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The great 2020 OC rewatch has begun

Never forget Doug Liman directed this pilot

An iconic introduction

God damn still one of the best pilots ever

When China the horse has alopecia

“Hallelujah” is one of the most overused songs in film/tv but The OC uses is the best

The OC s1 ep3 posits the radical notion that in 2003 Star Wars was nerdier that X-Men

Two thoughts as I rewatch The OC for the first time since high school

1. This first season is miraculous, wonderful television

2. Getting rid of Anna and Luke is the worst mistake the show ever made. Worse than Oliver or Johnny

*lightning flashes outside the window*

He has arrived

When is 2003 fashion going to return?

I'm halfway through the Oliver arc and I've decided it would all be worth it if he turned out to be a serial killer

"You wanna come over later? I Tivo'd Leno"

Where is The OC's Emmy for best comedy

2004: a better, simpler time, when The OC was so influential that new Beastie Boys songs would premiere on it

Also: does Ryan being a poker genius ever come back? I totally forgot about this

Serious question: does The OC season 1 finale have the best end-of-episode-needle-drop-montage-where-we-see-all-the-characters-being-sad*?

*the official name of the trope

Anyway on to season 2

Cannot overstate the magnitude of watching a teen drama in 2004 where characters bond over Brian Bendis comics

Holy shit it’s the director of Booksmart

That time The Killers visited The OC to play Mr. Brightside and the show wasn’t even sold out

Fall 2004: when one episode of The OC featured a Killers guest appearance and premiered a new U2 single

The s2 Chrismukkah episode reveals that Lindsay has an Italian poster for Giant in her bedroom

Just discovered Zack from The OC is Jimmy Olsen who gets shot in the head in BVS

It’s kind of perfect he AND Adam Brody eventually made it into DC movies

I had zero memory of Jeffrey Dean Morgan being on The OC

Marissa is hanging out with Olivia Wilde whose ex-girlfriend is Sloane from Entourage and every character in this episode is always listening to Interpol. What a show

Cannot overstate how invested teenage me was in the “Seth writes a comic book” storyline

Got to the part where they go to the Wildstorm offices and now I miss early 2000s Wildstorm

I think the biggest problem with The OC (a show I love) is that every new supporting character ends up moving away so they’re forced to return to the same romantic pairings and character dynamics

Taylor is the obvious exception and gives the show new life

I wish it had built up a sense of a community where Luke, Anna, Lindsay, Zack, and Alex stuck around and interacted. Like Gilmore Girls had. Although I don’t know if that’s possible in a show with 6 lead characters

These are the thoughts that will still haunt me on my deathbed

Such a shame The OC never brought back the members of the comic book club. It’s like a mini Freaks & Geeks cast

The Champagne Supernova + Spider-Man scene on The OC is the greatest convergence of my interests in tv history

OC update: Amber Heard locked our heroes in the mall and now they’re crawling through an air vent

He has arrived

Put The OC’s breakfast cold opens in the Smithsonian

The OC did an episode about the crystal egg from Risky Business and used the Tangerine Dream score...is this the best show ever

OC update: during a house party scene they played a Daft Punk song, followed immediately by “Daft Punk is Playing at My House”

Also Trey choke-slammed a water polo player

“He’s a marketing genius. We recruited him out of Fantagraphics.”

OC update: the boys are in Miami and Sandy Cohen just quoted ”Miami” by Will Smith WHILE the song is playing on the soundtrack

OC update: the nerds from the comic book club are back

George Lucas has come to the OC

Reminder that “Fix You” premiered in this episode and this scene is actually good in all the ways the Newsroom scene is terrible

Made it to The Scene

Obviously the Hide and Seek/Mm whatcha say music cue is iconic but what I forgot is that the first half of the song plays in the funeral scene at the start of the episode. So the song represents death and this moment is a reprise

I watched this when it aired and honestly forgot about the song until the SNL digital short happened years later. And now it’s the first thing people associate with The OC

Season 3 is gonna be a slog but at least Taylor Townsend is here

He’s here and I’m so mad already

The worst character in the entire series

The thing about season 3 is that Marissa having public school friends who are weird doppelgangers for the main cast is a great idea...it’s just that these characters suck

oh no Volchok is here

Season 3 is a drag but the revelation that Taylor Townsend is into ultraviolet yakuza films is an amazing development

Johnny is obviously the worst character on The OC but Chili might be the runner up. He’s like someone who auditioned for the role of Seth and got cut in the first round

Worst OC characters

1 Johnny
2 Chili
3 Oliver
4 Volchok
5 evil con artist Jeri Ryan

Apparently the guy who played Chili on The OC died in 2012

what the fuck

I just...hate him...so much

Every character in season 3: “we gotta help Johnny, the pathetic kid we just met who broke his leg and is in love with Marissa and spends every episode moping in his house and telling everyone to leave him alone!”

Look at this fucking piece of shit who ruined Chrismukkah