Zach Galifianakis delivers a remarkable performance on FX’s “bummer-com” Baskets

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Galifianakis’ new comedy "strives to merge humor and melancholy,” says Daniel D’Addario, adding: "But the point that life can be grimly humorous and humorously grim has been made repeatedly. Baskets is so much in tune with TV’s current blue period that even Galifianakis’ fans might tune out. But they’d be missing something other bummer-coms can’t boast. Galifianakis delivers a remarkable performance, connected enough to his star persona to make the work accessible but pitched at a new level of mania.” PLUS: Louie Anderson saves Baskets from having too much Galifianakis, everything on Baskets is an absurdist twist on everything we’ve seen before, Baskets misses the mark by failing to mine the funny parts, it is too moving and deeply sad to be a comedy, Baskets is a very strange, sad show, and Galifianakis says: "I guess I wanted the character to be this mad-at-the-world kind of guy, and the juxtaposition of that coming from a clown interested me."