Season 1 Episode 2 (1x02): The Great Doctor Brown When we last left the Brown family, they were beginning to settle into their new life in Everwood. Most of the major characters were introduced or subtly referenced and, had the pilot episode not been picked up, it would have all been simply a wonderful, 44 minute NC-17 short film. Instead, this episode we go deeper at that which was dare not spoken in the pilot. We see both the Browns start to slowly adjust to life in the town and the town slowly adjust to them. Main plot : Dr Andy Brown falling back into bad habits, prioritizing work and hallucinations over his family. Secondary Plots : Amy finally asking Ephram to ask dad to perform surgery on Colin and Dr Harold Abbot working through his feelings about his father, his mother and Dr Andy Brown. Delia's Plot : She hates her reactionary teacher and got a nightmare from watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factor. "What year are we?" - List of t...
It is September in New York, one year after 9/11. The toxic dust is still settling in Lower Manhattan. America is At War. The Taliban has been defeated in Afghanistan, Coalition troops are securing Kabul, Karzai has been installed as President of that embattled nation. We are nearly a year away from our Mission being declared Accomplished after the unsuccessful invasion of a nation wholly unrelated to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the U.S. Pentagon. The camera flies over Central Park, as if to mimic Mohamed Atta or Marwan al-Shehhi in their hijacked planes over the nearby airspace that fateful fall one year ago. It zooms into the apartment of The Browns, an affluent cosmopolitan family of four having a casual breakfast, who are about to experience a personal 9/11 of their own. Welcome to Everwood, the show: a show about wood that lasts forever, the various treatments and finishes to use, sawing and sanding techniques, etc. This renders the artistic choice to use the p...