"Samantha Who?" Pilot (2007)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Robert Duncan McNeill

Writers:

Cecelia Ahern (creator) &
Donald Todd (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Samantha Who?" (2007)

Original Air Date:

15 October 2007 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Comedy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

A woman suffering from amnesia tries to rediscover her life. |

Plot Keywords:

Amnesia | Apartment Building | Real Estate | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship | Secret

Cast

Christina Applegate	...	Samantha
Jennifer Esposito	...	Andrea Belladonna
Kevin Dunn	...	Howard
Melissa McCarthy	...	Dena
Tim Russ	...	Frank
Barry Watson	...	Todd
Jean Smart	...	Regina Newly
William Abadie	...	Rene
Brett Rickaby	...	AA Leader
Nakia Burrise	...	Dr. Kerry Hall (as Nakia R. Burrise)
Adam Jennings	...	Barista
Jelynn Rodriguez	...	Angry Woman
Jill Talley	...	AA Female Leader
Dan Thiel	...	Dave

Runtime:

Ireland:24 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Donald Todd Productions

Soundtrack:

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Ms. Applegate is enough for me on the "Samantha Who?" pilot

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

As the pilot of "Samantha Who?" opens, the intro of "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" plays as we see a young woman in bed in a coma. Her mother (Jean Smart) has been calling "Extreme Homemaker" hoping to use her daughter's condition to get a new house. That daughter, Samantha (Christina Applegate), wakes up with no memory of her previous life. She then gets told by many people like her former girlfriend from junior high, Dina (Melissa McCarthy), her current girlfriend, Andrea (Jennifer Esposito), and her boyfriend, Todd (Barry Watson), how not-so-nice she was. So now Samantha is trying to find ways to not be THAT person as she moves back in her parent's home...Having discovered Ms. Applegate, like I'm sure many of you reading this have, on "Married...With Children", many of you may be or not pleasantly surprised at how sweet she is after her amnesia and how convincingly mean she can still be as her old self. Loved her comic dithering at the AA meeting after finding out she was once an alcoholic. Jean Smart is probably the best of the supporting players in the pilot but both McCarthy and Esposito show some promise here as well. Not a great first episode but the show's premise and the presence of Ms. Applegate is enough for me to give this series a long leash to see where they go from here. I shall post next week so until then...