As for the apex mountain of teen dramas, it’s still Freaks and Geeks and Euphoria. But, for the OC, which is an extremely soapy teen drama, it does its job pretty damn well. Extremely addicting and entertaining.
The Dougie/Cooper stuff continues to be magical, Janey-E is just amazing. The hit man sequence is insane, the car crash is harrowing, and oh my God the Hawk stuff is so good.
Not totally sure about the bookended arcs of this season, feels like the Montgomery family gets wrapped up a bit cleanly/easily in the climax and didn't get much out of the Dorff/Wigham angle at all (both felt severely underused to me) but there were a lot of the individual pieces in this in the mid
Such a great mix of the tacky showmanship of its setting & McBride/Hill's lowbrow vulgarity. Every Goggins line delivery is a work of poetry. David Gordon Green should give up the horror thing, he's so much better at this.
Very strong first season. So many of the characters I already love, including Coach, Sam, Norm, Diane, etc. Great stuff. Hopefully it can keep it up for 10 more seasons.
An 80s sitcom episode centering around gay people is bound to go wrong, but this was actually handled pretty well. I’m pretty shocked how well the characterization is in this show.