Last night's show was probably the best episode of Everwood I've seen...and I've seen episodes 7-20. I love this show. I know the primary viewer demographic are teenage girls but the show's regularly superlative acting and smart writing have me hooked. The characters are very dimensional, they are flawed people, they do things that make me shout back at the screen saying "woah!". I only watch the show on tape (SuperVHS, at least) because I find the need to pause and replay segments...it can be very emotionally draining and you need to roll out the scenes slowly.
Last night's episode dealt with abortion and teenage pregnancy. Tom Amandes (Dr. Harold Abbott) gave a Emmy-caliber performance that had me riveted to the screen. Wow. Good thing I have the show on tape because I need to watch it again. Prime-time network TV rarely is this good.
My biggest complaint about the show is that it's a little storybookish with the affluent families, small town safe street and rah-rah hometown football team atmosphere. Not much in terms of ethnic diversity but this is hamlet-esque Colorado...