Working from home has its benefits. One of them being getting to watch trashy American dramas throughout the day. E4 is laden with awful teen soaps that after you’ve watched one episode, you’re sucked right in and lunch revolves around watching Gilmore Girls. Sad, I know. But when the new series of One Tree Hill started last night, I couldn’t help but watch it. Too tempting. Even if it was much worse than I’d have hoped.

To hide the fact that all of the characters are way to old to look like school kids, they’ve fast forwarded four years. Very clever. So, what are the pretty people up to?

Brooke is still a spoilt bitch, but now we’re meant to believe she’s running a major fashion magazine and caring about anorexic supermodels. Peyton is working in the music industry for someone so cliched it’s cringeworthy (he actually says “undo your top button and you can sit in on the meeting” who talks like that?) Lucas is a struggling author who’s shagging his editor. Yes. Another cliche. Do all struggling authors shag their pretty editors? And Hayley and Nathan had a baby. Oh, and Nathan is in a wheel chair and can’t play basket ball anymore. Boo hoo.

This episode whizzed through each story in the hope of getting them all back to Tree Hill at the end of the allotted hour. Job done. But honestly, after four years we’re meant to believe that they’re all leading these rags to riches lifestyles and then they give them up to move back to little Tree Hill where they were all really happy? News flash: Most of the time, they weren’t happy. Most of the time they cried and shouted a lot.

The worst thing about this is they all look the same. In fact, everything is the same. Except Nathan has really bad hair. It’s the same people, same stories, they’re just older. Remember when Dawson’s Creek didn’t get any more interesting after they all went to Uni? Same thing. The show is still trashy. The characters still take themselves far too seriously and the show is really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. But, if you’ve got an hour to fill while your roast potatoes are cooking on a Sunday, this isn’t the worst option you’ve got. In comparison to 90210 anyway.