Dear Jenny,
I can't deal with Samaire Armstrong's whickety-whack extensions. Can you? I think I have to watch last night's O.C. all over again because there was a lot I missed while I was wondering if she could just cut them out already and whose idea it was to glue them on in the first place. What about her nails? Did you see them? I think if it weren't for all the questions Armstrong's appearance brought up, I would have found the Anna-Seth reunion endearing. ("Confidence, Cohen!" OK, I'm getting a little choked up.)
Otherwise . . . Theresa is now a high-powered hotel executive, sort of a Southern California version of Lorelai Gilmore. That's fine. I always liked Theresa, even though Navi Rawat has less affect than Mischa Barton, and her agent comes off as such a dink in Project Greenlight. I guess it's nice that they wrapped up that whole weird paternity business, except it's lame that they did it without building any new story momentum. Yeah, Ryan came home early from Berkeley, but we knew he would do that for some reason or other. The Berkeley trip itself was pretty boring. Marissa bonded with that guy we're never going to see again; Ryan found out that people in college come from all kinds of backgrounds. Great.
Kirsten and Sandy . . . There was slight improvement here, in that the supporting players in this storyline, seemingly jettisoned last week (although, disappointingly, not killed or sent to jail), stayed jettisoned -- for now at least. Also, Kirsten left the house for the first time since that tedious Valentine's Day party. So, slightly less boring, but it's still damned annoying that Sandy's character has been pissed upon just so we could get the Melrose Place-ish closing shot of Kirsten downing a glass of her beloved chardonnay.
All in all, it was a middling episode, but an unusually poor showing for J.J. Philbin, the one writer on staff on whom I usually rely.
What did you think? Did you watch it yet? Are you disappointed that they blew right through Passover, again? Where's the Nana?
Love,
-- Pete
PS Good news: both Autumn Reeser and Willa Holland will be back full-time next season.
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