Last night's episode was hardly anything to brag about. It was actually pretty frustrating, mostly due to the lack of resolution/plot advancement, but more so because our local fox station cut out during a scene to give updates on a storm that had already passed.
What can I say about this episode? It wasn't very impressive. The direction that the characters are taking is pretty maddening. The dialogue wasn't that great. Death Cab had like 2 seconds of air time, even though they are "Seth's favorite band." Could've been better. I'm just saying. It was so unimpressive that I've already forgotten most of what happened in the episode in terms of dialogue, but here goes anyway.
-Ryan is sure that Trey is not responsible because he wanted to save Marissa--because Ryan was about the same thing. How noble. Seth agrees with my sentiment. I'm telling you, their dad needs to come back from upstate to try and save Marissa Cooper also.
-Sandy's working hard to clear Trey from the charges that he gave Jess the ecstasy. Blah, blah, blah. Trey has to stay with the Cohens again since Sandy is responsible for him. Somehow, I don't think that's exactly how it works, but whatever--I guess that's the way it's done in the OC.
-Ryan's going to clear Trey--all 21 jumpstreet. Seth says he wants to be Richard Grieco. Why? I mean, Ryan is definitely the Johnny Depp character, but Seth should be Dustin Nguyen, the loveable minority character.
-Sandy and Kirsten talking. Sandy says that Carter is taking Erin to a vineyard event, Kirsten's like what the fuck? She's uncomfortable with this idea.
-Julie is being very kind to Marissa--she doesn't punish her because she doesn't want Caleb to find out what happened. Julie makes a really gross comment about making personal sacrifices to keep a roof over their heads. Ew. He's old.
-Summer is still mad at Seth--she talks to sleazy Zach Attack, who is totally trying to get her back. The scuzz! She talks about some word of the calendar, but she's taking after Adam because she mumbles her words. He apologizes with a Gerber daisy, and tickets to Death Cab. You're forgiven, Seth, by me anyway. However, Reed has some notes she needs to go over with them. Way to spoil the DCFC love, Reed. Seth says they'll meet up after because he hears that they play long sets-which is NOT TRUE. Trust me, not true at all. All of their songs are like 2 minutes long. And how has Seth not seen Death Cab before? Even I've seen them, and if the music has trickled all the way down to me, that's pretty pathetic.
-marissa and Ryan take matters into their own hands (who else thinks this is a bad idea?) and try to entrap Jess into telling them who gave her the drugs. Marissa makes nice with Jess by "pretending" to want some drugs. Marissa Cooper take drugs? NO. She thinks 'Kyle Thompson' aka blonde water polo dude did it. Jess is all over him, we get it writers, she's a slut. And he's so not Luke.
-This is when our station cut out for a warning about tornadoes. This is when my friends and I were screaming at the TV. Then this is when I threw the cushions off my friend's couch. And then this is when my friend called his girlfriend to see if she could tape it and my other friend was looking for Fox's phone number so we could leave an obscene message. Then the show came back on.
-Jess tells Marissa to come to Death Cab tonight and she'll hook them up. I don't think Ben would approve of this--who am I kidding, I'm sure he would. A chance to party with the legendary Marissa Cooper? That was lame. Seriously.
-Reed's pad. How the hell did they get up to Silverlake on a Friday afternoon from Newport Beach so quickly? I guess they must have taken their airplane. HOLY SHIT, Grant Thompson. For those of you unaware, Grant Thompson was a contestant on ESPN's Dream Job (Season 2)--he was a finalist, but because I had more sports knowledge than he did, he lost the Dream Job. Seriously, the guy didn't get some of the most basic questions right. If a 20 year old girl who only has surface knowledge of baseball/basketball knows the answers to questions that you don't, it's time to give up. Football, I know a lot of, so I'll take it easy on that. Damon (Grant) is a marketing genius who talks about having crossovers and tv shows and such with Atomic County. How clever of you, writers.
-Damon thinks the ironist is a little cerebral...I think this show is trying too hard to be cerebral. They're having a party tomorrow night to introduce Atomic County to the people. She wants Summer to come along because everyone wants to meet "Little Miss Vixen." Seth wants to jump the ship (which is what this show has been doing), but Zach with ulterior motives churning in the back of his mind wants to press on.
-Sandy questions Trey and finds out that he did know Jess...intimately. Trey is very sketchy because he won't give up the details. I say send him back to Chino. I'm sick of him.
