*Everwood SPOILERS*
When prominent neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams, 'Hair')'s wife Julia (Brenda Strong, 'Desperate Housewives') dies in a car crash on her way to their 15-year-old son Ephram (Gregory Smith, 'The Patriot')'s piano concert, the grieving man decides to respect one promise he made to her and moves, with Ephram and his younger sister Delia (Vivien Cardone, 'A Beautiful Mind'), to the charming little Colorado town of Everwood.
Here, Andy decides to reinvent himself as a free doctor (he doesn't need the money), much to the dismay of the town's only doctor, Harold Abbott, Jr. (Tom Amandes, 'Brokedown Palace'), whose mother Edna (Debra Mooney) to add insult to injury (according to him) has been hired as Dr. Brown's receptionist.
Ephram enrolls into the local high school, where he meets and befriends Dr. Abbott's daughter, Amy (Emily VanCamp, 'Brothers And Sisters') and, over time, her brother Harold Brighton 'Bright' (Chris Pratt, 'The OC'), who are still reeling from an accident that put Bright's best friend and Amy's boyfriend, Colin Hart (Mike), in a deep coma.
Andy also meets Nina Feeney (Stephanie Niznik, 'Star Trek'), his next-door neighbor, whom he befriends and over time falls in love with, as Ephram does with Amy...
A quirky and heartfelt dramedy, 'Everwood' creates that 'small town feeling' that not many shows can do, and sheds light on the feelings that tie fathers to their children, as 'Gilmore Girls' does with mothers.
Everwood: 9/10.
When prominent neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams, 'Hair')'s wife Julia (Brenda Strong, 'Desperate Housewives') dies in a car crash on her way to their 15-year-old son Ephram (Gregory Smith, 'The Patriot')'s piano concert, the grieving man decides to respect one promise he made to her and moves, with Ephram and his younger sister Delia (Vivien Cardone, 'A Beautiful Mind'), to the charming little Colorado town of Everwood.
Here, Andy decides to reinvent himself as a free doctor (he doesn't need the money), much to the dismay of the town's only doctor, Harold Abbott, Jr. (Tom Amandes, 'Brokedown Palace'), whose mother Edna (Debra Mooney) to add insult to injury (according to him) has been hired as Dr. Brown's receptionist.
Ephram enrolls into the local high school, where he meets and befriends Dr. Abbott's daughter, Amy (Emily VanCamp, 'Brothers And Sisters') and, over time, her brother Harold Brighton 'Bright' (Chris Pratt, 'The OC'), who are still reeling from an accident that put Bright's best friend and Amy's boyfriend, Colin Hart (Mike), in a deep coma.
Andy also meets Nina Feeney (Stephanie Niznik, 'Star Trek'), his next-door neighbor, whom he befriends and over time falls in love with, as Ephram does with Amy...
A quirky and heartfelt dramedy, 'Everwood' creates that 'small town feeling' that not many shows can do, and sheds light on the feelings that tie fathers to their children, as 'Gilmore Girls' does with mothers.
Everwood: 9/10.