My daughters loved Gilmore Girls, but if they watched One Tree Hill, they did so out of our range. I love some of your great lines about the unbelievability that we have to accept when confronting TV and its take on reality. My film class viewed Tim Hinter's Rivers Edge last week, and we spent half of our discussion time wondering where everyone's parents were, and why when one high school girl comes and goes at all hours, we just hear her mother's disembodied voice saying, "Clarissa, is that you?" To which Clarissa says, "Yes." I know neither i nor my daughters could get by with that!