In the 2nd season of Baskets Chip wanders the land, occasionally jumping on a train, until he meets a group of travelling and homeless entertainers led by Morpheus. He stick with them, which even results in a conflict, when one of the standing members of the group, Trinity, leaves because he took her place, basically; until he sees the dark side of the group, i.e. breaking and entering and drug abuse – they barely manage to get away from the police at some point, and soon after that the group disassembles after sudden death of its leader. Chip gets into prison and is compelled to call Martha about it; and because Martha doesn’t have any money, she tells Dale, who in his turn tells Christine. Christine comes to Chip’s rescue, puts bail and then stays for the trial; Chip gets community service, because it was his first offence. While being there Christine meets Ken, father of another member of Morpheus’s group, and they kind of hit it off. After Chip’s return, both brothers stay at Christine’s, but not for long – they engage in a huge fight, virtually ruining the whole interior, and so Christine kicks them out. Chip goes on and squats in the vacant rodeo, at the same time trying to take off the ground his clown career by making Martha looking up gigs for him. On a Costco party she invites him to, he meets an actual events manager, and becomes her client; and she indeed provides him with some work. And then Christine decides to fly out to Denver, where Ken resided, and though everything goes pretty good for her, during her absence her mother suddenly dies. The whole family gathers for the funeral; at this point Chip finds out that the career of Logan and Cody made a twist when they’ve been fired by the Chemical brothers; he calls Penelope, who manages to find another employment for them. Mima leaves Christine everything she’s got (on account of which she gets in conflict with her brother), so she finds herself in front of a choice about what to do with those money: at first she gets the idea of investing them into an Arby franchise, but then Ken asks her to move to Denver, and she reconsiders.
In its second season the show is firmly on what seems to be a right track. The story is interesting, with great twists and overall logical development; the characters, new as well as old, are great; the dialogs and the writing in general are amazing – Krisel and his team did an absolutely wonderful job. There is no drawback to speak of, and there is not even a hint of that somewhat awkward atmosphere that besmirched the show in the beginning of the 1st season.
The execution is pretty much perfect – at least, I didn’t notice any wrongdoings on the technical side of things; on the contrary – some scenes were solved rather beautifully. The acting is quite amazing as well.
All in all, I enjoyed the season a lot: it’s consistently clear and strong, with lots of highly engaging attractions. Recommended.
Year: 2017
Created by: Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis & Jonathan Krisel
Directed by: Jonathan Krisel
Written by: Jonathan Krisel, Graham Wagner, Samuel D. Hunter, Karen Kilgariff, Rachele Lynn
Performed by: Zach Galifianakis, Martha Kelly, Louie Anderson, Garry and Jason Clemmons, Sabina Sciubba, Ernest Adams, Ellen D. Williams, Malia Pyles, Julia Rose Gruenberg, Alex Morris, Mary Wiseman, Tobias Jelinek, Eva La Dare, Brett Loudermilk, Christopher Wonder
Time: 4h12m (a. 10 episodes)
Entertaining quality: 5- out of 5
Art quality: 5 out of 5
Links: (website) | (wiki)
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