Driving by his deep will of becoming a famous clown in Paris, Chip Basket, a young ambitious guy, who suffers from the miserable life he has, travels to French, where he fails to achieve his dream and returns with a broken heart to his hometown, California.
When a Pierrot is gored by a bull, one should be worried, not thrilled. But Baskets is so smug, so condescending to everyone around him that for just a moment, we're rooting for that bull.
You'll hear a lot of people say Baskets is funny, you'll probably hear even more who say it isn't, but you'll have to figure this one out on your own. Me, I love it.
Baskets doesn't have the DNA to truly soar, but it's odd and off-putting enough to succeed for a few seasons perhaps, like FX's other more jagged attempts at comedy.
Baskets is a darkly humorous, razor sharp comedy that uses everything in Zach Galifianakis' arsenal to get laughs, and it succeeds every step of the way.
[Galifianakis is] really, really good at drawing the humor out of that kind of character, and maybe the most promising thing about this new series is watching him take that in a deeper, stranger direction. I'm excited to see where it goes.
