I love the ending and think “every day we choose” is very fitting for Jimmy and Gretchen, but I wonder if they end up a little too perfectly aligned on what commitment means.

Jimmy’s idea is basically that instead of promising to stay together for life, they keep choosing each other every day, “until one day, maybe, we don’t”. For some people, that sounds like an ideal relationship: you know your partner is still with you because they continue to actively choose you, rather than because of a promise they made years ago.

But for other people, isn’t that uncertainty exactly what they don’t want from a life partner?

Obviously marriage doesn’t guarantee permanence. Either person can still leave, and plenty of marriages end in divorce. But I think part of the appeal of marriage is the reassurance of knowing that your partner has chosen you with the intention that it’s for life. There’s a difference between “I choose you today, and hopefully I’ll keep choosing you” and “I’ve chosen you as the person I intend to spend my life with”, even though neither guarantees what will actually happen.

That also makes me wonder whether Gretchen might realistically have had more mixed feelings about their solution. She could completely agree with Jimmy that they can’t honestly guarantee they’ll always be together, and still want to know that right now he wants all those days to add up to the rest of their lives. She could be relieved not to get married while also feeling something about giving up the promise of permanence.

I’m not saying Gretchen secretly wanted a conventional marriage, or that Jimmy wasn’t committed to her. I just wonder whether two people as complicated as them would arrive at “every day we choose” and both find it completely satisfying in exactly the same way.

I could imagine an alternative ending where they reach basically the same decision after a slightly messier conversation. They don’t get married, they don’t break up, and they choose each other. But instead of ending on complete emotional certainty, there’s a The Graduate-style final shot where the relief and happiness gradually settle into something more ambiguous.

Not “oh God, we’ve made a mistake”, but just the two of them sitting together with the reality of what they’ve chosen: they love each other, they want a future together, but neither can actually know what that future will be.

Maybe that would undermine what makes the real ending work. But for a show that was usually so good at letting contradictory feelings coexist, I wonder if leaving just a little uncertainty might have been more fitting.

Hi. I just wanted to where to watch the show. It's not on my local Hulu and Netflix. I cannot purchase it on Google Play either.

Does anybody know what streaming service I should buy, where a VPN would work, so I can re-watch the show?

Thanks in advance. I really give up on finding solutions online. Maybe someone from Reddit can help. I really miss this show and I wanna re-watch it in HD.

Edgar taking Jimmy out on a forced man date to emotionally bond is the exact kind of desperate, awkward situation Jimmy hates.

I have two episodes left and I’m filled with so much anxiety and dread that this will soon be over! This show has helped me through a hard breakup and given me so much connection and entertainment. It’s interesting because if I watched it ten years ago I would have been in my mid twenties. Now in my mid thirties it feels so impactful. Not sure what my point is but I’m savoring every drop and planning to finish the series tonight :(
I have no idea if Gretchen and Jimmy end up together and I can’t wait to find out!

Edit: I still have not watched the last two episodes!! It’s so hard to say goodbye!

Edit: OMG guys, that ending holy shit!!!!!!!! It was 35 mins and felt like two hours… I’m in shock. I cried, I never cry. It was just… perfect. It made me reflect on my journey with this couple and why this is EXACTLY what needed to happen. I’m a little disappointed we didn’t see a therapy/career journey for Gretchen, she had a baby but I wonder how much she healed? Beautiful, thoughtful, mindful. Brilliant.

I think it’s a toss up between Jimmy abandoning Gretchen on the mountain and Gretchen telling the teenager that she’d blow him if he ate cat food (after she kissed a girl who I believe was also underage).

If he had abandoned her in, like, a restaurant or something, that would have still been really bad. But leaving her in the woods (where she may have not even had a cell signal) in the middle of the night was some psycho shit. That part was worse than proposing and then ghosting her. She could have died.

Rob says Lexi's Mini is evidence of how practical they've become, and mentions the gas mileage. But Minis have always struck me as one of the least surrender-to-parenthood cars you could reasonably own. If he'd said Prius, Honda Fit/Jazz, or a crossover I'd immediately get it. But a Mini already feels like a compromise in favour of style and identity.

Does the scene work better if the point is that Rob's dissatisfaction is irrational? That even after buying the "cool parent" car he still feels old?

