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score 8/10
*One SPOILERS Hill*
On the surface, Nathan (James Lafferty) and Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) Scott have very few things in common, except for being guys, living in the same town, going to the same High School and loving to play basketball.
Oh, and a father, Dan (Paul Johansson) who has got his high school sweetheart Karen (Moira Kelly) pregnant, then dropped her to go to college on a basketball scholarship, where he did the same trick to girlfriend Deb (Barbara Alyn Woods), left basketball and married her.
But their worlds begin to come together when Keith (Craig Sheffer), Dan's older brother and Lucas' de-facto father, decides to arrange for the boy to have a tryout to get into Tree Hill High's Basketball team, the Ravens, with the help of Coach Whitey (Barry Corbin), and when Nathan, to seek help for his failing grades, is aided by none other than Haley James (Bethany Joy Lenz), Lucas' best friend.
Lucas befriends Nathan's girlfriend, the complex and moody Peyton Sawyer (Hilary Burton), and feels some attraction for Peyton's best friend and co-cheerleader Brooke Davis (Sophia Bush)...
Curiously, this series premiered a little less than a month after 'OC', and had a ho-hum first season, as it decided to be more classical than the FOX series, but while 'OC' seems to be out on a limb most of the time, with one ludicrous plot twist after another, not to mention Julie Cooper (Melinda Clarke)'s tying all the families on that show into one, 'One Tree Hill' manages to stay on the road it took, even if it too has had some ludicrous plot twists (Nathan and Haley getting married at 16 is a pretty good example).
The actors are all pretty good, and I'd like to see more of them around (just pick a good movie, OK Sophia Bush? 'Stay Alive' was deeply flawed and 'The Hitcher' remake should never have been).
One Tree Hill: 7,5/10
marcus_stokes2000 2 October 2006
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