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Baskets - Season 1
After failing to get a degree at the Academie de Clown Français in Paris, Chip Baskets is stuck with a job at $4 an hour as bull bait in a rodeo. But Chip does not stop looking to keep his dream of becoming a professional clown alive.
18 April 1971, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
8 July 1971, Pacific Palisades, California, USA
2 September 1940, Hollywood, California, USA
1 November 1965, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
20 July 1936, Pawnee, Oklahoma, USA
29 May 1958, USA
1 December 1992, San Diego, California, 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 21, 2016
Baskets builds into a character-study treasure, much like FX precursor Louie.
January 21, 2016
In the very likable Baskets... pathos and indignity are the dominant tones.
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 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
[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
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 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 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
A comedy that inspires more pathos than laughter isn't necessarily failed. It just might be mislabeled.
