TV Review: One Tree Hill - "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"

The newest episode of One Tree Hill was called “Good News For People Who Love Bad News.” I’m curious if there is a relationship to the Modest Mouse album of the same name or not. Either way, the kids of One Tree Hill seem to always be full of bad news.

Peyton and her brother Derek decide to get to know each other. Both are artists, like the same music, and even look alike. He has apparently known about her for a while. Peyton gives him the picture Ellie drew for her. Derek also offers to tell Peyton what he remembers of their father before the man walked out. Too bad it looks as though he’s going to be a psycho. Nothing new for Peyton, I guess, but I am sick of it always being "oh woe is Peyton" because her life is so awful. I liked this character so much better when she was happier.

Haley is picking up on Rachel’s intentions for Nathan and warns her to stay away from her husband. The whole marriage in high school thing has always seemed a little forced, but the references to it in this episode put that cheesiness over the top. I mean, they haven’t graduated from high school and they’ve already had some huge issues to overcome. We get it, relationships aren’t perfect and you have to work on them, but couldn’t that work without the context of marriage?

As much as Nathan was trying to put the accident behind him, it still plagues him during the game. Skillz gets some playing time in his first game as a Tree Hill Raven. And naturally there is a big party afterwards; it just happens to be at Rachel’s house so that ups the drama factor. Brooke kisses a guy she sees walking in with Peyton, but it turns out to be the brother and Brooke takes that as fodder for yet another insult.

Nathan asks Rachel what she remembers from the accident, but she doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear. He’s worried about thinking Keith is the one who saved him. Luckily, Peyton talks to him and tells him that even if Keith did save him, Keith probably didn’t do it so Nathan would sit around pouting.

Article Author: Cara de Pescado

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