Sam comes to Carla’s aid when Nick remarries and his relationship with Diane is challenged when a pretentious artist wants to paint Diane, even though he is convinced it will make Sam jealous. Cliff is bullied by another patron and Coach takes on a little league team. Norm works to find work, which becomes problematic for Sam when Sam hires him to be the accountant for the bar and is convinced Norm is incompetent when he gets a $15,000 refund.
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Dave, Sam’s broadcaster friend, predicts the two will break up within twenty-four hours of his appearance and Sam and Diane themselves challenge the relationship with differing views on “fate” and free will. While they work on their relationship, they have to deal with Carla having her baby, Cliff falling for Carla’s sister, the return of Diane’s homicidal blind date (from a single episode in season 1) who now wants to be an actor, and Sumner returning to cause tension between Sam and Diane.īut Sumner is not the only one who creates issues between the couple. Committing to an actual relationship, Sam and Diane leave the patrons of Cheers utterly unsurprised, though Carla is (of course) annoyed. Diane, however, does not want to be another of Sam’s “conquests” and she makes him work for her. Immediately following the kiss between Sam and Diane in Sam’s office, the two decide to consummate their relationship. The result is a season that transforms a marginally interesting repartee between the two characters from the first season into a senseless conflict that is prolonged until the inevitable resolution at the end of the season. Diane constantly insults Sam and what she perceives as his lack of intelligence and Sam constantly makes excuses to stay in a relationship with her, without any real “hook” to keep him there.
But the relationship, like so many of the relationships in Cheers does not seem at all real. In its second season, the main characters, Sam Malone and Diane Chambers, have the chance to continue evolving through their newfound relationship. In the second season, the characters make very little sense and while Cheers may be considered classic television, it “reads” as remarkably average (at best) sitcom fare.
So, with the second season of Cheers, I found myself unsurprised that I continued to find the show lacking in substance.
Sam evolves so quickly from a womanizer to a man who might actually stand a chance in a relationship with the intellectual Diane Chambers that it is hard to buy how emotionally flaccid he can be at several points later in that season. I also took issue with the learning curve of the character of Sam Malone. In other words, it was preoccupied with setting up the next one-liner or zinger instead of telling a story and letting the humor come where it naturally did.
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The Basics: In its second season, Cheers has the romantic relationship between Sam and Diane in full swing and creates surprisingly bland television with it.Īrguably my biggest issue with the first season of Cheers ( reviewed here!) was that the show worked so hard to set up jokes that it barely told stories with its episodes. The Bad: The characters make little sense, Still goes for jokes as opposed to a narrative, Laugh track, Discontinuities between episodes.
The Good: Moments of humor, A few performance moments.
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