Friday, July 02, 2010
Everwood--Season 3
As TV series go it took a long time for Season two of Everwood to show up on DVD and at 5 years after it aired Season 3 has been a long wait. Mercifully largely gone from this season were John Beasley’s folksy narrations. However the soap opera-like quality is ramped up several notches as all the principle characters seem to fall in and out of love and lurch from crisis to disaster. Even the staunch Mrs. Abbott comes down with cancer. Bright, the ironically named jock, having blown his chance at Notre Dame with on field fighting drifts aimlessly from one-night stand to temporary fling his hunky good looks attracting no lack of suitors until a sexual harasment charge by a jilted fellow worker forces his Mother, the mayor, to fire him from the post she got him. New characters get injected into the mix with equally wretched personal relationships however at the core of this show is the father-son struggle between Treat Williams and Gregory Smith, the latter’s obsession with playing piano, and his on again, off again love affair with Emily VanCamp. That he would stand in a balcony at Juilliard and watch the audition for which he worked all summer slip away and later sell off his piano buggers belief. In this show no skeleton is allowed to remain buried in the closet, in fact they frequently appear onscreen and past ghosts regularly come back to haunt their waking targets. How long it will take for Season 4 to make it to DVD who knows. Will we get to see both versions of the season-ending episode for the final season four shot before it was known that this would be the last?
Save for a few lapses in continuity where scenes shift between summer and winter snow I have no complaints about the series.# posted by garthmailman@gmail.com @ 12:04 pm 
