Pilot

Nach 20 Jahren Ehe wird Reba von ihrem Mann wegen seiner Affäre mit einer Zahnarzthelferin verlassen. Statt in Selbstmitleid zu baden, nimmt die Mutter von drei Kindern ihr Leben in die Hand und macht das Beste aus ihrer Situation. Zunächst heißt es, aufgrund einer richterlichen Verfügung, zur Familientherapie zu gehen.

The Harts are in court-ordered therapy. As the story unfolds, Brock and Reba reveal that they are separated due to Brock's midlife crisis and while in court the entire family — Reba, Brock, Cheyenne, Jake and Kyra — got into what the judge described as a brawl. While in therapy Brock reveals that he won't be moving back home because he has to marry his dental hygienist/assistant Barbra Jean. Why? She's pregnant. And... oops, little Jake lets it slip that Cheyenne, the Hart's 17-year-old daughter, is pregnant as well. Cheyenne and Van, her all-star football-playing boyfriend decide that they're going to get married. Reba organizes a shotgun wedding while trying to keep terminally perky Barbra Jean at a safe distance. Van's parents won't come to the wedding and have kicked him out of the house but, on the bright side, he managed to arrange a honeymoon at his uncle's beach house in Galveston. On the wedding day, Cheyenne is upset that her Dad hasn't arrived yet. Reba starts to lose it whe