Am seeing a "comedy" series that is shocking me/old-man. "Mom"

[UTUSN]

Over the past many scores of years I have not kept up with series while they were live, have caught up with a *very* few in re-runs, and I don't know the status of this one since it's on TV-Land (re-run?). Well, the themes are shocking (to me) and the music score enticing (classical), and I don't know what to make of it. More from the Big Bang shop.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom_(TV_series)

Mom

follows Christy Plunkett (Anna Faris), a single mother who, after dealing with her battle with alcoholism and drug abuse, decides to restart her life in Napa, California, working as a waitress and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Her mother Bonnie Plunkett (Allison Janney) is also a recovering drug and alcohol addict. Christy's daughter, Violet (Sadie Calvano), who was born when Christy was 16, has also become a teen mother by her boyfriend, Luke (Spencer Daniels). Christy also has a young son, Roscoe (Blake Garrett Rosenthal) by her ex-husband, Baxter (Matt L. Jones), a deadbeat but likable pothead. As the show progresses, it adds themes of real-life issues such as alcoholism, teen pregnancy, cancer, homelessness, gambling addiction, domestic violence, death, rape, drug addiction, relapse and overdose.

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[emulatorloo]

1. What exactly bothers you about it? Curious as I watch the show off and on

It's humorous but deals w serious issues like recovery. Lead actresses are very good at comedy and also being serious.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. My question also. I love the show and it's serious and funny. It deals with people as they are.

Struggling, addiction, marriage issues, relationship issues, poverty, etc. Not different from Roseanne and many other shows in the past.

[emulatorloo]

4. Roseann is a great comparison!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I love it. It's hilarious at times and does deal with real issues real people deal with...

And the cast is as good as it gets-- not maudlin, and not mocking.

[UTUSN]

5. All of the above, with specifics: What shocks me::

1- I'm *old* - yet my generation also "shocked" my parental and older siblings' generations.

2- The themes; (in my day, everything was so judged and condemned)

3- the matter-of-fact discourse;

4- the way the characters are surface groomed and the sets are slick, as if the real people behind the themes/circumstances would look this way;

5- the gorgeous classical music (nowhere else).

6- the nagging unbelievability of all the characters continuing to survive under their circumstances.

7- so many "truths" being spouted from character to character that are devastating to any real human

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Don't watch it, then, if it is vexing. Find something else to watch.

I'm old, too. 67. There are things I find offensive (some of the 'music' that is played today) and some disappointing (the Kardashian kulture). This show does not compare. Just my opinion.

[radical noodle]

6. Definitely R rated show

but Christy is sober and attending college. She could actually be a role model for a recovering addict or alcoholic. Bonnie, the mother, is funny and sober, but not a role model. The daughter gave her baby up for adoption so it could have a better life and so she could also make something of herself.