Babes Was a Labor of Love

Pamela Adlon’s acclaimed FX comedy-drama Better Things, about an actress and single mother raising three daughters in Los Angeles, finished its five-season run in 2022. Her new film Babes, about two close friends (Ilana Glazer as Eden and Michelle Buteau as Dawn) experiencing pregnancy and motherhood, feels like a continuation in some ways. At the same time, the movie extends the humor of the knockabout Comedy Central series Broad City, in which Glazer and her co-star...