Mom [CBS]

JP Liz V1

Chuck Lorre's latest sitcom premieres tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlVG3EY35os

I think both Faris and Janney could be wasted here

Basq

Wasted? Yes, quite possibly...

.. but I think you're underestimating US audiences love of Lorre.

OU812

Gotta be better then "Dads" I'm giving that one two more episodes to redeem itself over the forced pilot

OU812

It is better. Nice Cameo also. They should do a crossover.

Zwillinge

I love Faris, I didn't love this.

Will probably watch it as a means to kill 22 minutes every other day.

Between this and Dads, I don't have much hope for parental themed sitcoms!

Basq

Seen worse comedy pilots this season ('Trophy Wife'.. I'm looking at you!)..

.. it's lame Chuck Lorre standard but there's a talented comedic cast there IMO.

Zwillinge

Basq wrote: »

Seen worse comedy pilots this season ('Trophy Wife'.. I'm looking at you!)..

.. it's lame Chuck Lorre standard but there's a talented comedic cast there IMO.

In Anna I trust

Part of me kinda wants to check out Trophy Wife now!

Callanutd

Its not bad, Dads was truly awful but I actually found this quite funny. Not a classic but not bad to wind down with in the evenings.

JohnK

Gave the pilot a look tonight and thought it was almost painful to watch. I'll probably give it another episode but if it isn't drastically improved then this will be a very quick drop for me I think.

The only way the humour could be more forced is if Lorre called around to the viewers home and beat them with the obvious stick. Much like Dads it's a show that's attracted a talented comedic cast and bar French Stewart has given them nothing to do. Genuine laughs are few and far between and the laugh track is one of the most intrusive and annoying in the history of television. All it does is highlight just how crape the writing is by continuously drawing attention to the "gags". Still, at the very least it doesn't have to resort to cheap, offensives and racist jokes to try and appear interesting.

pl4ichjgy17zwd

I must admit, I don't hate it. Easy to pass 20 minutes with.

Suffered through the second episode and not going to bother with another. It really is truly atrocious TV and if the jokes were any lower they'd be subterranean. Seeing Badger from Breaking Bad was cool but you gotta wonder just what attracted him to this. It would be like DeCaprio going from working with Scorscese and then shooting a film from the Asylum about killer ant-shark hybrids.

Callanutd

its just so poor. Alison Janney is a top actress, in this though she is ludicrous. I have removed it from my download schedule.

squonk

It's not bad, but it's not great. It's a show I'll watch but not care greatly about. I don't hate it enough to remove from my schedule. Trophy Wife is better by far. I'm not getting the hatred for this that others have. Last episode was strong. I'd watch Trophy Wife over Mom any day. Comparing both, I think Marcia Gay Harden shines like a beacon on Trophy Wife that Alison Janey just can't quite manage on Mom. She reminds me of Gemma from SOA trying to be funny!

JP Liz V1

The show should be renamed "Two and A Half Women"

bnt

I'm watching this on the RTE2 schedule, about 14 episodes in, and I'm honestly enjoying it. It must be the performances - Faris & Janney are quite the dysfunctional team - and the black humour in situations that are more "real" than the typical sitcom's. (Another character has cancer, but she's managing to joke about that too.) In my view this makes the characters much more human than if they were "white trash" victims in some police drama.

Rickamania1

The most recent episode was amazing. Heart-wrenching

bnt

Rickamania1 wrote: »

The most recent episode was amazing. Heart-wrenching

Are you seeing the show on the US schedule? To anyone not doing that, don't read anything about it online, there are too many spoilers out there. It's now a much better show than the first few episodes indicated.

Rickamania1

bnt wrote: »

Are you seeing the show on the US schedule? To anyone not doing that, don't read anything about it online, there are too many spoilers out there. It's now a much better show than the first few episodes indicated.

I'm on the US schedule indeed.

gazzer

Rickamania1 wrote: »

The most recent episode was amazing. Heart-wrenching

It certainly was. Christie and Bonnie are two fantastic characters

JP Liz V1

It has been renewed for season 3 plus Jaime Pressly upped to series regular

bnt

Still enjoying this immensely, so much that I'm not waiting for local broadcast. The last couple of episodes had my hair standing on end. These are not healthy people. :eek:

OU812

Kind of going off it. Haven't enjoyed the last couple of episodes so much & they don't seem to know what to do with her kids. It's like they change writers every couple of episodes.

mafaa

Season 3 will premiere on Nov 5, 2015

bnt

Season 3 is on in the USA now. We have a new character ... or is it two? It won't be clear until Ep 2, I suppose.

