History Series / Everwood

* CutShort: So that the new CW could bring us yet ''another'' season of past-its-prime ''Series/SeventhHeaven''.

According to Website/TelevisionWithoutPity, its stories were often pure cheese in concept, but executed so awesomely they could only sputter, "Damn you, Berlanti!"

* MarketBasedTitle: In the UK, the series was shown on Creator/{{ITV}} as ''Our New Life In Everwood'' (subsequent screenings on other channels reverted to the original title).

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Reid, Ephram and Bright's room-mate from season 4, when he fails out of medical school and cheats on a test. He is caught and expelled. His friends all feel guilty for not realizing that Reid was depressed. Upon recovery, Reid pretends everything is fine, which understandably upsets them, and Amy calls him on it]].

* LoveThyNeighbor: Andy and Nina.

* LoveThyNeighbour: Andy and Nina.

-->''[Nobody moves]''.

Everwood was a drama series that ran from 2002-06 on what was then TheWB, starring Treat Williams as Dr. Andrew Brown (unlike most of the WB's shows, this was cancelled when it merged with {{UPN}} to create TheCW). After the death of his wife, Brown left his prestigious position at an New York hospital, packed up his teenage son and nine-year-old daughter, and left the big city for the quiet, sleepy mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.

According to TelevisionWithoutPity, its stories were often pure cheese in concept, but executed so awesomely they could only sputter, "Damn you, Berlanti!"

* AlphaBitch: Delia's friend Brittany is a toned down, younger version
* BadassBiker: of the granny variety: Edna
* BetaCouple: Bright and Hannah to Amy and Ephram in season 3

-->'''Lanie''': I've got to break something to you.
-->'''Ephram''': You're married?
-->'''Lanie''': No.
-->'''Ephram''': You're leaving the country?
-->'''Lanie''': Stop.
-->'''Ephram''': You're marrying Bright and then leaving the country?
* BrokenPedestal: happens ''twice'' to poor Ephram in the second half of season one: [[spoiler: his piano teacher has to leave town because he got one of his female students pregnant -- just weeks after Ephram found out his mother had been cheating on his father, probably right up until she died]].

* CliffHanger: the first season finale. [[spoiler:Colin Hart's fate is not revealed until the second season premiere]].

--> '''Edna:''' Remind me again why you're offering this thankless town free medicine?
--> '''Andy:''' Well, the long answer is that after fifteen years of making money off of other people's sickness, I've decided to alleviate my guilt by doing something incredibly altruistic. The short answer is: I'm nuts!
* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler: Kyle, one of Ephram's piano students in the fourth season]].
* CompoundTitle: The beginning of season 3. First episode was titled "For Every Action..." & "...There Is a Reaction" was the name of the second one.

--> '''Andy:''' The thing is, I promised Delia I wouldn't date her.
--> '''Edna:''' You also promised Delia a horse, I don't see Mr. Ed clomping around!
** [[spoiler: She finally gets her horse in the series finale.]]

* CutShort: So that the new CW could bring us yet ''another'' season of past-its-prime ''SeventhHeaven''.

* DeadpanSnarker: Ephram. It's his self-defence mechanism. He snarks at his father, his sister Delia, at Amy when he wants to tease her, at Bright... He's sarcastic with everybody.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Reid, Ephram and Bright's room-mate from season 4 when he fails out of medical school and cheats on a test. He is caught and expelled. His friends all feel guilty for not realizing that Reid was depressed. Upon recovery, Reid pretends everything is fine which understandably upsets them and Amy calls him on it.]]

** InvokedTrope: Mrs Brown was quite a matchmaker. She tried to invoke the trope as she makes Ephram ''accidentally'' meet his crush and invite her for his piano recital.

** Dr Abbott and his wife Rose are very happy together. He's a doctor and she's a mayor, yet they both consider their family and especially children their biggest success.
** Edna and Irving. They had their problems, but managed to deal with them. [[spoiler:Edna is devastated when Irv dies. She tries to be stoic, but admits that she misses him terribly and feels useless.]]

-->''(Nobody moves)''.
-->'''Andy:''' ...And get their own horse, raise your hand.
-->''(Delia raises her hand excitedly)''.

* MarketBasedTitle: In the UK the series was shown on {{ITV}} as ''Our New Life In Everwood'' (subsequent screenings on other channels reverted to the original title).

