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- 2016
- TV-MA
- FX
- 2016
- TV-MA
- FX
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.
- 2016
- TV-MA
- FX
- 2016
- TV-MA
- FX
Better Things
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 6, 2016
7.7
Where to Watch
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.
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 84 Critic Reviews
88
94% Positive
79 Reviews
79 Reviews
5% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 84 Critic Reviews
88
94% Positive
79 Reviews
79 Reviews
5% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 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.
Season three of Better Things continues to be exceptionally great without him [Louis C.K] — precisely because this is Adlon's experience and POV via a TV show that mirrors aspects of her own life and conveys what she fearlessly wants to put out in the world about being a woman, being a mother, being a daughter. And all of that is keenly evident in this new season, with even more development of her directorial skills.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 374 User Ratings
7.7
82% Positive
305 Ratings
305 Ratings
8% Mixed
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
10% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 374 User Ratings
7.7
82% Positive
305 Ratings
305 Ratings
8% Mixed
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
10% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
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In Better Things, he [Louis C.K] and Adlon are able to transcend such concerns and tell fresh stories from a fresh angle for an audaciously intelligent take on responsibility, independence, and uncensored love.
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.
The feeling of intimacy and empathy in the parenting scenes remains superb, particularly during a Sam/Max argument in one episode that involves every woman’s least favorite word. But it’s not a coincidence that both Sam and Better Things often seem lighter and happier when she gets some grown-up time, turning her gaze outward to learn about other people’s triumphs and heartbreaks.
Where “Louie” is frequently taken by flights of fancy and an inexhaustible curiosity about why the world is what it is, “Better Things” is, so far, more focused on the Fox family’s daily grind. The world is full of puzzles, but Sam and her daughters largely leave others to the solving.
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.
Production Company:
- FX Productions
- Pig Newton
- 3 Arts Entertainment
- Slam Book
Initial Release Date: Sep 6, 2016
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Television Critics Association Awards
• 6 Nominations
Casting Society of America, USA
• 4 Nominations