OU812

Enjoyed the first one, Gonna stick with it a little to see how it goes, but I'm ready to bail.

bnt

For those of us not following the US schedule, Season 3 starts on ITV2 tonight, 9PM.

bnt

For those of us who are following the US schedule, I thought the latest episode, My Little Pony and a Demerol Drip, was particularly good. Mostly thanks to Candace (Sara Rue), Baxter's girlfriend, having a particularly irrational meltdown. "Daddy Issues" barely begins to describe it. :eek:

bnt

Well, I've seen episodes 12 & 13 of this season, and ... wow. Some very heavy stuff for a comedy, and I can't see how they could have handled it any better. There's a spoiler-filled interview with Anna Faris about it, here.

gazzer

bnt wrote: »

Well, I've seen episodes 12 & 13 of this season, and ... wow. Some very heavy stuff for a comedy, and I can't see how they could have handled it any better. There's a spoiler-filled interview with Anna Faris about it, here.

Very powerful episodes. It is such a good show

bnt

Still watching and enjoying Mom, though the schedule has been somewhat erratic this year. For those of you waiting for Series 3 to hit terrestrial TV: it starts this Monday, 8:35PM on RTE2.

bnt

Mom restarts in the USA on 27 October. Some spoilerish stunt casting news here:

Chris Pratt - Anna Farris' husband - appears later in the season, while Bradley Whitford - who played opposite Allison Janney in *The West Wing* - pops up in the first episode as a drunken movie director & friend of Bonnie's boyfriend Adam (William Fichtner)

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Yggr of Asgard

Wow the latest Episode (S04E09) was a lot of fun,  Bradley Whitford was as usually excellent, that whole Episode showed how much our main characters have grown.

JP Liz V1

Season 4 is on late nights Tuesdays on RTE 2

bnt

Season 5 started in the USA last Thursday.

Some things are actually going well for the main characters ... which has me worried something's going to go horribly wrong for them, if the past is any guide.

Oh, and if anyone's wondering why Jill (Jaime Pressley) looks like that, it's for the same reason Daphne Moon put on weight during Frasier: Jaime gave birth to twins last week. :pac:

JP Liz V1

CBS has renewed for a 6th season

bnt

Season 6 is nearly halfway through, and negotiations are apparently under way for Season 7. According to Deadline, Anna Faris and Allison Janney are trying to negotiate salary increases. I expect that Janney's Golden Globe and Oscar wins in the last year have boosted her clout a bit, on top of the six Emmys she already had - two for this part. The show is already CBS's #3 comedy show, and The Big Bang Theory is on its final season.

I was hoping one of the terrestrial channels here would pick up this season, but I guess not, so I'm catching up on this season by other means. Kristen Johnson (Third Rock from the Sun) is guesting for a multi-episode story arc. Three episodes in, still liking it a lot.

JP Liz V1

Renewed for seasons 7 and 8 by CBS

Badabing

Great show. Consistently good every season.

bnt

Season 7 just started on CBS and your usual outlets. Pretty good, though I am wondering whether we will ever see Christy's children again ..! The last time we saw Violet, it did not go well at all.

bnt

There seems to a trend with Chuck Lorre shows, recently, to emphasise the ensemble cast side alongside the stars. It might be down to the success of The Big Bang Theory, which was able to expand from three to seven people. Young Sheldon is doing it, with the whole family now in the opening credits, not just Sheldon. Now Mom is doing it, the ensemble expanded from two to six. I’m still not on board with Tammy (Kristen Johnson): I get that she’s a Loud character, but she’s Very Loud. :eek:

I get the impression that this show doesn’t have too much longer to go, given the progress that the characters have made in their lives. Allison Janney is even more of an in-demand star than she was when this started, having added a couple more Emmys (for this role) as well as an Oscar to her trophy cabinet. If it follows the Hollywood convention, getting Christy’s kids back in her life will be the endgame, but then Chuck Lorre hasn’t always followed Hollywood conventions in his shows.

JP Liz V1

Anna Faris is leaving

bnt

That is weird. In the first season the show had three generations of Moms, then two, then one, and now none. I think S8 will be the final season. More details here on Deadline.

JP Liz V1

Mom to End With Season 8 at CBS

bnt