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This blogspot site may soon just be a popular destination for "OC" fans everywhere. For unlike the States, who have to wait till Wednesday nights to watch The OC, us Canadians get new episodes on Monday nights - 2 nights earlier! And so, in an attempt to increase my blogspot readership, I'll be posting my thoughts about the show Monday nights, hopefully for all eager and impatient Americans to read. So on with the show... recap...
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"I'm sorry." FOX executives everywhere are apologizing for an unmoving and unmotivated return episode of The OC tonight. That and "I'm sorry" seemed to be the only line uttered by poor suicidal Marissa throughout the whole show. Actually, there seemed to be a lot of apologizing happening in this episode, from Ryan screwing up his private school entrance exams, to Kirsten feeling guilty over her kiss with Jimmy, to Summer going all 90210 on Seth (translation: Sorry I'm too cheerleader for you). Unfortunately, Peter Gallagher still did not apologize for his terribly bushy eyebrows.

My apologies though, to the actors, who had to serious-face their way through groan-inducing dialogue. At one point, I correctly guessed three straight lines that came out of their mouths. Here, try this one on: "I didn't want to, well, hurt myself," cries Marissa, apparently unaware that she is allowed to say the word "suicide" in prime-time. "I just needed an..." If you guessed "escape," you are correct! Now how about this ditty from Ryan?: "It's not where I'm from," he says to the token-Asian actress who plays his new principal. "It's..." If you guessed "where I'm going," you are either one of the writers of tonight's episode or someone else. And don't even get me started on poor Julie, the mother? If she's not Joan Collins from Dynasty reincarnated, I don't know how her botox doctor does it. But anyway, after being dissed up by her daughter, Mizz Julie was given the all important, "this is not over!" line to close out the episode. Dramatic. (Not!) This was by far the worst OC ep yet!... Wait... although at the end... Seth and Ryan are given clever banter by the writers to call out Peter Gallagher on his thick eyebrows and express their disgust at them... This is the best episode ever!
posted by Tim at 10:32 PM