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I wanted to but couldn't!

hyped garbage

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This show is great. It is emotional, funny, dramatic, corney and hooking. There is a lot of struggle, love and life happening the whole time and you grow to love all the characters. However I honestly feel like the 4th season ruined the show. It turned really weird and different than the other seasons and I am really disappointed with how it ended. It didn't even seem like the same show by the end.

I have no doubt why The O C ended here. The first three episodes, taking place after the death of a main character, were good. Then it all went very wrong.Alternative realities? Really?Most of all, however, the dreadful, awful, non stop talking of ghastly Taylor! The introduction of whom just about did it for me. Not to mention the nonsensical pairing of her with Ryan. Just plain unbelievable. I loath her not stop idiotic chatter and find myself fast forwarding to avoid this awful, dire season.It such a shame compared to the very good writing of the previous seasons.

At first glance this is a typical 'fish out of water' teen 'drama' where Ben McKenzie's character comes of age using his poor but honest perspective to provide his newly acquired. spoiled rotten, superficial new class mates with a deeper perspective. Mostly, he fails. He adapts and his faux gravitas fails whenever it matters. He's speechless at all the wrong times. Misha Barton is the true victim here. She's beautiful, tragic and doomed. Abandoned by her extraordinarily venal, crooked and weak parents she takes it upon herself to undermine her own happiness and well being by becoming the primary care giver to a series of implausible and obviously damaged beyond repair characters. Her character never twigs on any of it despite the blatant absurdity. This failure and the fact that no one, even her closest friends, ever bothers to notice or discuss it show how determined the show runners were to destroy her. The show runners obviously are using her as revenge for being rejected by the beautiful girls when their nerdy selves were humiliated and rejected by the Misha Barton types when they were in high school. It's a shame. The whole show revolves around Marissa Cooper's insensible neurosis which is in direct contradiction of the considerable attributes the show insists she possesses. This show is ruined by the naked hostility of the show runners to strong, beautiful, young women. They are the worst sort of self indulgent, superficial, misogynist twerps writing today. Misha Barton, the actor, was abused and misused by these insecure, vindictive cretins. Appalling.

The first time I heard about this show, I admit I wasn't at all interested. It looked pretty cheesy in all of the ads and promos I had seen, and I'm normally not into teen dramas. However, a close friend of mine told me she loves the show and that it's a bit deeper than I think. I decided to give the show a shot and found that she is right. If anything, I think the show is poorly advertised. The promos really don't do it justice. It's not a teenie boppery show, but actually has a lot of substance and touching moments balanced by dry wit and comic relief.The characters that drew me in the most were Ryan and Sandy. I could really relate to their relationship, especially as someone who works with troubled but good kids. I enjoyed many other aspects of the show too including the friendships, romances, and family aspects because I think most of the characters felt real and heartfelt and the show has a certain self-deprecating humor that I love. The show also had terrific music. I am grateful that I discovered Ben McKenzie from watching the show. He has become one of my favorite actors, and he is truly underrated with great potential. I really enjoy him on Southland and hope that someday he will move on to bigger and better things.