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You're the Worst is an American single-camera comedy series created by Stephen Falk for the FX Network.

 Throughout the course of its ten-episode first season, FX’s unconventional romantic comedy You’re the Worst has followed the strange, funny, and undeniably twisted relationship of two love-averse narcissists who reluctantly fall for each other while navigating the sketchy fringes of adulthood.

It is centered on Jimmy, a self-involved writer, and Gretchen, a self-destructive Los Angeles PR executive. These two toxic personalities attempt a relationship.

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With each episode surpassing the last, it became the summer’s best comedy by balancing an unwavering belief in love with its exploration of the more cynical side of romance. Flavorwire spoke toYou’re the Worst showrunner Stephen Falk (Weeds, Orange Is the New Black) by phone about likable and unlikable characters, finding humor in serious topics, and what he learned from working with Jenji Kohan. 

Flavorwire: How did you pitch You’re the Worst? The marketing was very, “Watch two people be awful to each other,” but that’s not what the show is really about. 

Stephen Falk: I’ve always liked romantic comedies and always wanted to do something in that area, but it always felt like you were at the throes of the cycle of old romantic comedies. I really admire British comedies because they get away with more. They can show characters who have some bad attributes, or bad behavior, and it didn’t feel like there’s this need that American television had, to focus on likability — even if characters are flawed, they’re flawed in very benign ways, like the girl is clumsy or the guy forgets to clean up after himself. In American romantic comedies you didn’t get to see genuine bad behavior, and so I took those two ideas together and came up with this idea to do an updated Mad About You with characters that are a little more reprehensible — or, I wouldn’t say reprehensible, but who exhibited actual bad characteristics at times. But, at its heart, I stressed that I really did want to make a very typical romantic comedy but in sort of new clothes.

There’s always discussion about how you can’t like or relate to a show if the characters aren’t likable, which I think is false, but were you wary of this going in? That maybe people wouldn’t connect because they didn’t like the two characters?

I wasn’t wary of it because I had started working in TV on Weeds, and that was never a thing we thought about. Then I did a TV show that didn’t air, that was a network show, so there was that constant worry about likability. I found it difficult to do what I wanted and to write the stuff that I think works best for my voice, which tends to be a little edgier — I hate that word, “edgy,” but I guess that’s the way to say it — and it was sanding the rough edges down.

When I went in to pitch this for FX, I was very much in the mindset that, well, look, they’re either going to like it or not. This is what I want to do and if they don’t like it, that’s fine. They don’t have to do it at all. I’d rather do nothing than not make the show that I really wanted to. I didn’t want to do that again. It wouldn’t have been good for anybody — myself or the network.

But what you say about likability is absolutely true. Characters don’t have to be likable. They just have to be interesting. [With] Jimmy and Gretchen, there does have to be some audience connection to them. They can’t be monsters. And I don’t think they’re that at all. I just think they’re honest and flawed.

They’re not reprehensible. They have some bad qualities, but they’re real bad qualities: narcissism, drinking too much, stunted growth — all normal things, but taken to the extreme.

Exactly. Most of us have people in our lives who exhibit these qualities. They just have all of them, and to big measure. But I think that’s what makes it funny, I guess.

Did you base them on real people?

A little bit. A little bit on me, in ways, a little bit on a couple people I know, a little bit on characters I’ve enjoyed in plays and movies. It’s an amalgam. But nobody is one person I have in my life. I think it would be frightening if I had someone like Jim in my life.

In the breakup episode, the devastation sneaks up on you, because you don’t realize how much you’ve come to care about these characters until the end. It’s this weird trick to get us to care so much despite them being, well, the worst. Was that a conscious decision, to have the breakup be so devastating, out of nowhere? The series premiered on July 17, 2014.