Catherine Reitman on Ending ‘Workin’ Moms,’ That Surprise Guest Star, and Her Love Letter to Late Father Ivan Reitman
variety.comAmber Dowling SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the final season of “Workin’ Moms,” now streaming on Netflix. After seven seasons and more than 80 episodes, “Workin’ Moms” has retired: The seventh and final season hit Netflix on April 26.
Creator, writer, sometimes director and star Catherine Reitman knew she wanted to end the series while crafting Season 6 — bringing home the comedy of working mothers who are just trying to do their best — with a final scene she’d had in her head. “The only justice I could think of for working mothers is, you just dust yourself off, you get back up and you go to work,” she tells Variety. “That’s it — you get your kids set up, and you go back to work.
And there was no fantasy that could better eclipse the reality of being a working mother.” From the moment Reitman conceptualized the series as a new mom, and then launched it with her husband, Philip Sternberg (who plays her husband Nathan Foster on screen), the story of Reitman’s character, Kate Foster, has been deeply personal.
Crafting this final batch of episodes was even more intimate for Reitman, whose father and mentor, Ivan Reitman, died two months before filming. “He was very much a part of building the show with me.
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