Monday, June 02, 2008

October Road

I just finished watching the first episode of a stunningly promising series when I discover that the show has recently been cancelled at the end of its second season.
October Road, the story of a writer Nick Garrett who comes home after 10 years away to face the life he ran away from and the friends he used as fodder for his best selling novel.
Nick is played by the very likeable Bryan Greenberg, who for three seasons was Jake on One Tree Hill (maybe this means we'll find out what happened to Jake in series six), and I guess that's part of the appeal.
We get a small glimpse of life in 1997 before Nick left his girlfriend Hannah, best mate Eddie and a band of interesting friends for a six week holiday. Only thing is, he never came back.
Ten years later he arrives back in Knights Ridge to find everything has changed. Hannah has a son, who may or may not be his son, and Eddie is so cut that Nick abandoned him that he `never, ever' wants to be friends.
I'm going to persist and watch all 19 episodes (6 from S1 and 13 from S2) in the hope that ABC (in the USA) will see sense and at least allow closure of the series or another network picks it up (the CW would do well with it in my opinion).
Until then I have a new obsession until One Tree Hill returns.

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