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List Price: $27.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 12352
Released: September 7, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
As a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Andrew Brown is a hero. As a father, he's a zero. But that is changing. Tragedy makes him a single parent to his two children. And as the first act of his new life, Andy leaves Manhattan and moves his family to Everwood, the tiny Colorado town where big dreams can grow. The relationship between Andy and his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram forms the heart of these 23 first-season episodes of Everwood, the acclaimed, richly layered series created by Greg Berlanti (Dawson's Creek). Treat Williams plays Andy, learning parenting on the fly as he raises Ephram (Gregory Smith) and 9-year-old Delia (Vivien Cardone). Unafraid to tackle big issues, spiked with sharp humor and filled with engaging characters, Everwood is a place and a series that rewards each visit you make.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:On four episodes (Pilot, Episode 20, the Unveiling, Home) with the show's creators, cast and crew, including Treat Williams and Gregory Smith.
Deleted Scenes:"Everwood Casualties"
Featurette:"In Search of Everwood" - a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the show.
Gag Reel
Description of Everwood - The Complete First Season:
Prepare to get hooked on Everwood, a family drama-comedy from the WB television network that looks and feels like a hybrid of Northern Exposure and Picket Fences--both shows, incidentally, being major influences on Everwood's talented creator, Greg Berlanti (Dawson's Creek). A fish-out-of-water tale with unusually high stakes in the relationship arena, Everwood gets much of its charge from near-perfect performances by Treat Williams (The Deep End of the Ocean) and Gregory Smith (The Patriot) as a contentious father and son trying to keep their family going after a catastrophic loss. Williams plays Andy Brown, a world-class neurosurgeon whose Manhattan practice caters to the rich and famous; it also keeps him far removed from daily life and big events within his family. After Andy's wife (Brenda Strong) dies in a car accident, he finds himself raising a gifted 15-year-old boy, Ephram (Smith), who hates him because of years of neglect, and the much younger Delia (Vivien Cardone from A Beautiful Mind), who is scared and confused without her mom.
Andy, often seen in the first couple of episodes speaking to his late spouse, decides the best way to honor her memory is to move the family to little Everwood, Colorado, a special place in her memory. Not just a move--more of a wholesale re-invention, beginning with Andy's new salt-and-pepper beard and including a no-charge medical clinic he opens in Everwood's former train station. The free practice puts Andy at odds with the unpleasant Dr. Abbott (Tom Amandes of the syndicated The Untouchables), whose daughter, Amy (Emily VanCamp), develops a friendship with lonely Ephram while she also pines for her boyfriend, Colin (Mike Erwin), long lost in a deep coma. Over the course of the first season, many lines of connection will be drawn between these folks. Andy will be asked to attempt a risky operation on Colin, with ramifications affecting his son, Amy, and others. Abbott's sour relationship with Andy will lighten up enough for the former to join Andy's practice, and other surprises are in store.
The series is filled out by other, sweet and eccentric regulars, including Debra Mooney as Andy's nurse (also Abbott's plain-speaking mom), John Beasley as her husband and Delia's bus driver, and Stephanie Niznik as Andy's neighbor, Nina, a surrogate mother. Surprisingly gutsy storytelling, generally understated dialogue, heartfelt performances, and gorgeous Colorado exteriors keep one coming back for more. --Tom Keogh
Everwood - The Complete First Season Reviews:
A great jewel of a series 
2009-11-10 - Okay, Everwood characters such as Dr. Brown may on rare occasions get a tad preachy. But only rarely. Otherwise, this a fine ensemble cast, with a reasonable amount of angst, great wilderness and small town locations, plenty of family and school drama, and content that is perfectly okay for older kids, say middle school aged, to view with or without their parents in the room.
Treat Williams is appealing as the aforementioned NY doctor who moves to a tiny town after his wife's death. The biggest challenge for him is raising his young daughter and teenage son, the latter one filled with bitterness about being forced to move and rightfully angry with his dad for hardly having been home in the earlier years. This of course leads to much confrontation, arguing, blame, and guilt, which makes for great scenes of conflict. The easier kid, Delia, is a delight to watch. The rival doctor is a real stealer of scenes, while the woman playing his toughp-as-nails mother is usually fun as well. There's also a neighbor who has to raise her son alone and can connect with Dr. B. on that level, while Ephram must deal with his feelings for the gentle Amy, who is torn between him and her comatose lover, Colin. Her brother, Bright, isn't very...bright. But he's okay in his way.
Beautiful locations and some good songs too.
FANTASTIC SHOW!
2009-11-04 - This show is one of the most underrated TV shows ever. Extremely well-written, great characters and character development, breathtaking setting and instantly relatable. People dismissed this show as a family, 7th Heaven-type show but it isn't. It tackles adult themes and social issues, tying it in to personal storylines. I'm also a huge fan of shows like Deadwood, The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, In Treatment and The Office and I put this show up there with those shows in the writing department.
Favorite show ever
2009-10-30 - I'm so happy to have found this series on DVD, and eagerly await the continual release of seasons on DVD.
Awesome TV drama...at last
2009-10-25 - This season - and now the second, have been released on DVD. Never heard of this show before then, but thanks to Netflix and searching for dramatic TV shows on DVD 'Everwood' popped up...and it has been a part of our lives for many months! My wife and I have not enjoyed a drama show as much as this in quite awhile, and we are looking forward to all the seasons being released at some time (namely 3 and 4). It would be a shame if the 3rd and 4th seasons never get released, considering so many insipid shows that have had all of their seasons released on DVD.
EVERWOOD is one of Greg Berlanti's (Brothers and Sisters) early shows, and he did it right - for 4 years until the 'sudden cancellation' (from what I read on the net). Only the good die young, I guess. Get what you can, as TV drama doesn't get this better that this.
Really Good!
2009-10-06 - You know what, just watch it! So good. Every episode. This is one of only 3 tv series that I fell in love with and was almost heart sick when it went off the air. Trust me! It is just so rare when such a good series with great writing and meaning and realism and characters you can love and get engrossed in and say-I want to live there and know them.
