A mother taking on the valiant effort of trying to make her college age daughter realize the dangers of binge drinking is quite admirable. The amazing thing about this episode though is though is that it doesn't take the typical path of all of the others that precede it. There is no truly "happy" ending. The daughter stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that binge drinking in college poses any real danger. She thinks that she is really responsible about her drinking, but the brief glimpses we get into her actions suggest otherwise. The eye opening experiences of the mother also suggest quite the contrary, exposing the realities of what harm can come from binge drinking. The real shining light of this episode though comes in observing the relationship of the mother with her young son. The drinking takes them farther apart then they've ever been. She completely ignores him at one point in the show. Then at the end though it brings them closer together then ever. Perhaps there is no hope for the daughter, but at least her son benifitted.