The O.C. - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, Peter GallagherBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Jamie Barber
Cinematographer: Al Pavoni
Writer: Josh Schwartz
Writer: Laura Heath Terry
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1186 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Studio: Fox Network
Movie Reviews of The O.C. - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: one word: oliver.
Summary: 1 Stars
Now let me start off by saying that I love this show, I really do. I even own all of the DVDs. (Yes, including this season) But I didn't always think so highly of this show, and this season is the reason why.
I started watching The OC mid-season one, largely due to my sister because she was the original OC fan in the house. And unfortunately the first episodes that I ever set my eyes on were the Oliver episodes. So now you may understand why I immediately stopped watching it, and nearly gave it up for a lost cause (until I watched it towards the end of season 2. Trey made me a fan again)
There are also a few other problems with this season. Summer is highly unlikeable, as she is nothing more than an annoying bimbo. (I love her in the later seasons though) The whole summer-seth-anna love triangle is utterly annoying and so predictable, as you already know that Seth was going to choose Summer all along, even when he was dating Anna. Ryan does nothing but get into fights with people. I mean you would think that after a while Sandy and Kirsten would realize that they really shouldn't have anymore fancy parties because they would only result in ryan fighting.
But there are also a few good episodes in this season that do make it worth watching. Such as the pilot and the few episodes afterward as you see Ryan, the boy from the broken home, finally find a loving home. And the best one of all is the one where they go to Mexico and Marissa tries to commit suicide. Mischas acting was superb in that one.
To wrap things up, ill just have to say that while this is the worse season of the 4 in my opinion, I would still recommend that you watch it (don't say I didn't warn you about Oliver though!) but if you do watch this one, just be sure that you watch the remaining seasons as well, that way you'll get to see what the show is really made of
Summary of The O.C. - The Complete First Season
It looked like a standard teen soap on the outside, but once you scratched the surface of the glittery, sun-dappled Fox drama The O.C., you'd find underneath a number of surprisingly well-developed characters, fun plots that played around with their soap conventions, and some of the wittiest dialogue this side of an Aaron Sorkin show. The setup was pure high concept: hunky, brooding Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) was a good kid from Chino starting to go bad, and thanks to the interference of his lawyer, Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher), finds himself whisked away from the wrong side of the tracks to the mansions and manicured lawns of Orange County. Soon, Ryan finds himself living in the Cohens' pool house, involved with troubled rich girl Marissa (Mischa Barton), and bristling against the societal confines of his new home, as the people may be richer but they're just as screwed up as anyone else. Still, somehow, he manages to bring out the humanity of the superficial people around him, and they become all the better for knowing him.Okay, enough with the Beverly Hills, 90210 scenario--what The O.C. turned out to be was the most addictive TV soap in recent memory, and one with a brain to boot. Smarter than Melrose Place, sexier than 90210, funnier than Felicity, and not as enamored of itself as Dawson's Creek, The O.C. reveled in clever and hilarious dialogue (the pilot episode earned a WGA nomination) and quirky, eccentric characters. Most noteworthy was breakout star Adam Brody, who as Ryan's geeky newfangled brother-type Seth practically stole the teen heartthrob mantle away from Russell Crowe-lookalike McKenzie. Barton was a bit of a blank as the troubled Marissa, but her best pal, the blissfully superficial Summer, was played by Rachel Bilson as the perfect supporting character in a dizzy farce. And the adults, especially Gallagher and Kelly Rowan as the supportive Cohens, grounded the other half of the show in you know, like, maturity. Not that The O.C. ever forgot the fun that was to be had in TV-land, as most every other episode ended with a fistfight or someone falling into a pool--sometimes both. Here was a soap you could purely enjoy without guilt. --Mark Englehart
When Ryan Atwood a tough guarded fiercely intelligent 16-year-old plunges headlong into the wealthy privileged community of Newport Beach he soon discovers that the ruling families of Orange County are every bit as territorial as the tough crowd with which he ran on the streets of Chino. For Sandy Cohen the idealistic public defender who takes Ryan in; his wife Kirsten the linchpin of O.C. society; their awkward adolescent son Seth; and the beautiful troubled girl next door Marissa Copper - Ryan's presence will forever change their lives.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085393968021 Manufacturer No: 39680
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