Season 4

Season 4 of Better Things (2016) is an FX comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM — ten episodes that catch Sam Fox at fifty, still steering three daughters and one aging mother through Los Angeles.

Turning fifty is the spine of this one. Sam stops apologizing for her age and starts taking life on its own terms: she stages a marital intervention for her friends, slips Phil a DNA test and learns more than she bargained for, ferries Duke to ballet and Frankie out for ice cream. The season builds toward a big fifteenth-birthday party for Frankie. Episodes run short, almost like sketches, yet they add up to a clear-eyed picture of a woman done waiting for anyone's approval.

Pamela Adlon writes and directs every episode again, which is why the cutting stays loose and the jokes land without a laugh track. It's for viewers who connect with the idea of a parent growing up alongside her kids. Stream Better Things Season 4 online on iFILM.