EPISODE
SEASON
Mom - Season 1
Mom follows Christy Plunkett, a single mother who tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley. Christy';s 17 year old daughter Violet, who was born when Christy was 16, has herself become a teen mother by her boyfriend Luke. The show adds themes of real-life issues such as alcoholism, cancer, teen pregnancy, homelessness, domestic violence, death, gambling addiction, drug addiction and relapse.
6 July 1967, Palo Alto, California, USA
28 December 1976, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
6 April 1958, Burbank, California, USA
17 July 1968, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
September 24, 2013
The one real failing of this show is French Stewart.
September 23, 2013
Beneath the armor plating of punch lines beats a wounded and affecting heart.
September 23, 2013
Mom flails so desperately-with no redeeming aspects-it is unlikely any kind of life preserver can save it.
September 23, 2013
Given the number of self-absorbed and annoying fathers on sitcoms, another self-absorbed and annoying mother is fine. She helps keep the party balanced. But she also needs to make the party funnier, and CBS' new Mom does not.
September 24, 2013
As for yours truly, I like it. A lot. Because I laughed. A lot.
September 18, 2013
It gets this particular job done with flair, vigor, a punchy script and two leads who make it all fairly addictive.
September 23, 2013
It's trying too hard to be a "sitcom" that looks and feels straight out of 1992. The bones are there, but the execution is lacking.
September 23, 2013
Mom is one of the very few sitcoms on television... to feature characters who are not thoughtlessly affluent.

