YOU'RE THE WORST - THE END

YOU'RE THE WORST - THE END

Now, there's going to be some spoilers in here, but given the fact that you weren't watching this FXX series in it's fifth year, does that really matter?

What does matter is that the show came to a conclusion this week and I can honestly say that I have never seen a show end on a more perfect note that it promised and that was true to the characters as this one did. So much so that Stephan Folk really made the best possible choice for his Dramady sort of romantic comedy and that it ended with being as true to the characters as possible. All too often in romantic comedies, the ending is sort of a quick left turn that you sort of expect to see. Not in this case. While it did have a sort of "Happy Ending", it did so in its own way and I love it so much more for what it did and how it pulled it off.

First off, the characters didn't get married. Let's just say that. They choose to remain together. Everyday choosing to remain in one another life. That, is, well, too true for our generation. The social aspect of marriage, through the decades of increasingly high rates of divorce and the perception that a piece of paper and a vow made in a very expensive day of celebration doesn't mean shit in terms of a bond between two people. In current day it can be broken with the simplest of one side just not wanting it anymore and walking away.

The show was very true to that, and true to the characters, which is something that fully makes me respect and love this ending as much as I do. It knew how to tie a bow to the life of these characters in terms of the story we were seeing and how it would have come to an end. Not like a forced romantic comedy happy ending. These folks are flawed, extremely flawed. But they want to be with one another and going through the whole wedding as some significant ritual was not something they would do.

I have many friends who are also in that situation. Or at least the one where they have kids and basically live life together with one another as if they were married but they are not. This isn't strange and it's not taboo. It is the new normal in the evolution of marriage. Something that is a good thing. Hell, less than 70's years ago the idea of a divorce in the family structure would have been something completely crazy. What would happen to the children and all that. But now it's pretty common to live with someone until you just don't want to continue that relationship any more. Does it make love mean less? Nah. It really doesn't. It is a choice and it's about time that everyone was equal in having that choice to make on their own.

So yeah, I mean, there you go. If you haven't seen this show, it's probably one of my favorite shows as a whole. With moments that are often too real and you'll relate in ways that you probably aren't proud of, to just having a sense of enjoyment in how the characters interact with one another.