SummaryThe 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.
Better Things
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere:
Sep 6, 2016
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
88
User score
Generally Favorable
7.9
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
94% Positive
79 Reviews
79 Reviews
5% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Jul 18, 2022
100
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.
Feb 27, 2019
100
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
83% Positive
317 Ratings
317 Ratings
8% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
9% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
Jun 15, 2022
10
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 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.
Jan 13, 2020
10
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! :-)
Sep 13, 2017
100
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.
Mar 1, 2019
90
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.
Mar 5, 2020
80
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.
Sep 1, 2016
80
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.
Sep 7, 2016
10
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.
