It’s the Rolling Stones to The O.C.’s Beatles!* Or possibly just the Dawson’s Creek to its 90210.** It’s the programme about Basketball - although actually not so much anymore - with Chad Michael Murray (Tristan in Gilmore Girls/Charlie in Dawson’s Creek) in it, and series two began a month or so ago on E4, and I wondered if anyone else was watching...
High school tv is very much my thing, for whatever reason - I get more joy out of a pretty-good high school show than a cop show (or whatever) of a similar quality. Which is a round-about way of saying that even though it’s shaken off its early-season jitters & got back to its best, I wouldn’t bother recommending the show to anyone who isn’t predisposed to liking such things. But the disillusioned folk on the The O.C. thread might do worse than to give it a go. Because while it has the same problems as most high school tv - boring stories involving grown-ups, the occasional embarrassing episode about the dangers of drugs, a close-to-absolute lack of originality - unlike The O.C. these days, they don’t seem to have run out of ideas: there’s still some level of linear progression in the narrative, rather than endlessly looping break-ups & make-ups; they generally manage what, for me, is the most important trick, which is for the storylines to appear come naturally out of the characters they’ve created, rather than being awkwardly imposed on them. And it certainly doesn’t hurt that CMM is the best looking leading man on a tv show since Luke Perry.
So: what do people think of the new characters? Isn’t Brooke fantastic? Is that teacher of Karen’s really, as me and one of my mates decided recently, the least irritating teacher on tv ever? Has there ever been a worse theme tune? And, most importantly, I’d be very excited if anyone else was as amused as I was by Peyton’s ‘Finding Emo’ t-shirt last week.
I have loads more, but I thought I’d wait & see if anyone else was watching before I continued...
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* An assertion which is primarily tongue-in-cheek, although I think there are certain elements of truth to it.
** An assertion which I thoroughly support, but won’t go in to for fear of boring people. |
