About the thing that happened on 'One Tree Hill' last night
Sep 30, 2008, 02:59 PM | by Lindsay Soll
Categories: About Last Night, Television
Don't worry, spoiler-phobes. We won't start the discussion until after the jump...
Ding Dong! The bitch is dead. Which old bitch? The Nanny Carrie bitch!
Was there some sort of Stephen King movie marathon playing recently in Wilmington, NC, that all of the writers of One Tree Hill were forced to attend? It would seem so with the way the Nanny-Carrie-as-psycho-killer storyline finally played out last night.
After weeks of holding Dan hostage in her cottage house, Carrie (played by Torrey Devitto, who really should stick to roles where she's praised for her looks — like in the short-lived ABC Family drama Beautiful People — instead of for her over-the-top fanatical nature) enacted her plan to kidnap Jamie by getting Hayley to believe she was bringing Jamie to a hospice to say goodbye to Dan.
Part of me can't believe I continued to watch this nonsense go down, but I just could not turn away from the TV! What unfolded felt like Children of the Corn meets The Shining meets, well, The Three Stooges: Carrie chased Jamie into a corn field; Hayley woke up within two minutes of being knocked unconscious; Deb, who had seen a picture of Nanny Carrie and an address on her fridge and immediately thought, "MURDERER! THERE MUST BE A MURDERER LIVING THERE!" then showed up out of nowhere, knocked Carrie unconscious with an old bottle of wine; and then Carrie (in true horror movie form) woke up only to be shot by Dan.
As if all of that wasn't bad enough, the killer nanny still wasn't dead, and once again Dan had to shoot her — not without spewing off some heroic line about messing with his family, of course.
Taking all of the above into consideration, who else is happy that the dang nanny is resting in the plots-we-hope-are-gone-forever graveyard? And how many of you are finding that you're feeling sympathetic toward Dan, a generally unlikable character? (Keep in mind: Paul Johansson, who plays Dan, actually directed some of the episodes we've already seen this season.)
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