![]() ![]() She found other ways to reflect society’s mental shift. ![]() “I really didn’t understand where I was gonna go with the stories after the shutdown,” Adlon said, adding that while she made a point of not discussing COVID because it would date the show, she did want to showcase that the world “is living in a different kind of reality.” Adlon’s Sam, now with her kids older and feeling more cemented in her own life, leans against her black El Camino and stares into the distance, like she’s come to the end of that journey and she’s pondering what’s next.Īdlon credits FX executive vice president of marketing Stephanie Gibbons for the images, this last one going with the theme of “the road ahead.” She tells Rotten Tomatoes, “It’s a great metaphor for the way the season goes and ends up and, and for Sam as a final act.”Īfter the fourth season’s finale, which saw Sam gain closure from her messy divorce by paying off her ex and ending any real contact with him, the fifth season seems to be about life-changing events, be it growing up and making amends with parents, or even death. The images for the final season, which premieres February 28 on FX, seem more hopefully. Star and co-creator Pamela Adlon‘s semi-autobiographical story of raising three kids as a single parent while also working as an actress had caused her to plant face down on the bed in just her underwear and T-shirt with no time to even take off her shoes. The key art poster for the first season of Better Things suggested exhaustion.
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