Network: FX
Episodes: 40 (half-hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: January 21, 2016 — August 22, 2019
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Zach Galifianakis, Martha Kelly, Louie Anderson, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams.
TV show description:
A dark comedy, this TV series revolves around a struggling clown who lives in Bakersfield, California.
Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) dreams of being a classically trained French clown. Unfortunately, things don't work out for him when he goes to study in Paris -- thanks to financial difficulties and an impenetrable language barrier.
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Episodes: 40 (half-hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: January 21, 2016 — August 22, 2019
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Zach Galifianakis, Martha Kelly, Louie Anderson, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams.
TV show description:
A dark comedy, this TV series revolves around a struggling clown who lives in Bakersfield, California.
Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) dreams of being a classically trained French clown. Unfortunately, things don't work out for him when he goes to study in Paris -- thanks to financial difficulties and an impenetrable language barrier.
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- 8/23/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Baskets” finale, Season 4 Episode 10, “Moving On” — including the ending.]
Going into a series finale without knowing what to expect is an exciting prospect in today’s day-and-age of writing toward an endpoint. Even the great shows tend to set up an ending where one big thing has to happen: Someone will rule the Iron Throne on “Game of Thrones”; The Jennings will survive or perish in “The Americans”; Selina will win the presidency or die trying in “Veep.” Even “The Big Bang Theory” built up to Sheldon and Amy winning the Nobel Prize.
But an ending for “Baskets” can’t be so easily anticipated. Last week’s penultimate episode closed with the Baskets family abandoning their plans to protest California’s high-speed rail plans, which would force them to close their rodeo. What seemed like a typical rallying cry for a high-stakes climax in court was overturned early, in favor of sending Chip (Zach Galifianakis) into internal reflection at...
Going into a series finale without knowing what to expect is an exciting prospect in today’s day-and-age of writing toward an endpoint. Even the great shows tend to set up an ending where one big thing has to happen: Someone will rule the Iron Throne on “Game of Thrones”; The Jennings will survive or perish in “The Americans”; Selina will win the presidency or die trying in “Veep.” Even “The Big Bang Theory” built up to Sheldon and Amy winning the Nobel Prize.
But an ending for “Baskets” can’t be so easily anticipated. Last week’s penultimate episode closed with the Baskets family abandoning their plans to protest California’s high-speed rail plans, which would force them to close their rodeo. What seemed like a typical rallying cry for a high-stakes climax in court was overturned early, in favor of sending Chip (Zach Galifianakis) into internal reflection at...
- 8/23/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
FX Networks has set the premiere dates for its critically-acclaimed series Baskets, Legion and Snowfall, it was announced today by Chuck Saftler, President, Program Strategy and COO, FX Networks. The three series will premiere as follows:
Baskets – The fourth season of the acclaimed comedy series starring Zach Galifianakis premieres Thursday, June 13 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX.
Legion – The third and final season of the mind-bending drama from Noah Hawley returns Monday, June 24 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX
Snowfall – The third season of the riveting drama series co-created by John Singleton will premiere Wednesday, July 10 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX.
The three series round-out FX Networks’ summer slate, which includes the previously announced:
Archer: 1999 – The 10th season of Fxx’s Emmy® Award-winning animated comedy premieres on Wednesday, May 29 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt.
The Weekly – FX’s new half-hour narrative documentary series with The New York Times premieres Sunday,...
Baskets – The fourth season of the acclaimed comedy series starring Zach Galifianakis premieres Thursday, June 13 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX.
Legion – The third and final season of the mind-bending drama from Noah Hawley returns Monday, June 24 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX
Snowfall – The third season of the riveting drama series co-created by John Singleton will premiere Wednesday, July 10 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on FX.
The three series round-out FX Networks’ summer slate, which includes the previously announced:
Archer: 1999 – The 10th season of Fxx’s Emmy® Award-winning animated comedy premieres on Wednesday, May 29 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt.
The Weekly – FX’s new half-hour narrative documentary series with The New York Times premieres Sunday,...
- 5/6/2019
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
What's in store for the new season of Baskets? Recently, FX released a first look at season two of the Zach Galifianakis TV show.The comedy stars Galifianakis as Chip Baskets, a classically trained French clown who is forced to move back to his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif. The cast also includes Louie Anderson, Martha Kelly, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams.Read More…...
