She was "The Closer" on TV and spent half a dozen seasons as the Chief of the fictional precinct, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." Kyra Sedgwick is best known for her dramatic work, but starting tonight, she stars in a new comedy for ABC - "Call Your Mother."
Call Your Mother is aiming to bring some much-needed laughter to 2021. I feel like it couldn t be more crucial right now to laugh, especially to laugh at ourselves [and] at the complexities of family, Kyra Sedgwick tells EW. Throughout the pandemic, many people worldwide have been staying indoors and spending more time with their immediate families, and
Call Your Mother examines the complexities of family.
The new ABC sitcom follows an empty nest mother, Jean Raines (Sedgwick), who decides to fly to L.A. from Iowa to check on her son Freddie (Joey Bragg) after not hearing from him for four days. What starts as a spur-of-the-moment trip turns into Jean having to navigate a new stage in her life in unknown surroundings. [Jean s] a fish-out-of-water in Los Angeles, and she s suddenly confronted with all of LA s eccentricities, including an obsession with youth and beauty, Sedgwick explains.
With Call Your Mother, Kyra Sedgwick is starting the year off with laughs Alamin Yohannes
Call Your Mother is aiming to bring some much-needed laughter to 2021. I feel like it couldn t be more crucial right now to laugh, especially to laugh at ourselves [and] at the complexities of family, Kyra Sedgwick tells EW. Throughout the pandemic, many people worldwide have been staying indoors and spending more time with their immediate families, and
Call Your Mother examines the complexities of family.
The new ABC sitcom follows an empty nest mother, Jean Raines (Sedgwick), who decides to fly to L.A. from Iowa to check on her son Freddie (Joey Bragg) after not hearing from him for four days. What starts as a spur-of-the-moment trip turns into Jean having to navigate a new stage in her life in unknown surroundings. [Jean s] a fish-out-of-water in Los Angeles, and she s suddenly confronted with all of LA s eccentricities, including an obsession with youth and beauty,
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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).