I heart Everwood

I love the internet! It's made the world so much smaller. Yesterday a parcel arrived from the US, full of DVDs I bought on Amazon.com that aren't available in Australia. Luckily in this day and age of the internet they're pretty much available to anywhere. I'm so stoked.

Nowadays I do most of my entertainment shopping online. It's so much easier to order things from the comfort of my own home and have them delivered to my door than to trek out to the plaza and buy it in person. It's also a hell of a lot cheaper! I've bought CDs from Argentina that were cheaper (even including international postage) than to buy the import from an Australian store. Don't get me wrong, I am a big stickler for the Buy Australian policy, but I figure that when the items are not available in Australia to begin with, or are already imported, then I may as well get a better deal.

So this time I ordered Popular - season 2, and (more importantly) Everwood - season 1. I love that show. To my knowledge it was never given much of a chance in Australia, which is a shame because it's a brilliant show. It's a coming of age, father and son, boy meets girl, small town drama set in Everwood, Colorado. I stumbled across it one day when I was sick in bed channel-surfing. (Channel-surfing, I might add, is something I detest with every fibre of my being: if you are watching a channel on the television, then watch it. Don't flick back and forth.) My argument is slightly mooted by the fact that I stumbled across this gem of a show while doing the very thing I hate. Oh well.

Ephram (the guy on the right) moves to the small town of Everwood, to start a new life, with his father and sister after his mother dies suddenly. He promptly falls in love with Amy - the local good girl - who in turn is in love with Colin (below) - highschool jock, hottie, and comatose after a terrible car accident. Amy's brother Bright (above) - also Colin's best mate - survived the car accident and feels guilty about the whole thing. So you can see why I got hooked. I've already watched seven episodes today.

I was nearly (and I emphasise "nearly") crying in the episode which told the story of what happened on the day of the accident. Picture it: a montage of Colin, comatose in hospital; Colin and Bright driving in a car around a paddock, laughing; Amy and Colin swimming in the lake, kissing; all against the backdrop of the haunting vocals and acoustic guitar of Caught in the River by The Doves (and you know that I go weak at the knees for a good male vocalist). Nearly brings a tear to my eye just writing about it.

I love the internet.