelman's doing a good job of selling the creepiness and the sadness of AJ. But since you bring him up, it makes me wonder. Normally, something like his storyline would be given to a main character in the pilot: the character is starting a major life change, so let's start the story here. Instead, we were given Russ and Lina, already mid-anomie. Lina carried more of the episode this time than any ep before, and I think it really worked. Bouncing Greer off Michaela Watkins was also a good idea.

Casting? The chemistry between Jimmy and Gretchen is really great. Also, they were pretty drunk by the end of Sunday Funday. I was quite entertained by Thomas Middleditch's hipster. He plays that kind of needy try-hard very well; I also liked him doing that kind of thing, sort of, in "The Morning After" webseries. Lindsey's plot got surprisingly real to me, which is something I wouldn't have expected from her character so quickly.

As a Chinese-Canadian myself... It's funny because it's true. =)Anyways, there's something about the fundamental lack of awareness about this show that grates for me. I know on some level the characters aren't that self-aware, but I really think the show itself doesn't know how badly Lina and esp Russ come off at times. The supporting characters are hard to sympathize with in a way too, but they're more gleefully owning their crappy behavior, so I dislike them less.