** Dr. Andy Brown is a widower; the death of his wife and the family dealing with their grief kicked off the series. His young daughter Delia doesn't like when he dates Linda Abbott, and his son Ephram disapproves also, but mainly because she's ill and he's afraid that Delia will become attached and they will have to go through it yet again. At the end of the series, Andy gets together with his friendly neighbour Nina. Both Ephram and Delia have always liked her, so they will probably be okay with it.

* SacrificialLamb: Come on, did you honestly think poor [[spoiler: Colin Hart]] was going to survive?

--> '''Andy Brown:''' I MOVED INTO A SNOWGLOBE!.

* WorldOfSnark: Nearly everyone has snide comments for their family and friends. Ephram, Delia, Andy in the Brown family, Harry, Bright, Edna and sometimes Rose in the Abbott family, and often the patients snark at their doctors. Drs. Brown and Abbott often engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat -- their rivalry soon changes to sympathetic banter and eventually they become friends with healthy dose of sarcasm from both sides.

** Mrs Brown was actually the one who found a lover because Dr Brown was always working and that's why they sometimes argued. He has troubles forgiving her in full even after her death.
** Nina's husband cheated on her -- with a guy. Nina is devastated when when found out and they go through a divorce.

** Ephram and Amy. S1: Ephram --> Amy. S2: Amy --> Ephram. S4: Ephram --> Amy then Amy --> Ephram.

Everwood was a drama series that ran from 2002-06 on what was then TheWB, starring Treat Williams as Dr. Andrew Brown. After the death of his wife, Brown left his prestigious position at an New York hospital, packed up his teenage son and nine-year-old daughter, and left the big city for the quiet, sleepy mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.

** Also Hannah and Bright. S3: Hannah --> Bright then Bright -- > Hannah. S4: Bright -- > Hannah.

** There is also a bit of this with Bright, Hannah, and Topher.

** Throughout the first season, Ephram is in love with Amy but she's with Colin. In the second season, Ephram gets over Amy and begins a relationship with Madison around the same time that Amy realizes her feelings for Ephram. Eventually, [[spoiler: they enter into a relationship for awhile and break up.]] In season four it happens again, first Ephram wants to be with Amy again but she turns him down. Afterwards, Ephram moves on and gets a new girlfriend named Stephanie which causes Amy to realize she still loves Ephram. [[spoiler: In the end, they get back together.]]

* WorldOfSnark: Nearly everyone has snide comments for their family and friends. Ephram, Delia, Andy in the Brown family, Harry, Bright, Edna and sometimes Rose in the Abbott family, and often the patients snark at their doctors. Drs. Brown and Abbott often engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat -- their rivalry soon changes to sympathetic banter and eventually they become friends with health dose of sarcasm from both sides.

* OverprotectiveDad: Harold Abbott.

** There is also a bit of this with Bright, Hannah, and Topher

** Widowed Dr. Brown sleeps with a woman whose husband in vegetative state. Then he gets better and they stop.

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Throughout the first season, Ephram is in love with Amy but she's with Colin. In the second season, Ephram gets over Amy and begins a relationship with Madison around the same time that Amy realizes her feelings for Ephram. Eventually, [[spoiler: they enter into a relationship for awhile and break up.]] In season four it happens again, first Ephram wants to be with Amy again but she turns him down. Afterwards, Ephram moves on and gets a new girlfriend named Stephanie which causes Amy to realize she still loves Ephram. [[spoiler: In the end, they get back together.]]
** There is also a bit of this with Bright, Hannah, and Topher
* WhatTheHellHero: Andy's affair with the stroke patient's wife in Season 3. Not only was it out of character, but the guilt over the first time they slept together caused him to develop an ulcer and cough up blood...and THAT was when he decided to make a go of the relationship as more than just a one-off? Really? It was like the story was written backwards, somehow making the logical endpoint the catalyst.

!!This show contains examples of:

* TeensAreMonsters: Averted brilliantly. The teenage characters could be volatile and cause the adults grief, but the adults weren't always perfect either and most of the arguments were shown from both sides, displaying real conflict rather than standards kids versus parents.

--> '''Andy Brown:''' I MOVED INTO A SNOWGLOBE!
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: See CutShort above. This was so bad that Everwood fans rented a Ferris wheel outside of Dawn Ostroff's offices, attempting to help renew the show, but to no avail.

* NearDeathClairvoyance: Sort of. Andy's deceased wife appears a few times to discuss the difficulties of parenting with him; the first few of these are actually "replays" in Andy's mind of conversations they'd had before, but the last one is completely original.

* ParentWithNewParamour: Edna.

* MayDecemberRomance: Ephram and Madison

[[redirect:{{Everwood}}]]