Mom: Pilot

Christy (Anna Faris) has been told that she's a bad waitress. Thus, she spends the first three minutes of her TV show in soggy tears and talks with a stuffed nose as though she suffers from a severe cold.
Her home life is no better, with her arriving home just to see her daughter's (Sadie Calvano) boyfriend (Spencer Daniels) sneak out the bedroom window. Christy attempts to talk to her daughter about the incident but that goes horribly. Her life is in ruins. Her ex (NCIS's Matt Jones) hasn't paid her child support in six months and he's stupid enough to ask her for money so he can sell pot.
She tries to go to her son's talent show, but he lies to her about that which drives her to attend an AA meeting, where she blames her mother for all her problems and then, ironically she runs into her mother, Bonnie (Allison Janney) at the same meeting. Christy and Bonnie go out for lunch, and Bonnie forgives Christy for all the problems Christy caused her throughout the years. Bonnie informs her that Christy's daughter (Violet for the record) is sexually active, and already drinks and smokes. Sound familiar?
In the meantime, Christy discovers that her boss, Gabriel (Nate Corddry), whom she is sleeping with, is married (to Sheldon's sister from The Big Bang Theory), annoying, but her father owns the restaurant, so Gabriel can't divorce her or else he'll lose his job. Great. But Bonnie's no better. She picks up the much younger waiter from the restaurant (the guy that old Amanda Bynes show), but it won't go anywhere. He's also married. Bonnie promised that she will be the mother Christy deserves, and that she is turning over a new book. "Different book, same chapter," is Christy's response and it's true.
The bombshell? Violet just found out she's pregnant. Anna Faris barely looks like she's old enough to be the mother of a teenager (though she is thirty-six), much less a grandmother. Still, we'll have to see how that plays out.
The acting is good. Faris is great and Janney knows how to steal a scene. The surprise? Spencer Daniels who only has about three lines, but one of them is "I like bananas. They come with their own case." Best line of the show.
The premise is rocky, but pilots are difficult to do well, especially in comedies, so hopefully this show will get better. Also, Christy is only a waitress, albeit in a well-heeled restaurant, but seriously, how can she afford a house as nice as the one she lives in? And it's too clean for a working, single mother of two. Only in Hollywood would they think a viewer wouldn't notice. Grade: B
Side Notes:
-The cast also includes Blake Garrett Rosenthal as Christy's young son, Roscoe and French Stewart as the restaurant's cook, Rudy, who can also steal a scene, but as a cook, his practices are unethical so therefore, hilarious. However, this show is too white as all of Hollywood is too white in general.
-Overall, the premise is dramatic, but there are funny lines every so often. Once again, we'll have to see how the show moves forward.
-The preview included Bonnie saying how great it is to have a kid so young because then you can say that it's your sister. That's so not right and despite my own personal opinions, I feel that Violet will have an abortion.