Better Things (Seasons 1–5)

Better Things (2016–) is an FX comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, created and led by Pamela Adlon. Sam Fox is a working actress in Los Angeles — not a star, just working — raising three daughters on her own while her British mother Phyllis, played by Celia Imrie, lives next door and contributes opinions nobody asked for.

The show runs on the texture of a particular kind of life: auditions that go nowhere, a teenager (Mikey Madison) who knows exactly how to get under her mother's skin, a middle daughter reinventing herself every few months, and a youngest who is quietly watching everything. Sam loses her temper, misjudges things, and keeps going. No arc, no lesson — just the week.

Adlon wrote most of the episodes and directed several herself, which gives the series an unusual intimacy. It was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for writing. Five seasons, all of them built around a character who earns sympathy not by suffering beautifully but by being genuinely, recognizably human. Stream all seasons of Better Things online on iFILM.