Better Things

An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent.

Cast:Pamela Adlon , Mikey Madison , Hannah Riley , Olivia Edward , Celia Imrie , Rebecca Metz , Diedrich Bader , Alysia Reiner , Jeremy K. Williams , Greg Cromer , Kevin Pollak , Matthew Glave , Adam Kulbersh , Milla Sofia Press , Emma Shannon , Caleb Mantuano , Cree Summer , Lucy Davis

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Sam/Pilot

Thu, Sep 8, 2016

Single mother Sam Fox struggles to raise three girls while trying to maintain her career as an actor.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Period

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

Sam deals with lady things.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Brown

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

Sam brings home a colleague for dinner.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Woman Is the Something of the Something

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

Sam is becoming insecure about her looks, so she visits plastic surgeon Dr. Sook. But she invites her friend Sunny with her, which compounds her inferiority complex.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Future Fever

Thu, Oct 6, 2016

Sam struggles to connect with Max, taking her out to lunch where she interferes in another couple's date. Max finally admits to her mother's friends that she's afraid she doesn't have much of a future. Duke takes her savings to the bank.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Alarms

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

Sam deals with some situations.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Duke's Chorus

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

Frankie tricks Sam into going to the Mormon church with Duke's friend Morgan and her mother Trinity. Sam and Max escalate their fights over Max's hostile behavior.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Scary Fun

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

Sam explains to Max's friend Harvey why she doesn't trust him around her daughter. Frankie tells Sam she isn't fun anymore and Sam injures her foot trying to prove her wrong. A meeting with Frankie's teacher takes an odd turn.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Hair of the Dog

Thu, Nov 3, 2016

Sam takes Max and her friend to a Joe Walsh concert where unexpected info is revealed. Sam's effort to get rid of a table turns difficult and she has to make a deal with Bulgarians but she gets a terrific chicken recipe from it.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Only Women Bleed

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

A typical day for Sam where she struggles to get her girls off to school when Duke tries to stay home sick. Later Frankie is sent home and Sam tries to explain she has work but also personal obligations that she needs to attend to. Turns out Frankie has issues in School.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ September

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

Sam has people over.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Rising

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

Sam gets brutally honest with the man she's been dating for three weeks. Sam feels he's become excessively needy, so she dumps him in a parking lot full of onlookers. After, Sam has plans to go to Santa Barbara with a group of friends to meet Sunny's new, rich boyfriend, but upon arriving, Sunny's boyfriend tries his hand at matchmaking and tries to hook Sam up with one of his friends. Sam's reaction is to turn, run, and never come back. She gets a crappy hotel room by the beach and a bottle of wine, and later she returns home to her family.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Robin

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

Sam meets a new friend.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Sick

Thu, Oct 5, 2017

Sam is sick.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Phil

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

Sam is forced to look at some stuff.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Eulogy

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

Sam, feeling unappreciated, encourages her children and closest friends to pretend that she's dead and speak at her pretend funeral so that she may hear how they really feel about her.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Blackout

Thu, Oct 26, 2017

Sam runs a errand with Jeff and unfortunately bumps into Robin along the way. Sam tells Jeff yes or no.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Arnold Hall

Thu, Nov 2, 2017

Sam gets confronted.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ White Rock

Thu, Nov 9, 2017

Sam and the girls go on a 3 day trip to visit family in Canada. Sam learns a family secret about an aunt she never knew she had.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Graduation

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

Max is graduating from high school. Max and Sam negotiate the graduation party. Max is excited to have Dad come in to take her to graduation. The morning after, Max wonders why Sam didn't get her a graduation present.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Chicago

Thu, Feb 28, 2019

Sam and Max go on a trip.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Holding

Thu, Mar 7, 2019

Sam copes with stuff.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Nesting

Thu, Mar 14, 2019

Sam sees old friends and cooks for everyone.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Monsters in the Moonlight

Thu, Mar 21, 2019

Sam deals with monsters.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ No Limits

Thu, Mar 28, 2019

Sam unleashes.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ What Is Jeopardy?

Thu, Apr 4, 2019

Sam and fam get caught up in some gnar.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Toilet

Thu, Apr 11, 2019

Sam has a medical stressing medical examination that causes some side effects that keep her on the toilet.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Easter

Thu, Apr 18, 2019

Sam helps Max and bakes for Phil.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Unknown

Thu, Apr 25, 2019

Sam is in New York City trying out for a new play that is trying to get funding for Broadway.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Show Me the Magic

Thu, May 2, 2019

Sam winds down and reminisces.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Get Lit

Thu, May 9, 2019

Sam chaperones and Frankie slams.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Shake the Cocktail

Thu, May 16, 2019

Sam struggles to cope with Frankie's decision to leave home.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Steady Rain

Thu, Mar 5, 2020

Sam picks up the girls from a trip.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ She's Fifty

Thu, Mar 5, 2020

Sam embraces her state of being.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Escape Drill

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

Sam gives her friends a marital intervention.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ DNA

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

Sam gives Phil a DNA test, catches something and releases on Max.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Carbonara

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

Sam takes Duke to ballet and Frankie to Pinkberry.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ New Orleans

Thu, Apr 2, 2020

Sam goes to a wedding. Written by Joe Hortua; directed by Pamela Adlon.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ High Man. Bye Man.

Thu, Apr 9, 2020

Sam takes Phil and Max to a her brother's house warming party. Sam takes medical Cannabis for the pain in her hands, and it definitely kicks in.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Father's Day

Thu, Apr 16, 2020

Sam meets her friends for Father's day, and each say how they broke up with their partner. Phil and Frankie go out to a Persian restaurant. The girls have a sisterly talk and Sam feels left out.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Batceañera

Thu, Apr 23, 2020

Sam throws Frankie a Batceañera.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Listen to the Roosters

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Sam and her girls live in the City of Angels. Season finale.