MOM: The Cast Previews How Their Characters are Handling Jill Falling Off the Wagon

Throughout MOM’s five seasons, the cast and writers of the CBS series have seamlessly injected natural drama into the comedy series, and the current storyline is no different. As Jill (Jaime Pressly) struggles to get back on the wagon, she leans heavily on Christy (Anna Faris), Bonnie (Allison Janney), Marjorie (Mimi Kennedy), and Wendy (Beth Hall).

Before the comedy’s recent PaleyFest panel, Pressly previewed how her character was handling the bump in the road, plus Janney, Kennedy, and Hall teased their characters’ reaction to Jill’s setback.

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MOM: Anna Faris Previews the Group’s Turmoil

The women of MOM’s AA support group had a setback in the last episode, as Jill (Jaime Pressly) relapsed.

Christy (Anna Faris), who has been Jill’s biggest ally, struggles to help her friend in Thursday’s new installment…even to the potential detriment of her personal life. “She feels very motherly over Jill,” Faris notes in the video below. “I love that we get to put this dynamic into a show…You have these five strong women going through real life struggles. And on CBS! We constantly look around [in shock].”

Unfortunately, Jill’s hardships are the tip of the iceberg for the close-knit group of women. Marjorie (Mimi Kennedy), the makeshift family leader, will have her own road bump later in the season. “Marjorie has always been a surrogate mother figure to Christy, so I think it’s very disconcerting, of course,” Faris says. “It shakes up her world. [Bonnie] has never been a very stable figure she can count on, so it’s very jarring.”

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MOM: Gemma Baker Breaks Down the Big Jill Twist

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MOM: Kristin Chenoweth Makes a Splash in ‘Charlotte Brontë and a Backhoe’

Emmy- and Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth pops in to MOM this week as Jill’s (Jaime Pressly) “inner strength coach,” Miranda. (The guest spot also marks a WEST WING reunion with Chenoweth and MOM star—and recent Oscar winner!—Allison Janney.)

Naturally, Miranda’s methods rub all of Jill’s friends the wrong way. But with Christy (Anna Faris) reeling from her law school rejection, Miranda’s can-do attitude, might be exactly what she needs.

Check out some photos from Thursday’s episode “Charlotte Brontë and a Backhoe”:

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MOM Season 1 Finale: Sadie Calvano Previews ‘Smokey Taylor and a Deathbed Confession’

MOM has never been shy about being a different, more serious, kind of sitcom when it wants to be — after all, few multi-cam series tackle teen pregnancy, addiction, and cancer in their first year — and when the season concludes this Monday, the stakes are high for all of the characters.

“I think it is undoubtedly the most emotionally-charged episode of the season,” Sadie Calvano (Violet) previewed. “And I think that there’s lots of things that come to surfrace this episode that I think every character has wanted all season. So I’m really excited for the audience to take that journey with us, because we had such a fun journey shooting it.”

As the promos have teased, one of the things fans can expect from the finale is for Violet to give birth. And since Calvano has yet to experience childbirth in real-life, she set out to research how to play those scenes.

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