Jodes and I just finished watching season 1 of “One tree hill” which I think got some air time on aus tv but didn’t go the distance. Jodie loves it (don’t tell her I said that I can understand the ratings!).

The one redeeming and kinda head-spinning feature of the whole show is that the lead character looks almost identical to Andrew Errington (from college, for those from the real world)

Chad Michael-Murray as “Lukas Scott”:

Andrew Errington as “Chad Michael-Murray look-alike”: (sorry I don’t keep high qual photos of him!)

So I wouldn’t recommend that you watch the entire season…to save you the trouble, here’s what happens:

Andrew Errington’s father, Dan was a Basketball star. He knocked up AE’s mom then abandoned them. Dan had another son, Nathan. Nathan and AE are highschool aged, Nathan is the star of the school team while AE shoots hoops in the park with his home boys. That is until he is spotted by the coach (Whitey) and given a chance on the team. AE is a natural, becomes the star and drives Nathan and his Dad to jealous rage.

AE takes an interest in Nathan’s gf, Paten (blonde cheerleader). This is the start of his many girl troubles. he has 3 on the go at his peak.

In a vengeful scheme, Nathan dumps blondie to woo’s AE female best friend, Haley “tutor girl” to get back at him, which works pretty well.

AE dates Paten’s best friend, Brooke (brunette cheerleader whose strength is not conversation). Blondie and AE almost get it on and Brooke finds out. Brook hates blondie for most of the series then makes up in the last episode. great.

AE and Nathan become friends. Nathan and Haley “tutor girl” get married.

AE’s mum, Karen has been lifelong friends with Dan’s brother Keith (Dan knocked her up). Keith likes Karen, but Karen “loves him but is not in love with him”. Late in the season Keith proposes to Karen but is shot down. Keith Leaves town. AE sees Keith as a father figure. AE feels like he has turned to the dark side because of his fame (see tripple dating above, + pregnacy scare etc) and decides to leave with Keith to “find himself”. How teenaged girl of him.

Nathan’s parents are messed up. They both have had affairs, work too much, and bully Nathan. They end up filing for divorce and the last scene of the season is Dan about to sign the divorce papers then suffering a heart attack. His wife finds him clutching his chest. He tells her “You’d better hope I die”.

And that’s it in a nutshell. I was surprised at the amount of domestic violence against the men in the show.

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