Better Things
We Are Not Alone
TV Flash files “We Are Not Alone” as a desk essential hour — Better Things (2016–2022) on FX, season 5, episode 10, aired 2022-04-25, 59 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E10: listed hour 52 of 52 in the Better Things guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 2022-04-25 (59 min). The listed hour before it is “England” (S05E09). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “We Are Not Alone”. We Are Not Alone closes five seasons as the auteur statement — handmade motherhood, allergic to a network hug.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Sam and their village.
Viewer FAQ
Where does We Are Not Alone sit in the Better Things guide?
S05E10 is listed hour 52 of 52 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 10.
When did Better Things S05E10 air?
We Are Not Alone aired 2022-04-25 and is listed at 59 minutes.
Whose show is it after the co-creator exit?
After the early co-credit exit, it became Adlon's auteur series. Watch it as her half-hours of care, rage, and L.A. logistics — not as a dual brand.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Pamela Adlon's half-hours of raising three daughters on an actor's paycheck: vignettes of care, rage, and L.A. logistics with no sitcom gloss. After the co-credit exit, it became her auteur show. Intimate prestige comedy — motherhood as lived-in art film, handmade and allergic to punchline-of-the-week.
The flash is an actor's paycheck and three daughters who will not pose. Pamela Adlon co-created and stars as Sam Fox on FX (2016–2022): Mikey Madison, Hannah Alligood, Olivia Edward, Celia Imrie's Phyllis. Vignettes of care, rage, and L.A. logistics. Half-hours that feel handmade, allergic to punchline-of-the-week. After the Louis C.K. early co-credit exit, it became her auteur show — formal play inside domestic realism, motherhood without sitcom gloss. The museum guard can keep the dual brand. **This is her…
Filed against
- Pamela Adlon as Sam Fox
Pamela Adlon’s Bobby Hill made King of the Hill a boy’s hush in Arlen — 1990s catalog propane weather, kids’ comedy that whispers. Californication and Better Things kept her in the adult room as ache and authorship. TV Flash files her as…
- Mikey Madison as Max Fox
Mikey Madison’s Max Fox grew up inside Better Things’ half-hours of care, rage, and L.A. logistics — Pamela Adlon raising three daughters on an actor’s paycheck, vignettes with no sitcom gloss. After the co-credit exit, an auteur show. TV…
- Hannah Alligood as Frankie Fox
Hannah Alligood played Frankie Fox on Better Things — Pamela Adlon's half-hours of raising three daughters on an actor's paycheck, vignettes of care, rage, and L.A. logistics with no sitcom gloss. Intimate prestige comedy as an art film.…
- Olivia Edward as Duke Fox
Olivia Edward plays Duke Fox on Better Things, Pamela Adlon’s 2010s half-hours of raising three daughters on an actor’s paycheck — vignettes of care, rage, and L.A. logistics with no sitcom gloss. Intimate prestige comedy, handmade and…
- Celia Imrie as Phyllis
Celia Imrie plays Phyllis on Better Things — Pamela Adlon's half-hours of raising three daughters on an actor's paycheck, vignettes of care and L.A. logistics with no sitcom gloss. After the co-credit exit it became an auteur show. TV…