Count me among those who thought this show made a pretty significant jump in 2017. What felt like - I'll say it - a Louie knockoff of sorts in its first season really came into its own this year. Someone somewhere on the Internet pointed out that we're in a golden age of shows and movies that deal with struggling parents - not always single, and not often even poor, but just parents who are doing their best, but, come on - kids these days, right? I'm not a parent, and won't be a parent of a teen for at least thirteen years, so I can't honestly say that I relate, and yet there's something fundamentally and basically human about this idea of taking care of, and loving, one or more people who hate your guts at worst and get completely irrationally angry at you at best.
The poster really says it all - Sam Fox, played and written by Pamela Adlon, just lives in a constant state of being on the tipping point. It's good! It's a show whose worst episodes are forgettable but still enjoyable and whose best episodes are really touching and deeply moving and memorable. It isn't consistently great, or anything, but it's at least occasionally great here in Season 2, which is more than I could have said for Season 1. That makes sense, right?
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