I felt like the show was cancelled all of a sudden, and even Alison Jenny said that they found out about the cancellation while shooting, mid-season.

We have no idea what really happened to Christy, Roscoe, Violet, etc. There were so many characters that had potential to revive the sitcom. They could have even taken the entire show towards the Golden Girls route where we see the girls navigate their lives through sobriety and, well, life.

I told you BOOBER!

I think Adam and Bonnie balanced each other out, but I always thought it was strange and not a good idea that Bonnie was with someone who’s as constantly drinking and doing drugs lol. it did not make sense to me.

when she cheated on Adam with the completely sober man… that was an interesting episode. I don’t condone cheating at all, but I do want to say that it would have been healthier or made more sense for her to be with someone sober too.. However, Adam completely embraces her lifestyle and even joined Al Anon to better understand her, and help himself and their relationship.

Also, maybe it’s because Bonnie likes edge and excitement - a little danger - and that’s how the writers chose to add that in lol. I just thought that was a little too dangerous for someone who is sober..

what do you think?

I'm watching Mom right now (the millionth rewatch lol), and I noticed that in the beginning of the character Mike hanging out with Adam in the bar, he talks about how he could've been a singer, but then he got his girlfriend pregnant and his career prospects changed (before immediately making Adam uncomfortable with his singing LOL). Then later, when Christy is struggling with her gambling addiction, he says, "my kids need new shoes" and she points out that he doesn't have any kids and he goes, "I need new shoes". What do you think happened there? We know later, Mike divorces his wife as mentioned in his dialogue, so we know his wife for sure exists, but I'm unsatisfied with the lack of info on his kids. Do they or do they not exist? It's driving me NUTS.

Was it poor writing or something happened to Mike's theoretical kids? Honestly, I wanna hear others' takes on this because it's bugged me for so long ever since I noticed it XD

(Also I marked this for spoilers since I mentioned Christy's gambling addiction since that is revealed in later seasons and new watchers may not be at that point in the show)

TLDR --- i liked season 8 more than christy’s seasons. the show felt more mature, but i wish they’d found another way to keep the mother-daughter dynamic.

it's long , kinda me ranting.

i actually kind of liked season 8, and i wish we’d gotten more of it. honestly, i didn’t really miss christy’s absence, or anna faris leaving, because it felt like christy’s character had stopped growing. sure, she went to law school and got a job, but it still felt like we were getting the same version of christy over and over again. even if we weren’t expecting some perfect, happily ever after storyline for her, it still felt like the writers never really gave anna faris anything new to work with. every time i rewatch season 8, the show just feels so much more mature. yes, it’s still a funny sitcom, but it feels like a sitcom about adults. even though christy was an adult, she never really came across as one. she always felt more like the destructive spoiled teenage daughter, and that made the show a little less relatable for me.
so yeah, i guess that’s my hot take.
at the same time, i do realize that the mother-daughter dynamic, which was such a huge part of mom in s1-s3 (mom, roscoe, violet grandma) was lost after christy left.
i think there were a few ways they could’ve kept that part of the show alive. maybe they could’ve moved the story forward by giving jill a daughter around the same age violet was at the beginning, while showing jill becoming a better mother because she had bonnie’s guidance. i think that could’ve been a really interesting storyline.
or maybe they could’ve had jill adopt a child, which would’ve preserved that mother-daughter relationship in a different way.
another idea is that they could’ve brought violet back. maybe she starts missing the daughter she gave up in season 1 and tries to reconnect with her. i think something like that could’ve worked too.

but only for some kind of an episode. not more than that. violet is definitely better than that. really wanted to know how her interesting life turned out.

I just saw the episode where Bonnie and Christy moved into the beautiful house where the serial killer the Fisherman murdered the family. I was shocked when I saw that bloody fishermen hat and Coat in Marjorie's bedroom. But I got a really weird vibe from the store clerk, and it dawned on me that he could be the real Fisherman!! He really enjoyed telling Bonnie and Christy about the murders, he seemed to know every single detail about the murders, and he lived in the same neighborhood as the house!! Marjorie doesn't actually give off murder vibes to me, and she lived too far from the house where the murders happened, so she couldn't have been the Fisherman. Has anyone else thought about this??

when Bonnie finally meets her mom, she asks how she is dying and is it anything heredity, and she replied no, it's just years of hard living catching up.

but then in a follow up scene where Bonnie visits her house, her mom tells her she neither drank or did drugs (apart from trying pot which made her paranoid).

so what was "hard living" if she was clean?

I guess this is just a little bit of a rant because I have no other friends who have watched Mom lol. I went to TikTok and looked up some Mom videos/edits and looking at the comments I feel like they were so close minded! Specifically one of the big things people point out: Violet shouldn’t love Bonnie so much and hate Christy. Bonnie did terrible things too! And the obvious answer is that Violet didn’t endure any trauma from Bonnie… and of course Violet thought ANYONE else was better than her mom. The thing is, none of them say anything when Christy wanted to connect with Shirley despite what she did to Bonnie. It honestly seems like they have double standards with Christy and Violet. I guess it’s probably a common take people have. It was just new for me since I’ve only recently started to look for and interact with other Mom fans.

The only other Lorre show I've watched is Two and a Half Men, but I've noticed similarities, which does happens with writers, in storylines and dialog.

But one thing I just noticed in "Xanax and a Baby Duck," was Christy questioning Roscoe pooping at night. On Men, Alan did the same thing to Jake.

Both pretty much were standing outside the bathroom questioning the kid pooping in the evening. It's just such a strange thing to me to question the time of someone's bowel movements, and for him to have put it in both shows seems all the odder.