One Tree Hill: The Complete Sixth Season

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

Season Grade: B
DVD Features Grade: A-
Overall Grade: B+

It’s the end of an era. No, One Tree Hill was not cancelled (thank God!), but the shows two lead actors Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton decided not to renew their contracts so when the series returns in its seventh season it will be sans Lucas and Peyton drama. It’s unclear as to how this will affect the shows following but if most fans are like me, then they’re not going to miss the brooding seems-to-be-completely-and-genuinely-in-love-with-every-girl-he-meets Lucas but the loss of Peyton might be bad because of the great relationship she has with the real star of the show Sophia Bush, a.k.a. Brooke Davis.

Show runners made a very smart decision with this sixth and in some senses final season of the show. Rather than go out on the usual nail biting cliffhanger ending that helps to ensure the return of audiences the following year, which probably would have down played the exit of Burton and Murray, they ended this season as though the entire show was ending. It gave a proper ending to all of the stories we’ve been watching for six years before jumping off into this new version of the Hill with no Lucas or Peyton but plenty of Brooke, Nathan, Haley and new comers Clayton, Nathan’s new sports agent played by the unstoppably hot Robert Buckley Haley’s older sister Quinn played by Shantel VanSanten and Jana Kramer as the new face of Cloths Over Bros, Alexis.

This season had plenty going on besides the beginning of the end. As we’ve come to expect from life in Tree Hill there was lots of life, death, career ups-and-downs, break ups, make ups, kidnappings and of course a few knock down drag out brawls that we love to cheer for! It’s especially fun when it’s the girls doing the fighting for some reason.

The two main relationships this season are surprisingly strong and without the usual petty drama. Lucas and Peyton have finally gotten together and decided to get married and Haley and Nathan are finally happily married and each of them is pursuing their dream without pissing off the other. All in all things are good relationship wise in year six.

Filling in some of that missing drama we have Mouth (Lee Norris) in between new girlfriend Millie (Lisa Goldstein) and old high school flame hottie Gigi (Kelsey Chow) and also Skillz (Antwon Tanner) dating Nathan’s mom Deb (Barbara Alyn Woods). And of course my main girl Brooke (Sophia Bush) is always unlucky in love and this year is no exception. She has the hunky but relationship-challenge Owen (Joe Manganiello) at first and then finally ends up with Julian (Austin Nichols) Peyton’s ex-boyfriend and Lucas’ least favorite new person. I think the fact that she has stayed away from the relationship drama and has had more interesting real world problems to deal with is part of the ...