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You have one minute, she instructs.

Olivia Edward and Pamela Adlon in Better Things.

you’re able to say anything you want to each other, anything.

You get it all out.

Say the worst things that pop into your head.Anything.

And then its over.

Then they all burst out laughing, Sam included.

These series evoke the 24/7 nature of contemporary child-rearing, and the pressure to perform as the perfect parent.

She is a mother, a friend, a daughter, an actor, and a charity.

ShowtimesSMILFpicks up this trend and runs with it.

Well loop back and try next weekend, her ex says, dropping Larry off a day early.

CreatorsSharon HorganandRob Delaneyplay Sharon and Rob, a schoolteacher and marketing executive raising their two young children in London.

Lets make the best of it.

In a sense, these kinds of comedies take the romance out of family life.

The thing with parenting, its devastating, Shaw said in aninterviewlast year.

So like, if youre gonna do it, do it real.

Its not meant for sitcom.

Your life is over.

But not in a bad way.

A dark cloud hangs over the final season.

You took it out or something.

Now I just dont work without you.

Im 100 percent reliant on you, okay?

Theyre in this together, till death.

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