Better Things
Season 5
10 listed hours · 2016–2022 · FX
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 5 of Better Things (2016–2022) on FX as the last listed season of 5 — 10 listed hours, 2022-02-28–2022-04-25 from “F*ck Anatoly's Mom” (S05E01) to “We Are Not Alone” (S05E10). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S05E10 We Are Not Alone
We Are Not Alone closes five seasons as the auteur statement — handmade motherhood, allergic to a network hug.
- S05E01 F*ck Anatoly's Mom
F*ck Anatoly's Mom opens the last season with the rage still in the vignette — auteur half-hour, no multi-cam polish.
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S05E01 F*ck Anatoly's Mom
Sam learns some things about her family.
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S05E02 Rip Taylor's Cell Phone
Sam makes a choice.
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S05E03 Oh, I'm Not Gonna Tell Her
Sam volunteers.
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S05E04 Ephemera
Sam learns about pronouns and finance.
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S05E05 The World is Mean Right Now
Sam makes borscht.
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S05E06 San Francisco
Sam goes to San Francisco for a job while Max holds down the fort.
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S05E07 Family Meeting
Sam fights zombies and Frankie dresses up.
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S05E08 Jesus Saves
Sam deals with anxiety.
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S05E09 England
Sam and fam take a trip. Sam needs the circle to be complete.
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S05E10 We Are Not Alone
Sam and their village.
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