4/29/2023 0 Comments Mom series finale![]() So, there’s all of that in the finale, which seems like the best way to end and not end it tied up in a bow neatly, happily ever after. Some of that is going to be good news and some of it’s going to be bad news, so there’s a little bit of both and some of it’s going to be good news that looks like bad news. But it sort of worked out because what the show really is about is these characters facing life on life’s terms. We were just honoring the stories or honoring the characters in the best way we could with the time that we had. So we didn’t have a lot of time to write an arc of the ending for the characters really. We had a wonderful journey together and it is ending a little sooner than we had hoped. ![]() When we first started and we were talking about a comedy about recovery and addiction we weren’t convinced that it was going to work. We had no idea when we first started out that we would get to do this show for eight seasons. That is what we felt like Bonnie would be feeling in the face of everything that she encountered not only in that day, but over the last eight years.ĭEADLINE: How did the group’s happy endings compare to what you, Chuck, and Eddie had discussed for a series finale from the get go?īAKER: I mean we hadn’t talked about the finale yet. But that speech didn’t change much, and we wrote it pretty quickly but it just sort of flowed. GEMMA BAKER: A lot of times, when we wrote an episode there would be a lot of changes from Monday to what we actually shot on Friday. Read the full interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, below.ĭEADLINE: How did you arrive at Bonnie’s final speech as a series closer? Mom executive producer and co-creator Gemma Baker spoke to Deadline about Bonnie’s road to recovery, ending the series without and a live audience and Anna Farris’ Christie, and more. ![]() My name is Bonnie and I’m a grateful alcoholic, and if that pisses you off just keep coming back. “I always heard people in meetings say how they’re grateful alcoholics and I never understood it – it actually kind of pissed me off but now I get it. I love my husband, my daughter, my friends, my grandkids, I even love those two crazy bitches in the back row,” Bonnie says. “When I walked in that door eight years ago I was so filled fear, self-loathing, shame – but now I kinda like me. The gang sends viewers off with one last group hug at a meeting before Bonnie’s final testimony, where she reflects how far she’s come and where she’ll go. Instead of their bickering and roughhousing ruining the couple’s wedding, the mother-daughter duo’s arguments add a pop of energy to the intimate ceremony. Later at city hall, Tammy crosses paths with the judge who sentenced her to seven years of jail for robbing a steakhouse, and Shannon and her mother involuntarily join the ceremony after they’re released into Andy’s (Will Sasso) custody. “You’re not the same woman I met five years ago,” he says. Jaime Pressly and Will Sasso in the ‘Mom’ series finale CBSĪt the doctor’s office, Adam reflects on Bonnie’s selflessness – from her concerns for Shannon to the fish swimming in the lobby’s aquarium of nasty water. However, one comfort call becomes a convoluted ordeal as Shannon calls to Bonnie to say she’s attempting to escape from her drug-abusing mother Jolene (Rondi Reed) and then Jill phones to invite her friend to her impromptu city hall wedding. ![]() Distressed by the news, Bonnie calls Marjorie to vent. Pleased with how the chat went Bonnie returns home to Adam (William Ficthner), who surprises his wife with the ever-dreaded, “We need to talk.” Dispelling Bonnie’s suspicions that he’s with another woman or broke, Adam shares that his doctor found a concerning spot on his chest X-ray. KCAL-CBS Weather Woman Faints Live On Camera - Update ![]()
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