By Sabrina Cognata
Every other week writers and producers happily point out how amnesia comes in handy when dealing with the former trainwreck that is your life. This week, while tasting ice cream with her parents, Samantha (Christina Applegate) hears a GoGo’s song and bursts into uncontrollable tears. Later, when she’s hanging out with Todd (Barry Watson), talking about whatever it is these two idiots talk about, she runs into a man that flips out at her very presence and takes off running in the opposite direction. This man is Nathan (Todd Grinnell), former lover of Samantha’s & presently with a fulltime restraining order.
Andrea (Jennifer Exposito) explains to Samantha that the two of them are not just beautiful women, but flaming hot, unattainable women because they never got the attention they needed growing up and that gave them the indelible ability to divide and conquer any & everything around them. Herein lays the problem, when someone says they do not want you back—YOU JUST TRY HARDER. With most things in life, the whole divide and conquer thing works perfectly, but when you just show up and demand someone love you—well, you sound like a psycho.
Samantha tricks Andrea into handing over the restraining order file and she goes on the hunt for Nathan to tell him she’s sorry and not at all the same person. So this idiot hunts him down and tries to explain to him all this worthless stuff when she realizes the greater problem is the relationship she has with her father. Then she tries to relate to him by forcing herself to go hunting with him. Obviously, nothing could go worse and I became suicidal at this point and hope that the writers that wrote this exact script are hit by a car while picketing JUST FOR WASTING MY TIME. Samantha’s hunting experience is less than perfect and she storms off like a 14-year-old.
On her way to take her assault rifle back to the sporting goods store she once again runs into Nathan, scaring the living crap out of him and gets arrested for wielding a dangerous weapon in public. Her father decides to pick her up and she has a flashback of when she was 14-years-old and a completely emotional bitch to her father while listening to the GoGo’s, explaining her incredible reaction to the song. She apologizes for being so difficult as a teenager and tells him she wants to work on knowing him and building a relationship. This show is stupid and predictable. I hate it.