Pamela Adlon’s relatable, uplifting autobiographical dramedy about motherhood is creatively confident, gripping entertainment – and will be sorely missed
Photograph: Pamela Littky/BBC/FX NetworksPhotograph: Pamela Littky/BBC/FX Networksince having a child, there has been one fictional mother I have thought about more than any other.
What makes Better Things a great, life-affirming show, however, rather than an extended moan courtesy of the unduly privileged, is that Adlon celebrates this state as much as she laments it. It’s a mood summed up by the season’s opening montage: Sam’s domestic drudgery – carting round laundry, feeding the fish, taking stuff out the freezer – soundtracked by Monty Python’s Galaxy Song, a jaunty number that pitches the enormity of space as a source of solace.
It’s is 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. It also feels representative of the way life feels: the realism compounded by the fact that the show’s world resembles Adlon’s real one, often draped in only a translucent veil of fictionality .
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