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Everwood doesn’t get the respect it deserves. 

When Everwood premiered, I was a young gender binary person, though we did not yet know what that meant or why it was bad. I was struggling academically at a for-profit university that has been liquidated over 14 times and currently owned by the company that started Pets.com. I cannot recall what drove me to watch the pilot, but probably from a commercial break during wretched WB crap like 7th Heaven - the antithesis of Everwood. The moment in that first episode when Ephram shouted to his dad “I wish you died instead of her!” and he shouted right back “Well I wish I did too, you little bastard!” I was hooked. Actually, I was actually hooked before he replied. It may not take all that much to hook me, I’m finally realizing.

It’s easy to look back to 2002 say it was a more innocent time and that’s why we had more innocent shows like Everwood, but it isn’t true. We already had 9/11. We were still in the midst of a “boom time” for gutter culture like professional wrestling. And Everwood actually wasn’t truly innocent. It didn’t condescend to the viewer with idiotic, unrealistic plots. It didn’t insult us, like 7th Heaven, nor bring us to the edge of titillation, like certain episodes of 7th Heaven. While the world was burning, the small town of Everwood was our respite. Though it had its share of violence - fights, natural deaths, unnatural genocides and yes even shouting (which can also be a form of violence) - watching the show still felt like an escape from the nightmare around us. Fifteen years later, our world is better in some ways but worse in so many others. 

If, like me, you spend your Saturday nights (after the appearance of the first three stars) scouring the web looking for information on the hit WB show, YOUR disappointment is crushing and recurring. I sometimes feel like asking "Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani” but instead of my god, I’m asking my internet and instead of forsaking me, it's forsaking the creative forces that offered up the best show of the 2002 Fall season. Where are the legions of fan sites? Where are the meticulously cataloged reviews? Where are the high definition fan-made montages of favorite moments?  What is there to capture the renewed enthusiasm for a show as a younger, despicable generation finally has access to stream the show via CW’s The Seed?

Due to a series of buy-outs, mergers and other silicon valley/corporate malfeasance, only two meaningful Everwood fan sites still exist. Everwood Online, with its custom logo and sponsored sidebar links, is much more comprehensive. Dead links to a dead forum and updates that suddenly stopped in 2009 (likely due to the webmaster's murder) hint at this being the premiere site for news, analysis and yes probably fan fiction. Inside Everwood!, however, appears to have been a true passion project. You will find nothing monetized on this Tripod-based site - truly outside the scope of global capitalism. Most of the content appears to come from five extras on the show who write first hand accounts of the filming process and occasionally veer into salacious gossip. The sudden cessation of content upon the show's cancellation seems natural and not the result of a brutal "clean up" process launched by new CW Network's cadre of assassins. 

The heroes of what I would call "Early Everwood Online" will always be held in high esteem but the world needs a new place to congregate and discuss the show. And now you know why you've been brought here via incredibly expensive sponsored links. I hope you'll join us for the ride - Everwood You?

- Glenn