Everwood

I have to say that this shows is one of my favorite tv shows of all time. I have been on an Everwood kick recently because they are showing reruns on ABC Family right now and I am having a hard time keeping up with all the episodes my Tivo tapes for me. Anyways, I have to comment on this show because it truely is a well-written show with insight and family values to share.

It's about a top-notch surgen in New York who neglects his family and gets a wake-up call when his wife is killed in a car accident. Now he is faced with two kids who he barely knows and the emptiness of losing his spouse. So he decides to throw caution to the wind and move everything to a small town in Colorado to fulfill a promise he made with his wife years earlier. In the four years that this show aired the Brown family touched the lives of many people in the small town of Everwood and learned to grow together as a family. I know this sounds cheesy, and it is, however if you watched the show you would know what I mean. I love watching television shows to see the relationships develop between the characters. That is why I am more drawn to tv that to the movies. It is hard to develop a great relationship between multiple characters in only 2 hours. These things take time.

That said, I have to comment on my favorite relationships between the characters in Everwood. My favorite relationship is not with any of the main characters (Amy and Ephraim who are soul mates and make "the perfect couple" or Nina and Andy who are best friends who share everything) but it is with a Amy's brother Bright and Hannah, a girl who appears on the show at the beginning of the 3rd season. I think what intrigues me about this relationship is how different the two characters are.

Bright is a guy who is a lady's man facing two charges of sexual harassment by the age of 19. He is a C average student with little ambition and was popular in high school, but somehow he steals my heart because of the truely kind person he becomes. He has heart and cares about people even if it isn't the "coolest" thing to do. He grows up a lot in the 4 seasons of the show and by the end you feel like he has made a positive effect on many of the characters throughout the show.

Then there is Hannah, who is Bright's total opposite. She is the brainy girl who has no confidence and believes that she only deserves a mediocre life. She is probably my favorite character on this show. She is the girl who brightens up a room without even having a clue that she has that power. She seems to have matured beyond her years and doles out much insight to the Abbott family. She even touches Amy's dad who is kinda like the Scrooge of the town (although he goes through a transformation as well). Maybe I like Hannah so much because I can relate to her. I was that shy, brainy girl in high school. Plus it's fun to watch her confuse a situation because of her innocent, naive thinking.

It's fun to watch Hannah and Bright develop a friendship (with Bright getting over the fact that Hannah is not cool enough for him) and later a romantic relationship where they both bumble through it because of their lack of experience in the arena (even though Bright has dated a lot, he had never been in a committed relationship before and Hannah had only "dated" one boy before Bright).

I think my second favorite relationship has to do with multiple people. Really it is about the whole Brown family, but my favorite part is how the relationships develop regarding Dehilia. She is the youngest Brown, starting the show off at 9 and ending at12. She is a tomboy who turns into a popular girl during puberty. She mostly gets thrown in the middle of the fights between her dad and brother and ends up teaching them a thing or two. She is a sweet girl who has to endure all the changes of puberty with a daft father who knows very little about raising a girl and a brother who is having a hard time being a teenager.

So I guess that is my take on the tv show Everwood. If you love watching people in relationships than this is the show for you. You will learn about love and death and how a community pulls together to support each other and impact each other through the good and bad. And it is narrated by the bus driver who married Harold's mother only months after his father died and who ends up writing a book about A Mountain Town (I believe the narrations are supposed to be excerpts from his book). So watch and enjoy!!!