When the rest of the story becomes aftermath to consummation, well, that’s space for TV to play with. What FXX’s You’re the Worst, which ended its five-season run on Wednesday, April 3, figured out was that the TV rom-com works best if you put the couple hooking up first. Many a TV show has been felled by having no idea how to tell a love story over many seasons. It’s so easy to stretch out a will-they/won’t-they so far that it snaps, or to have nothing left to say once the lovers are together. TV shows, after all, can run for years and years. That’s why the TV rom-com has a much spottier history. They don’t have to deal with ramifications and consequences, with what happens after, with the idea that the story doesn’t just stop. They are finite, and unspool within a very compressed timeframe. It’s a time-worn, time-honored formula, one that gets harder to tweak and twist with every new spin on it that appears.Īnd most rom-coms are movies or novels. Maybe they find their way back to each other by the end. The romantic comedy is always trying to run out the clock, at least on some level. The episode of the week for March 31 through April 6 is “Pancakes,” the series finale of FXX’s You’re the Worst. Every week, we pick a new episode of the week.
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