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Generally favorable reviews- based on 116 Ratings
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Positive: 90 out of 116
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Mixed: 10 out of 116
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Negative: 16 out of 116
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Better ThingsYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 116 Ratings
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Nov 29, 2017Still puts a smile on my face now and again, but it's not going anywhere is it. It's not any funnier second season, character development, they are just settling in, bit like the fourth year of marriage. A slice of life is great now and a gain, but how many slices do you need, before you get bored and move onto the rest of the buffet?
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Dec 18, 2017
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Oct 27, 2017We tried 3 different episodes and didnt laugh once. Awful show with a mother who seems devoid of all emotion and compassion... dont get it the reviews on this show at all. Give me Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm Catastrophe for some real life laughs. Pathetic sad protrayal of an American so called family
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Dec 23, 2017Not funny, no dramatic threads, Pamela Adlon can't act. I guess its supposed to be slice of life of divorced women with kids, doesn't work. HIghest rated tv show on metacritic? Every other show in the top 50 on metacritic vastly superior.
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Nov 22, 2017I had watched some episodes last year and I insisted on trying to watch season 2 because of the good comments it receives from profesional critics. I find it boring, not realistic and i I did not find a single funny moment. Horrible.
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Oct 26, 2017How this show has over 90 critic rating here is beyond me, this show is absolute trash. It's not funny, the writing is awful, the phasing is all over the place.
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Nov 2, 2017I'm still not seeing what all the commotion is about this show.
I tried watching it again this season, and I still found it a humorless, depressing show about a person's frustration with life.
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Nov 17, 2017Bitter sens of humour makes this show hard to be "laughable" enough for a lot of people. And that is true. I can easily understand every single negative review that i read. But this show makes me relaxed and in the same time forced me to start thinking about my life, friends, parents and kids. Every episode ask me at least one though question per episode.
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Oct 30, 2017This is by far one of the worst tv shows this year. The acting was awful, It's not funny and just extremely boring. Don't waste your time with this one, it's beyond terrible, no saving it.
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Dec 19, 2017Wow, just wow! I been touched so deeply by this show. I mean it had me under its spell all the time, towards the end of the second season I was crying and laughing couple of times within one episode and Im a 32 years old man :)
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Dec 8, 2017More liberal propaganda, this show is complete **** but has a single mom in it so every PC review site gives it a 10 without watching. Great shows this year like stranger things, mindhunter or game of thrones deserve that 96 rating, not this liberal piece of crap!
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Sep 21, 2017ok I watched an episode of this last season and thought it was terrible however I just started the new season and this seems fantastic so far I laughed out loud I felt for the mother everything sees great I can only hope that this show continues this cycle
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Nov 23, 2017Don't think of it as a comedy, it ruins your experience. It's a bitter and relaxing story of life. Pamela Adlon is brilliant in portraying a complex woman facing life, family and work. It's a wonderful experience of watching it at the end of your day.
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Dec 15, 2017la madre moderna, trabajadora se enfrenta a un mundo y a una famiia progresista, que le saca de quisio, su forma de responder ante estas situaciones es poco convencional, no es la madre eprfecta pero hace lo posible de ayudar al menos.
es estupido esperar carcajadas por que es una serie comica... asi no funciona las series comicas aclamadas de hoy en dia. -
Nov 22, 2017This is simply beautiful television, Ive never viewed it as comedy more as tragedy. The mother is such a complex and interesting women, and her complex and sometimes sad relationships with her family are glaringly real, and touching. The very last scene was fantastic.
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Nov 24, 2017This is a better thing than it was. I like it. The plot is nice. Those characters what can I say? I want to sit my ass down and watch all day. Are there more to watch?
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Dec 18, 2021Powerfully mundane and challenging. Nothing is forced, relationships feel natural and the cast is astonishing. Sometimes it is frustrating but it never isn't intentional.
Awards & Rankings
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It’s mostly about getting through the day, about getting through the week, about getting through life. It’s angry but never bitter. Joyful but never saccharine. It feels a little like magic.
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Its ability to take a more wrenching look at womanhood made it one of the best and most distinctive shows of 2016. The second season, which debuts on FX Thursday, is somehow even better.
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Better Things gets better--truer and deeper--when Sam is taken by surprise (as when her ex-husband shows up unexpectedly for dinner, or when a pet dies) or when she’s jolted out of her self-absorption by a parental obligation that yields a small revelation for her. Adlon is very good at depicting Sam in mid-mixed-emotions.