Significant Mother (2015–2015)

TV ShowEndedThe CWComedy1 season, 9 episodes
Significant Mother posterReview score: 67%

Plot

In Significant Mother budding Portland restaurateur Nate's world is turned upside down when he comes back from a business trip to find his lothario best friend and roommate, Jimmy, is now dating his recently separated mother, Lydia. To make matters worse, Nate's previously disinterested dad, Harrison is now determined to win Lydia back and isn't afraid to use Nate to get what he wants. Stuck between his family feud and his best friend's first serious relationship, Nate's "new normal" forever changes his relationships with his parents, and severely handicaps his own dating life.

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Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Significant Mother S01E09Not About BobS01E09 · 7.0Jimmy falls into a deep depression after his breakup with Lydia and Nate feels responsible. Sam and Atticus help Nate show Jimmy his future if he can't make decisions while Harrison agrees to divorce Lydia.
  2. 02Significant Mother S01E04Edibles WrecksS01E04 · 6.2Nate is over anxious that a food blogger is coming to review his restaurant. Lydia is afraid Jimmy is missing doing youthful activities and concocts some drug filled gummies that Nate accidentally eats. Everyone pitches in to get Nate through his special evening.
  3. 03Significant Mother S01E03Who's Your Daddy?S01E03 · 6.0Lydia thinks that she may be pregnant and pleads with Nate not to tell Jimmy until she knows for sure. Harrison, meanwhile, makes it clear to Jimmy that he's out to win back Lydia; and Emma writes a country song about Nate's complicated life.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode9Episodes2015Aired 5.6Season avg
  1. S01E01Significant Mother S01E01Welcome to BonetownAugust 3, 2015 5.3Nate, a budding restaurateur, returns from a trip and learns that his best friend has started dating his recently separated mother, Lydia; N
  2. S01E02Significant Mother S01E02Mixed DoublesAugust 10, 2015 5.7Lydia and Jimmy plan a date in public to rebuff Nate's contention that they're not serious about their relationship. Nate, meanwhile, goes o
  3. S01E03Significant Mother S01E03Who's Your Daddy?August 17, 2015 6.0Lydia thinks that she may be pregnant and pleads with Nate not to tell Jimmy until she knows for sure. Harrison, meanwhile, makes it clear t
  4. S01E04Significant Mother S01E04Edibles WrecksAugust 24, 2015 6.2Nate is over anxious that a food blogger is coming to review his restaurant. Lydia is afraid Jimmy is missing doing youthful activities and
  5. S01E05Significant Mother S01E05Suffering & SuccotashAugust 31, 2015 3.0When Lydia's mother visits unexpectedly, she tries to hide her relationship with Jimmy by implying he and Nate are boyfriends. Lydia also in
  6. S01E06Significant Mother S01E06Get ForkedSeptember 14, 2015 6.0Concerned about Nate's uptight nature, Jimmy and Lydia sign him up on a dating site. After a succession of awful meet ups, Nate connects wit
  7. S01E07Significant Mother S01E07Under BuddySeptember 21, 2015—Lydia asks Nate give Jimmy a busy night off but his replacement as bartender Timmy works out so well, Jimmy feels threatened. As Nate and Ti
  8. S01E08Significant Mother S01E08Home Is Where the Lamp IsSeptember 28, 2015—Nate freaks out when Lydia decides to sell his childhood home so he enlists his father Harrison and friends to sabotage the open house. Jimm
  9. S01E09Significant Mother S01E09Season's bestNot About BobOctober 5, 2015 7.0Jimmy falls into a deep depression after his breakup with Lydia and Nate feels responsible. Sam and Atticus help Nate show Jimmy his future

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Cast

Josh ZuckermanJosh ZuckermanNathaniel "Nate" MarloweKrista AllenKrista AllenLydia MarloweNathaniel BuzolicNathaniel BuzolicJimothy "Jimmy" Barnes

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