
The OC - Season 2
Review created: 05/06/06(updated 05/06/06)
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
Well, it is the OC so you gotta love it!
This series picks up shortly after the first season ended. However even if you haven't watched Season One or if it has been a while since you watched it you always have 'flashbacks' in the beginning so you can understand the story line.
The scenery and camera action is brilliant, the music is just awesome and the actors are brilliant. There is a lot of dry wit and irony involved which just makes the OC fabulously entertaining, even when some of the scenes really pull at your heartstrings!
What really makes this drama so good to watch is that it is not all just about kids - you also see the parents' lives and what they are dealing with, which actually isn't as boring as it might sound!
I think as well it really shows that money is not everything. All the fabulously wealthy people living the 'high life' and yet it is all a sham and a facade that can slip away so easily. One is only as wealthy as one appears or can keep up the appearance!!
This series is poignant, funny, sad, exhilarating, exciting, hilarious and heart-wrenching all in one go and it is this racing mix of emotions that you feel as you watch it that makes it so enthralling to watch.
The only downside - if there could be a downside! - is that it maybe needs to lighten up a bit in places, especially concerning the fatally doomed romance of Ryan and Marissa, two of the 'mainest' characters in a series that is just jam-packed with main characters! Their story should be made a bit more 'happily ever after' style, though not too much because that would ruin the tone!
Just a note concerning the presentation - the dvd's come in boxset form which is very well laid out - six dvd's in their own case, each with different picture of a cast member on them. It looks very neat and is a credit to any dvd collection! Again the only downside is I would have liked to have seen some more extras on them and outtakes or deleted scenes are always good to have - unfortunately this series contains neither but then hey, maybe they are too perfect to make mistakes in the OC!!
Overall it is an excellent teen drama - even for someone like me who has (only just!) passed teenage years!
Review ID: 10000000001085769

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