EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
SMILF - Season 1
Things seem more difficult when it comes to the idea of balancing life and work, especially for those single mothers who are still struggling to survive between personal life and work to find balance.
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1961, Hong Kong
14 March 1966, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
5 February 1987, Santa Clara, California, USA
16 September 1971, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
8 September 1981, Athens, Alabama, USA
1976, Virginia, USA
14 August 1958, Anderson, Indiana, USA
November 02, 2017
In the early stages, unfortunately, the bad Showtime traits are winning out over the good ones.
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 05, 2017
It's taken almost seven years, but Showtime has finally found the perfect series to pair with Shameless.
November 03, 2017
Beneath that indy-film facade of grainy candor is a big pile of canny Hollywood calculation.
November 03, 2017
The old "misery loves company" axiom gets a stern test with Showtime's SMILF.
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
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 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 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 30, 2017
You won't spend long dwelling on the title, but you'll want to stick with this story.