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Call Your Mother star Kyra Sedgwick on the job you get fired from if you do it right
Wed Jan 13, 2021 at 1:40pm ET
Kyra Sedgwick spent seven seasons starring as LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the police drama
The Closer, and tonight, she makes her multi-camera comedy debut on ABC’s
Call Your Mother, playing Jean Raines, an empty-nester mom, who wonders how she ended up alone at home in Iowa, while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away in Los Angeles.
So, what’s a mother to do? She packs up and moves to California to reinsert herself back into the lives of her children – son Freddie (Joey Bragg) and daughter Jackie (Rachel Sennott) – who just might realize they actually need her more than they thought.
1/13/2021
Kyra Sedgwick headlines an ABC sitcom about a helicopter mom who never wants to stop hovering.
For a certain kind of parent, the circumstances in which Kyra Sedgwick’s Jean Raines finds herself at the start of the new ABC sitcom
Call Your Mother would be a dream. Both of her adult kids fled the coop some years ago, leaving the retired Iowa widow free to do whatever she wants in her empty nest. But Jean is the kind of mom who gave so much of herself to her children that she no longer knows who she is without them. So she gives herself a new start of sorts by spontaneously moving to Los Angeles, where she can keep an unwanted eye on her daughter Jackie (Rachel Sennott) and son Freddie (Joey Bragg).