Peabody Winner 2016 | FX Productions
Created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K., and starring Adlon as a single mother and actress raising three kids in Los Angeles, Better Things is both searingly funny and beautiful. Adlon’s Sam Fox struggles, with judgmental kids, random judgmental parents, a married boyfriend, mansplainers on blind dates next to her in the coffee shop, and fire detectors that need new batteries. Her children-played by Mikey Madison, Hannah Alligood, and Olivia Edward, and her mother, played by Celia Imrie-create both a maelstrom of expectation, guilt, and volume and the grounds for multiple honest moments of connection with each other and with Sam. The result is an at-times raw examination of the vicissitudes of working motherhood, crackling with feminist verve and energy, paced beautifully, and able constantly to cut new ground in the otherwise well-worn genre of family sitcom. Adlon offers a smart, deeply funny performance as someone who has learned to embrace the impossibility of living up to expectations as a mother, and to parent in spite of it. For this, it wins a Peabody Award.
Link: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/better-things
27 сен 2017
