Let's face it, we have seen The O.C. many times before. It's nothing new. In the 80s it was called Dynasty. In the 90s it was Beverly Hills 90210. Soap operas about rich people in California leading fake and unrealistic lives, especially rich high school kids will always be popular. Nevermind that the typical O.C. viewer probably has a room temperature I.Q., somehow they were able to work their TVs enough to get this show to become a ratings smash hit. A young woman I teach, who is kinda too old to be watching a high school show at age 22, constantly talks about this show and how great it supposedly is. She's the typical O.C. viewer I am guessing, a party girl (young woman) who drinks and smokes weed non-stop and is basically lost in life. Lost and stuck wishing she was still a teenager, and probably thinks she still is one.
These kind of loser people embellish themselves in a show like The O.C., hoping this fantasy world could someday become their own reality. Hey it beats just sitting around getting trashed with your friends right? I decided to sit down and watched a few episodes before I passed judgment. Didn't take me too long to figure out that this was simply moron TV. It's completely shallow and superficial, built for the extra shallow and superficial high school kids and loser 20 somethings that have nothing better to do. The series revolves around a 35 year old man that is from "the wrong side of the tracks" and gets adopted by the attorney that was handling his case. This man then moves in with the attorney and his family, ooops I'm sorry, did I say 35 year old man? I meant to say he was a high school boy. Anyways this "boy" has a 5 o'clock shadow, a receding hairline, a couple of wrinkles under his eyes and is overall far too old looking to be a convincing high school kid. The actor who plays him is pushing 30 himself. Talk about a 90210 wannabe, right down to casting over the hill "teenagers" in roles.
Right away we are treated to several clichés in The O.C. The kid is adopted into the rich family and makes friends and girlfriends while picking fights and getting bullied. These are all things we have seen so many times before, and The O.C. does not do them in any kind of original way. By the way, 90210 was awfully lily White Anglo 10 years ago in 1995, and so too is The O.C. today in 2005. It seems like FOX has learned nothing in 10 years, and The O.C. actually seems worse then 90210 in this area, because the only non-Whites around are the servants and maids.
Stay away from this show, unless you want to see how it's loaded with all kinds of unintentional hilarity. If you are a high school kid and watching this show, I feel sorry for you. But at least you have an excuse, and well the show was made for "the cool people" of your demographic. So knock yourself out with this garbage. But if you are age 21 or over and watching this show, you are a loser. Grow up and get a life.
I give The O.C. a 2 rating instead of 0 because at least it's not a reality TV series.
2/10
These kind of loser people embellish themselves in a show like The O.C., hoping this fantasy world could someday become their own reality. Hey it beats just sitting around getting trashed with your friends right? I decided to sit down and watched a few episodes before I passed judgment. Didn't take me too long to figure out that this was simply moron TV. It's completely shallow and superficial, built for the extra shallow and superficial high school kids and loser 20 somethings that have nothing better to do. The series revolves around a 35 year old man that is from "the wrong side of the tracks" and gets adopted by the attorney that was handling his case. This man then moves in with the attorney and his family, ooops I'm sorry, did I say 35 year old man? I meant to say he was a high school boy. Anyways this "boy" has a 5 o'clock shadow, a receding hairline, a couple of wrinkles under his eyes and is overall far too old looking to be a convincing high school kid. The actor who plays him is pushing 30 himself. Talk about a 90210 wannabe, right down to casting over the hill "teenagers" in roles.
Right away we are treated to several clichés in The O.C. The kid is adopted into the rich family and makes friends and girlfriends while picking fights and getting bullied. These are all things we have seen so many times before, and The O.C. does not do them in any kind of original way. By the way, 90210 was awfully lily White Anglo 10 years ago in 1995, and so too is The O.C. today in 2005. It seems like FOX has learned nothing in 10 years, and The O.C. actually seems worse then 90210 in this area, because the only non-Whites around are the servants and maids.
Stay away from this show, unless you want to see how it's loaded with all kinds of unintentional hilarity. If you are a high school kid and watching this show, I feel sorry for you. But at least you have an excuse, and well the show was made for "the cool people" of your demographic. So knock yourself out with this garbage. But if you are age 21 or over and watching this show, you are a loser. Grow up and get a life.
I give The O.C. a 2 rating instead of 0 because at least it's not a reality TV series.
2/10