Ask your typical millennium for "OC" - The Primetime teen soap that aired on Fox from 2003 to 2007 - and I'm ready to bet the show's icon for "California" by Phantom Planet, just starting to play in their head. (This just happened to me, someone born in 1990.) Created by Oshosh Schwarz, the series begins with the introduction of an audience with Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie), a troubled cinema child who ends up in jail after stealing a car with his older brother. When Ryan meets his public defender Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher), the lawyer offers his help ... And when Ryan returns home just to discover that his mother moved and left behind, Sandy He leads Ryan to live with him in the rich district of Orange. Despite the initial concerns of Sandy Kirsten's wife (Kelly Rowan), Ryan fits in well with Coen, immediately forged friendship with her only son Seth (Adam Brody) ... and when she meets the beautiful and troubled neighborhood girlfriend To the door to the Cohen family, Marissa Cooper (Misha Burton), he reveals that he may want to stay at OC after all.

The series, which also starred Rachel Bilson (like Summer Roberts,, turned the Love -Board interest) and Melinda Clark (as Marissa's absolutely unreasonable mother, Jululey Cooper), was remarkably popular when he first premiered in 2003 - So what happened? Why ended after only four seasons? In fact, there is a very simple explanation: The show's writers burned through the plots like wild during the first three seasons, and when they killed Marissa in season 3, the grades fell ... and never recovered.

The first two seasons of "OK" are, frankly, total pleasure. In Season 1, Ryan adapts to life in Orange County Despite his rough and attractive background, he eventually hangs out with Marisa ... But when a personal situation with one of his oldest friends, Ryan returns to the cinema, breaking Marissa's heart. Not only does Ryan leave, but a set escapes home after losing his first friend he had ever made in the Hauti County, leaving the summer - who finally conquered him after a few years of drinking - similarly gave the season a great Clifancher. Of course, the two boys return to Orange County in the premiere Season 2 and that Season, which has one of the most sincere bisexual stories of Primetime Television (romance between Marisa and repetitive guest star Olivia Wilde Alex), imitates the upside down the "Spiderman" kiss For a great moment between set and summer, and Ends with a scene so unforgettable that the lonely island designed a whole digital short around itis absolutely amazing.

The tide turns into season 3, though - and as Jos Schwartz said Fun weekly In January 2007, the writers' room simply expired. Because the show was and very funny And Melodramatically, his creatives were constantly introducing a favorable and favorable plot, and as Schwartz said, "we tried to keep the pace so as not to give up and overdo it." This is, no doubt, the best shown by Marissa Cooper's shocking death (in a car accident) in the finals of season 3, especially since the ratings were constantly decreasing after the first season came out. (Where that season earned a rating of even nine million viewers, EV's article notes that before the 4th season 4, the viewership dropped to about four million.) However, Schwartz - who added a new Love -Board for Ryan in Season 4 (autumn reality Taylor Townsend) - said there was some Freedom in giving up, telling EW, "really creatively free, not worrying about the ratings." (A year later, before the premiere of His next project "Gossiping Girl", Schwartz - asked what he would change for "OK" - he said Vulture"I would say the whole first half of the third season was total chaos.")

As it would be to see the actors from OC reunification for something after the show ended in 2007, it doesn't seem particularly likely. In 2020, said Fox's Head Michael Thorne The deadline"OC" (revival) will not happen despite my deep passion for it to come back. " Thorn then continued to clarify: "No one is available, unfortunately. I would lie if I said I didn't ask every June. " Adam Brody, who earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2025 Netflix's romantic comedy "Nobody wants this", said And! News In 2023 he would consider returning to Orange County as a set Cohen below exactly one condition: "If there was a reason, how really an inspired idea? Yes. Besides, probably not. No. And with an "inspired idea", I mean a lot of money. " (Lots of response to set, honestly.)

If you still need your fixation "OC" in the 2020s, you can Consider checking out "no one wants this" to see the latest Brody performance, the subsequent series of Schwarz's "gossip" for more melodrama and betrayal. The show of the show, Blair Waldorf), or return and listen to Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clark Podka "Welcome to OC, B*tches!" (what inspires one of the best and most memorable lines of the pilot; podcast later changed its name to "Out of OK", with only Clark at the head). Also, whether you've seen him a million times or is on your list of bugs, OC is currently moving to both Max and Julu.