Samantha Who: Complete Season Two DVD Review
SAMANTHA WHO? is the winning “amnesia” comedy, where Christina Applegate has lost her memory and tries to find out who she was. She eventually realizes that she was not as nice as she would have liked to have been.
With a fine supporting cast, including the scene stealing (and Emmy winning) Jean Smart as her mother, Kevin Dunn as her father, Melissa McCarthy (THE GILMORE GIRLS) and Jennifer Esposito as her friends, Barry Watson as a former boyfriend and Tim Russ as Frank the doorman, this was one of the funnier shows of recent years.
When SAMANTHA WHO went on the air in October of 2007, it was a huge surprise. Christina Applegate was a comic revelation, proving that she was much more than her Kelly Bundy character. She was nominated (and should have won) an Emmy for the role. She is again nominated for this second season.
In this second season, it began well. Airing after DANCING WITH THE STARS, the ratings were still quite good. But, as happens so often with TV, its time slot was moved. It aired on Thursday night, opposite the NBC comedies. The ratings fell.
The network lost faith in the show and it was not renewed. The final episodes of the season were dumped in the summer months of June and July of this year. As much as I liked the show, and stayed with it during the time changes, I was not even aware it was still being shown and missed these final episodes. I thought the finale had aired in April.
But, while the show may be gone, the entire second season, along with those final episodes, that many may have missed, are now on DVD.
WHAT IS ON THE DVD?
This is a 3 DVD set
Disc One has episodes 1-7.
Disc Two has episodes 8-13 along with the following extras:
DELETED SCENES (approx 10 minutes) – Seven deleted scenes with intros by Executive Producer Donald Todd
BLOOPERS (:55)
SET TOUR WITH CHRISTINA APPLEGATE (4:41) - Christina and Melissa McCarthy give a tour of the set, including Christina’s parent’s home, the coffee shop, and a Chicago Street.
CHRISTINA DANCE MOMENT (3:31) - An unedited version of the dance sequence from the first episode.
GIRL CHAT (2:26) - Christina Applegate, Melissa McCarthy and Jennifer Esposito discuss their characters.
Disc Three Contains episodes 14-17 along with three additional episodes (that may or may not have aired).
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