Product Description
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The complete first season of the popular drama series which
follows two estranged half-brothers living in a small North
Carolina town, who live very different lives. Episodes comprise:
'Pilot', 'The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most', 'Are You
True?', 'C into You', 'All That You Can't Leave Behind (aka
Where I End and You Begin)', 'Every Night Is Another Story',
'Life in a Glass House', 'The Search for Something More', 'With
Arms Outstretched', 'You Gotta Go There to Come Back', 'The
Living Years', 'C Course in Polite Conversations', 'Hanging
By A Moment', 'I Shall Believe', 'Suddenly Everything Has
Changed', 'The First Cut is the Deepest', 'Spirit in the Night',
'To Wish Impossible Things', 'How Can You Be Sure?', 'What Is And
What Should Never Be', 'The Leaving Song' and 'The Games That
Play Us'.
.co.uk Review
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One Tree Hill: Season 1 marks the beginning of a genuinely
engrossing series that maintains, for a long while, an unusual
focus on a single, powerful conflict defining the destinies of
two characters. Adolescent half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael
Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott have lived parallel
lives in One Tree, North Carolina. They share a common her,
Dan Scott (Paul Johansson), who has disregarded the existence of
Lucas, his son by a one-time flame, Karen (Moira Kelly), whom he
dumped years before to accept a basketball scholarship to
college. While neglecting Lucas, Dan--whose hoop dreams never
materialized--has spent his time almost perversely micro-managing
every one of Nathan's moves on and off the court at his old high
school, where the lad is currently an arrogant superstar under
gruff-but-wise coach Whitey Durham (Barry Corbin). Nathan (whose
mother is separated from Dan) is a child of privilege and has
been raised to disregard teamwork, compromise, or the feelings of
others. He regards Lucas, a basketball sensation on neighborhood
playgrounds, as t, and his own girlfriend, Peyton (Hilarie
Burton), as a pretty bauble he can abuse and dismiss at will.
Still, he's sympathetic; one can see glimpses of the human being
struggling to emerge from under Dan's control.
Meanwhile, Lucas helps Karen run her café, hangs out with
platonic best friend Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz), and pines for
Peyton (herself a punky misfit at heart). He also turns to
surrogate dad Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer)--actually his uncle and
Dan's older brother--for support, and sees himself as a perpetual
and doomed outsider in One Tree. All that changes when Whitey
invites Lucas to join the b-ball team that Nathan dominates, a
move that challenges the status quo of multiple relationships in
a small community. For about a third of its episodes, this series
from creator Mark Schwahn (who wrote the hit film Coach Carter)
stays true to the suspense surrounding Lucas's and Nathan's
changes in fortune. Then a bit of padding follows to the end of
the season; there are 22 episodes to fill out, after all. But
even as various distractions (a kipping subplot, a car
accident and coma for a major character) and random events creep
in (Dan, rather incredibly, takes over the team from Whitey at
one point, thus coaching both his sons), One Tree Hill remains
highly watchable. The writing is shaped well and , while
performances are consistently excellent. (It's especially good to
see Sheffer, perhaps best known for A River Runs Through It,
again.) --Tom Keogh, .com