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One Tree Hill: Season One


Review by Clint Morris

There’s a few vital ingredients needed to ensure a modern teen soap is entertaining: marketable pop-music, pretty bettys and spunky barneys, a spoonful of testosterone and another drop of angst, and, of course, the ‘will they or won’t they’ couple. “One Tree Hill” has all that – plus basketball.

Basketball? I hear you say – yep, that’s definitely a new component to the tried and true teen prime-timer isn’t it? And you know what? It’s a welcome tweak to the template.

One Tree Hill

Similar in story to the ‘Dawson plays with Balls’ epic Varsity Blues – though not surprising, it’s the same team behind this show – “Hill’ centres on a poorly highschooler (Chad Michael Murray, late of “Dawson’s Creek” and “Gilmore Girls”) who defies the odds and shows up the school’s star basketballer. 

The kicker? Both guys are half-brothers, though one of them sits on a gold-platted loo, the other sits on a cold, furless rest.

From the get-go, “Hill” grabs you like a cat does a mouse. It’s well written, has some intriguing characters (your typical band of rootables, bitches and scum), and best of all, it feels fresh. For someone that couldn’t give a hoot about sport, I’m surprised I actually enjoyed that aspect of it.

Good stuff.

DVD Extras

The DVD looks good – has an original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 full frame, colours are fine, detail reasonably sharp – and the sound (English 2.0 Dolby digital) though not a ripper, is effective enough.

There are a few commentaries which fans of the show should like (if only because they feature the ensemble cast), there’s a couple of brief but interesting featurettes, and a truckload of deleted scenes. If that’s not enough, point your clicker to the gag reel and music video.

Conclusion: Movie 80% Extras: 70%


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