Everwood
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Everwood is a popular prime time American television drama which airs in the United States on the WB network. It is set in fictional small town of Everwood, Colorado; downtown Everwood is in reality filmed in downtown Ogden, Utah and the series pilot was filmed in Calgary, Canada. It is mostly a serious drama, with a few comedic moments.
Everwood has received two Emmy nominations: Main Title Theme (2003) written by Blake Neely, and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy (2004) for James Earl Jones's turn as Will Cleveland. Treat Williams has also received two Screen Actors Guild award nominations (2003 and 2004) for his role as Dr. Andy Brown.
In the United Kingdom, airings on terrestrial channel ITV1 have changed the programme name to Our New Life In Everwood. This is because it "explained the premise of the series more clearly." Airings on satellite and cable channel LIVINGtv retained the original name.
After moving to a new timeslot on Thursdays at nine for the fourth season, Everwood was put on a four month hiatus in late December. The show returns to the WB Network on March 27th for a two hour, back-to-back event at eight before moving back to its original timeslot on Mondays at nine the week after.
Everwood has been put on the potential shows that may return next year after the WB and UPN merge to form The CW Television Network. Many fans hope it will continue for a fifth season.
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Plot
Season 1
The series begins with the arrival of Dr. Andrew Brown, a widower who leaves his successful job as a top Manhattan neurosurgeon to live in a small Colorado town, bringing his 9-year-old daughter Delia and 15-year-old son Ephram with him. He chooses the town of Everwood because his late wife had told him of her emotional attachment to it. Many of the story lines deal with the conflicts of adjusting to a new setting, as well as getting along with new people. Dr. Brown, simply called Andy most of the time, at first finds some animosity towards Dr. Harold Abbott, with whom his professional opinions differ. However, Dr. Abbott's cranky demeanor and Andy's passive, cheerful attitude prove to mesh well, and the two begin a friendly rivalry. Ephram continually struggles with his emerging adolescence, his studies as a classical musician, and his new-found love interest in Amy Abbott, Dr. Abbott's daughter.
The first season revolves around the main storyline involving Colin Hart, Amy's boyfriend, and her older brother Bright's best friend. Amy sees the arrival of Dr. Brown as an opportunity. Colin has been in a coma since Independence Day, that summer, after he and Bright were in a car accident. Amy befriends Ephram in an effort to convince Dr. Brown to revive his brain surgery skills to save Colin. Dr. Brown reluctantly agrees. Amy is elated, but Bright is sullen and distant about the situation. Later, he tearfully confesses to his father that, contrary to what he had claimed all summer, Bright does in fact remember the accident: he was the one driving, and he was a little drunk at the time. However, his anguish is relieved when Dr. Brown is successful, and soon, Colin is awake.
In the meantime, Ephram's maternal grandparents come to visit their new home in the fall, and Ephram decides he wants to move back to New York City to live with them. Ephram's grandfather, also a surgeon, berates Andy into letting Ephram go. Delia and her grandmother befriend Edna Abbott, a semi-retired Army nurse and Harold's estranged mother. They decide to throw her a surprise birthday party at the Brown's home. During the party, in front of all the guests, Ephram and Andy have a loud fight about his moving to New York City. The two stalk to different parts of the house, with no decision resolved. His grandfather and Andy also begin to fight about the situation, but are interrupted because Bright Abbott has collapsed. Bright needs his appendix removed, but the snow has prevented travel, so they do emergency surgery on him in Andy's office. Andy sees how scared and loving Harold is towards his son, and resolves to try and patch things up with Ephram. He confesses that he will be "half a man" if Ephram leaves, and Ephram decides to stay.
All is not well, however, for Colin Hart. He returns home and re-enrolls in school, but he has lost most of his memory, including his memory of Amy. Under pressure to step right back into his old life, Colin befriends Ephram since Ephram is the only person who does not have a preconceived notion of him. Amy, meanwhile, struggles with emerging feelings for Ephram and Ephram has a brief fling with Colin's sister, Laynie.
Soon, Colin begins lashing out violently and acting out emotionally, and loses his friendship with Ephram. Ephram tries to let their friends know that Colin is not acting normally, but Amy believes he is just jealous of her relationship with Colin, and that Colin is "under a lot of stress". Bright, frustrated at Colin's friendship with Ephram in the first place, refuses to listen as well, until Colin uncharacteristically punches Bright in the face. Andy believes Ephram, and brings the subject up with Colin's parents. They are unwilling to believe that Colin is anything but fully-recovered, and fire Dr. Brown from Colin's care. However, physical symptoms begin to manifest as well, and eventually Colin collapses. It is learned there are complications from the first surgery. Colin's parents ask Dr. Brown to operate again, but he is not able to save Colin's life.