-YAY DCFC Title and Registration--Ben's doing his marching which playing the drum/guitar stance.
-Summer can't believe that Seth would blow off Death Cab. Summer wants to know why Marissa wants to find that "coke whore"--Marissa, are you doing coke? Do you have to ask, Summer?
-Julie is on the bed, covered in rose petals. Caleb comes in, and he's like ew. "This looks like one of your movies." Burn. He has meetings with his lawyers tomorrow, and it's beginning to look like Julie is SOL.
-A Movie Script Ending--Summer makes some snarky comment about the Baitshop that is too ironic for my taste.
"OMG, HI JESS--I'm Summer, we had TAP AND JAZZ TOGETHER!"
"Excuse my friend. She's really, really stoned."
"Totally, very, very high. Isn't this place so visual?"
There is a water polo party tomorrow night--where Marissa is gonna score some coke. It is a bad idea to have a flier party where that's going down--even water polo players are smart enough to know that. Jess asks Summer if she wants in.
"Strictly ganja what's from the earth is of the greatest worth." I hope Rachel Bilson came up with that line by herself.
-Sandy and Trey ambush the DA and try to get him to see that Trey is a good guy. They corner him at a McDonalds. And I think this is illegal. Trey still looks like a worthless thug.
-Erin is not going with Carter to the winery--hmm, I wonder why, Kirsten "I want to have Carter babies" Cohen. Sandy is a retard and suggests that Kirsten go with Carter to the beautiful winery while he spends time working on Trey's case.
-Sound of Settling. I think they could've done a better song even though that was their single. We've just watched the whole set.
-Ryan and Kyle exchange words. Ryan acts badly. Or Ben acts badly, I can't tell. So maybe he was actually good.
-Seth can't believe he missed DCFC. Seth wants to help catch Kyle, but he ends up messing up the opportunity.
-Sandy listens to showtunes? She just made him sound very gay. Apparently this is a Native American winery--which don't exist, I don't think. If it were like Casino Morongo, then I'd believe it. "Hail to the chief" wow that was lame.
-The "Silverhell" Party: there are all these LA hipster cool kids. Reed and Damon think they're the shit along with everyone else there. Summer is completely out of place and she hates him for making her come there. Zach continues to be skeezy. Everyone think's it's so cute that Little Miss Vixen is real. She hates that they're there with twenty-somethings, "With their dirty clothes that they bought that way, and they like drinking wine, and playing old board games." Atomic county videogames, body sprays, tv show--a hybrid of action and cartoon. Seth doesn't want to leave. Summer asks for a ride home from Zach, and he's all too happy to oblige. Eff you, Zach Attack.
-They tell Sandy about their 21 jumpstreet scam. Sandy goes along for the ride. YEAH WHOOOO WOOO Water Polo party! Just like the old times, except not. Not the way it's done in the OC because water polo players don't need to have flier parties and they're not dumb enough to trust just anyone to come to a party where shit goes down like that. Marissa is on the list, Ryan doesn't. He sneaks in.
-Julie goes to Lance (dumbass move, Julie). Lance offers to kill Caleb again by switching his medications. Ew. She writes him a check and tells him to get out of town because he doesn't need to kill anyone and neither does she. They kiss outside of the hotel room--nice move, genius. Caleb's PIs have a field day with the cameras.
-Kirsten and Carter are like 100 sheets to the wind. Neither can drive home, how convenient. Kirsten spills wine on Carter's shirt. Do I have to say it? I will, how convenient. There are no available drivers to take them home. I won't say it. So, they get a single room at the winery (because I'm sure only one was available). Again, how convenient. I really hate Carter and Kirsten.
-Julie cries some real tears and Caleb decides to give her another chance. Except we can all totally tell that he's got something up his sleeve. I'll be the one to point out the obvious. He does have those pictures of her and Lance, and probably he knew about Jimmy and Julie's tryst as well. I can't wait to see him humiliate her, even though JCoop is my favorite character.
-Carter takes a shower--and Kirsten is left to her own devices. The hostess comes up and tells them that a car is available. Kirsten wonders what she should do, but eventually, she decides to go home to Sandy. After uncomfortably telling Carter.
-Jess hits on Marissa like hardcore (you look really, really beautiful, Marissa) because she's been taking X and shrooms (look at me with the club lingo..err slang, right?) Marissa scores some rocks (which she never gives back, btw) and Kyle wants to meet her. She goes out to meet him, and he tries to get on her--"I kinda have a boyfriend."
