Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #491 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-06
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 777 minutes

DVD Description
One Tree Hill has never been shy about reinventing itself, and season five takes place four years after the main characters graduated from high school at the end of season four. Lucas Scott is working on his second novel after the success of his first work, "An Unkindness of Ravens," assisted by his editor, Lindsey. Along with his old friend Skills, Lucas also coaches his former high school basketball team and hopes to take them to another championship. Peyton is torn between her growing career in the Los Angeles music field and her continuing feelings for Lucas back in Tree Hill. Brooke has found some success as a fashion designer, but at a cost to her personal life. Nathan and Haley struggle with the roller coaster that is Nathan's career as they raise their young son, James. Mouth, meanwhile, finds it hard going in the cut-throat world of television broadcasting.

Customer Reviews

It's four years later... and everything has changed!
When I first heard that One Tree Hill is going 4 years into the future I wasn't really sure that I would still like it as much as I used to. But I was clearly wrong. It's definitely hard to make a transition like that. But the producers of the show totally nailed it!

As I already said, season 5 starts 4 years later. Brooke has her own clothing line and magazine, Haley and Nathan have a 4 year old son, Jamie. Haley is about to become a teacher at Tree Hill High. As for Nathan he finds himself with broken dreams sitting in a wheel chair. Lucas' first book became a best-seller and he also has a new girlfriend, his editor Lindsey. Peyton is still in L.A., but not as happy as she hoped to be. And neither is Brooke. They both decide to return to Tree Hill.

Like in every season, the main characters have many struggles they have to go through. I felt really bad for Peyton this season, she's always the most troubled one but this season it hits her hard when she finds the love of her life, Lucas, in the arms of another woman. The season finale leaves us hanging with not just one huge cliffhanger. And even though I felt really sorry for Peyton the entire season, it's Brooke's storyline that made me shed a tear or two in the season's last episode.

All in all another great season. Not as good as season 4 (still my favorite) but pretty damn close!
Even though it's 4 years later it's still appropriate to say "GO RAVENS"!

The Good, The Bad and the Lucas
Well I decided to take into account what other reviewers had said. I thought to myself - perhaps they can see some kind of profound brilliance to Season 5 of One Tree Hill. But what still strikes me is the lost opportunities.

Lets start with the four big strengths this season had: Dan, Jamie, Nathan and Haley. The ultra adorable Jamie Scott. The second strength the season had was Dan Scott - still as nutty at as ever, even to the extent of almost bumping off a rival for a donor transplant. You could easily spend listen to the dialogue between Dan and Jamie for 45 minutes. Nathan and his challenges after his accident are also worth a mention. As is the Nathan-Haley marriage problems - thats what being an adult is all about - not the adolescent problems the rest of the cast has.

Now to the problems with Season 5. Unfortunately there are quite a few that did not resolve themselves. Four years later - you would expect to see the characters fundamentally changed. With the exception of Dan and Nathan - very little has changed. We still have Peyton believing she can secure world peace via music. Lucas still loves himself. Brooke is still moaning to anyone who will listen that she is misunderstood and doesnt want success. She's a simple girl who wants a family. Mouth still has the simple dream of being a comentator and mopping up a few basket case (or nutcase) girlfriends along the way.

Now the show is doomed to go over the same storylines again and again - particularly through the Peyton-Lucas saga. Or we get to live old storylines through banal new school characters. A special mention goes to the "angry black basket ball player" and "the low confidence super talented singer". The writers really should have cut loose from the school - as it is we get the cast hanging about school pupils reliving their glory days.

Had this season featured only the Scott family: Dan, Nathan, Haley and Jamie it would have been ace. There was enough mature dynamic between them to keep the viewer focused - these were characters who had actually moved on. Had it been - this would have been a 5 star hands down.

Instead we still have the likes of Lucas hanging about the airport with three pathetic women pining for him. In one scene Lucas says to Peyton that he hates her and wishes she had never come back. From this reviewers point of view - this could easily apply to Lucas and few other cast members.

Season 5 - with Dan, Jamie, Nathan and Haley - 5 stars easily. The hangers-on really brought the tone down.

BEST SO FAR BUT WAIT FOR SEASON SIX!!!!!!
I have to say after reading some of the other reviews they seem a bit harsh and maybe had they watched the show rather than doing other things they would get what was happening! For starters there where not three of them pining for Lucas just two.
Secondly the 'angry basketball player' is a very important to both season five and six and even if you are only bothered about the Scott family and the oh so cute Jamie, Q is a very important part to that family. In season six there is an episode about Q that made me cry the whole way through.
Season six is going to be the best ever having already seen the first seven episodes it'll make you laugh, cry, and scream at your t.v. The characters are brilliant, each in their own way showing how much they have grown up and overcome their problems and all with the drama we expect from the Tree Hill bunch.
This is such an important season it had everything I love about One Tree Hill and has a great cliffhanger for the finale. Watch it you wont be dissapointed.