Mom (2013)
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 23 September 2013 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 13 May 2021 |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Created by | Eddie Gorodetsky, Gemma Baker and Chuck Lorre |
| Starring | Allison Janney, Jaime Pressly and Mimi Kennedy |
| Seasons | 8 seasons, 170 episodes |
| Episode length | about 23 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 65 hours |
| Rated | TV-14 |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.3/10 |
Where to watch Mom
Mom is streaming on Netflix ($19.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 2 months of Netflix, or $39.98 at list price.
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Where to watch Mom in 8 other countries
| Country | Streaming on (price a month) |
|---|---|
| Angola | Prime Video |
| Australia | Max $15.99 AUD |
| Austria | Max €11.99 |
| Germany | Max €11.99 |
| India | Prime Video ₹299, Jiohotstar |
| Liechtenstein | Max |
| Luxembourg | Max |
| Switzerland | Max CHF16.90 |
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What kind of watch this is
Mom is a 2013 comedy-drama that treats sobriety as a temporary inconvenience rather than a moral victory. It runs 170 episodes, totaling 65 hours of watching Christy try to keep it together while her mother, played by Allison Janney, dissects every choice with surgical precision. The comedy relies on the friction between a daughter who wants to be left alone and a mother who views chaos as a bonding exercise. It is a show about the specific, exhausting intimacy of being watched by someone who knows exactly where you fell.
What the critics said
Critics found the first season solid, if not transcendent. Rotten Tomatoes assigns a 70% approval rating based on 40 reviews, while Metacritic settles on 65 out of 100 from 25 reviews. The consensus praises the chemistry between Anna Faris and Allison Janney, even if the jokes sometimes lean too close to crass. Boston Herald’s Mark A. Perigard noted that Faris balances the dark material with genuine winsomeness. New York Magazine’s Matt Zoller Seitz went further, calling the cast just about perfect. The numbers climbed sharply for later seasons. The second season hit 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and 81 on Metacritic. The third season reached a 100% approval rating and an 82 Metacritic score.
How it did with audiences
The box office data is a blank space, so the numbers stay in the quiet. TMDB users give it a 7.3 out of 10. That is a solid score for a movie that mostly asks you to sit with discomfort. It is the kind of film that does not shout for attention, yet people still log in to rate it.
What came next for the cast
Allison Janney had already appeared in The Help and was set for I, Tonya. Anna Faris was known for Scary Movie and had a role in Lost in Translation. Jaime Pressly was a familiar face from Not Another Teen Movie. The credits do not say Mom reshaped any of these trajectories. They merely list what followed. Sometimes a film is a footnote, not a turning point.
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Sources
- Mom on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q13417213 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Mom (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Where to watch and prices: Binge Boss, from TMDB watch-provider data (powered by JustWatch) and our own provider list
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