I’m surprised no one has started a thread about this new Fox show.
Well…basically…I like the show, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE Adam Brody. I want to take him home and make him my pet and watch him be all dorky all the time!
Anyone else?
I don’t love Adam, but I was suprised that the show is so good. I like the characters and think the show has some potential. I just hope they don’t turn it into too much of a sex/skin fest with all the young kids. I hope they work on developing the characters and the story lines. For now, I am planning on tuning in whenever I can.
I watched 45 minutes of it yesterday at my friend’s house. I was bored and felt like breaking my fingers.
I was watching it, and I’ll admit it was sort of interesting. The only things that annoyed me was the main character (the kid), he moved so slowly. I can’t really describe it, but I hate a character in a movie or on TV that pauses forever before they talk, or generally makes you scream “c’mon c’mon, go answer the friggin door already!!” That character had me yelling at the TV.
I’d just like to point out that I grew up in Orange County and nobody ever called it “The OC.” That’s been bugging me since the promos began.
Yes but boy is it “edgy” and “hip”.
Melrose Place meets Dawson’s Creek.
If you like that sort of thing then you’ll like this sort of thing. And there is nothing wrong with liking these sorts of things.
BTW, did anybody read Entertainment Weekly’s mini-review of Tuesday’s show?
The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire! Seriously. Get the hell out of there!
Hee hee.
I wasn’t taken in by the pilot, but I didn’t hate it, so I watched the second episode. It has potential 
Yeah, I agree about the character Ryan seeming to take a long time to do/say things. Like I’ll be watching him, and think “…well? and?” and then he’ll speak.
I didn’t watch Dawson’s Creek past the first season and I don’t think I ever watched Melrose Place, so I can’t exactly use those for comparison. What made me watch this show was that I already liked 3 of the actors and because my father watches/records everything, it was there to watch. So, who knows, I might give up on it after a few more episodes, but for now I like it. Woo!
Sorry, but all I had to see were the commercials and thought it stank. And the damn thing isn’t filmed anywhere near Orange County anyway due to union travel restrictions (you have to pay 'em more if they drive more than 30 miles or something!).
Gee, lots of rich annoying kids who drink, take drugs and have sex! Just like in high school!
sigh…
If it weren’t for the fact that there was nothing else on TV and I was bored and brain dead after work, I would not have bothered to watch.
It is probably more exciting for 14 year old girls, but as mindless prattle, it is ok.
The plots of the next 35 episodes are pretty easy to figure out…his real mom tries to scam for money and riles the new mom who finally agrees to let him stay, girl next door dumps boyfriend for him, school is rough at first but he will be great at some sport and on the honor roll, he will be accused of taking drugs, he will save a life or two, he will look good in swim trunks, Lassie will save him from a well…
In real life, he will be dating Demi Moore next year and he will star in a film as the son of that aging actor, Brad Pitt.
We do, however, refer to it as living behind the Orange Curtain.
Calling it “The OC” bugged me too. Because planned communities and strip malls are soooo sessy.
Planned communities? You mean, like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Anaheim, etc? I am scared to ask what the hell the plan was!
And I have never used the term “orange curtain.” Lived here all my life.
Eh, no one called it living behind the Orange Curtain, either. I’ve only heard people refer to it like that in the media when they are trying to be cool or something.
Usually we just went by the city.
Buena Park representin’!
It was a common comment when I was in high school, sometime in the early eighties. The companion joke was <pilot voice> We are now landing at John Wayne Airport, please set your watches back 20 years". </pilot voice>
I’ve never heard “The OC”.
Thanks for the verification, Devil’s Grandmother. It wasn’t a hip or cool thing. Just a reference to how conservative it generally was, at least compared to LA.
If I recall correctly, it’s the LA people who use the term “behind the Orange Curtain” or “going behind the Orange Curtain” when referring to themselves going into OC (stereotypically the land of unhip, John Birtch Society conservatives). We who live here (in OC) do not use it about ourselves. (And not all of us are unhip or conservative.)
And as a life-long OC resident, I have NEVER heard it referred to as “THE OC.”
Didn’t watch the show, and didn’t see the unrelated movie Orange County. As soon as I heard they were not filmed here I lost interest.
Well I love it, dammit. Of course, I’m all about the cheesy teenage melodrama, and I’m 25.
Sigh I guess I’ll grow up someday…
And is it me, or does it seem odd that someone would go off about how lame a show is after only having seen the previews…
:dubious:
I don’t really like the show, and I hate Ryan and Marisa. But my love for Adam Brody and his convincing geekiness will keep me coming back for at least a couple episodes. And Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows will probably hook me for a couple more. But I never really got into that spoiled brat melodrama thing.