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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. 

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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