Mom had fans hooked from the start. Created by sitcom king Chuck Lorre (who counts
The Kominsky Method among his many successes), Gemma Baker and Eddie Gorodetsky, the series ends an eight-season run May 13. That finale gives one last look at a 12-step group of courageous, flawed, fabulous women, centered, appropriately enough, on self-centered Bonnie Plunkett (Allison Janney, who won two Emmys for the role). But it is the chemistry of these characters â and how they have grown, thanks to one anotherâs help â that explains the seriesâ warm appeal.
âOne of the biggest messages in
Mom is you donât have to go through anything alone,â Janney says in a freewheeling discussion with her main costars, Jaime Pressly (who plays socialite Jill Kendall), Mimi Kennedy (wise AA vet Marjorie Armstrong-Perugian), Beth Hall (introverted Wendy Harris) and Kristen Johnston (contractor Tammy Diffendorf). Before the women fold up the community center chairs fore
Mom had fans hooked from the start. Created by sitcom king Chuck Lorre (who counts
The Kominsky Method among his many successes), Gemma Baker and Eddie Gorodetsky, the series ends an eight-season run May 13. That finale gives one last look at a 12-step group of courageous, flawed, fabulous women, centered, appropriately enough, on self-centered Bonnie Plunkett (Allison Janney, who won two Emmys for the role). But it is the chemistry of these characters â and how they have grown, thanks to one anotherâs help â that explains the seriesâ warm appeal.
âOne of the biggest messages in
Mom is you donât have to go through anything alone,â Janney says in a freewheeling discussion with her main costars, Jaime Pressly (who plays socialite Jill Kendall), Mimi Kennedy (wise AA vet Marjorie Armstrong-Perugian), Beth Hall (introverted Wendy Harris) and Kristen Johnston (contractor Tammy Diffendorf). Before the women fold up the community center chairs fore
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Allison continued. “But she won’t be present. That’s what I’ll miss.”
Anna shocked fans back in September when she announced that she was leaving
“The past seven years on
Mom have been some of the most fulfilling and rewarding of my career,” she said in a statement at the time.
Jaime Pressley, who plays Jill Kendall on the show, also talked about
Anna‘s absence in the new season.
“I do want to say that it feels like she’s still here because we do talk about the character all the time,”
Jaime said. “And [
Janney s] character is always calling her or vice versa. We still hear the name, we still talk about her. She’s not gone as far as we’re concerned, and we all spent so much time together over the years and love each other and support each other and we all want each other to be happy, so we’re happy for her and we miss her no matter what.”