Samantha Who? began this season and focuses on a woman who has amnesia, and who basically has to relearn her life along the way. She discovers that she didn’t used to be a very nice person, and works hard at trying to make the new her an improved version.
I really enjoyed this show when it first began, and thought that the first few episodes were really well thought out and full of action. As I finish watching the latest (7th) episode, I realise that it just doesn’t keep my attention as much as it used to.
At the beginning, the concept of following the life of a modern woman with amnesia was really interesting, but sometimes the ideas in the episodes seem very unimaginative. Take the most recent episode for example, I wasn’t exactly sure what the main point of it was. The fact that Samantha met a guy was great, and was something that was introduced at the appropriate time. But the way in which she spends the whole episode complaining, yet again, about how she doesn’t remember anything, gets really tiring. At the end of the episode, she tells her new guy that she has amnesia and is learning everything again, and that seems to be the whole climax of the episode, which was really disappointing.
At the start, Samantha seemed much less whiny, and is more energetic and eager to find out about her life. As the show has been continuing, she has become much more dependent on everyone else, and the fiery character that grabbed my attention in the first episode seems to be slipping away.
To read an interview with Melissa McCarthy (who plays the character of Dena), click below.
