The Hart family is in the midst of a divorce as Texas soccer mom Reba (McEntire) watches her white-picket-fenced world collapse before her very eyes. Her dentist husband, Brock (Christopher Rich, Murphy Brown), is leaving her after what she thought was 20 happy years of marriage for his impossibly perky and unfortunately pregnant dental hygienist, Barbra Jean (Melissa Peterman, Fargo).The cherry on top of this bitter sundae is that Reba's 17-year-old daughter Cheyenne (JoAnna Garcia, Freaks and Geeks, Party of Five, American Pie 2) is pregnant by her boyfriend, the high school's dim-bulb football star, Van (newcomer Steve Howey). Rounding out the happy brood is 12-year-old Kyra (Scarlett Pomers, Star Trek: Voyager), who is greeting puberty with venom, and 9-year-old Jake (Mitch Holleman, Daddio), whose biggest concern is whether his best friend can sleep over.
Determined to take some semblance of control back in her upside-down-turned life, Reba makes a deft shift to Plan B. She plots a new course, taking in her new son-in-law Van to live with Cheyenne and their impending child and trying to keep the husband-stealing future stepmother of her children at arm's length.
They certainly aren't candidates for a Rockwell portrait, but the Harts muddle through their domestic morass the only way they know how - with brutal honesty and bare-knuckled poise.
