EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
Baskets - Season 2
The second season of the series continues to tell the life of Chip Baskets struggling the ups and downs at a local rodeo in his hometown of Bakersfield, California. What challenge he must face to attain his goal?
2 September 1940, Hollywood, California, USA
5 May 1926, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
19 June 1950, San Diego, California, USA
29 May 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA
January 17, 2017
As before, Anderson is something beyond brilliant. Making tender a role that could easily become grotesque, he is completely alive as Christine. There isn't a line that comes from his mouth that doesn't seem to have been born in the moment he speaks it.
January 20, 2017
Baskets is full of the kind of people whom pop culture rarely bothers to humanize: the elderly, the obese, the destitute. It's simultaneously wondrous and heartbreaking.
January 19, 2017
FX's beautifully melancholy Baskets only gets more solemn, sad, strange, sympathetic and singular with its richly poignant second season. In our clownish world, Zach Galifianakis continues to provide the laughter and pain in equal measures.
March 27, 2017
So lovely. So strange. So happy FX continues to make a place for it on my TV.
January 19, 2017
The chemistry between Anderson and Galifianakis drives the best parts of the new season, but it's not at the expense of sharp humor, biting irony and plummeting self worth rendered funny by its sheer hopelessness.
January 20, 2017
Lots of the laughs come from the kind of physical comedy that used to appear in silent movies.
January 20, 2017
This is about Baskets, a show that made enough of an impact that Louie Anderson won a very much deserved Emmy but that not too many people are writing think pieces about. But maybe they should be
