However, it’s as the writer and director of Better Things that Adlon has finally been able to use her voice in the fullest sense.
In Better Things, Adlon finds an outlet for all those impulses.
“Hopefully the show will be some comfort food to the people that it matters to, but also maybe some f***ing knuckleheads will watch Better Things and something will shift.”
Of course, an important factor in how true to life Better Things feels is how much of it is drawn directly from Adlon’s own experiences.