''The O.C.'s'' Whip Smart Cracking Return With Season 3 Premiere

‘’The O.C.’s’’ Whip Smart Cracking Return With Season 3 Premiere’’

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright September 9, 2005

It’s back and better than ever. We CONFESS!!!! You thumb screwed it out of us. ‘’The O.C.’’, the Fox Network’s night time soap is our favorite show, ever since it premiered 3 years ago. (Where does the time go?) Though last year’s 2nd season suffered a dangerously insufferable sophomore slump which can only be attributed to ‘’O.C.’’ creator Josh Schwartz’s brain damage…whoops, sorry!...writer’s block. Either that, he turned seriously stupid, morphing into a lazy ass, Frankenstein monster, lapping up all the press hype over his whip smart, writing, plot, and character development and razor sharp, self aware dialogue in season one, that pulled a strangely catastrophic disappearing act in season 2. But we digress. Apparently, Schwartz has been indulging in truckloads of wheaties, fish….er brain food, by all accounts of our marveled introduction to season 3.

Last night’s September 8, 3rd season opening episode blew away all sordid memories of that god awful 2nd season with all the magnum force impact of Marissa putting a bullet through resident asshole Trey, in the season 2 cliffhanger finale (and the only decent damn episode of that whole season).

Got to admit, in last night’s opener, when dumb ass Trey finally awoke from his coma, to find Julie Cooper (aka Marissa’a mom and the wicked witch of the west…coast that is, and more bad ass than ANY gangsta rapper!), in his hospital room, hovering over him with a look more lethal than Marissa’s gunshot, threatening to smother his ass….mug (same difference), with a pillow for attempting to rape Marissa, causing Marissa’s beloved, Ryan, to tussle with Trey…causing Trey to tar the crap out of Ryan, causing Marissa to shoot Trey just as Trey was about to bash in Ryan’s head with a phone and kill dear Ryan, saving Ryan’s life, (are you getting all this?)….all we could do was cheer….’’Do it! Do it NOW!’’ We even stopped munching on our popcorn we were so enthralled, hoping she would do the misdeed, but Fuck All, she didn’t. (Instead, she paid off Trey with some major Benjamins to pin the rap on Ryan.) Dude, they broke the mold with ice queen, empress of all bitches, Julie Cooper.

Better yet, Marissa, played coy and sexy super sleuth to save her man (yep, poor Ryan got sent to the slammer, and the tightrope suspense was driving us NUTS! as to what would happen to our innocent hero), pulling some detective work that would make ‘’Alias’s’’ super spy, Sidney, proud, worming the truth and a written confession of what REALLY happened, out of Trey for the cops. Trey decided to hightail it out of Dodge, (hope we’re finally rid of the slug), and Ryan was cleared and set free by the fuzz.

With disrespect to season 2, which emphasized geeky Seth’s and ditzy Summer’s bone headed, leaden romance, now, we have a return to form (read: Emphasis) on our favorite, savvy, ‘’Champagne Supernova’’ lovebirds, Ryan’s and Marissa’s sexalicicious romance that made season one, oh, so yummy. It’s back to basics BABY!

Last night, Ryan and Marissa sparked and snogged more deliciously and with all the combustion of Marissa’s real life counterpart, luscious actress Mischa Barton and her real life on again/off again/on again canoodling with billionaire flame, the hot headed Brandon Davis, (much like aka hot headed Ryan Atwood, aka real life actor the sizzling hot hunkarama, Benjamin McKenzie who we will take any day over Davis!).

Oh…and the soundtrack tunes last night…kick ass as always, a signature of ‘’The O.C.’’.

Ryan and Marissa, sitting in O.C., K I S S I N G!!!! Ain’t love grand!

Muse News & Micro Muse September 9, 2005

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright September 9, 2005