Mom Season 6, Episode 10 recap: Tammy goes out on a date
This week on Mom, Christy revisits an old habit and starts smoking again. Meanwhile, Tammy meets a man at Home Depot and ends up scoring a date.
While on a break at work, Christy ends up bumming a cigarette from Chef Rudy (long time, no see) out back by the dumpsters. After the first inhale, Christy remembers exactly why she used to smoke all those years ago.
The usual ladies are hanging back after a meeting, putting away the chairs when Tammy gets a text from a guy she met at Home Depot the day before. Following Jill’s sage advice, Tammy tries to keep her cool but loses it when the guy asks her out on a date. After Christy tries to offer up a suggestion, Wendy and Marjorie shut her down, which really irritates the stressed out law student. Sneaking off outside, Christy bums yet another smoke, this time from a fellow AA attendee, but ends up having to hide behind a bush when everyone leaves.
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The next night at Marjorie’s, Wendy, Bonnie, and Jill help Tammy get ready for her big date. But as soon as he pulls up in his car, Tammy runs out the door, immediately forgetting about her friends’ existence. When she gets back, Tammy goes on and on about how great the guy is and best of all, he doesn’t drink.
Bonnie, who received some leftover breadsticks, encourages Tammy to follow her heart and text him, even though Jill vehemently opposes. Tammy, completely gushing over this guy, texts him saying she had a great time and that he might be the one, which mortifies the other ladies in the room.
Christy, who is now buying cigarettes at the gas station instead of filling up her tank, is also hanging out back with Rudy more and more on her breaks. Going to the lengths of keeping perfume and mouthwash in her car, Christy is adamant to keep this habit a secret but fails. Bonnie, smelling the tell-tale signs of a secret smoker, rats her out to the group at the bistro over lunch.
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Meanwhile, Tammy is desperately waiting for her date “Rick Something-Something,” to text her back. The following day Bonnie stop by to see Marjorie, disrupting her jazzercise sesh. She dropped in unexpectedly to express her worry about Tammy’s possible obsession over this guy. Revealing she wasn’t too fond of Adam when Bonnie started dating him, Marjorie insists they let Tammy live her own life until she asks for their opinions.
That night, before a meeting, Marjorie catches Christy squeezing in a last minute smoke. Instead of disapproving, Marjorie relates to Christy’s decision to try and “cheat” sobriety. Telling her a story about how she once used to flirt with a married man long ago for a thrill, Marjorie seems to now be living by a new-found motto of letting people make their own decisions.
Later, Bonnie calls Tammy to apologize for saying she was obsessed with her date. Tammy, who is in an Uber outside Rick’s house waiting for him to call her, asks if what she’s doing sounds crazy. Rushing there, Bonnie is sad to find a crushed Tammy who says Rick implied he wasn’t interested in her earlier that day. Bonnie then goes into a story about how she once lived in a guy’s attic for months without him knowing, and lets Tammy know that’s what crazy actually looks like.
At the restaurant, Christy is trying to light a cigarette out back but her lighter is cooperating. Rudy, coming out to take out some garbage, shakes his head over her going full-throttle on this new lifestyle before telling her he quit smoking. Unable to light her cigarette, it starts raining and Christy couldn’t get any grouchier.
What did you think of this week’s episode? So sad to see Tammy’s date didn’t go too well. Anyone else seeing some parallels between Marjorie and Bonnie? Bonnie is getting more responsible and Marjorie is relaxing a little and I think they might be meeting each other in the middle.
What do you predict will happen next week? Let us know in the comment section below or join the discussion on Twitter @HiddenRemote!
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