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The OC: Are the Previews Actually Better than the Show?
4/16/05
by Tardio

Forgive me for coming late with the OC commentary this week, but the OC has become a little drab for me. Don't get me wrong, it's still the best show on television (although Housewives, Gastineau Girls, and Surreal Life are closing the gap fast). I just don't know what has made me less over-the-top about the show this year. It could be this new guy Trey, who always has that look on his face like he just grabbed some girl's ass and is trying to play it off. It could be Atwood, who has been acting about as manly as a West Hollywood hairdresser this season. And, I guess it could be this whole overblown lesbian stuff with Marissa. One episode she's tongue-wrestling with a smoking blonde, then two episodes later the blonde is off the show with no explanation (they could have at least had her killed in some lesbo-love-triangle-gone-bad, how long does that take, five minutes?) and Marissa and Atwood are necking in the fake-Peach Pit. Come on.

The OC is becoming dangerously close to one of those shows where the previews for next week are about 1.8 million times better than next week's show. The previews come on and show a fight, lesbian make-outs, shootings, stabbings, fires, and car accidents, and then when you watch the actual episode you swear none of that stuff happens. ER got to be like that. In the previews, s*** is blowing up, but then when the actual episode comes, you wonder what the hell happened to the cool stuff in the previews.

Regardless, I'll be watching intently the remaining Thursdays this season, waiting to see if Atwood regains his penis, or if Marissa tongues a girl, or if Kirsten actually cheats on Sandy with the bearded editor/comic book guru (come on, get it over with...the forced sexual tension between Beard and Kirsten is excruciating).

On another note, did anyone see Law & Order on Wednesday? So, I'm watching it, half asleep, with a pretty good episode going, and all of the sudden, out of nowhere, some sap jumps out from behind a car and caps Detective Green. Now, it's not everyday that the main character on the show gets capped with no forewarning. Was I the only loyal watcher of this show that didn't know this was coming? Can you imagine if all of the sudden during the heyday of Friends, Ross jumped from behind a door and bludgeoned Joey to death? And then, they tell us that the storyline (will Detective Green live or die?) will be continued Friday night in L&O: Trial by Jury. So, I've not only been shocked by the Detective Green capping, I've got to tune into Trial by Jury on a Friday night to watch Frasier's ex-wife from Cheers try to solve the case. Thank God for Tivo.