【Mr & Mrs Jones (2010)】

If you want good drama,Mr & Mrs Jones (2010) watch more comedies.

In the year that black-ishtackled police brutality, Orange is the New Black dealt with death and movies like The Hollars and Other People left millions cry-laughing in theaters, it's only fitting that the deceptively sunny and funny You're The Worstwould plunge viewers so deftly into the dark.

SEE ALSO: 15 Sad Six Word Stories to Make You Feel Better About Monday

In the four episodes of Season 3 that have aired so far, we find our characters on the cusp of what seems long overdue: A total collapse of the world they thought they understood. It's a feeling that many start to see in their 20s, juxtaposed with phases of sex and success which are overcome by familiar existential dread. Gretchen (Aya Cash) was the first of the group to face this head-on, and now she's in therapy for her clinical depression; the universe now sets its sights on Jimmy (Chris Geere), who just learned that his father passed away.

---

You May Also Like

---

---

In Wednesday night's episode, in the Jimmiest of moves, Jimmy plasters on a serial-killer-smile and goes about his life, which includes faking sad to con Gretchen into a blowjob and then spending his day trying to find the perfect metaphor for an erotic novel (his creativity is, mysteriously, blocked).

Beyond the intense denial of his father's death, we're faced with the possibility that Jimmy might have a drinking problem, which we’ve seen at its worst in the Season 2 finale, even if that was the butt of a joke.

Mashable Top Stories Stay connected with the hottest stories of the day and the latest entertainment news. Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

Gretchen convinces her boyfriend to spend a day actively seeking triggers for his grief: A graveyard, a British pub, a paint-your-own-pottery place full of potentially dysfunctional father-son duos. Each place pushes him further into the chasm of emotion, until he gathers his father's old things and realizes that he's still not sad.

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

More on that later, but first: Edgar (Desmin Borges). If you feel a cold shiver about the trajectory of Edgar's story this season, you should. Now that he's off his medication, Edgar is completely at the mercy of his PTSD, which he's spoken of candidly since Season 1. But now, he's suddenly gone quiet. He offhandedly mentions having a “rough night” and the urgency of an appointment at Veterans' Affairs.

Gretchen and Jimmy are completely self-absorbed at the best of times, but it’s hard this time to fault them for the quest to thaw Jimmy’s cold, dead heart.

Maybe that’s why Edgar abandons his usual attempts to even say something to his friends and suffers entirely on his own, drinking car booze from the bottle with a deadened look in his eyes. We know things are about to hit bottom for Edgar, and no amount of dread will keep it from happening.

On the bright side of it all is Lindsay (Kether Donohue), the comic relief red herring who stabbed her husband two episodes ago and thinks she might become a dad or an uncle someday. Turns out, Lindsay is a natural at maternity -- at least in theory. She's the star of parenting class and it's gratifying after a floundering Season 2 to finally see her win, even if she's got a long way to go.

Even Dr. Jordan (guest star Samira Wiley) is mired in problems, arguing on the phone with a man who says she's therapizing him when he accuses her of being mad. She insists to Gretchen that Jimmy is processing and that sooner or later, his father's death is going to hit him hard. For now, Jimmy feels free, and Gretchen is glad to hear it. He stuffs every memento of his father into a drawer, compartmentalizing and closing it off from the rest of his life. But the drawer won’t stay closed.

Now that’s a perfect metaphor.

• Entertainment
• Tech
• Life
• Games
• Deals
• Digital Culture
• Shopping
• Social Good

• Immigration and the Carceral State
• 'The Hate U Give' movie review: 5 things to know
• The real Wild West actually had a lot in common with the tech industry
• Guy emails 246 Nicoles in search of a girl he met at a bar, and now they're all friends
• The Opioid Thief
• Teens know social media is manipulative, but are using it more anyway
• Popular Mac apps caught harvesting users' browsing data without consent
• Elon Musk's very serious Boring Company uses Xbox controllers
• International Man of Monocracy
• How to watch Apple unveil its new iPhones on Sept. 12

• How to use Tinder's new Explore feature
• Mars spacecraft takes new images of biggest volcano in solar system
• The Morning News Roundup for August 21, 2014
• How women are pressured into using prescription birth control
• 11 scary horror movies that'll give you nightmares
• Where is Vladimir Nabokov Now?
• This Week’s Staff Picks: Moo, Maine, Malfeasance
• For the 1 Train Dead
• Announcing Issue 210
• Last Chance to Enter Our #ReadEverywhere Contest

• Reverse Robin Hoods
• Two men fall off a cliff playing 'Pokémon Go'
• Apple really needs to refresh the Mac Mini
• Prince Harry got tested for HIV in Facebook Live stream
• No Country of Civil Men
• 'Pretty Little Liars' star responds to body shamers with another empowering message
• Elon Musk's very serious Boring Company uses Xbox controllers
• Your next iPhone might be brown
• Cradle to Grave
• 145 tech leaders sign open letter

• Out of Sight, Out of Our Minds
• 'Monopoly' jumps on the 'Fortnite' bandwagon
• 'The Hate U Give' movie review: 5 things to know
• Mastercard just changed its logo for the first time in 20 years
• Beyond Belief
• John Legend just achieved EGOT status, the youngest ever to do so
• Apple really needs to refresh the Mac Mini
• New leaked photos show Apple's low
• Koalas are endangered now, and climate change is a big reason why
• Apple Music adds 'Top 100' charts for all subscribers, everywhere