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Baskets - Season 2
Season five of ' Baskets' completes the comedy and adventures of Chip Baskets, a young ambitious guy, who dreams of becoming a well known clown in Paris, but suffers from the bad luck he has, as he travels to France, where he fails in achieving his dreams and returns depressed to his hometown, where he works as a rodeo clown. In this new season, Chip faces many challenges in his work as a redo clown.
22 February 1964, Illinois, USA
5 May 1926, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
11 September 1941, Saint-Chartier, Indre, France
10 June 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 June 1966, Fairfax, Virginia, 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
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
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.
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
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.
March 27, 2017
So lovely. So strange. So happy FX continues to make a place for it on my TV.