Season 2
Season 2 finds Amy continually struggling with the death of Colin, her teen angst, bouts of depressed mood, and a new drug-dealing boyfriend, Tommy. She considers sleeping with Tommy, but backs out of it every time he brings it up. Continued squabbling with her parents, mostly over failing grades and their disapproval of Tommy, forces her to move in with her grandmother, Edna. Amy's downward spiral continues until Tommy takes her to a wild party. He gives her a bottle of water laced with GHB. Drunk on vodka, Amy drinks it, then has a hallucination of Colin, telling her to let him go and get on with her life. The vision shocks her back to reality, and she realizes that Tommy has drunk most of the water himself, and subsequently overdosed. Amy does the only thing she can think of, and calls her father for help. Tommy recovers, but Amy is officially scared straight. She dumps him, moves back in with her parents, and begins to improve her behavior and mood.
Ephram, meanwhile, found love with Madison Kellner, a 20-year-old college student Andy has hired to babysit Delia. After a few false starts, he loses his virginity to Madison, in his car.
The second season has several plot developments. Andy finds a new love interest in Dr. Linda Abbott, Harold's sister. A scandal at Dr. Abbott's office occurs when it is discovered that Linda Abbott is HIV positive. As a result, Harold loses his liability insurance coverage, and Linda quits her holistic health practice and leaves town, also ending her romance with Andy. Harold tries to open a new bagel shop, but meets with failure. Andy then invites him as a partner, since Andy's insurance would cover Harold's practice. Harold reluctantly agrees.
Ephram continues his on-again, off-again relationship with older Madison. In an effort to prove how mature he is, he sneaks into bars to see her band, and produces many awkward moments by showing up when she is out with her college friends. Finally she decides that Ephram is too intensely into their relationship, and breaks up with him for the last time. She quits her job as a babysitter for the Browns. She later confesses to Andy that she is pregnant with Ephram's child. Andy tells her he will pay all her expenses if she agrees to keep the pregnancy a secret from Ephram. Ephram begins to seriously date Amy. When he leaves for the summer to study music at Juilliard, Amy accompanies him for his first week in Manhattan. They continue their relationship long-distance, and after he returns to Everwood.
Season 3
The third season opens with Dr. Brown receiving a letter from Madison cutting off all ties with him. It is revealed that she has moved to Denver but has not revealed whether she decided to keep the baby or have an abortion. Dr. Brown contemplates telling Ephram about the pregnancy but Dr. Abbott convinces him not to, for the sake of both Ephram and Amy.
Ephram returns from his summer classes at Juilliard with the disappointing news that he did not make high marks. However, he and Amy are enjoying the new aspect of their relationship. The two, now in their high school senior year, befriend a new girl named Hannah, who was having difficulty overcoming her shyness. She moves in with Andy's neighbor, Nina. Hannah reveals that her father suffers from late-stage Huntington's Disease and this is the reason she left home. With the support of Amy, Ephram, Bright, and Dr. Abbott, Hannah is tested for Huntington's Disease herself and finds that she doesn't have the incurable disease. After much discussion with both Hannah and Ephram, Amy decides to sleep with Ephram. They make plans to sneak away to the Abbott's lake cabin, but the night of the event, Amy gets scared and changes her mind. Ephram is patient, and says he doesn't mind. However, she has a change of heart, and loses her virginity to Ephram the next morning afterall.
Bright Abbott gets a job at the County Clerk's office with his mother. Never known for his monogamy, his promiscuity catches up to him when one young intern accuses him of sexual harassment. During the investigation, Bright maintains that she misperceived his actions, and does not admit guilt. Even though he is officially absolved of the accusation, Rose is embarrassed and hurt by the situation, and realizes that her son has no respect for women, and uses them like things. She fires him, but her profound disappointment is the worst punishment of all. Bright learns from the ordeal, and attempts to be more honorable.
The third season also sees the arrival of a new, younger doctor named Jake Hartman, whom neither Harold nor Andy like very much. He takes up residence in Dr. Abbott's former office. Meanwhile, Nina comes to terms with the fact she has feelings for Andy as she begins a romantic relationship with Jake.
