ABC“October Road” is ABC’s newest addition to its Thursday night line-up. It’s been airing in the 10 o’clock hour after “Grey’s Anatomy” for the past few weeks.
The question for Nick Garrett, played by Bryan Greenberg, is “can you ever really go home?”
Home for Nick Garrett is October Road. Garrett has been gone from his hometown for 10 years. He left his high school buddies and girlfriend one summer and never returned.
Garrett moved to New York and wrote a book about his early years. Little did he know his big success in New York would not have the same effect in his hometown of Knights Ridge, Mass.
He had absolutely no contact with his family or the friends he left after his high school graduation. He ruined any chance of keeping that relationship when he used all of them as characters in his novel.
The opportunity to go home and teach a seminar at a local college in his town is given to Garrett. He takes the job in hopes he could break his writers block by going back to where he started. Garrett returns only to find all of his friends with jobs, some married and some not changed at all. His high school sweetheart, Hannah, is now a single parent and in a relationship with someone else. Lots of things have changed since Garrett has been gone.
Instead of leaving after his seminar, he decides to stay in Knights Ridge to mend what he broke by being gone for 10 years and by how he portrayed his friends in his novel. He’s off to a rocky start, but things can only look up from here, right?
The show begins to unravel as Garrett returns home and begins to run into his old friends. Some accepted him with open arms; others had a bit of a tough time.
His high school sweetheart, Hannah, turns out to be a mother of one. Ironically enough, her son is turning 10 and has a peanut allergy that every man in the Garrett family has. Paternity questions arise but are denied by Hannah.
With only a few episodes into the season, I think it’s too early to make any assumptions. This could have a lot of potential. Heck, “Grey’s Anatomy” wasn’t a hit at the beginning. It took people awhile to get into it and begin following the story.
