Mom is signing off.
The CBS sitcom closes its doors one last time with an emotional wrap-up as audiences prepare to say goodbye to Bonnie (Allison Janney) and her friends. On Thursday s series finale, titled My Kinda People and the Big To-Do, Bonnie gains a new outlook on her sobriety after receiving difficult news. Executive producer/showrunner Gemma Baker opened up about the challenging task of finishing out the long-running series amid a pandemic and without a full season to properly arc out a natural end point. When we found out that we weren t coming back, it honestly was a big surprise, Baker tells ET. We put our focus into what is the best way to bring this home. Given what the show is about, which is really showing up for life on life s terms, we never would have wrapped it up in a tidy bow. Because that s not how life is and not how recovery is, so that was really important to us. It was important to show that these stories are all going to continue.
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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