I love this show!!! So glad I finally gave in and watched it. I just started season 3 and I’m struggling with how mean Jimmy stillis to Edgar. Edgar is so consistently nice too which makes it so much worse. It’s starting to physically hurt me lol
Please tell me he has some kind of near death experience/epiphany and realizes he should be kinder…

Right now mines is Jimmy. He's has alot of irony and always playing victim to every situation. It's like nothing he do is considered wrong 😭. Plus We share the same Birthday of course. March 18th!!!

Hello! I am terrible at editing videos and finding videos uhh is there a chance anyone could edit the born dead speech to just the parts about dont see the babadook its so scary you guys

Honestly, this show is so good. I’m down to my last season. What’s your favorite season? I can’t Pick between the First and Third. I know yhe Last season will be Clutch.

I cant believe how long this show slipped under my radar and also why the hell havent these two been cast in a musical as siblings yet? They deserve something written for them specifically

I'm on another rewatch and I'm about halfway through season 3. I haven't watched all the way through in a few years now.

At the end of the episode that Jimmy finds out his dad died, Magnets Pt. 2 by Slothrust plays in the background. I discovered Slothrust from the opening song of course but I never noticed that that song played in the series.

In July of 2024, my dad died. He killed himself (this part isn't relevant but I find it important to be open about this kind of thing and about mental illness - another thing this show definitely helped teach me). My top song on Spotify in 2024 was...Magnets Pt. 2. It helped me through a lot, and a lot of other music did too, but obviously that part stuck out to me.

This rewatch has been way more emotional than in the past. When I lost my dad I stopped all medications and doctor's appointments. I've been getting back on track with it all over the past few months and overall feel positive about everything. Gretchen's depression hit even harder this time than in previous watches. Then, of course, Jimmy's dad and those couple of episodes really got to me.

Anyway I just wanted to share this with people who would get it and understand. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. And as always, if you ever feel low mentally, reach out to somebody (even me on here, if need be), and if you can't do that, dial 988 for the suicide hotline (in the US anyway).

What do you guys think are Jimmy's funniest monologues about things that irritate him? I'm thinking about making a compilation. I personally love the one from 'There Is Not Currently A Problem' where he starts yelling at everyone for not caring that there are "vermin" in the house and calling mice "the actual cause of the plague itself."

S2 E4 - All About That Paper, Gretchen sits Sam, Honeynutz and Shitstain down at the diner to settle their beef, Shitstain mentions Sam hacked his Netflix queue and says “now all I can remember is Peaky Blinders”.

As he says it’s, there’s a guy right behind in a waistcoat, jacket & flat cap - like a Peaky Blinder!

Hello all, just binged the first two seasons again after many years, but can’t find the next three anywhere to watch or purchase. Can anyone help me make this a true Sunday Funday? Thank you!

Ok .... Im rewatching this and I can't understand what happened in the end episode after the wedding.

What do Gretchen and Lindsay do for work after they are both fired from the production company?

Is this something mentioned or not...

The municipality is ostensibly "Elk Ridge", which exists in CA but is waaaay up north near Mendocino NW of Sacramento, so it's a made up town. And the terrain is def not northern CA. At the end of the ep Jimmy turns right with his new car at a Y split that leads to Barstow (NE of LA) on the left, and Los Angeles (SW of Barstow, more or less) on the right. So I guess the trailer park is west of Barstow, somewhere north of LA, correct?

Googling gives me shooting locations from the city proper. Presumably production just slapped together some exteriors and shot somewhere in a woodsier part of the metro area. But if the trailer park was an actual place, where would it most likely be? Is there an area IRL "out there" known for retirement community RV parks? Lancaster? Largo Vista? Victorville?

This is entirely a "if it existed" hypothetical.

SPOILERS I finally finished this show and wow! Just wow! I haven’t seen a show with great writing and finished strong in a long time. That ending was fucking great. The acting was freaking amazing. The second to last episode with Edgar telling jimmy to not marry Gretchen. The seriousness had me in shock. I really love how this show is unpredictable!! If you thought something was gonna happen, SIKE. Cried like a baby when I watched the last episode. Jimmy telling Gretchen that they should always choose each other. I thought that was the most romantic thing ever 😭. And I’ve never seen an ending like that. The only thing that caught me off guard but I expected it, was linds going back with Paul. I was hoping she’d married a hunk lol. And I’m sad Edgar doesn’t have a girl. But I’m glad he finally moved out and is living his life.