We're going to put on our Andy Rooney hat for a minute. Please bear with us.
Mergermania 2006! Ready! Set! Moonves!
LAist Watches: Everwood
When Everwood hit The WB airwaves a few years ago, the drama was so thick you could cut it
with a knife... if you were lucky. Despite dealing with death, comas and more
death, Everwood was a hit. This was due in part to superb writing and a formidable
ensemble. Propelled by the wholesome audience of 7th Heaven, it found a comfortable,
albeit angst-filled niche on the network line-up.
Over the course of two seasons, we've watched Ephram and Andy (Treat
Williams) patch their broken family and subsequently survive the icy storms—both
literal and metaphorical—in the fictional, small town of Everwood, Colorado.
Like Gilmore Girls or
even the ill-fated Mountain, all WB dramas suffer/benefit from having an unbelievably
attractive and incredibly witty group of townies. Everwood offers a bit more
diversity than the other shows on the network, but everyone (except a character
named Bright,
ironically) seems too smart for their own collective good.
On the season
premiere, the headstrong Andy (one of three town doctors)
was still pining after Nina, the
hot-but-unavailable girl next door. The two have been dancing around their
obvious attraction for two years. Both are inconveniently unavailable and have
predictably bad timing. Yet, they're always there for one another and seem
to embrace just a moment too long when consoling each other. That's part of
the soapy charm of the show.

