TELEVISION
THE 10 BEST SHOWS
1. BETTER THINGS, FX
There’s something elemental about Better Things. Its protagonist Sam—played by Pamela Adlon, the show’s co-creator, who directed every episode of the second season—is exhausted by being a single mother, a woman trying to keep an acting career going after 40, a person. Sometimes she lashes out; sometimes she just sits and thinks, but she is mesmerizingly alive throughout. The organizing events of contemporary American life—parenting, finding love, settling into a career—have for Sam,
