This is what I look for in entertainment, it kept my attention throughout all four seasons. They tackled several "hot topic" issues, and presented both sides. A lot of love and a lot of family issues. There were some episodes where it angered me to see the disrespect of these wealthy kids towards their parents, but who knows, maybe that's the way it is in real life. But all in all, the intro music, the life situations presented, and the ending were all VERY entertaining.
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tect-0356415 November 2020
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toncincin23 September 2020I'm a little late to the game here. Never watched this when it was on the CW. Most of those shows weren't my cup of tea. I like to watch a good show before I go to sleep at night and discovered this on Prime/IMDB TV. Hooked me right away. Good family drama - even if a tab bit ridiculous at times.
My only complaint is that, since I live in Colorado, there's not one single mountain town that remotely resembles the fictitious town of Everwood. The houses these people live in are no where near houses in any mountain town I've been to. These are huge country/city type homes. The streets look like Park Hill in Denver. I guess if you're going to do a show that's set in a Colorado mountain town, you'd want to at least make it look like a Colorado mountain town. Also - there's no such thing as Colorado A & M. That made me laugh. AND 25 minutes from Everwood no less.
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*Everwood SPOILERS*
When prominent neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams, 'Hair')'s wife Julia (Brenda Strong, 'Desperate Housewives') dies in a car crash on her way to their 15-year-old son Ephram (Gregory Smith, 'The Patriot')'s piano concert, the grieving man decides to respect one promise he made to her and moves, with Ephram and his younger sister Delia (Vivien Cardone, 'A Beautiful Mind'), to the charming little Colorado town of Everwood.
Here, Andy decides to reinvent himself as a free doctor (he doesn't need the money), much to the dismay of the town's only doctor, Harold Abbott, Jr. (Tom Amandes, 'Brokedown Palace'), whose mother Edna (Debra Mooney) to add insult to injury (according to him) has been hired as Dr. Brown's receptionist.
Ephram enrolls into the local high school, where he meets and befriends Dr. Abbott's daughter, Amy (Emily VanCamp, 'Brothers And Sisters') and, over time, her brother Harold Brighton 'Bright' (Chris Pratt, 'The OC'), who are still reeling from an accident that put Bright's best friend and Amy's boyfriend, Colin Hart (Mike), in a deep coma.
Andy also meets Nina Feeney (Stephanie Niznik, 'Star Trek'), his next-door neighbor, whom he befriends and over time falls in love with, as Ephram does with Amy...
A quirky and heartfelt dramedy, 'Everwood' creates that 'small town feeling' that not many shows can do, and sheds light on the feelings that tie fathers to their children, as 'Gilmore Girls' does with mothers.
Everwood: 9/10. -
Darien_stanton8 October 2004Everwood. The story of a man and his family, whom upon a tragic death, uproot their life in New York city and move to Everwood, Colorado.
Treat Williams pulls off a fine display as Dr. Andrew Brown, a single father trying to restart his life after an emotional loss. Andy tries hard to fix things, be it a local marriage, the town's awareness of STDs, or his less than perfect relationship with his son, Ephram, played by Gregory Smith. Ephram, a gifted pianist, has his own troubles to deal with... notably his "new guy" status and the connection he makes with Amy Abbot, daughter of his father's medical rival and girlfriend of the local 'Mr. Popular'.
All in all, the series plays out wonderfully. The lush setting of Everwood keeps it far from the fancy glitz often seen in today's television, and gives the show a home feel to it. The developing characters weave together a complete picture of the mountain town. A place where everyone knows one another, and community is hard to avoid.
In my personal opinion, Everwood is one of the best shows on television today. With as much emphasis as there is being put on bright lights and big city, it is refreshing to find a down to earth realistic show that doesn't scream for attention through forced drama and scandalous plot.
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lotr_hp_geek4305 June 2006I started watching Everwood at the start of the second season. I cried so hard during that first episode I watched and I knew I was hooked.
I watched the show faithfully for the last three years and I fell in love with the little town and it's citizens. I laughed with them, cried with them, felt betrayed with them, and got through tough times with them.
When I found out the the show was canceled I nearly cried again. I couldn't believe that they would get rid of such an awesome show.
The series finale was a great send off for a brilliant show, and like that first episode and many others it left me in tears.
Everwood is a great show with real characters who bring you into their homes and you can't help but let them into your hearts. -
One of the best series ever performed. A pity it has ended after just 4 seasons. Talented great actors, beautiful photography, a complete and amazing drama, full of sentiments, sensations, fun. It makes me smile, makes me laugh, makes me cry a lot too. But leave a great message, life is hard, could be really really hard, but friendship and love are stronger.I'll be expectant of Everwood complete series DVD's!!! A message to WB: repeated it complete at nights or weekends!, I cannot get it during working hours and i really wanted to watched it again completed, since the very first beginning chapter. Thanks for this 4 years of Everwood. Keep it alive!!!.
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limeykitty-112 May 2018I like the series, but the teenagers are too bratty with too many cute phrases. Love both of the doctors and Dr. Brown's nurse. It is pleasant, does not take a mental giant to watch it.
