EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
SMILF - Season 1
A single, 20-something mom struggles to find a happy work-life balance.
11 May 1991
14 August 1958, Anderson, Indiana, USA
15 September 1990, Hanford, California, USA
9 August 1957, New York City, New York, USA
24 May 1990, Auckland, New Zealand
7 August 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
27 April 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 March 1966, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
November 03, 2017
The old "misery loves company" axiom gets a stern test with Showtime's SMILF.
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
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 03, 2017
Beneath that indy-film facade of grainy candor is a big pile of canny Hollywood calculation.
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.
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 02, 2017
In the early stages, unfortunately, the bad Showtime traits are winning out over the good ones.
November 05, 2017
It's taken almost seven years, but Showtime has finally found the perfect series to pair with Shameless.
October 30, 2017
You won't spend long dwelling on the title, but you'll want to stick with this story.
