Distributor:
Warner Home Entertainment Certificate: Not Rated |
1048 minutes Available to buy | 7 Disc set Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Peter
Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Mischa Barton, Ben McKenzie, Adam Brody, Rachel
Bilson, Alan Dale, Tate Donovan
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
"The
more time I spend with Zack the
less I have to think about...ew...what's
his face...built like a bean
pole, curly hair, runs away like
a little bitch on his sailboat,
leaving nothing but a note for
his girlfriend who cried and
cried over him until the 4th of
July when she decided she
doesn't cry over bitches on
boats..."
"Seth...his name...it's
Seth."
"I know! I'm just doing
that thing where I pretend I
don't and I've to use a lot of
descriptive insults to give
voice to my inner pain."
- Summer and Marissa
The
OC has pretty much proved itself
to be the hottest show on the
box and Warners keep us happy by
bringing us each of the 24
episodes of the second season on
a nicely put together seven disc
set.
Season
one introduced us to the characters and season two allows us to delve
deeper into their lives, the tangled relationships of Ryan and Marissa
and Summer and Seth are once again to the fore and Ryan’s brother Trey
arrives to stir up the pot some at the season’s end.
At it’s
heart the series is a soapie in the vein of such classics as Peyton
Place with it’s tangled and interlocking lives and there is a sense of
the whole season being a build up to the cliff hanging finale which,
obviously we don’t want to give too much of the plot away in case you
are watching the series solely on DVD (with the box sets for TV series
following hot on the heels of each season’s showing on TV there is a
whole new trend of people waiting for the DVD to catch a show, becoming
their own TV program schedulers in the process).
What sets
the OC apart from other similarly styled shows is the crisp dialogue and
quality acting and its easy going wiliness to poke fun at the soap opera
genre. Watch and enjoy.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Extras
include an intriguing extended creators cut of the episode Rainy Day
Women; Audio commentary on the episodes The Chrismukkah That Almost
Wasn’t and Rainy Day Women by cast and crew members; A look at fashion
of The OC in Beauty Couture; An OC TV Special called The OC-Obsess
Completely (originally broadcast on 16 September 2004) and finally a gag
reel taking in both season one and season two.
