finally saw the pilot last night: my review

Started out well. Sam is standing up and ignoring her daughter Duke's tantrum.
The scene in the office supply store was good.
The scene with the cartoon voice over was the only funny scene in the pilot.

It was all downhill from there.

Her daughter Max asks Sam to buy pot for her, and Sam, to her credit, says no, but then says nothing else on the matter.

Duke manipulates Sam into getting into bed with her, and we can see the devious smile on Duke's face when she knows she's manipulated her mom.

When Sam sees Max has invited friends over without permission, and one of the friends has her shirt off, and Max mockingly tells her mom to bring them food, Sam shuts the door and for a second it appears she's going to storm back in and lay down the law but then she totally shuts down as a mom and is clearly defeated. She just abandons her parental responsibilities altogether.

Her daughter Frankie barges into Sam's room and refuses to leave and thinks it's funny, and Sam is the one who leaves with no consequences for Frankie's rude and disrespectful behavior.

When you chose to be a parent, you give up your right to shut down as a parent and give up being a parent and setting down rules and boundaries, and this is what Sam has done.

I don't find Sam sympathetic; I find her pathetic.

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