I was a very lucky girl and was given the chance to take a peek at HART OF DIXIE (Premiering on The CW September 26th) before the show hit airwaves. I am very pleased to report that Hart of Dixie is the best pilot that I’ve seen this fall TV season.
I cried, I laughed, I smiled, and now I’m highly debating moving to a small southern town; all thanks to Dr. Zoe Hart. Rachel Bilson does an amazing job as Hart, a young doctor that has know from the age of nine that she wanted to be a heart surgeon like her father. At he med-school graduation, imagine her surprise when a man approaches her to move to Bluebell Alabama to help in his medical practice.
Zoe, who was born and raised in New York City, has a plan for herself. She will complete her residency at a prestigious New York hospital, and then go on to become a surgeon just like her father. Obviously she turns this strange man down. However, after losing a medical fellowship because of her lack of bedside manner, Zoe decides to take up the Doctor and starts her journey to Bluebell.
What happens once she gets there is where the fun begins. Zoe is completely out of her element, and discovers that Doctor Wilkes (who has been sending her post cards to remind her of his offer for four year) has passed away and left his part of the medical practice to Zoe. Zoe has no friends, is living in a cabin off of a plantation house run on a generator, and runs into the less than friendly “Belles” of Bluebell.
You’ve seen these girls in every TV show and movie about the south – the ones that are perfect southern girls on the outside, but on the inside? NASTY. Zoe also meets Dr. Breeland, the doctor that owns the OTHER half of the medical practice in Bluebell, and he doesn’t want to share his practice with a New York City girl!
Zoe’s mother ends up arriving in Bluebell to take her daughter home, but when Zoe agrees to leave Emmeline (the assistant for both doctors) drops a bomb on Zoe that causes her to rethink her departure.
Honestly, Hart of Dixie has some cliches: the small southern town, the all American boy that rescues the big city damsel in distress, and the big city girl who is completely condescending to small town life. Despite this, everything in Hart of Dixie works! I was really, REALLY disappointed when the pilot episode ended; I can’t wait to see more of this new show from The CW!
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