EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
SMILF - Season 1
It is that story that speaks of that single mother who lives and struggles with more things in life, trying to find a balance between her practical and personal life that seems very difficult.
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 May 1991
28 August 1978, Westchester County, New York, USA
5 February 1987, Santa Clara, California, USA
14 December 1979, Port Au Prince, Haiti
4 June 1955, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 July 1966, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
17 March 1979, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
22 September 1991, Panorama City, California, USA
November 04, 2017
SMILF is rough but scrappy, like the street basketball Bridgette plays. It dribbles, it head-fakes, and you never quite know in which direction it will make its next move.
November 02, 2017
In the early stages, unfortunately, the bad Showtime traits are winning out over the good ones.
October 30, 2017
You won't spend long dwelling on the title, but you'll want to stick with this story.
November 03, 2017
Beneath that indy-film facade of grainy candor is a big pile of canny Hollywood calculation.
November 05, 2017
It's taken almost seven years, but Showtime has finally found the perfect series to pair with Shameless.
November 03, 2017
The old "misery loves company" axiom gets a stern test with Showtime's SMILF.
November 04, 2017
[Frankie] Shaw is such a dynamic presence, oddly beautiful without being blow-dried and lacquered with make-up, believable in sweats and slides but also transcending them.
October 31, 2017
Shaw's good but her televised autobiography is a work in progress that can't quite settle on tone, meaning or direction. Even the series title is frustrating.
November 03, 2017
It's an admirable portrait of a character in a social class that's underrepresented on TV, but it's more depressing than entertaining. The struggle is real - but it's not funny.
November 04, 2017
But then, in episode three, Shaw seems to find her footing, and I found myself thinking that SMILF could develop a Shameless-like charm.
