Word: everwood
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...their wallets. The result is less a return to the paternalistic family hour than a recognition that the family viewing audience still exists, as one niche among many. And one series that TV's moneymen believe will cash in on the hunger for wholesome is the WB's Everwood (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.). New York City neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams) is obsessed with his career until his wife dies in a car crash on her way to their son's piano recital, which Brown was too busy to attend. The doctor packs up 15-year-old Ephram (Gregory Smith...
...amoral city to rediscover his humanity in the country, where decent folk live. (Didn't David Lynch and South Park kill that canard?) It would be forgivable if the show were better written, like the WB's wholesome but sassy mother-daughter comedy Gilmore Girls. Most unfortunate is Everwood's narrator, the town school-bus driver, who's in the Bagger Vance tradition of the wise black man put on earth to comment on the white stars' spiritual healing. And for every flash of Gilmore-esque zippy dialogue, there's a groaner. When Brown proposes the Colorado move, Ephram says...
...Heaven" 9-10 "Everwood...
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