OK, episode 1 is sorta interesting, in a very un The OC sort of way. It scores on being (non sexually) shocking re Ryan, I guess. It's well written. But it definitely feels alien and like it's trying too hard to be different. The rest of the season is similar with much, and then very much less interest.
I'll admit that I'm a big fan of Mischa Barton on The OC, maybe even more than I realized before her death at the end of Season 3 (classic long run TV series actor move on, of course). And I would miss her and prob. Like the series less w/out her regardless, but it's not just that. Her Taylor substitute is just plain annoying. OK funny in small doses, but we get huge ones in Season 4 and I want an END to her. But no. She's a keeper, throughout. There are in fact no hot chicks at all in Season 4. Please don't tell me the youngest Cooper, Kaitlain is hot. Not. Yeah I'm making allowances for 15. Marissa (Mischa) was only 16 when SHE started this gig.
All soaps including night time ones, and to some extent all romantic (and most overall) TV series are heavily female oriented and pitched, because of 1) the viewer demographics and 2) even more the advertiser calculation of likely purchaser decision making. OK, I know this, which doesn't mean I have to like it, or think it might not suggest some redress/balance. But Season 4 was pure Gothic romance novel female wish fullfillment, with the desires and males not considered at all, except as they ideally should be to fulfill some female or other. E.g. When Kirsten get's clearly accidentally and very surprisingly pregnant at 40, 18 years after her last kid with her husband, she feels no need to even ask her husband Sandy whether he wants to have this baby, she just assumes as her feminist lefty given right that it's all entirely up to her, and that he'll fall slavishly into adoring line. Which of course he does. Disgusting. And so on. I could go on and on.
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