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Better Things

52 episodes · 5 seasons · 2016–2022 · FX

← Show package · 2010s

Season

Season 1

10 episodes

  1. S01E01 Sam/Pilot

    Meet Sam Fox, harried single mother of three and struggling actress, as she attempts to make it through a trying day and an exhausting night.

  2. S01E02 Period

    Sam returns home early from another career disappointment to find her babysitter, Susie, was utterly derelict in her duties and the girls have made a mess of the house.

  3. S01E03 Brown

    Sam brings home a colleague for dinner.

  4. S01E04 Woman is the Something of the Something

    Sam gets really looked at.

  5. S01E05 Future Fever

    Sam has snack and Max thinks about things.

  6. S01E06 Alarms

    Sam deals with some situations.

  7. S01E07 Duke's Chorus

    Sam and the family go-to-meeting.

  8. S01E08 Scary Fun

    Sam makes a point.

  9. S01E09 Hair of the Dog

    Sam makes moves.

  10. S01E10 Only Women Bleed

    Sam has a tough day.

Season

Season 2

10 episodes

  1. S02E01 September

    Sam has people over.

  2. S02E02 Rising

    After dating a needy guy for three weeks..Sam unleashes on him. Sam daydreams on a trip away from the kids.

  3. S02E03 Robin

    Sam meets single parent Robin.Things go well, then they go on a trip and things don't go so well.

  4. S02E04 Sick

    Sam is sick.

  5. S02E05 phil

    Sam is forced to look at some stuff.

  6. S02E06 Eulogy

    Sam demands satisfaction.

  7. S02E07 Blackout

    Sam does hard things.

  8. S02E08 Arnold Hall

    Sam gets confronted.

  9. S02E09 White Rock

    Sam and the girls go on a trip.

  10. S02E10 Graduation

    Sam and fam are tilted.

Season

Season 3

12 episodes

  1. S03E01 Chicago

    Sam and Max go on a trip.

  2. S03E02 Holding

    Sam copes with stuff.

  3. S03E03 Nesting

    Sam sees old friends and cooks for everyone.

  4. S03E04 Monsters in the Moonlight

    Sam deals with monsters.

  5. S03E05 No Limit

    Sam unleashes.

  6. S03E06 What Is Jeopardy?

    Sam and fam get caught up in some gnar.

  7. S03E07 Toilet

    Sam preps.

  8. S03E08 Easter

    Sam helps Max and bakes for Phil.

  9. S03E09 The Unknown

    Sam gets theatrical.

  10. S03E10 Show Me the Magic

    Sam winds down and reminisces.

  11. S03E11 Get Lit

    Sam chaperones and Frankie slams.

  12. S03E12 Shake the Cocktail

    Sam searches and takes a breath.

Season

Season 4

10 episodes

  1. S04E01 Steady Rain

    Sam picks the girls up from a trip.

  2. S04E02 She's Fifty

    Sam embraces her life.

  3. S04E03 Escape Drill

    Sam gives her friends a marital intervention.

  4. S04E04 DNA

    Sam gives Phil a DNA test, catches something and releases on Max.

  5. S04E05 Carbonara

    Sam takes Duke to ballet and Frankie to Pinkberry.

  6. S04E06 New Orleans

    Sam goes to a wedding.

  7. S04E07 High Man. Bye Man.

    Sam goes to the weed store and visits her brother and Frankie and Sam eat ice cream.

  8. S04E08 Father's Day

    Sam has a flashback and a wolf pack.

  9. S04E09 Batceañera

    Sam throws Frankie a Batceñera.

  10. S04E10 Listen to the Roosters

    Sam and her girls live in the City of Angels.

Season

Season 5

10 episodes

  1. S05E01 F*ck Anatoly's Mom

    Sam learns some things about her family.

  2. S05E02 Rip Taylor's Cell Phone

    Sam makes a choice.

  3. S05E03 Oh, I'm Not Gonna Tell Her

    Sam volunteers.

  4. S05E04 Ephemera

    Sam learns about pronouns and finance.

  5. S05E05 The World is Mean Right Now

    Sam makes borscht.

  6. S05E06 San Francisco

    Sam goes to San Francisco for a job while Max holds down the fort.

  7. S05E07 Family Meeting

    Sam fights zombies and Frankie dresses up.

  8. S05E08 Jesus Saves

    Sam deals with anxiety.

  9. S05E09 England

    Sam and fam take a trip. Sam needs the circle to be complete.

  10. S05E10 We Are Not Alone

    Sam and their village.