Happy’s Place welcomed a long-talked-about character to the titular barroom as Jane Lynch made her debut as Gabby’s (Melissa Peterman) mom, Valerie, a.k.a. Val, in the episode, “A New Chapter.”
While Gabby is eager to put her journey towards motherhood behind her, she gets sucked back in with the arrival of Val, who quickly begins to win over her colleagues, like Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), Steve (Pablo Castelblanco), and even the prickly Emmett (Rex Linn). But Bobbie (Reba McEntire) is reasonably cautious, despite being the reason that Val shows up to begin with.
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