Dr. Brown also decides to help a patient, John Hayes, to recover from serious mental incapacitation caused by a stroke. Meanwhile, Dr. Brown finds himself drawn to John's wife, Amanda, and realizes he may be developing feelings for her. He and Amanda become romantically involved until Amanda's husband John unexplainably recovers from his stroke.
Ephram is granted an interview with The Juilliard School in New York City, where he serendipitously meets Madison. Dr. Brown accompanies Ephram on the trip to New York City and attempts to reconcile with Madison and to urge her to tell Ephram the truth about her pregnancy. She eventually meets Ephram in a coffee shop and tells him the whole story, including Andy's knowledge of it. The baby has been put up for adoption with parents living in Marin, California. Ephram is angry with his father for keeping the secret, and forfeits his Juilliard audition. Back in Everwood, Amy reluctantly agrees to help Ephram locate the baby and the adoptive parents, but the matter soon drives a wedge into their relationship and they break up.
Harold's wife, Rose, is diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on her spine and must undergo chemotherapy, which proves to be initially unsuccessful. With some reluctance, Dr. Brown agrees to do the surgery to remove the tumor. Harold is incensed, until after the operation appears to be a success and Rose slowly recovers.
Ephram, still disillusioned from his recent experiences with his father and Madison, decides to quit his studies altogether and move to Europe. He technically receives his diploma, but leaves before the ceremony. He sells his piano and all related equipment to pay for an airline ticket to London. Meanwhile, Amy graduates from high school.
Jake and Nina agree to move in together and start a new restaurant business, purchasing the coffee shop where Nina worked as a waitress until the owner sold the building. Jakes vows to cut all ties to his former Los Angeles residence and lifestyle, mainly because his income in Everwood is dramatically less.
Season 3 ends with Hannah getting a boyfriend for the first time, but she decides to break up with him because there is no chemistry. Andy considers taking a job as a surgeon in Chicago, but Rose and the others persuade him to stay in Everwood. Bright decides he really wants to date Hannah, who is thrilled to begin a relationship with him. Amy decides to defer, to a later time, her first semester at Princeton, so that she can help take care of her mother while she convalesces. Andy, alone with Nina, confesses his true feelings for her and proposes a serious relationship, despite Jake being in the way.
Season 4
Season 4 opens with the vow-renewal ceremony of Irv and Edna. Rose is recovering nicely, and Jake has moved in with Nina. At the request of Delia, who desperately misses him, Ephram returns from Europe in time to attend the end of the ceremony. A medical student, Reid, has caught Amy's eye, and they have spent time together. Bright starts his second year at ECC, and has moved into an apartment. He wants to wait for Ephram to return, but when he doesn't, Amy convinces Bright to let Reid be his roommate. Bright, never very perceptive, concludes that Reid is gay. Amy is disappointed, but she tries to stay just friends with him.
When Ephram returns for good, Andy tells him that he will not support him unless he lives with him, and Ephram tells Andy that he needs to apologize for the Madison situation, and that Andy "owes" him whatever he wants, and their relationship continues to be strained. However, Andy doesn't want to damage Ephram and Delia's relationship, so he tells Ephram that he will pay him $50 for every dinner they eat together as a family. The plan seems to work, and eventually, Ephram sometimes doesn't collect his money at all. Ephram starts his first semester at Everwood Community College with Bright, and Bright asks him to be a third roommate. By then, they have figured out that Reid is not gay after all; Reid and Amy date casually, and they share a kiss. Ephram begins giving piano lessons to a student named Kyle (played by Steve McQueen's grandson). Although talented, Kyle is sullen and difficult, and Ephram gains a new appreciation for what he put his own father through. Also, Andy has a patient who is estranged from his daughter because he kept a secret from her for her whole life. Andy asks Ephram to talk to the daughter about forgiveness, and in the process, Ephram begins to let go of some of the resentment he felt towards Andy, and their relationship continues to improve.
On a father/son camping trip with the Abbotts, Ephram reveals that he came back to Everwood because he is still in love with Amy, and Bright reveals that he might break up with Hannah because she doesn't believe in premarital sex. Back in town, Ephram asks Reid not to date Amy at all, and he backs off. Amy and Ephram repair their friendship. Studying together late one night, they wind up kissing, and sharing a romantic encounter. Afterwards, Ephram, wanting to repair their romantic relationship as well, gives Amy a Christmas present, and reveals that he wrote her postcards while in Europe, but never sent them to her. She asks to take them home and read them.
