Entertainment Weekly reflects on the Sam Who? finale
by tess ~ July 24th, 2009. Filed under: Samantha Who?.There’s a rather sweet post Samantha Who? piece at Entertainment Weekly, looking back at the characters and the finale (beware spoilers if you haven’t seen the last two episodes) and with individual paragraphs devoted to each.
You can read the whole article here.
Jean Smart (Regina), who was waiting in Sam’s apartment after Todd and Samantha had giddily announced their engagement to the stoic-as-always doorman Frank (Tim Russ) — and told them that she and Sam’s dad Howard (Kevin Dunn) were separating and she was moving in. You know, that’s a story line you don’t see that often: What does happen if a couple wants to spend their retirement differently? Howard wants to live in his RV and explore the past (i.e. Civil War sites); butterfly-tattooed Regina wants to fly into the future experiencing new city things (i.e. sushi). I would’ve loved a few episodes of Regina sharing the apartment with Sam and Todd, on the prowl. I’m not sure it’s possible for someone who was on Designing Women to be underrated, but smart is a gem. She can play drunk (“That dog has pedigree so get over there and sniff his butt”), she can play pain (when she broke down in front of Howard), and she can play everything in between.