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- FX
- Feb 28, 2019
- FX
- Feb 28, 2019
Summary The Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. co-created comedy series focuses on a single mother/actress (Pamela Adlon) raising three children.
Created By: Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K.
- FX
- Feb 28, 2019
- FX
- Feb 28, 2019
Summary The Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. co-created comedy series focuses on a single mother/actress (Pamela Adlon) raising three children.
Created By: Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K.
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Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
94
100% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Better Things is the kind of intimate show that captures the characters' mundane expressions of love, frustration, and loneliness so accurately that you forget about the art and effort behind them--the sensitive scripting, the genuine acting, the respectful direction.
We get little snapshots of moments in Sam’s life, yet each glimpse is so fully realized and emotionally rich that you see whole story lines immediately—whole lifetimes, really.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 58 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
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9% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 58 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
5% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
9% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
This series is very unique – probably not for everybody. The action is very fragmented and the storytelling is very different than in any other show I can think of. This show does not focus on action or story in classical meaning. It tries to show deep, complicated and sometimes fleeting emotions and real relationships through grotesque moments of everyday life. Task so ambitious that in my opinion almost impossible to achieve, and yet somehow it succeeds. For me it's real magic – and real artistry.
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SEASON 3
Pamela Adlon is a genius. Better Things is the best show on TV nowadays. And that's it.
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SEASON 3
Adlon is more concerned with character and truth. Better Things has that element that commonly comes with great fiction in that it feels like we’re dropping in on lives that existed in the months since this show was on the air. It’s like visiting old friends — some of it is funny, some of it is dramatic, some of it is silly. And we can’t wait till the next time we get to drop in.
Everything about Better Things feels personal, and yet somehow vastly relatable to anyone who has ever loved a child, agonized over a difficult parent, endured an unsatisfying job, or wondered whether pushing their own personal rock up the hill yet again was really worth it.
Ms. Adlon’s Sam Fox—former child star, working actress, single mom of three, plaything of a perverse and wrathful universe—remains one of the most original and daring female characters in the annals of TV comedy. ... As regards the question of whether to watch, the answer is a resounding yes.
Better Things feels a bit freer to be its most audacious self this season. Making the show under extraordinary pressure has, in the end, allowed Adlon to throw up her hands, say anything she wants, get it all out there and succeed entirely on her own terms.
And yet for all of its barbed and scatological humor--be warned, there's a colonoscopy episode--there's an unvarnished honesty to Better Things that has a way of grabbing and moving you just when you least expect it. [18 Feb - 3 Mar 2019, p.15]
Intimately crushing television for those who can set time for slow burna achievements. Very well developed despite the kids still remaining a drag to witness, still it is not hampered down,no. It is a touching near diarist look into middle age,motherhood, family and love.
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SEASON 3
My wife and I were huge fans of the first two seasons but we've abandoned the third season after the first few episodes. Where in S1 and S2 this show managed to be so genuine and heartfelt it is now weird and overly sentimental, and the hilariousness has gone all out of it. A really sad development, we'll miss this one!
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