One Tree Hill

Wow Our First TV Post

Maybe one day I'll go through my jag about why this is possibly the greatest show of all time, but not now. I will just say that it has transcended guilty pleasure status and truly become enjoyable. I'm not even going to bother going into plot synopsis just call out some moments that were truly tremendous.

-The last couple of episodes have burned alot of time setting up Peyton having cancer, the last episode even ended with her tearfully calling Lucas saying she had to tell him something and...of course she's pregnant.
-In my favorite utterly inexplicable storyline, Nathan has spent the last season or so begging to get another shot at the NBA, and finally after over a year (or so who knows) he's finally able to get a D- league shot. Now this was a guy who was a top ten Draft pick only a year earlier, hurt his back in a bar fight, and then rehabbed (with the help of a Magical Negro) back into shape, and you're telling me not one team would take a shot on him? Really? Jay Williams was in a horrific motorcycle accident, destroyed his knee, and still got a shot. Whereas everybody on this show acts shocked that a former division I all american who was a lock to be a first round draft pick would get another shot at the league. For some reason this is the part of the show that I find the most inexplicable (which is saying something). God I love this show.
-Since Dan has been pretty much been eliminated from the show, the writers thankfully added another one-dimensionally evil villian - the guy who shot quentin, beat up Brooke, and has now kidnapped Sam. They even gave me a shot of him leering at Sam on the floor and then unwrapping duct tape while grinning gleefully into the camera.
-Everybody on the show are bad actors, but the Mouth and Milly characters are the only ones played by really bad actors and they pretty much kill any narrative momentum (such that it is) whenever they're onscreen. Unfortunately this episode continued to linger on their increasingly psychotic relationship (again not unusual for the show) which manages just to be incredibly boring and tedious.
-This episode also featured too much of possibly the most annoying child character of all time - Jamie. And of course he once again goes off on his own, freaking out adults (seriously why they don't lojack him by this point is beyond me) but in the end there's a heartwarming scene at a graveyard and everybody forgets what an incredibly irresponsible and whiny kid he actually is.
-Of course there is the scene where Brooke realizes psycho guy is the one holding Sam and rather than waiting five minutes to get the police, she goes all Charles Bronson on him puts a gun to his head while flashing back to her beating...but once Sam calls her Mom, her heart breaks and she doesn't kill him (but she does pistol whip him) and then spits his pithy one liner back at him (you have a nice night). This really is a tremendous show.