Post by Ripley on Sept 20, 2016 10:54:18 GMT -5
Pamela Adlon created, stars in and even directs a few episodes . Because she has daughters, she dedicated the show to them and likes keeping things real. Her portrait of working mom and actor Sam Fox resonates on many levels from the third shift, to having to take the high road with her daughters over her absent, deadbeat ex-husband. The show is honest, refreshing and hilarious.
"...The series is ostensibly a comedy about a single mother, Sam (Adlon), who is a working actor with just enough success to make life easy for her ex, but not highly paid enough or gainfully employed enough to make raising her three daughters a breeze. It's hard work, as all parenting is — but in Sam's case, it's a seemingly never-ending crisis of raising three disparate girls of varying ages and taking care of her own mother (Celia Imrie) who lives across the street, all the while trying to make it in a business that purges women of a certain age.
Even after the five reviewed episodes, Better Things is still a developing work, but Adlon's distinctive voice makes it very intriguing and, even in this crowded TV universe, necessary.
The series is getting at ideas that will take some getting at — navigating the nuances of motherhood with the finely detailed personal issues of each daughter making the various storylines seem imbued with original, real truths of 2016 (and beyond). There's teen Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood), whose right behind her but showing signs of being on the spectrum, and the very young Duke (Olivia Edward), who will be hard-forged into her own kind of person playing third string to the distinctively different Max and Frankie but, until then, at least provides her mother with a blindly loving welcome home every day, without the sass or growing pains of her sisters. And sometimes that's all the salve Sam needs when the world has torn her apart for much of the day...."
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"...The series is ostensibly a comedy about a single mother, Sam (Adlon), who is a working actor with just enough success to make life easy for her ex, but not highly paid enough or gainfully employed enough to make raising her three daughters a breeze. It's hard work, as all parenting is — but in Sam's case, it's a seemingly never-ending crisis of raising three disparate girls of varying ages and taking care of her own mother (Celia Imrie) who lives across the street, all the while trying to make it in a business that purges women of a certain age.
Even after the five reviewed episodes, Better Things is still a developing work, but Adlon's distinctive voice makes it very intriguing and, even in this crowded TV universe, necessary.
The series is getting at ideas that will take some getting at — navigating the nuances of motherhood with the finely detailed personal issues of each daughter making the various storylines seem imbued with original, real truths of 2016 (and beyond). There's teen Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood), whose right behind her but showing signs of being on the spectrum, and the very young Duke (Olivia Edward), who will be hard-forged into her own kind of person playing third string to the distinctively different Max and Frankie but, until then, at least provides her mother with a blindly loving welcome home every day, without the sass or growing pains of her sisters. And sometimes that's all the salve Sam needs when the world has torn her apart for much of the day...."
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