- 1/24/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
In a modern world ablaze with buffoonery, where is a clown left to stand? Such a query is pondered aloud — partly — by the failing, fumbling wannabe artiste Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) in Baskets‘ extraordinarily disconsolate, yet darkly dreamy second season. Permeated with pathos, pain, pointed pity, poignancy and pinched pleasure, FX’s continuously exceptional sophomore dramedy is, at once, a vivaciously vicious series and a sincerely sensitive one. As compassionate as it is cruel, and as meaningful miserable as it is strange and specifically hilarious, Baskets is nothing short of beautiful. Even in a clownish world, there’s always room for a maestro.
Chips was a broken, directionless man in season 1, and that remains the same at the beginning of this new year. With the rodeo gone, Penelope (Sabina Sciubba), his unloving French wife, forced back home and his newfound Arby’s job leaving him unfulfilled,...
In a modern world ablaze with buffoonery, where is a clown left to stand? Such a query is pondered aloud — partly — by the failing, fumbling wannabe artiste Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) in Baskets‘ extraordinarily disconsolate, yet darkly dreamy second season. Permeated with pathos, pain, pointed pity, poignancy and pinched pleasure, FX’s continuously exceptional sophomore dramedy is, at once, a vivaciously vicious series and a sincerely sensitive one. As compassionate as it is cruel, and as meaningful miserable as it is strange and specifically hilarious, Baskets is nothing short of beautiful. Even in a clownish world, there’s always room for a maestro.
Chips was a broken, directionless man in season 1, and that remains the same at the beginning of this new year. With the rodeo gone, Penelope (Sabina Sciubba), his unloving French wife, forced back home and his newfound Arby’s job leaving him unfulfilled,...
- 1/19/2017
- by Will Ashton
- We Got This Covered
"I became a clown to be part of this freak family." FX has released several new previews for season two of Baskets.The comedy stars Zach Galifianakis as Chip Baskets, a classically trained French clown who is forced to move back to his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif. The cast also includes Louie Anderson, Martha Kelly, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams.Read More…...
- 11/24/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
"Don't be sad, okay?" Chip Baskets' estranged wife Penelope tells him early in tonight's Baskets season finale on FX. "You're not that kind of clown." Penelope (Sabina Sciubba), spoiled daughter of a French singing star, doesn't get the sentiment quite right — and not just because her thick accent renders the name of Chip's chosen profession as "cloon." Chip (Zach Galifianakis) is sometimes a sad clown, sometimes an angry clown, and only occasionally a funny clown — usually when he's not intending to be, like when he gets attacked by one of the bulls at the Bakersfield rodeo where he attempts to practice his art. But Baskets, created by Galifianakis, Jonathan Krisel, and Louis C.K., is very much a sad clown story — a weird little show vibrating at a frequency that only a small subset of viewers are likely to hear and appreciate properly. It presents the broadest of comedy concepts — slapstick,...
- 3/24/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Zach Galifianakis has co-starred on a couple of TV shows in his career -- Tru Calling (Fox) and Bored to Death (HBO) -- and both lasted fewer than 30 episodes. Now, he's the lead in the Baskets TV show, a dark comedy on FX. How will it perform in the ratings? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
The Baskets TV series revolves around a struggling clown who lives in Bakersfield, California. Chip Baskets (Galifianakis) dreams of being a classically trained French clown but things don’t work out for him when he goes to study in Paris. Chip moves back to his hometown and is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and dealing with his judgmental family. The rest of the cast includes Martha Kelly, Louie Anderson, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams.
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The Baskets TV series revolves around a struggling clown who lives in Bakersfield, California. Chip Baskets (Galifianakis) dreams of being a classically trained French clown but things don’t work out for him when he goes to study in Paris. Chip moves back to his hometown and is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and dealing with his judgmental family. The rest of the cast includes Martha Kelly, Louie Anderson, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams.
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- 2/21/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Baskets, about the existential crisis of a rodeo clown, is a bizarre show with a great pedigree that won’t be to everyone’s liking. I watched the first five episodes and still haven’t entirely warmed to it, but my initial impression could be as likely to entice people as scare them away: It plays as if an old Steve Martin picaresque-dumbass movie like The Jerk were done in the style of an earnest, realistic, rather dour indie drama. This seems inevitable once you learn that the series’ creators are Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, and Jonathan Krisel of Portlandia. Galifianakis stars as Chip Baskets, who studies clowning in France — and en Français, yet — then returns to the United States with a beautiful but cold French wife named Penelope (Sabina Sciubba), who admits she’s only marrying him for citizenship. Chip tries to get a job paying the bills with...
