“Better Things”, a season 3 in the form of a tenderly grumpy chronicle

Sam Fox’s eldest daughter goes to study on the other side of the country… For its third season, Pamela Adlon‘s wonderful melancholic comedy observes the passage of time, between fatigue and kindness.

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By Pierre Langlais

Published on October 25, 2024 at 1:02 p.m.

Updated October 25, 2024 at 1:15 p.m.

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The time to leave has come. Sam Fox, a fifty-something actress in Los Angeles, sees her eldest daughter Max leave the family cocoon. She accompanies him to Chicago, on the other side of the country, to help him settle into his student room. Her two other, younger daughters also assert themselves more and more firmly, and send Sam back to her own relationship with her parents, her mother Phyllis, an 80-year-old teenager, and her missing father. If we add to that a slight excess weight and menopause which is fast approaching, difficult filming and even more unpleasant encounters, his daily life is not really looking good…

Even when she tackles scenes seen a thousand times — the painful putting on

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