Better Things

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Season 3
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 8, 2016
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 57
  3. Negative: 4 out of 57
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  1. Nexusjob
    Mar 30, 2019
    7
    Season 1 and 2 were absolutely fantastic. Something has changed in this third season, I don't know if it's Louis C.K.'s absence or other factors but it's just not as funny. It's ok, but not as good as the first 2 seasons.
  2. juniortopwb
    Mar 4, 2019
    10
    Pamela Adlon is a genius. Better Things is the best show on TV nowadays. And that's it.
  3. pablohoney74
    Apr 11, 2019
    5
    My wife and I were huge fans of the first two seasons but we've abandoned the third season after the first few episodes. Where in S1 and S2 this show managed to be so genuine and heartfelt it is now weird and overly sentimental, and the hilariousness has gone all out of it. A really sad development, we'll miss this one!
  4. krzy_chu
    May 24, 2019
    10
    This series is very unique – probably not for everybody. The action is very fragmented and the storytelling is very different than in any other show I can think of. This show does not focus on action or story in classical meaning. It tries to show deep, complicated and sometimes fleeting emotions and real relationships through grotesque moments of everyday life. Task so ambitious that inThis series is very unique – probably not for everybody. The action is very fragmented and the storytelling is very different than in any other show I can think of. This show does not focus on action or story in classical meaning. It tries to show deep, complicated and sometimes fleeting emotions and real relationships through grotesque moments of everyday life. Task so ambitious that in my opinion almost impossible to achieve, and yet somehow it succeeds. For me it's real magic – and real artistry.… Expand
  5. All_ButTrU4
    Dec 18, 2021
    8
    Intimately crushing television for those who can set time for slow burna achievements. Very well developed despite the kids still remaining a drag to witness, still it is not hampered down,no. It is a touching near diarist look into middle age,motherhood, family and love.

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#2 Best TV Season of 2019
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#4 Most Shared TV Season of 2019

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Metascore
94

Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Emily Nussbaum
    Mar 11, 2019
    80
    It’s most resonant when it treats its heroine as a moral mixture. When, a few episodes in, it begins to dive into Pamela’s messy unconscious, it deepens, hitting on disconcerting themes about sex and loneliness. The show’s moody, jazzy style, its reliance on the unexplained image, can border on pretension, as jazzy things so often do, but it lingers in your mind, agitating in a good way.
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  2. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    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.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Feb 28, 2019
    100
    Better Things is the kind of intimate show that captures the characters' mundane expressions of love, frustration, and loneliness so accurately that you forget about the art and effort behind them--the sensitive scripting, the genuine acting, the respectful direction.
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