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Baskets - Season 1
In an attempt to achieve his dream and become a famous clown, Chip Baskets, a young ambitious guy, who dreams of becoming a clown, but suffers from the bad luck he has, travels to France, where he fails after training to become a clown and returns to his house in California, where he has to work as a rodeo clown.
10 March 1978, Sapporo, Japan
10 May 1948, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
1 November 1965, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
1 June 1966, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
13 July 1985, Edenton, North Carolina, USA
23 April 1964
9 March 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
January 22, 2016
Baskets doesn't have the DNA to truly soar, but it's odd and off-putting enough to succeed for a few seasons perhaps, like FX's other more jagged attempts at comedy.
January 19, 2016
"I'll take happiness where I can find it," Chip says... There's not much of that here, but plenty of humor, if you know where to look, in Baskets.
January 22, 2016
You'll hear a lot of people say Baskets is funny, you'll probably hear even more who say it isn't, but you'll have to figure this one out on your own. Me, I love it.
January 21, 2016
A comedy that inspires more pathos than laughter isn't necessarily failed. It just might be mislabeled.
January 19, 2016
Baskets is a darkly humorous, razor sharp comedy that uses everything in Zach Galifianakis' arsenal to get laughs, and it succeeds every step of the way.
January 22, 2016
[Galifianakis is] really, really good at drawing the humor out of that kind of character, and maybe the most promising thing about this new series is watching him take that in a deeper, stranger direction. I'm excited to see where it goes.
January 21, 2016
Anderson is an odd ray of sweetness inside all of Baskets' bitterness, and it's hard not to laugh at that.
January 21, 2016
In the very likable Baskets... pathos and indignity are the dominant tones.
January 21, 2016
When a Pierrot is gored by a bull, one should be worried, not thrilled. But Baskets is so smug, so condescending to everyone around him that for just a moment, we're rooting for that bull.
January 21, 2016
Baskets builds into a character-study treasure, much like FX precursor Louie.