- 1/21/2016
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
"Baskets" is such an oddity that even its co-creator and star, Zach Galifianakis, isn't sure if it will work. In the FX comedy (it debuts Thursday night at 10), Galifianakis plays Chip Baskets, who has devoted his life to the art of clowning, a vocation he treats with utter seriousness, despite flunking out of a Parisian clown school because he doesn't speak a word of French. Broke, bitter, and lonely, he returns to his hometown of Bakersfield with French wife Penelope (Sabina Sciubba), whose infidelity and gold-digging he doesn't understand, even though she told him upfront that she didn't love him and would marry him only for a chance to live in America. Chip finds work as a rodeo clown, unappreciated by either the audience (except when he's being knocked over by the bulls) or his co-workers, somehow acquires a loyal sidekick in Costco insurance adjuster Martha (Martha Kelly, a stand-up...
- 1/19/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
There are plenty of new TV show options hurtling your way in the next twelve months, but few will boast the unique premise of "Baskets." Produced by Louis C.K., it brings Zach Galifianakis to the small screen and lets him to go full weird, in a show that looks like it will be an acquired taste (i.e. if you're not a fan of his comedy, you might stay away). Read More: Zach Galifianakis Super Uncomfortable With Fame Or Just A Jerk? 10 Things Learned From Rs Profile Co-starring Louie Anderson, Martha Kelly, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams, the show follows a man who flunks out of a prestigious clown school in Paris, and winds up working for a local rodeo show back home. He lives in a motel, and doesn't seem like the most put together person on the block, but it seems the series is aiming to hit you...
- 1/6/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
FX has released the first trailer for "Baskets," the new comedy series produced by Louis C.K. and starring "The Hangover" comedian Zach Galifianakis.
The story follows a man who flunks out of a prestigious clown school in Paris, and winds up working for a local rodeo show back home. Louie Anderson, Martha Kelly, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams co-star in the series which premieres January 21st.
The story follows a man who flunks out of a prestigious clown school in Paris, and winds up working for a local rodeo show back home. Louie Anderson, Martha Kelly, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams co-star in the series which premieres January 21st.
- 1/6/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Hear that sound? It's the tiniest, squeakiest French violin in the world. Quelle tristesse! Baskets stars Zach as Chip Baskets, a man who goes all the way to Paris to attend a snooty clown school, only to end up working at a local rodeo show. The show is co-created by Galifianakis, Louis C.K., and Jonathan Krisel, and also stars Louie Anderson, Martha Kelly, Sabina Sciubba, and Ernest Adams. From the looks of the trailer, Baskets is aiming to hit that sad-com sweet spot. The ten-episode first season premieres January 21.
- 1/5/2016
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
"Being a clown is the most important thing to me," proclaims Chip Baskets, the antihero of the upcoming cringe-comedy show Baskets. But as the first full-length trailer for Zach Galifianakis' FX series demonstrates, he has a long way to go before he reaches Bozo-level proficiency. "You look like a clooone," Chip's green-card-craving French wife says, pronouncing the word in an exaggerated Clouseau-like accent. "But you are not a clooone."
The surreal teaser follows Galifianakis' character as he studies the art of clowning in France, despite neither speaking nor understanding...
The surreal teaser follows Galifianakis' character as he studies the art of clowning in France, despite neither speaking nor understanding...
- 1/5/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Brazilian Girls' frenetic live shows have earned the New York trio a reputation as beat-happy party-starters, but there's a litany of other elements roiling around in their multicultural stew. The group's previous album, 2006's Talk To La Bomb, bandied about dub, bossa nova, post-punk, and other international influences in the service of sophisticated, multilingual club music; its follow-up, New York City, draws again from those elements, but in new permutations that tend to lean even more toward the loungey end of the spectrum. The formula works in fits and starts, hitting the mark when the group allows some quirky touches to work their way in amid the sheen—the catchy whistling on "St. Petersburg," or the haunting sparseness of "L'Interprete," for example. At times, the album flounders a bit in the persistent sonic flourishes that threaten to overshadow Sabina Sciubba's arresting voice, but those noodley moments are buoyed by.
- 8/5/2008
- by Genevieve Koski
- avclub.com
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