EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
SMILF - Season 1
It seems that things will become more complicated through the confrontations we face daily in life. It may be very difficult for a single mother to struggle with twenty different things in order to reconcile the work and the personal life she is struggling for.
9 August 1957, New York City, New York, USA
11 July 1953, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
22 September 1991, Panorama City, California, USA
8 August 1968, Pétion-Ville, Haiti
April 29, 1990 in Rutland, Vermont, USA
28 August 1978, Westchester County, New York, USA
23 August 1980, Auburn, California, USA
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.
October 30, 2017
You won't spend long dwelling on the title, but you'll want to stick with this story.
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 02, 2017
In the early stages, unfortunately, the bad Showtime traits are winning out over the good ones.
November 03, 2017
The old "misery loves company" axiom gets a stern test with Showtime's SMILF.
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.
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 05, 2017
It's taken almost seven years, but Showtime has finally found the perfect series to pair with Shameless.
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.
November 03, 2017
Beneath that indy-film facade of grainy candor is a big pile of canny Hollywood calculation.