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Baskets - Season 2
Following the comedy of Chip Baskets, a young aspiring but miserable guy, who dreams of becoming a well known clown in Paris and traces to France, but he fails and returns with heavy heart to California, where he works as a rodeo clown. Chip has to choose between snacks or tarp.
11 July 1973, Columbia, Missouri, USA
28 March 1952, San Jose, California, USA
16 January 1971, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
23 April 1983, Santa Clara, California, USA
10 March 1978, Sapporo, Japan
January 20, 2017
Lots of the laughs come from the kind of physical comedy that used to appear in silent movies.
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 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 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
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
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
