In one of rachsyme’s favorite scenes from “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s character makes a Ukrainian borscht. The scene was filmed some five months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
’s semi-autobiographical FX comedy about a working actor raising three adolescent children on her own in L.A., Adlon’s character, Sam Fox, gets accidentally stoned. A physician has recommended that she medicate wrist pain by vaping marijuana, and the drugs are stronger than she’d expected. Her youngest daughter, Duke , chastises her. “Mom, Ilike that you smoked weed,” Duke says. “It’s rude and hypocritical.
Sam, like Adlon, is husky voiced and foulmouthed, with a penchant for wearing weathered Chelsea boots and a swipe of kohl around her eyes. She talks to her children like they are her peers, and the shaggy narrative of “Better Things” moves according to the rhythms of real life. Some of the show’s best scenes involve Sam waking up and sitting quietly in bed, or fixing a broken toilet, or watering plants. Many feature her cooking a meal from start to finish.
Adlon learned how to cook in part from her mother, a British Anglican who married an American Jew and raised a family between New York and Los Angeles. “We were the only ones who ever had salad with every meal,” Adlon told me. “And I would be, like, why salad? Can you ever make me a Rice Krispie treat like the other moms of the seventies? But my mother was liver and onions, fish, all of that stuff from the palate of a sixties housewife.
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