Episode #1: The Debut/Wake Up, Little Susie originally aired 10/24/00
Synopsis: The second-season opener focuses on the teenage anxieties of Grace (Julia Whelan) and Jessie (Evan Rachel Wood). Lily: Sela Ward. Rick: Billy Campbell. Carla: Audrey Anderson. Zoe: Meredith Deane. David: Todd Field. Christie: Jennifer Crystal Foley.__TVGuide.com (October 10, 2000)

Tonight's Best TV, Ken Tucker --
ONCE AND AGAIN:

The sophomore season of the best sexy divorcées show on TV gets off to a satisfyingly squirmy start with Sela Ward and Billy Campbell's characters getting caught postcoitus by Lily's kids. The episode is a strong showcase for the show's superlative teens, as Jessie enters high school, while Grace becomes friends with the class rebel. Once again, mundane situations yield rich drama. A- __Entertainment Weekly Online (October 23, 2000)

Tuesday's Best:
In the season premiere, "Wake Up, Little Susie," Lily and Rick (Sela Ward and Billy Campbell) are reunited after a month apart, and you can guess what happens next. Rick isn't planning to stay over, but next thing they know it's 6:30AM, and there's no avoiding the girls. Zoe (Meredith Deane) takes it in stride, while Grace (Julia Whelan) pretends to ("It so doesn't matter"). This may be the time to try getting the families together for an evening, but it doesn't go well, thanks to Grace and Zoe's sisterly squabbling and Jessie's (Evan Rachel Wood) already-fragile state; she's just started high school and is feeling awkward, alone and invisible. Shane West and Jeffrey Nordling also star.__The Charlotte Observer (October 22, 2000)

Top Picks: Tuesday --
Guess Who Came For Dinner?
In the engaging second-season opener of this critically acclaimed drama, loving couple Lily Manning (Emmy Award-winner Sela Ward) and Rick Sammler (Billy Campbell) attempt to help their children accept their relationship. When we last left the pair, they were enjoying their newly mended romance and nervously preparing for a pizza dinner with the kids. Apparently, that meal didn't go as well as planned; tonight's episode begins on a day several months later and no one is looking back on it fondly.__TVGuide Live.com

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Once and Again -- Periods of Adjustment, Series creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick wrote this simply plotted yet richly textured second-season opener.
Typically, the episode unfolds in vignettes, which depict how the romance between Lily (Emmy winner Sela Ward) and Rick figures into the anxieties of each other's teenage daughters, Grace and Jessie (Evan Rachel Wood). The latter is having a particularly difficult time. As she tells Rick, "You and Mom get divorced, fine. And I have to have two different houses, and now I have to go to Lily's all the time. So I'm gonna have three houses where I have to live. And do *I* get to choose?"__From TV Guide, (October 21-27, 2000)

In the season premiere episode, "Wake Up, Little Susie," Lily and Rick fall asleep together on Lily's couch. A rude awakening the next morning makes them realize they can no longer keep their relationship separate from their families' lives.

Cast Call: Lily, Rick, Grace, Zoe, Jessie, Eli, Karen, Jake, Christie, David
Guest Stars: Vanessa Lee Chester as Annie, Audrey Anderson as Carla, Julie Marie Berman as Julie, Josh Breslow as the kid and Samantha MacLachlan as the assistant.
Writer: Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick
Director: Marshall Herskovitz

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