The fourth season of “One Tree Hill” (how many shows are they going to name after U2 songs?) shows us the kids of Tree Hill High growing up as graduation looms. The pretty kids of the show run into their fair share of issues (Peyton has a stalker and he’s a rapist) and possible wins (the Ravens basketball team has a chance at the state championship). It seems like the first eight episodes of season four are an attempt on the part of the writers to get out of the corner they wrote the characters into. As with all TV shows writers and producers often create a cliff hanger without having a proper resolution in mind and that seems to have been the case here as well as they spend the better half of the fourth season digging themselves out of the hole the characters had fallen into at the end of the fourth season. ---

Image & Sound:

As with previous seasons, “One Tree Hill” looks quite good with bold colors complimenting the beautiful cast members. There are occasional issues such as edge enhancement that flare up now and again but, on the whole, the series looks and sounds quite good in a solid DVD presentation.

Aside from three perfunctorily performed commentary tracks with James Lafferty, Lee Norris and Stephen Colletti as well as creator/producer Mark Schwahn. We also get “One Tree Hill in Your Town” a featurette that’s actually pretty decent as well as “James Lafferty’s One Tree Hill Fourth Annual Charity Basketball Tournament” where we get to see what the young star does to raise money for those in need in his off time. There’s also a gag reel and roughly 30 minutes of deleted scenes included as part of the set. This is a surprisingly generous group of extras for a show in its fourth season on DVD.

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