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An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent.

Sam struggles to connect with Max, taking her out to lunch where she interferes in another couple\'s date. Max finally admits to her mother\'s friends that she\'s afraid she doesn\'t have much of a ...

A typical day for Sam where she struggles to get her girls off to school when Duke tries to stay home sick. Later Frankie is sent home and Sam tries to explain she has work but also personal ...

Sam explains to Max\'s friend Harvey why she doesn\'t trust him around her daughter. Frankie tells Sam she isn\'t fun anymore and Sam injures her foot trying to prove her wrong. A meeting with Frankie\'s...

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A six-part comedy series adapted from the award-winning play about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.

Stars: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Jenny Rainsford

Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; "Earnest \'Earn\' Marks," an ambitious college drop-out and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a star.

Stars: Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield

Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.

Stars: Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, Amanda Seales

After failing at a prestigious French clowning college, Chip Baskets looks to keep his dream of becoming a professional clown alive.

Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Martha Kelly, Louie Anderson

Centers on two toxic, self-destructive people who fall in love and attempt a relationship.

Stars: Chris Geere, Aya Cash, Desmin Borges

A comedy that explores the private lives of unique New York individuals through a common thread: their weed deliveryman.

Stars: Ben Sinclair, Clem Cheung, Michael Cyril Creighton

A nameless cannabis delivery guy delivers his much-needed medication to stressed-out New Yorkers.

Stars: Ben Sinclair, Avery Monsen, Heléne Yorke

Horace and Pete is an American comedy-drama web series created by Louis C.K. starring himself and Steve Buscemi as Horace and Pete, co-owners of an Irish bar, Horace and Pete\'s.

Stars: Louis C.K., Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco

The life of Louis CK, a divorced comedian with two kids living in New York.

Stars: Louis C.K., Hadley Delany, Ursula Parker

Search Party is a single-camera dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

Stars: Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, John Early

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Louis CK shares writing, directing and "created by" credits on this promising new series with his smoky-voiced sidekick, Pamela Adlon. And as with Louis on his own show and Aziz Ansari in "Master of None," Adlon's character, Sam, seems like a less prosperous, more precarious version of herself—a onetime teenage sitcom star, now a divorced voice actress struggling to support three young daughters.

The riffs on LA affluenza, though we've seen plenty of these on shows like "Girlfriend's Guide …" and "Californication," are still sharp and original (a scene where Sam chews out her overworked girlfriend's useless stoner boyfriend seems especially heartfelt). The industry insider stuff's consistently funny and convincing too—I treasure the look on Sam's face when, in full makeup as some sort of Klingonoid alien temptress, she's told her scene's been cut and her services won't be required. Adlon plays pretty much the same sardonic middle-aged-sexy tomboy type that she did in "Louie" and "Californication," and that's just fine with me.

So far, scripts have been consistently strong—straddling the same thin line between low-key comedy and slightly depressive realism as "Louie" was wont to do—and the supporting cast's very good, especially Mikey Madison and Hannah Alligood as Sam's older daughters, a high-school kid who's already regretting her misspent youth ("trying to get high and having dramas with my friends") and a preteen Rachel Maddow–lookalike, respectively. English character actress Celia Imrie is entertaining as Sam's mother, though it doesn't seem likely that the two of them could possibly share a single strand of DNA… Good show!

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