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If Faris is the little engine that could, Janney is the caboose along for the ride. [4 Nov 2013]
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It is sharp comedy enriched by a cast led by Allison Janney as Bonnie, the mother in question, and Anna Faris as Christy, her daughter.
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When the jokes work, they’re hilarious.
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The verbal volleying between Christy and Bonnie is easily the reason to watch Mom at least at the beginning. The supporting cast is uninteresting and cliched but when Janney & Faris get going? It reminds one of how good they can be with the right material.
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The characters are cookie-cutter, the dialogue predictable, the jokes stale and flat, completely unexpected from a sitcom veteran.
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[A] snarky-yet-heartfelt sitcom.... It helps that these barbs are delivered by authentically endearing pros.
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Mom isn’t a comedic high point, even if one or more of its principal characters falls off the wagon during a ratings “sweeps” month. But it gets this particular job done with flair, vigor, a punchy script and two leads who make it all fairly addictive.
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Dumb and obvious and formulaic.
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Mom is about shtick, and it has hired a core group of actors who know how to do it.... The whole cast is just about perfect.
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The writing rings true as often as not, and the actors do not wave their arms or raise their voices unduly; they play to the human moments between the rim shots.
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What Mom lacks in bite, it makes up for in balance, with a dependable number of laughs and a strong ensemble that includes French Stewart and Nathan Corddry.
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Mom is hard-edged, snark-dependent and brittle.
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Mom is more than what it appears. The hectoring laugh track grates, but don’t let it fool you, this show’s got brains.
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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.
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The pilot feels like 17 shows all crammed together into one.
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Faris does her best with a role that still feels unfinished, and too much of the rest of the cast consists of caricatures.
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There are four or five different shows crammed into Mom. At least one of them is a potentially great show. One of the others could make for a largely enjoyable time-waster... But the others are all varying degrees of messy to distractingly awful.
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This is dark material, yet Faris balances it with a genuine winsomeness, able to wring laughs out of the most innocuous lines.
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The pilot's envelope-pushing is caustic and obvious, two things Mom seems better than. Faris is both gutsy and touching as the adult trying to get her act together, while Janney's crafty adolescence extends to a third generation around Faris' two kids.
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Mom is a bit all over the place in its pilot.... The show is at its best when the focus is on Christy and her relationship with her own mother, Bonnie.
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While the show breaks little ground, it’s a fairly polished and inordinately well-cast pilot. ... Mom has the bones of a pretty durable TV show.
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[Mom is] both both wittier and sweeter than the new Fox show "Dads."
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Janney and Faris seem to have fun, even when the material in the pilot episode is a tad too seedy and even off-puttingly icy. If Mom could dial it down a notch, it would find a better balance between bawdy and snide.
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Faris and Janney are funnier than the material.
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Heavy dysfunction gets a backup laugh track, and it can turn mean. But Lorre knows how to wring dark humor from tragic circumstances.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 90 out of 131
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Mixed: 21 out of 131
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Negative: 20 out of 131
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