Harold and Rose struggle to get past her illness. She loses her rebid for mayor of Everwood, and feels lost and useless. After a vacation on an African safari, Rose tells Harold that she wants to adopt a child.
Nina has decided to stay with Jake, and their restaurant business is doing well. However, Jake begins acting erratic and distant. When one of his visiting LA buddies has a serious biking accident, Jake is lost and stressed out. It is revealed that he is a recovering narcotics addict, and he has fallen off the wagon. He calls his brother, who comes to visit for moral support, all the while still not telling Nina. When he finally gets the courage to tell Nina, she kicks him out of the house, and cries in Andy's arms.
Although they seem quite mismatched, Bright and Hannah continue their relationship. Hannah's mother comes to visit, and reveals that her father has finally passed away. Hannah prepares to move away from Everwood (and Bright), but her mother decides that if she wants to stay, she can. Hannah decides to stay. Bright is elated, but he is also frustrated at Hannah's low self-esteem, and forces her to see that he really does think she is beautiful by locking her in the bathroom. Hannah takes it one step further, and invites Bright into the shower with her.
Cast
Main cast
- Dr. Andrew Brown, played by Treat Williams
- Ephram Brown, played by Gregory Smith
- Amy Abbott, played by Emily VanCamp
- Nurse Edna Harper, played by Debra Mooney
- Irv Harper, played by John Beasley
- Delia Brown, played by Vivien Cardone
- Bright Abbott, played by Chris Pratt
- Nina Feeny, played by Stephanie Niznik
- Mayor Rose Abbott, played by Merrilyn Gann
- Dr. Harold Abbott, played by Tom Amandes
Season 2 (as "also starring")
- Laynie Hart, played by Nora Zehetner
- Dr. Linda Abbott, played by Marcia Cross
- Madison Kellner, played by Sarah Lancaster
Season 3 (as "also starring")
- Amanda Hayes, played by Anne Heche
- Dr. Jake Hartman, played by Scott Wolf
- Hannah Rogers, played by Sarah Drew
Season 4 (as "also starring")
- Dr. Jake Hartman, played by Scott Wolf
- Hannah Rogers, played by Sarah Drew
- Reid Bardem, played by Justin Baldoni
- Kyle Hunter, played by Steven R. McQueen
Recurring Characters
- Colin Hart, played by Mike Erwin (Seasons 1 & 2)
- Brenda Baxworth, played by Lee Garlington
- Sam Feeny, played by Ryan Armstrong (Seasons 1 & 2)/Jimmy Bennett (Season 3.2)/Ben Hammond (Season 3.1/4)
- Julia Brown, played by Brenda Strong
- James Hart, played by Michael Flynn (actor)
- Louise, played by Jan Felt
- Will Cleveland, played by James Earl Jones (seasons 2 & 3)
- Brittany Clark, played by Whitney Lee
- Madison Kellner, played by Sarah Lancaster (seasons 2 & 3)
- Dr. Jake Hartman, played by Scott Wolf (seasons 3 & 4)
- Hannah Rogers, played by Sarah Drew (seasons 3 & 4)
- Kyle, played by Steven R. McQueen (season 4)
Soundtrack
Track listing
- "Lonely People" - Jars of Clay (popularized by America)
- "Trouble" - Kristin Hersh (popularized by Cat Stevens)
- "These Days" - Griffin House (popularized by Jackson Browne)
- "Only Living Boy in New York" - David Mead (popularized by Simon and Garfunkel)
- "Summer Breeze" - Jason Mraz (popularized by Seals and Crofts)
- "Father and Son" - Leigh Nash (popularized by Cat Stevens)
- "The Harder They Come" - Guster (popularized by Jimmy Cliff)
- "Don't Be Shy" - Travis (popularized by Cat Stevens)
- "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)" - Toby Lightman (popularized by Jim Croce)
- "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - Stereophonics (popularized by Roberta Flack)
- "Cathedrals" - Jump Little Children
- "Main Title Theme for Everwood" - Blake Neely
- "Love Song" - Treat Williams (Bonus Track)
External links
- {{{2|{{{title|Everwood}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database
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- The WB's Official Everwood Site
- Everwood's Official Site
- French everwood site
- Our New Life in Everwood UKde:Everwood
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