“Baskets” departs with some fun … and despair
In a moment of exasperation, Christine Baskets says what viewers have been thinking:
“Sometimes, I think you just want to fail at life,” she tells her son Chip.
She’s right, you know. That’s what has kept FX’s “Baskets” from being a good show … and, alas, what dragged down the first season of Showtime’s “Kidding.
”Now “Baskets” is wrapping up its fourth and final season. It has a terrific episode (shown here, with Louie Anderson) this Thursday (Aug. 15), then a so-so finale a week later. “Kidding” will start its second season Nov. 2. Read more…