You’re the Worst is TV’s best show about depression

The New Republic

Creator Stephen Falk’s FXX comedy “is an exploration of debilitating mental illness masquerading as romantic comedy,” says Rachel Syme. Falk, she says, “took stock characters that we have seen on TV a hundred times—the young, attractive, city-dwelling couple who meet at a wedding and then dance around each other until they finally commit—and loaded them down with the big stigmas; he saddles his Sam and Diane with buckets of paranoid neuroses and self-sabotaging impulses. In You’re The Worst, the Ross-and-Rachel characters aren’t just lovesick, they have actual illnesses, with actual consequences.”