You’re the Worst Season 3 Finale Review: The Divorce, the Break-Up, and the Engagement

You’re The Worst Season 3 Episode 12 “You Knew It Was A Snake” and Season 3 Episode 13 “No Longer Just Us,” make up the two-part finale of You’re the Worst. This season finale proves, once again, why this show deserves to be on the air.

You’re The Worst Season 3 Episode 12 “You Knew It Was A Snake,” the first episode of the two-episode finale, continues with the crumbling down of relationships started in last week’s episode. During the episode, Dorothy and Edgar, Paul and Lindsay, and Jimmy and Gretchen all fight and have to deal with the aftermaths of those fights.

Dorothy, who confesses to Edgar that she feels like a failure, has in a short period of time become one of the most relatable characters on You’re the Worst.

The struggle she goes through in order to find a way to be happy for Edgar, despite the fact that he, in many ways, snatched her dream right in front of her eyes, is not easy to watch, but I feel like it is something we all can relate to in one way or another.

The fight between Dorothy and Edgar brings up the questions of race and gender, which have both taken the center stage recently in relation to the US election. Did Edgar get his job because he is a Latino? What has it been like for Dorothy, as a woman, to try and reach her dream?

Without being preachy, You’re the Worst manages to present both sides of the situation, proving that there might not be one obvious answer to why Edgar got the job or why Dorothy has not been successful.

The issue of gender is also related to the fight between Lindsay and Paul. Paul, upset about Lindsay’s decision to get an abortion, tells Lindsay that in a marriage, decisions like that should be made together. Lindsay, who has become my hero in the last few episodes, tells Paul simply: “my body, my choice.”

While Lindsay might be absolutely horrible most of the time, she is also a character who stays true to herself and is not ready to change herself for someone else.

She tried that with Paul, and as season 3 has proved, that attempt failed miserably. While a lot of her actions are often questionable, at least you can’t blame her for being fake.

It has been interesting to follow Paul’s character development this season, and now that he seems to finally be able to make Lindsay feel like he has felt for a long time, it will be interesting to see how the dynamic between the two develops in the upcoming fourth season of the show.

Jimmy and Gretchen exchanged some pretty harsh words on last week’s episode and are now dealing with the aftermath of them. After more arguments, they come to the realization that they are definitely not the ones they thought they would each end up with.

Jimmy and Gretchen have gone through SO MUCH, but there clearly is something special between the two that has kept them together. But is their relationship worth fighting for?

By the end of the first episode of the two-part finale, there is a glimpse of hope in the air — maybe they can work it out and continue being the worst together.

You’re the Worst is not a show that on the regular makes me tear up, but the second episode of the two-part finale, season 3 episode 13 “No Longer Just Us,” manages to leave me misty-eyed.

I must say I am a huge fan of how the three principal romantic relationships from the show are handled with within the two-part finale. While the first episode is more about the fights themselves and their immediate aftermaths, the second episode is more about the long-term consequences of the arguments.

Edgar and Dorothy are a couple I have been rooting for from the moment they met, but unfortunately, the unbalance between the two seems to be too much, and they decide to go separate ways.

Edgar, who has spent a lot of time taking care of other people (he is basically a servant to Jimmy for most of his time), decides to take care of himself for once by accepting a job that he knows will most likely upset Dorothy.

Dorothy, who I think honestly cares for Edgar, decides that her time in California is over and packs her stuff to go back to Florida. Their separation is sad but not absolutely heartbreaking. Maybe they were not meant to be, after all.

The divorce proceedings between Lindsay and Paul bring up a surprisingly uglier side of Paul, and for a moment, Paul becomes almost as worse as some of the other characters on the show. Paul’s last appearance on the episode returns him back to his old position and that surprising vindictiveness is wiped away.

I sincerely hope we see more of Paul in the fourth season — maybe not as Lindsay’s husband, but on his own, or with a woman that actually shares his vision of what happiness feels and looks like.

Lindsay and Edgar have been a pairing I have wanted to see pretty much from the very first season of You’re the Worst, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that it happens in the upcoming fourth season. Maybe I should not hope for such a romance, knowing their character histories, but I just cannot help myself.

Seeing Lindsay take control of her own life by moving into a crappy apartment to be on her own felt all kinds of empowering. For most of the third season, it seems like Lindsay stayed with Paul just so she would not have to be alone. Now, she seems to have come to the realization that being alone might not be so bad after all.

I am so grateful for that scene of Lindsay towards the end of the episode in which she inspects her new-found freedom with a smile on her face. 

I am sucker for romance and found the trouble Jimmy goes through in order to deliver the perfect proposal to Grethen very touching. Unfortunately, the happiness on Gretchen’s face after Jimmy proposes to her quickly switches to confusion and heartbreak as Jimmy speeds off from the site of the proposal.

With You’re the Worst, I have learned not to get too happy about anything good that happens to the characters because the writers of the show really have a tendency to turn everything back to shit in a blink of an eye. But I guess the charm of the show in some way lies in that — trying to find laughs from shitty people in shitty situations.

Stray observations:

• Becca and Vernon had their baby and named her Tallulah. The reactions Jimmy and Gretchen have to the flood of baby pictures are absolutely hilarious (and something those of us who are not big fans of babies can definitely relate to).
• There’s a scene in the second episode of the two-part finale in which Gretchen and Jimmy stand outside a schoolyard and comment on the way the children look. While this scene is SO WRONG in so many ways (I bet we all know that it is not a good idea to go out and stalk/comment on children while they are playing), it feels so fitting to this show, and once again proves why Jimmy and Gretchen really are the worst.
• Gretchen’s therapist is leaving town, which makes one wonder if this is the last time we see Samira Wiley on the show.
• 9 out of the 13 episodes of the season were directed by Wendey Stanzler. The fact that this show is giving major responsibility for a female director makes me love it even more!

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You’re the Worst was renewed for fourth season, and it will air on FXX in 2017.

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