Pamela Adlon almost walked away from 'Better Things' without Louis C.K. Here's how she came back
LOS ANGELES - Pamela Adlon is an inveterate list-maker. Groceries, goals, to-do, got-done - you name it, she lists it.
For her FX television series "Better Things," which returns for its third season Thursday night, Adlon likes to catalog what she calls "Better Things" things. Sometimes it's a song she wants to work into an episode, like Rod Stewart's "Mandolin Wind." Often it's an idea, like having Sam, her single mother character, reading "A Raisin in the Sun" with one of her three daughters.
Adlon has hundreds of these ideas, cataloged in journals, drafts folders, scraps of paper. They're everywhere, and there are enough of them to carry "Better Things" through a dozen seasons if she wanted to go that route, which, given that she produces, directs, writes and stars in