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T2TLED30 April 2021A gem. Truly one of the greatest shows ever. Always nice to visit Everwood.
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baruch-253-89554813 June 2022I've been enjoying this show but the number of missed opportunities to educate about head injury is a lot. A lot al lot.
Folks with Traumatic Brain Injury often show the kinds of symptoms Colin does on Everwood, but the show doesn't explain any of it. The doctors don't seem to know basic things about seizure, aggression, memory, etc. The time frame for the characters recovery is sped up for TV, I get that, but...a guy who has seizures and is about to have brain surgery is driving a car? I don't think so.
Lots of good stuff in this show, I am just remarking on this, it's major flaw. -
bobberlife23 January 2021Everwood has been my favorite show since it aired in 2002 and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Anything and everything surrounding this show is impressive and imersive, and I would highly recommend watching if you are a fan of classic tv shows that manage to still be relatable. Also us Everwood fans would love something like a 4 part follow up just saying.
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cathysparta28 September 2020Update: okay so I ended up sticking with the show I'm in the middle of season 4 and it only gets worse and worse and worse. The character of Ephraim never gets better in fact it just gets worse, and I think it's a combination of poor acting and poor writing. there are some really likable characters in this and I just wish they hadn't focused on the wrong ones like Ephraim. I wish they would have focused more on Bright and Hannah, they are entertaining and fun. The show really goes off the rails in season 4 though, It becomes incredibly unbearably preachy and liberal. I don't know the specific reason the show got canceled because there are just so many. I really want to love this show, but I am having a very hard time. I'm only on season 1 episode 9 but the son is so incredibly bratty and horrible that it's very hard to get passed. I don't understand why shows do this with teenagers Yes, some teenagers are hard to take but not every teenager is horrible. I'm hoping that his personality changes as the show goes along, otherwise I won't be able to watch too much more.
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carlisleexchange28 January 2020The characters are interesting, and draw you in from the first episode. Well written and very clever humors at times. Quite relaxing and worth watching.
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christa-pelc26 July 2020Everwood is a sweet family-oriented series. The storylines deal with some deep issues, and handle them in a delicate way. My only 2 concerns- 1. Some crass language and 2. Too much sex. Of course, sex is nothing to be ashamed about, but teenagers need to realize there's more to growing up than this one very special and private part of life.
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If any guy acted like this in real life girls would avoid him like the plague. Talk about emotional labor. He's incapable of communicating, he's constantly sullen or behaving like a dick to his dad or girlfriend. Because he's so dark and mysterious.
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luke-3110 October 2003As the second season of "Everwood" has gotten underway, I have moved this show up in my ranking-it has now become my second favorite show of all time behind "Once and Again". Although "Once and Again" was a superb, one of a kind show, "Everwood" possesses many stylistic and thematic similarities to the prior show. It also boasts excellent acting from its adult as well as teenage cast. "Everwood"'s two core families-the Browns and the Abbotts-are written as real people with strengths and weaknesses, and played by talented actors who bring these characters to life. Greg Berlanti has proven with this show that he has the ability to make a contemporary family drama that can be popular as well as real. "Everwood" is definitely my second favorite show of all time.
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SnoopyStyle24 August 2013When Manhattan surgeon Andrew 'Andy' Brown is widowed, he decides to start a whole new life in the idyllic Colorado town Everwood, but gets more than what he bargained for. It takes an eternity for the city doctor to fit into the small community, which already has popular Dr. Harold Abbott. It's even worse for his son Ephram who falls for sweet Amy Abbott, daughter of the local doctor. Along with little Delia, the family of three deal with emotions, loss, and new relationships.
Treat Williams is great and Gregory Smith is solid as the angry teen. Emily VanCamp is perfect as the sweet love interest. All the characters and the actors are compelling. I love all 4 seasons. It's a teen drama as well as more adult emotional fare. -
TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews1 November 2009A brilliant brain-surgeon moves to a small town with his teenage son and small daughter, when he is widowed. This has excellent writing, with clever and well-delivered dialog(so much of which is quote-worthy and memorable), and smart scripts throughout, and deals with countless problems, and usually in a respectful manner. The values promoted tend to be traditional ones, but this usually doesn't underestimate the issues it goes into. There is a lot of humor in this show, and I can't claim to keep from laughing whenever Tom Amandes speaks one of his utterly perfect lines. The cast is great, and almost all of the acting is marvelous. Vivien Cardone is incredibly talented for her age, Gregory Smith is far from that kid in Small Soldiers, and Treat Williams is impeccable. I could go on. The characters are plentiful, varied(everyone will have someone to like and/or recognize themselves in) and well-developed, and they all genuinely grow throughout the course of the series. This maintained a pretty high level of quality all the way, if it got somewhat melodramatic after the first season(and by the fourth, Bright was kind of the preferred scapegoat when someone had to do or have done something wrong). The guest stars are good. I recommend this to any fan of drama shows with dry comedy. 8/10
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wedmcdfcdjlbctenqn16 November 2023So I am old enough to have seen this when it first aired on tv. I never watched the entire thing, and thought recently that I should change that as I had fond memories of the show and wanted to find out how it held up today.
