Last week on Mom, Christy Plunkett found herself in a hotel room with a vulnerable, horny, hunk of a man named Julian…

In last week’s penultimate episode of Mom’s second season, most of the show’s major characters were sitting in a circle…

The first season finale of Mom ends, at least on my screener, on a smash cut to the executive producer credit. It’s a…

“Broken Dreams And Blocked Arteries” is all right there in the title, huh? It’s a fast-paced rip through most of the…

“Clumsy Monkeys And A Tilted Uterus” succeeds primarily for one reason: It features Gary from Alphas as the husband of…

Every so often, a TV show decides you should really like one of its characters more than you do—or at least be far more…

“I don’t want my baby being raised by religious fanatics,” Violet cries. “I want it being raised by homosexuals!” And…

“Jail, Jail And Japanese Porn” actually kind of pissed me off. Not incredibly so. I wasn’t running around my apartment,…

Like a ghost from my misbegotten past, Nick Zano descended from the sky, smirking all the while, to convict me of my…

One of the reasons I continue to cling to the multi-camera sitcom as a viable form of artistic expression is the…

For non-Chuck Lorre fans, Mom can be hard to take: an insanely over-the-top laugh track that finds everything just a…

Here’s the thing about a leaky roof: If you want it fixed properly, it’s going to take a lot of time and money. It’ll…

I guess the pattern on Mom is going to be one episode for the creative side, then one for the suits, as if the show…

Chuck Lorre makes unapologetically old-school TV comedy, right down to the on-point laughter of the studio audience.…

So much stuff is starting to click on Mom that it’s making the lack of actual, funny jokes—jokes that would be funny if…

Mom is a show about a woman with a rage problem. That’s not the most likely source of comedy, but the more that Anna…

I’m running out of ways to say, “Hey, that was a pretty interesting episode of Mom!” but… “Zombies And Cobb Salad” was…

Of all of Mom’s many elements, the one that’s worked the least for me is Christy’s love life. Her connection with…

So I actually liked that Mom. And I don’t mean that in the sense of “That was good for Mom” or “Nice try, Chuck Lorre!”…

There is an irony at the heart of Mom’s episode title conceit. The choice to highlight two details from an episode has…