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"  Anna Faris in Mom, Malin Akerman in Trophy Wife  As Breaking Bad finishes its landmark run and Mad Men approaches its final season, the male anti-hero is the protagonist du jour for compelling dramas. The fall sitcom slate, on the other hand, has an entirely different narrative. Sure, there are the usual shows about man-children who never quite grew up (Dads, We Are Men), but there&amp;#039;s also a crop of sitcoms focused on moms\u2014specifically, mothers with less-than-perfect pasts trying to make amends.  On Mom, the extremely likable Anna Faris stars as Christy, a newly sober single mom. Allison Janney plays her mom, Bonnie, and, well, the apple didn&amp;#039;t fall far from the tree. Christy still holds Bonnie&amp;#039;s absenteeism against her, not realizing that she repeated the exact same pattern with her own children. The series explores whether it&amp;#039;s too late for Christy to prevent her own daughter from repeating the trend. On Trophy Wife, party girl Kate (Malin Akerman) suddenly finds herself the step-mother of three children, who constantly feels like she has to prove herself to her husband&amp;#039;s two ex-wives. Not only are exes one and two way too involved in the family&amp;#039;s daily life (child custody rules are pretty fast and loose here), they want nothing more than to show their ex-husband that he married a drunken trophy wife. Kate was ready for a change, though, and if it involves suddenly becoming a mother of three, she&amp;#039;s eager to take it on.  So despite their pasts\u2014references to which will continue to live on as recurring gags\u2014Christy and Kate are both openly trying to change from within and be better, more-present mothers. They&amp;#039;re working against their own habits, as well as family members who don&amp;#039;t think they can do it\u2014or won&amp;#039;t let them do it. After seasons of male characters with Peter Pan syndrome being played for laughs, we&amp;#039;re on board with these fallible females you can&amp;#039;t help but root for. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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