And the first season actually holds up pretty good. A father brings his family to a rural town after his wife dies, as he tries to become a better father to his children who he has sort of neglected for most of their lives. Ephram (the son) already starts out annoying, but you can sort of understand his anger at his father trying to be a family man a bit too late.
We get introduced to the other doctor in town, who actually ended up being one of my favourite characters of the show along with his son Bright, who starts out feuding with the main character as he starts up a competing practice in the small town.
Fun characters, realistic drama, you have your impossible love triangle with a surprising twist and beautifull scenery. Yep, Everwood is up to a great start.
It's in later seasons where the show's entertainment value takes a drop, when both Ephram and Amy become absolutely insufferable ungratefull drama queens. They really are made for each other, as I could not stand either of them by the end of the show.
I honestly don't understand how the series shows them as being the couple who you should root for (the Ross and Rachel of the show so to speak) when they are shown to be absolutely horrible human beings. Same for the father and his interest in his neighbour. I did not care for either of them either as they likewise progressively became bad people due to their actions.
All in all I am glad to have seen the entirety of Everwood, but I wouldn't really recommend it besides the first season. The show does have a proper ending if you do decide to watch it all though. -
victhor996 October 2018No kills, no zombies, no traitors, no corrupt politicians, no mafia, no superheroes..., only life, the best costum serie ever (maybe as dr alaska or wonderful years). Magnificent actors, specially tom amandes/dr abbot, and a young chris pratt (yes guardians of the galaxy, jurassic world...). In world full of series, i miss this kind of series.
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rzanno8 October 2021So, let me first start off by saying I do enjoy this show. It is apple pie small town USA. However, there are a number of story lines I take issue with. First, I know abortion continues to be a hot button issue but clearly the writers are VERY anti-abortion. When an 18 year old is asking to get an abortion because her predatory piano teacher leaves her pregnant, the message of the show is clear; abortion is a sin. There is a Frank's attempt to assuage the audience into thinking they are trying to show "both sides" but the show ends with the doctor who performed the abortion going into a confessional saying forgive me father for I have sinned. Second, the depiction of depression and psychotropic medication is AWFUL. The message here is people who take medication are weak. Amy's father in fact gets upset when she asks to be placed on medication and initially refuses. When she then desperately goes behind his back he is furious and relents. The depiction of mental health and medication is antiquated and perpetuates stigma. The fact this is almost a twenty year old show does not excuse this problematic message.
That being said, i still watch this show and do enjoy it. Take it for what it is: white town USA. -
curlygirl8524 July 2006I have watched everwood in its entirety never missing an episode since its start in 2002. and not to be cheesy but this really is a great show- demonstrating character development, and the writers beautifully tackle important issues such as drugs, sex, and loss. so i am left with but one question......
WHY CANCEL EVERWOOD! there is shallow crap showing like one tree hill were so and so hooks up with a new person every week and u never actually get to know the characters except for they're partners and the latest gossip they spread. cancelling an excellent family drama such as everwood but keeping one tree hill is definitely a bad decision. -
atndog17 September 2002This show was better than I thought that it would be. I certainly wasn't anything great, especially from the WB but I would say that "Everwood" was a solid attempt at a show about the relationship between a widower and his two children.
I especially liked Treat Williams' performance as Dr. Edward Brown the brain surgeon who leaves behind world-wide fame to live in a small town in Colorado called Everwood. A place that his son Ephram (played by Gregory Smith, that kid from the Patriot and Small Soldiers who actually surprised me a with a decent performance) does not want to go to.
The first episode was a typical sort of "seeing the new town" sort of pilot episode. It was fairly well done though I did not like Debra Mooney who played the biker-chick/nurse hybrid. I think that she once played a judge on one of the courtroom dramas, probably The Practice, and I could not really look past that.
All in all I would say that I liked this show but I don't think that it has the cast to stick around much past the first season, if that. -
joel060722 May 2006It seems that the rumors are true and "Everwood" hasn't been picked up in the merger of UPN and the WB. Now millions of people will never get a chance to know what it's precious few fans already know: "Everwood" is written far too well to have it lost in the cracks of time as the show continues to make us both laugh and cry in almost every episode.
I cannot say the same for any other show on television today.
It's had a great four year run and had it not been for the merger, I have no doubt "Everwood" would have been on the air for at least another four. But I guess we'll never know... That is unless the folks at CW change their minds and pick up "Everwood" as a mid-season replacement, but I wouldn't hold my breath. -
This show explores the results of taking a small rural town and replacing everyone in it with obsessive compulsive - ADHD people who are in such dysfunctional relationships and family's that it isn't even a normal small town. The children are the most self-centered, rude, mouthy kids ever born and the two town doctors are the poorest examples of parents ever written into a script. It's no wonder their kids are a mess. There is so much shouting and dysfunction in every relationship that it feels unnatural. Even with all of this, I enjoy the outlandish characters enough to watch the series to the end. I was sad reading that Treat Williams was killed in a Motorcycle accident last year in Albany, NY.
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onewillowsong14 October 2018So depressing but like a car crash you can't stop watching.