Mom, my new favorite TV show
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Mom, my new favorite TV show

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A couple of weeks ago, I started to watch the television sitcom"Mom". I'm loving it. The TV series focuses on the life of the main character Christy Plunkett (Anna Faris), who is a single mom and ex-alcoholic and drug user. She has two children, a teenage girl, and a little boy. She also has a Mom, Bonnie Plunkett, (Allison Janney, the one who wins the Oscar being Tonya's mom in the movie "I Tonya") who is an ex-alcoholic and drug user, as well. Christy and Bonnie attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and both of them also got pregnant in their teenage age. Christy also works as a waitress in a restaurant.

Although the series is a comedy, a lot of important issues are discussed in a light way. For instance, it is super interesting how they manage the discussion about how is difficult to be free from the life cycle when you are born into a problematic family and do not have good life examples to follow. Christy was also a teenage mom like her mom and also has difficulty with addiction to drugs and alcohol, and apparently, her daughter is following the same pattern. Another interesting subject they used to mention is the life of the people who attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, they show their struggles to be addiction-free, how they share their problems in the meetings and how it is difficult not to use drugs and alcohol to escape reality when a big problem happens.

The actors in the series are really good and funny, they make us laugh even in scenes with heavy topics. I really recommend it.

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