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One Tree Hill
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One Tree Hill is a tv show series that is nine seasons long and was created by Mark Schwahn. It follows a group of diverse teenagers on their journey through high school. Then following a four year jump in time, it follows their journey after college and what they decided to do with their lives. Half brothers Nathan and Lucas Scott have a dramatic confusing family and basketball feud, which is later somewhat resolved in the show. Romances evolve with the following main female characters; Peyton Sawyer, Haley James, Brooke Davis, and later added into the show, Quinn James. Obviously in this teenage tv show series, there are tons of love triangles and drama. Some situations, such as murder, kidnapping, and death really made …show more content…

Coach Eric Taylor puts together a great team from a school with great privileges. The first few seasons focus on how the players evolve physically and mentally, some are even preparing to play for a DI college. The players struggle through taking steroids to improve their game, their current home situations, and their grades. Coach Taylor leads his team to a state championship and greatly impacts his players’ lives. In season four, Coach Taylor is removed from the Panthers, his football team in West Dillon, and is now named coach for the East Dillon Lions. East Dillon is known for their low economic status and for having students known as “thugs.” He builds his team from the very ground up. He guides his team of “thugs” into better people and better football players. He helps them turn their label from “nobody's going nowhere” to “state champions going somewhere.” Coach Taylor, yet again leads a team who knew practically nothing about football or how to play, to state …show more content…

It showcases the main character, Meredith Grey as she finds herself and her passion being a surgeon. She accomplishes and overcomes so many difficult and life threatening situations. Meredith is strong willed, strong, beautiful, graceful, and somewhat twisted. She finds her group of friends that she’ll always be there for, and finds herself stuck in a love triangle, finding out missing pieces of her childhood, and everything it means to be a mother. As the show progresses, Meredith remains the main character, but others are also see as “original” or “essential” characters. Grey’s Anatomy left a mark on those who watched the show from their incredible unbreakable romances and

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