Workin’ Moms Season 7 Review: Catherine Reitman’s Workin’ Moms Season 7 gives an ultimate end to the 6-year-old series narrating motherhood and women’s struggles. The main cast includes Catherine Reitman, Dani Kind, Enuka Okuma, Jessalyn Wanlim, Philip Sternberg, Ryan Belleville, Sarah McVie and more. The series is written by Daniel Gold, Linsey Stewart, and several other writers who have contributed to certain episodes.
Workin’ Moms Season 7 has 13 episodes in total, each with 25 minutes run time. The series is fully shot in Toronto, Canada, and it is officially distributed by the CBC network and Netflix.
-Workin’ Moms Season 7 Review Contains No Spoilers-
Previously, in season 6, the final episode ended with a cliffhanger where Anne’s enemy Heather speeds up her car to hit and run Anne. Continuing from that, in the seventh season’s first episode, we see Anne getting dashed by Heather’s car (and Anne happily looks at the speeding car). When Kate rushes to the hospital, she finds Anne smiling, and the doctor says that head trauma usually makes patients act silly for a while.
For some days, Anne acts weird as she wishes to feel the emotion she had just before her possible death. As days pass by, her relationship with her daughter Alice gets worse and worse due to a guy the mother-duo gets tied with. Coming to Kate, she is now a successful PR leader and her business is skyrocketing. Her new client Ram and his products give her good fortune, but Anne finds Ram suspicious.
Jenny, on the other hand, is ambitious, but due to her pride, she ends up jobless and struggles to run her days. She seeks her mother’s help for her daughter Zoe’s sake but is sent out. Sloane, who is a big-time businesswoman, comes back to work life shortly after delivering a baby. Unable to balance relationships, work, and her child, Sloane slowly starts to lose her cool.
Finally, we meet Val, the founder of the mommy-support group. She’s having a neat life but feels like she doesn’t deserve love. She’s a happy vibe for everyone but somehow feels lonely. She takes care of her son’s daughter, but it again only causes more trouble.
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All Women’s Lives Are Brilliantly Portrayed
Catherine Reitman really did an amazing job at showing the hardships of women who are mothers, wives, and employees at the same time. When priorities keep changing every minute, the heaviness women, especially mothers, feel is unbearable. When a woman goes to the office, she can’t think of her family and vice versa. However, is that even possible? Definitely not. All these troubles are perfectly shown through the lens of Kate, Anne, Sloane, Val, and Jenny.
Kate is battling hard to maintain her own company among top PR firms. Amidst this, she has to take care of two children and her teenage stepson’s tantrums. Despite Nathan cheating on her, she still decided to stick with her husband hence proving how vulnerable she is. This is pretty relatable because women tend to join with their husbands for their children’s sake as well. Even when temptations arise with other men, Kate controls herself and keeps her standards high.
Sloane, who has a hurtful childhood memory, tries her best to lead a successful life. But the more love she gets, the more she runs away, only to finally accept that she deserves all love and care. As a woman leading a huge book production house, her balance between her work and family rips her. Yet she manages to pull it off with the help of her friends and partner Paul.
Jenny is selfish, yes, but there’s more to her. Though she looks and acts like a spoiled brat, we can see where it comes from. All she currently cares about is giving her daughter Zoe a good life, and she’s ready to take any steps. When life finally blesses her, she changes, and that’s a revelation we know we all at one time will experience.
Val is such a happy person who is outgoing and always looking out for others. While she isn’t a working woman, her affection towards her gay son and his daughter shows how wonderful of a mother she is. After being ditched by her husband of 16 years, she feels lost. However, when she gets well-treated by her current partner, fear lingers. Again, this story is quite relatable to a lot of single mothers who try to trust a new man.
Finally, speaking of Anne, her inability to connect with her teenage daughter is a heartbreaking thing to watch. As she’s a religious person, she doesn’t accept her daughter’s style of life. Alice is free-spirited, just like her mother, but when she does anything rebellious, Anne reacts terribly. Connecting with a teenage daughter is surely a nightmare, and of course, Anne’s situation is understandable.
Heartwarming Sisterhood
While all these ladies endure their hardships, the only thing they all rely on and connect with is each other. They meet up, talk, discuss, and are always beside each other. This sisterhood portrayed is something to learn from. Someway or the other, every main character’s decisions have one of the friend’s influences, and it’s wonderful to see how they earnestly advise. Since it’s a show about women, each of their personalities makes the series a touche.
Workin’ Moms Season 7 Review: Final Thoughts
As much as the ending is spot on, it’s still sad to know the series is officially over. The final realisation of all the women, their decisions, priorities, etc, conveyed the message of “chasing the magic” perfectly. The cast’s act is natural, the dialogues are meaningful, the comedy is precise and not forced, the locations are excellent and the editing is neat.
Workin’ Moms Season 7 is streaming on Netflix. Let us know your thoughts on the finale season in the comment section.
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