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One Tree Hill: The Complete Second Season (Repackage)(DVD)
Aside from their love for hoops, Lucas and Nathan seemed to have
little in common. But the two young men are bound by the fact
that they share the same her. As Nathan is increasingly
brought into the world Lucas knew before he joined the high
school team, the two boys begin acting like brothers, not
enemies, for the first time. Years in the making, a deep and
bitter conflict had slowly unfolded as the two boys struggled to
come to terms with a her who chose to live vicariously through
one son while ignoring the existence of the other. Now, Nathan
and Lucas have formed a unique bond based on mutual resentment of
their her. Meanwhile, the girls of Tree Hill explore their own
interests beyond romantic entanglements.
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One Tree Hill: The Complete Second Season finds life in an
uproar for virtually every major and minor character in the WB
series set in One Tree, North Carolina. Basketball sensation
Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray), illegitimate son of One Tree
Hill's resident J.R.-like figure, car dealer, and all-around
monster Dan Scott (Paul Johansson), has left town with his Uncle
Keith (Craig Sheffer) to start a new life. (Keith himself has
split One Tree to nurse a broken heart after his marriage
proposal to Lucas's mom, Karen, played by Moira Kelly, was
rejected.) It's not long, however, before Lucas has second
thoughts, prompted in part by Dan's recent heart attack and the
mess he (Lucas) left behind with two girls, Peyton (Hilarie
Burton) and Brooke (Sophia Bush). Meanwhile, Lucas's
half-brother, Nathan (James Lafferty), has married the former's
lifelong best friend, Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz), a union approved
by the bride's parents but not by Nathan's mother, Deb (Barbara
Alyn Woods). (It should be mentioned that Nathan and Haley, as
with nearly every other young person on this show, are not yet
high school seniors. They only look much older.)
All that's just the first couple of episodes of season 2. In the
remaining 21, Dan temporarily fools everyone into believing he's
a changed man following his cardiac crisis. In fact, he's worse
than ever, trying to wreck Nathan and Haley's marriage,
attempting to buy Lucas's loyalties, driving Deb into a
drug-addicted stupor, pulling the rug out from beneath Keith (who
took over Dan's dealership during the latter's illness), and
waging a war, of sorts, with basketball coach Whitey (Barry
Corbin) for influence over Nathan's destiny. While all this is
going on, Haley leaves Nathan to join a music group, Peyton finds
success running an all-ages night at a new club opened by Karen,
Lucas finds evidence that Dan is cheating the IRS, Brooke's
once-wealthy parents go broke, and actress Sheryl Lee (Twin
Peaks) turns up toward season's end playing a mysterious visitor
with a surprising connection to a major character's past. Whew.
If One Tree Hill's first season succeeded in part because series
creator Mark Schwahn kept, for a while, a tight focus on the
early, rocky relationship between Nathan and Lucas, the second
season works as a frenetic, ensemble drama with elements of camp
and absurdity. The above-mentioned reference to Dallas villain
J.R. Ewing proves apt in more ways than one. The final episode of
One Tree Hill's sopre season ends with its own, not-so-subtle
variation on the classic who--J.R. cliffhanger, leaving open
to debate which of many possible One Tree candidates might have
committed a foul (if understandable) bit of vengeance against a
certain bad dude one loves to hate. --Tom Keogh