Bringing Back the Samantha and Son Storyline?
There was a brief moment on ER last Thursday where I swore I saw a storyline begin. Maybe you missed it to but it was just a brieft moment where Sam (Linda Cardellini) was in the trauma room with the dead teenage boy’s mother. She was telling Sam how he had been lately, how removed and distant he (Casey) had been but that how things with Casey had been getting better.
If you were really paying attention and listening to the mom and what she said, the camera closed in on Sam and we saw her let out a breath… like she was thinking. Hmmm, in my own mom mind, I was thinking of the storyline with Sam and her son Alex and the difficulties she had with him last season.
I don’t know about you but I do not think that storyline is closed. I think there is still more to that. If I remember correctly, season 13 left off with a phone call between Sam and Alex. There was no real ending to that and so I have to wonder… What is next for this storyline? There are many different directions they could take this. They have already exposed us to the difficulties that Sam has as a Single Parent and I have to admit that I do not think that is a finished storyline. Not at all. The complications that Sam has about being a single mom and then top it all off with sending Alex away to school… too much there that was left unfinished and leaving the ER fans and fans of Sam (yea that would be me) in the dark on how to tie that one up.
So what do you think? Did you catch the moment in the trauma room? Is the Samantha and son story finished?
Samantha, Linda Cardellini, character development, storylines, single parents
October 9th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I definitely caught that moment in the trauma room!
I’m also waiting to see what the next part of that storyline is: Will Alex come back from school and be a new person, will his struggle continue and have him getting involved in drugs, gang activity, or something worse?
I’m waiting for sure!