"I kinda don't care." Ryan comes out of nowhere and punches him. At least this episode had a fight. "What, are you a narc?"
Suddenly, DA Tom McGinley drives up--Trey opens the door and hits Kyle in the face. And they catch him with drugs. I don't think it's that easy in real life, but whatever.
It's obvious that the actors actually punched each other because they've got very prominent marks on their faces.
-They drop Trey home and he walks in, and low and behold, Jess is there. She totally broke in, and sluts it up. Watch, tomorrow, she's face down in the community pool--when will you learn Trey? What does it take for you to realize that some fluozy is not worth the time in jail? She has to be younger than 18, so that would make this statutory rape. I saw that made for TV movie on MTV, I know all about this.
-Marissa and Ryan share a moment in the car. How sweet. Bring back Alex! And I guess Lindsay, but not really.
Next week on the OC: Kirsten has something to tell Carter, and hopefully it's not that she's got a roast in the oven (literally, not figuratively...they haven't had sex...yet). They are in Miami to see Sandy's mother. The NANA returns. Seth humiliates himself on TV in some Spring Break activity and I don't think Summer's too happy about it. Zach probably thrust himself in between them like a very annoying Brian McKenzie look alike wedge. There's going to be a death. Please be Lance and/or Carter. Ryan screams on the beach. Only a few more episodes until the end...
Music from last night's episode:
Sound Makes A Circle--Audible
House On Fire--Arkarna (They totally did the theme song for the Mary-Kate and Ashley show, So Little Time, Don't ask me how I know because I'll tell you that my cousin made me watch the show, while I actually did myself. I'm not proud.)
Title And Registration--Death Cab For Cutie
Movie Script Ending--Death Cab For Cutie
Sound Of Settling--Death Cab For Cutie
How Does It Feel--The Koreans
Tres Cosas--Juana Molina
Trust Me--Temper Temper
E Talking--Soulwax
Superluminal--Home Video
Positive Tension--Bloc Party
And if you haven't seen them yet, there are some pictures taken by DCFC's Chris Walla of their appearance on the OC at
deathcabforcutie.com under photos and The OC.
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And for some casting news on the show look under the cut--do not read if you don't want to be spoiled. And I'm just saying, you probably don't.
Next week, Linda Lavin is back as the NANA. Also on next week's episode, Jaime King (Sin City [Goldie/Wendy], new Gavin DeGraw video directed by Zach Braff]) plays Mary-Sue, a girl who appears on some MTV inspired Spring Break show.
And in coming episodes: George Lucas is supposed to guest star as himself? I find this very unlikely, but he does have some movie coming out. Have any of you guys heard of it? It's like Star War or Wars or something like that--I've never heard of it. Shrugs.
Jimmy Cooper (Tate Donovan) is also supposed to be back. And for the doozy, Taylor Handley aka OLIVER is back allegedly. This is pretty effing big. I guess Josh really wants me to hate him. I want to, but I can't.
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Ben McKenzie's got himself a new movie role:
He is teaming up with Samuel L. Jackson in the thriller "Pacific Air 121." The film, directed by David Ellis ("Cellular," "Final Destination 2"), centers on an FBI agent (Jackson) who is in pursuit of a mob boss. On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, the mob boss, bent on killing a passenger in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes. McKenzie will play the rookie pilot of the doomed flight. "Pacific Air 121" will begin shooting on June 13 in Vancouver.
When I got to the snakes part, I started laughing. I'm sorry--crate of deadly snakes? I thought that was like a joke. But Sam Jackson wouldn't pick a bad script--because he's a bad ass motha-shut-yo-mouth. I'm sorry, I had to do it. I couldn't resist.
Next time on THE OC: The Return of the Nana
April 28th, in this episode Sandy, Seth and Ryan head to Miami to visit the Nana on spring break. Trey and Marissa hang out and party in Newport and T.I. performs his hit single “Bring Em Out.” Okay, who else thinks there are several things wrong with this picture.
1. Kirsten is left alone with Carter.
2. Marissa is left alone with Trey (Jess is probably lurking around in his closet somewhere, too).
3. Seth, Sandy, and Ryan go to Miami alone with any supervision.
4. T.I.? Wow.
5. Julie Cooper is not mentioned in this blurb.
I guess we'll have to wait and see, next week--The Return of the Nana. They should have called it "The Revenge of the Nana" and made some more Star Wars tie ins.