Fan Forum - 2021-2023 Everwood Rewatch: Episode 3.16

I thought that this was an incredibly well-done but ultimately heartbreaking episode as we saw the characters that we’ve come to know and love so much reach a critical juncture as events were about to unfold that would shatter all the happiness that they had worked so hard to achieve, and how fate played such a momentous part in all of their lives.

I loved seeing Irv narrate the opening of this episode like he had narrated the opening of so many other episodes, and we came to realize that his narrations were chapters in a book he was writing about the town of Everwood and the role that Andy Brown and his family played in the history of that town. We saw Irv philosophize about the role that fate played in all their lives as the destinies of these characters played out in ways that they, and we, never imagined.

We saw Harold try to comfort a heartbroken Amy and we saw Andy and Ephram prepare for his trip to New York for his audition at Julliard, and I had a feeling of dread as the events unfolded in this episode.

We saw Harold tell Andy that he had told Amy about Madison’s pregnancy and he offered to resign from their practice but Andy wouldn’t hear of it and he said that he intended to tell Ephram about Madison’s pregnancy after his audition.

We saw Amy tell Ephram that she couldn’t go to New York him and that her head wasn’t in a good place, but she said that she would tell him everything when he got back.

We saw Irv meet up with Harold at the gym and he revealed that he and Edna had split up, much to Harold’s shock and surprise, and Irv acknowledged that he had screwed up (in his words) and he didn’t hold out much hope for a reconciliation with Edna.

We saw Ephram and Andy in New York and they both seemed to be in a good place as Ephram acknowledged that he knew that this was the first time that Andy had been back to New York since Julia passed away, showing an empathy and maturity that we didn’t see when we first met all these characters. It made me sad seeing this father and son so happy and excited and in sync with one another in the city that they called home for so long, because I knew their happiness would be very short lived.

We saw Bright talk to Amy and he said that he felt so good about apologizing to Jillian that he wanted to apologize to every girl that he had wronged, and he hilariously compiled a long list of all of those girls, including Amy’s friend Kayla, bringing some levity to an otherwise very serious episode.

I liked Edna and Rose’s conversation and Edna talked about her anger and hurt pride over Irv walking out on her, but Rose was determined to help her.

We saw a nervous but elated Ephram walking through the halls of Julliard displaying a sense of confidence that we didn’t see him display before and we also saw Andy go back to his old hospital and meet up with an old colleague who said that he had missed his daughter’s recent birthday party as Andy reflected on how he used to neglect his family and miss key events in their lives just as his colleague was doing now.

We saw Ephram playing majestically outside of Lincoln Center, to the amazement and delight of a small crowd that gathered, but when he finished and the crowd parted, Ephram turned around and saw the one person who would soon bring his world crashing down: Madison Kellner.

Ephram seemed overjoyed to see Madison, but Andy, who soon joined them, was stricken to see her, and the wheels were set in motion for everything to come crashing down.

We saw Bright go and apologize to one of the first girls that he had wronged, but he got a rude awakening when he found out that this girl was happily married with a baby on the way, and she told him that he was great fun but he wasn’t the type of guy that a girl thinks of building a home with, and that she always wanted to settle down but she didn’t want to settle down with him, which shocked Bright and made him start to think about the path he was going down.

I thought it was funny that both Rose and Harold invited Edna and Irv to dinner, and as was typical of most Abbott dinners, things took a disastrous turn as Irv brought an attractive “date” to the dinner, and Edna went ballistic, jealously and angrily lashing out at Irv and his “date” and storming off as Harold and Rose haplessly sat by as witnesses to their blowup.

We saw Ephram playing the piano and showing his masterful control, confidence and talent, and then he called Amy and he told her that he had bumped into Madison, and he told her that he had no romantic feelings for Madison whatsoever and that running into her was like running into his cousin, and that he was going to meet up with her again just to catch up, and Amy, not knowing what to say, told Ephram that she loved him. Amy’s main concern was that nothing upset Ephram before his audition, but fate had other plans.

We saw Madison meet up with Andy and she was really cold to him and he told her that she needed to tell Ephram everything and she said that she would, and she refused to tell Andy what she had done about her pregnancy and she cruelly lashed out at him. Andy admitted that he had made a terrible mistake with her and all he had done was put more lies between him and Ephram, and that everything he did was wrong, but Madison showed him no sympathy at all and she seemed hell-bent to get back at him, and she got back at him at the worst possible time.

We saw Bright tell Amy, who had received a loving care package from Ephram, about his “apology tour” and he said that none of the girls he apologized to saw themselves settling down with him, and he also didn’t see himself settling down with any of them, and Amy told him that he would settle down when the time was right, and he would know who he was supposed to end up with when he actually missed that person, and then Bright asked her if her and Hannah wanted to go to a movie with him, but Amy told him that Hannah was away visiting her parents, and Bright felt sad that Hannah was gone, further setting up a future relationship between them, which the ever perceptive Amy picked up on.

We saw Irv confront Edna as he revealed that he had finished his book and that his “date” was a editor friend of his who wanted to publish his book, and he had written her a touching ending to his book, and he told her that she was his journey, and that wherever she was, that’s where the adventure was, and they made up and embraced.

The final scene of this episode broke my heart as Ephram talked to Andy about their own journey, and how maybe the three of them could come back to New York because everything that Andy had come to Everwood to find they had found, and that Andy had dragged them to Everwood so that they could find a way to become a family and they had found a way to become a family, and that somehow it had worked, and it was the right thing to do, and that they had missed too much already and they should keep their family together. I loved hearing Ephram say those beautiful words, but it was heartbreaking to know that all the progress that Ephram and Andy had made would be swept away at the hands of a vengeful young woman out to get back at the man that she felt had wronged her.

Overall, I thought that this was an incredible episode, but it was an episode that was filled with a sense of sad foreboding as cruel fate would soon destroy all the key relationships in this show and bring us into the most heartbreaking and difficult-to-watch episodes of this entire series.