USA TODAY Mom is a critically acclaimed comedy with a hopeful message about recovery that s thriving creatively in its eighth season. So why is it ending now? That s a wonderful question. It was not something we wanted, executive producer Chuck Lorre says in advance of the CBS sitcom s series finale Thursday (9 EDT/PDT).
Lorre says he was surprised and disappointed when he learned in February that Mom, which centers on a group of friends who support each other in recovery from addiction, would end this spring, a feeling shared by cast members on social media. He says he was told the series had become too expensive, given the rising costs – including salaries – of a long-running popular comedy, but that he doesn t know the specific reasons behind a decision that would have been discussed by CBS and Warner Bros. Television, the producing studio.
ICYMI: Mom Recap for A Community Hero and a Wide Turn The episode opens with the ladies in the bistro. Tammy (Kristen Johnston) says she has an announcement, so she stands up and clinks her spoon on her glass. Bonnie (Allison Janney) asks if she can still eat her burger or is it an important announcement. Tammy says it
Ahead of this week's "Mom" series finale, the show's stars make a remote appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Allison Janney first appears for a solo
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