‘One Tree Hill’ Turns 20: Ranking the 14 Most Bizarre Storylines
variety.comEmily Longeretta On September 23, 2003, an all-new teen drama premiered on The WB, one that was focused on two half-brothers, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty), and their very different lives in the small town of Tree Hill, N.C. “One Tree Hill” evolved quite a bit from that storyline over the course of the first season, homing in more on the show’s love triangles, both within Nathan and Lucas’ high school, and among the adult characters.
Through the years, those lines blurred, with multiple former students dating or marrying their friends’ parents. That’s just one example of how the series, which aired for nine seasons before wrapping in 2012, went a bit off the rails.
Never was it afraid to lean into unrealistic and downright wacky storylines. There were very mysterious things that happened in that small North Carolina town — like, each person who left town becoming extremely successful the moment they graduated from high school.
Below, Variety has ranked the wildest “One Tree Hill” storylines, from a high-school wedding to a dog eating Dan’s donor heart. “One Tree Hill” didn’t waste anytime diving into absurd storytelling; by the end of Season 1, teenage Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Nathan had decided to get married after having dated for a few months.
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