![]() I’m more interested in other people’s faces.” “I am excited to make more,” she said, “but I don’t know how many years I’m going to be able to see my face in front of the camera. Is it a dinosaur? It might be.”Īs for the future of the show, Adlon said she’s not sure if the end game is in sight. But also, appointment television is a very exciting thing. That’s really hard when everyone’s coming up with this streaming mentality. commercial comes on and somebody gets up and goes to the bathroom and people start talking. “My show is about staying in this feeling and sustaining it. When I push the envelope in terms of running time, they say you can go 25 minutes, but you’re going to need four act breaks,” she noted. ![]() She admits the ad-break structure, to make room for commercials, is challenging in an era where so many premium cable and streaming shows don’t have to worry about that. The show is a slice of life, and extremely relatable for anyone navigating family, work, friends and more.Īdlon said FX gives her plenty of leeway on her show - which allows her to even have her kids on the show swear occasionally. Celia Imrie plays her mother, Phil, an eccentric who lives across the street. Adlon plays Sam Fox, a single mother and working actor raising her three daughters, Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood) and Duke (Olivia Edward) in Los Angeles. Adlon not only stars in and writes the FX show, but she also directed all of its episodes this year. “Better Things” just wrapped its third season and has been renewed for a fourth. I talk about power abuse on set in my show this season and I just show Sam getting tossed around with the cast and crew.” A lot of those very special episodes were just hitting you over the head. “I don’t like to hit people over the head. “I know they were told as cautionary tales so I go the opposite of that on my show,” Adlon said. (Jimmie Walker) home, and eventually Willona, played by Janet DuBois, and Thelma, played by Bern Nadette Stanis, discover that she has been abused by her mother. Listen below:įor one of her favorite episodes of TV, Adlon chose the “Good Times” episode “The Evans Get Involved, Parts 1 and 2.” The two-part episode aired in Season 5 on September 21, 1977. My Favorite Episode sat down with Adlon recently to discuss her TV inspirations, growing up in the business, her big animation voice-over career, being protective of the performers who play her daughters on “Better Things,” and her long term plan for the series. But it’s still fun to go back and reminisce about those times. It was a different era, and modern comedies like her FX series “Better Things” take a more sophisticated style of storytelling. She remembers one show in particular, when “ Good Times” first introduced the character of Penny (Janet Jackson), and revealed the young girl had been abused by her mother. Adlon fondly recalls that era’s habit of doing cheesy “very special episodes”: “All of those shows that were gritty and talked about scary subject matter, that was my thing.”
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