Why you can skip season 4 of Workin’ Moms

In a period where ‘which cabinet shall I clean out now’ and ‘is it time for a drink yet’ intertwine, a new season of a favorite series is a welcome change.

So when my daughter suddenly decided to get up around 5:45 AM, I suddenly found that no problem because while she was binging Sesame Street videos on YouTube, I grabbed the fresh season of Workin’ Moms.

Workin’ Moms is a series in which, well, you probably had a dark brown suspicion, a number of successful women have a child, which leads to hilarious, confronting, and especially relatable situations. Moreover, Workin’ Moms is wonderfully inclusive and the sex scenes are definitely not clichéd. Just take a look at the episode where Kate Foster mentions getting quite warm from Japanese erotic comics. Something like that.

Anyway, funny, intelligent, and contemporary. But season 4… That is, in my opinion, just a bit too quickly churned out.

Firstly, because in every scene, almost all the characters from previous episodes come back. So when Kate's son goes to some kind of summer camp, one of the supervisors is the son of her previous boss with whom she had a fling during a break-up with her partner. Because he was then with her best friend's nanny. A bit like in Sesame Street, where when Tommy goes to the baker, he also sees Mr. Aart and Neighbor Boss standing next to him.  

Secondly, because it’s just too clichéd. Anne has to write a book because her husband got fired (which, by the way, also happened exactly at the moment when he had his daughter with him and was pounding on his chest proclaiming that he was indispensable when his boss walked in and told him he was out), but she has writer's block. When she finally barks out two chapters one day, she goes to celebrate that. Kate can’t go, so she goes alone, but of course, she runs into Kate in that café (I told you: Sesame Street) who is sitting there with another friend from the summer camp (SESAME STREET) and so on.

But that book, she didn’t just email it to herself, of course. And of course, her annoying teenage daughter (you know, the one who also posted photos with a gun in her hand for a while) sends her a link to a porn film that a classmate sent her. Then she ends up in a spam porn explosion and yes, there go the chapters. Gone, poof.

Oh, and did I mention that Anne's husband is meanwhile banished to the basement with a pink swimming cap on his head along with their youngest child due to a lice situation? And that the entire office of Kate also has lice (because everyone suddenly started looking at photos through a magnifying glass), including her previous boss-who-now-works-for-her-and-the-father-of-Forrest-who-flirted-a-while-back-who-now-works-at-that-summer-camp?

And did I also mention that lice situations to indicate what a swamp the life of a working mother is really can’t be done anymore?

And a tip to Catherine Reitman, the lead actress and creator of Workin’ Moms: to combat lice, you really don’t depend on a Lice Lady. Buy shampoo and start combing. And maybe you can think about season 5 in the meantime, because this, this was below your standard. You can do so much better.