Showtime's 'SMILF' goes where most shows don't — working-class, single motherhood

Motherhood is messy. Single motherhood in your 20s is messier. Add to that poverty, co-parenting with an unemployed ex and dreams of making it as an actress - in South Boston - and you have the basic ingredients of "SMILF."

Showtime's half-hour comedy drama, created, written by and starring Frankie Shaw, goes where most series television doesn't care to venture: the lower end of the U.S. economic strata. It's a place that used to be called