Neither Darren deserved Samantha

[Chakravartin]

Samantha was very manipulative. In the first episode, it was she who insisted that she would not practice magic while Darren attempted to embrace her heritage. At first, he welcomed her mother (who stalked him invisibly), but over time he learned to be wary. Every time that he tried to please her, he was subjected to mixed messages. When he tried to teach Sam how to drive, for example, after she begged him to instruct her she berated him as a patronizing brute for simply telling her how to put the car into gear and step on the pedal. Watching the whole thing from the beginning, it's hard not to see Darren as the tortured victim of spousal abuse and his twitchiness the natural paranoia of a dog that has been alternately kicked and petted for much of its life.

Now Anthony Nelson... He was just an idiot.