Season 4 • Episode 22
LatestPresent: M.E. takes over the wedding plans when Rene is forced to attend a hearing; Rene returns home to a perfectly planned wedding, and marries Turk; Catherine and Sara make peace; Kelly and Ajoni announce that they're staying in Birmingham; M.E. and Rene reminisce about their friendship. Past: Teresa wants to move to Hollywood in hopes of becoming a movie star; M.E. plans to run away to Atlantic City to attend a march; Rene is barred from a pageant because she's black.
Any Day Now is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint as best friends of different races who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. In every episode, contemporary storylines are interwoven with a storyline from their shared past.
Acting
Potts and Toussaint's chemistry is absolutely devastating.
Writing
Seamless weaving of past and present timelines.
Production
Period recreation of Birmingham that feels lived-in.
Annie Potts
Mary Elizabeth Sims
Lorraine Toussaint
Rene Jackson
Shari Dyon Perry
Young Rene Jackson
Mae Middleton
Young M.E. O'Brien
Olivia Hack
Young M.E. O'Brien
Maya Goodwin
Young Rene Jackson
Chris Mulkey
Colliar Sims
Olivia Friedman
Kelly Sims Williams
Donzaleigh Abernathy
Sara Jackson
Derrex Brady
Ajoni Williams
Dan Byrd
Young Collier Sims
John Lafayette
James Jackson
Nancy McLoughlin
Catherine O'Brien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lifetime's first original drama series; Annie Potts joined after Designing Women ended and fought for the show's 4-season run when it faced cancellation.
The show premiered months before The Green Mile and Beloved, part of a late-'90s wave of mainstream Civil Rights narratives — but uniquely centered Black-white female friendship rather than white saviorism.
US
