LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 (UPI) —<\/span> Pamela Adlon said the final season of Better Things,<\/i> premiering Monday on FX, forced her to relive seeing her daughters become adults.<\/p>\n “It’s deeply personal to me because my kids are all grown now,” Adlon said on a Television Critics Association Zoom panel. “They grew up, and they’re leaving everybody in the dust, a little bit.”\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Adlon, 55, created Better Things<\/i> and stars as Sam Fox, an actor raising three daughters as a single mother. Adlon’s kids are 24-year-old actor Gideon Adlon, 21-year-old actor Odessa A’zion and teen Valentine “Rocky” Adlon.<\/p>\n Sam’s daughters are Max (Mikey Madison, 22), Frankie (Hannah Riley, 18) and Duke (Olivia Edward, 15). Adlon said the series finale of Better Things<\/i> does not close the book on the Fox family either.<\/p>\n “They have so many more stories to tell,” Adlon said. “It would be nice, one day, if we did.”\n<\/p>\n The young stars of Better Things<\/i> also shared feelings of growing up through the six years of filming the show. Season 1 premiered on FX in 2016.<\/p>\n Olivia had booked roles on The Mysteries of Laura, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt <\/i>and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/i> before Better Things.<\/i> Edward said she was still impressed by the production of Better Things<\/i> when she began the show as an eight-year-old.<\/p>\n “I felt like I was a kid in a candy shop,” she said. “I’m looking at the cameras and looking at how everything worked.” <\/p>\n As a minor, Olivia also attended school while working on Better Things<\/i>. She said she wants to continue acting as an adult.<\/p>\n “This has been pretty much half of my life,” Olivia said. “I want to continue to work on my craft, and start writing.”<\/p>\n Better Things<\/i> was Madison’s first television role, and led to film roles. She played a Manson cult member in Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood<\/i> and a teenager pursued by a new killer in this year’s Scream.<\/i><\/p>\n Madison said she feels the ending of Better Things<\/i> as a milestone, too.<\/p>\n “Max’s storyline this season was difficult, also because I knew that it was the last,” Madison said. “That’s something I thought about every day, that this is the last time we’re going to see Max.”\n<\/p>\n Madison said that Max has learned to appreciate her mother over the course of the series. Max was a rebellious teenager, but Madison says viewers will see Sam and Max support each other reciprocally in the final season.<\/p>\n “They were at odds in the beginning,” Madison said. “They’ve become friends in the end, and she’s almost taken on some of those mothering roles herself.”<\/p>\n Besides her daughters, Sam resolves some issues with her mother, Phil (Celia Imrie), in the final season. Adlon said she also learned to appreciate her real-life mother, Marina L. Segall’s, qualities when Adlon stopped resisting her.<\/p>\n “Oh, she’s funny,” Adlon said she realized. “It doesn’t have to be annoying.”<\/p>\n Adlon said Season 5 also shows Sam’s growth by valuing her family. Adlon said that when Sam has her mother and daughters together, she is fulfilled.<\/p>\n “When we started the show, Sam was just a single mom in her 40s, who would try to knock boots once in a while,” Adlon said. “That’s not her concern anymore. Her concern is taking care of what she has.”<\/p>\n New episodes of Better Things<\/i> air Mondays at 10 p.m. EST on FX and stream Tuesdays on Hulu.<\/p>\n
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Pamela Adlon plays Sam Fox in “Better Things.” Photo courtesy of FX<\/p>\n