Pamela Adlon's Better Things abstains from traditional sitcom sendups and forges a path all its own - in this bawdy, often hilarious and bittersweet ode to the daily highs and lows of being a single mother. Read critic reviews
Better Things (2016)
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5. Future Fever
Air date: Oct 6, 2016
Frankie falls sick, and Sam becomes worried when one of the mothers she knows also has to have surgery; as a result, she asks Phil if she has made a living will.
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6. Alarms
Air date: Oct 13, 2016
Sam has to deal with a number of issues, including people her age dating younger women, enduring clothes shopping with the girls, her friends' traumatic experiences, receiving attention at work, and helping Phil with an assortment of things.
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Very creative and entertaining. The shows presentation is understated but fearless.
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This show hit me so close to home.
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Put simply - this is beautiful. I can only thank the BBC for bringing this to the UK. Raw, heartfelt and extremely moving. I urge you to watch this. For the right person, this will grab you by the gut.
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Best thing on TV, open, honest, surprising, fantastic, incredibly funny and moving.
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Needs to run a little hotter
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Basically the life of a single mother and her kids. Pretty funny exchanges between the mom and the kids sometimes, the humor is actually humorous and I've seen these situations actually happen watching other families. I don't know how I'd react to some of the situations though, my teenage kid asking me to get her drugs to walking in on my daughter in her underwear with a guy in the room with her...surely not as composed as she did, that's for sure. Still on my first season, but I'm sure to binge all 5 seasons sooner or later.
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I have no idea why, but the vibe is not so great even though I loved her acting with Louis CK. Nevertheless, I recommend it, but not expect much.
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Garbage, in a word. It seems intriguing at first, but it gets old really fast. The writing is middling and stale. At first, the main female character evokes some sympathy as a single mother juggling her failing career and raising three spoiled brats. Quiet dignity and perseverence without losing sense of humour. Then all the fuss becomes simply annoying and pointless. Plus various ideological agendas they exploit to cover up for the glaring lack of substance. In Season 2 the garbage starts to rot. The main character turns into a stone cold b@tch without any sense of propriety. She is not even working anymore. This show is just another monument to mediocrity.
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I love this show. Great writing, storylines, and characters. After watching it just a few times the characters and personalities do a great job truly pulling you into their livingroom. And the literal backdrop of their house, their livingroom, their kitchen, sets a very cozy and comfortable atmosphere that comes thru the screen. You are in their house for that hour. And mostly I think just about every type of woman can relate to "Sam". I can be in a depressed, somber mood and watching that show somehow always pulls me out of it! I am not quite sure why......could be the things that "Sam" goes thru and how she deals with 'life's issues' makes me see that I'm not alone in how my life turned out.....that's just life! "Sam" makes life and the changes we go thru seem not so serious afterall!
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Started strong, ended really really weak and uninspired
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