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Better Things

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Universal acclaim based on 83 Critic Reviews

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Universal acclaim based on 37 Ratings

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Series Details & Credits

FX | Release Date: September 8, 2016

Summary: The Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. co-created comedy series focuses on a single mother/actress (Pamela Adlon) raising three children.

Genre(s): Comedy

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S5:E10. We Are Not Alone
Air Date: April 25, 2022
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S5:E9. England
Air Date: April 18, 2022
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S5:E8. Jesus Saves
Air Date: April 11, 2022

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Metascore

88

Positive:

78

Mixed:

4

Negative:

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Critic Reviews

100

The Guardian Rachel Aroesti

Jul 18, 2022

Season 5 Review: It’s a creatively confident style of storytelling, this hectic flickering between characters and conversations and settings, and one that turns the knotty, nuanced emotional palette of the show into gripping entertainment. Read full review

100

Newsday

Verne Gay

Feb 22, 2019

Season 3 Review: With just eight episodes as evidence, this third season appears to be flawless. Read full review

100

The Hollywood Reporter

Dan Fienberg

Mar 4, 2020

Season 4 Review: One of these days Emmy voters will notice that when it comes to half-hour TV direction, the thing Adlon is doing here, week in and week out, is astonishingly attentive, empathetic and, when it wants to be, hilarious. The show is loose, but never scattershot and Adlon's directing confidence is equally evident in how the camera navigates around the Fox home and in how well the entire series plays to the strengths of its actors. Read full review

90

Yahoo TV

Ken Tucker

Sep 7, 2016

Season 1 Review: Adlon’s performance is so good, you get--and want--her in nearly every scene, just to see how she’s going to react: to this kid’s temper tantrum, to that rude producer’s snarky comment. It’s a star vehicle that feels like it’s introducing you to an entire family--and an entire universe you want to inhabit. Read full review

90

Vanity Fair

Sonia Saraiya

Mar 1, 2019

Season 3 Review: The eight brilliant episodes provided to critics suggest the show is better off for the upheaval. Better Things’s energy is stronger, clearer, and even more seductive, wrapping its viewer up in the hairy details of life with real people. Read full review

80

The Hollywood Reporter

Tim Goodman

Sep 8, 2016

Season 1 Review: Better Things isn't groundbreaking when judged merely as a single-mom sitcom, but it finds its freshness in how Adlon examines it in her personal world; the stories and struggles are familiar even though they are contained within a world most people aren't part of, and she makes whatever daily struggles she faces with her family relatable. Read full review

10

Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Sep 7, 2016

Season 1 Review: Better Things is a faithful female-themed re-creation of Louis C.K.'s other shows: witless and angry, mistaking contempt for satire, self-important in its clueless disregard for plot, characterization or other niceties of the performing arts. Read full review

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tkkalverm

Jan 13, 2020

It's like Seinfeld... except it is a drama show about nothing. The best television drama show I have ever watched and it isn't even close... the LeBron James of television drama! :-)

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Chronicler

Jun 15, 2022

Watching the show brings you into their family. As a single dad raising two kids it’s help me appreciate that bad times come along with the good times and there is loneliness and heartache along with love. Writing is great in that this been very little time on Sam’s love life which wouldWatching the show brings you into their family. As a single dad raising two kids it’s help me appreciate that bad times come along with the good times and there is loneliness and heartache along with love. Writing is great in that this been very little time on Sam’s love life which would make it easy to add episodes about her breaking up and making a relationships but instead the focus is on Sam’s relationship with her kids and it goes deep.… Expand

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Snoozer309

Jan 27, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Honest, gritty, genuine. Highly recommend, especially if you have daughters. Well done. Pamela is all that.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

88

Series Overview
Season 5

93
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: February 28, 2022
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  S5:E10. We Are Not Alone
  Air Date: April 25, 2022
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  S5:E9. England
  Air Date: April 18, 2022
- tbd
  S5:E8. Jesus Saves
  Air Date: April 11, 2022
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  S5:E7. Family Meeting
  Air Date: April 4, 2022
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  S5:E6. San Francisco
  Air Date: March 28, 2022
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  S5:E5. The World Is Mean Right Now
  Air Date: March 21, 2022
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  S5:E4. Ephemera
  Air Date: March 14, 2022
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  S5:E3. Oh, I'm Not Gonna Tell Her
  Air Date: March 7, 2022
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  S5:E2. Rip Taylor's Cell Phone
  Air Date: February 28, 2022
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  S5:E1. F**k Anatoly's Mom
  Air Date: February 28, 2022
Season 4

90
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: March 5, 2020
Season 3

94
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 28, 2019
Season 2

96
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 14, 2017
Season 1

80
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 8, 2016