The final season of "Better Things" opens, appropriately, with a sequence of scenes set to the jaunty Monty Python number "The Galaxy Song," in which Eric Idle cheerily sings about the cosmic magic of our being.
"Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown/ And things seem hard or tough/ And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft/And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough," it begins, eventually reminding listeners that each of us is but a tiny speck in a universe that keeps on expanding and expanding, "In all of the directions it can whiz." Mrs. Brown is all of us, in other words, but in these scenes the song's message has a special relevance to Sam Fox (the alter ego of series creator Pamela Adlon) and her oldest daughter Max (Mikey Madison).
