EPISODE
SEASON
The O.C. - Season 1
A troubled youth becomes embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in the wealthy, upper-class neighborhood of Newport Beach, Orange County, California.
25 April 1977, Riverside, California, USA
27 November 1990
1 June 1981, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
20 July 1980, Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
26 December 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 September 1978, Hanover, Massachusetts, USA
4 October 1978, Davenport, Iowa, USA
January 29, 2015
Much here depends on McKenzie, an unknown. But his efforts at Russell Crowe-like brooding play more as blankness.
January 29, 2015
Nothing in the opener is especially fresh or intriguing except the relationship between Ryan and Seth.
January 29, 2015
The O.C. looks to have enough heart, talent and wit to generate a few seasons' worth of luxurious suds.
January 29, 2015
What gives The O.C added spice is that it also borrows from older films, including, most incongruously, My Man Godfrey.
January 29, 2015
The O.C. stands for a not-too-shabby soap opera with honest-to-goodness screenwriting and actors.
January 29, 2015
The series reflects the youth and intelligence of its writer and succeeds by quickly getting viewers past what would seem an insurmountable obstacle -- caring about what happens to rich white kids in Orange County.
January 29, 2015
Most of all, The O.C. presents a father figure who is decent, smart and generous. Gallagher embodies those qualities with ease -- he's the kind of father that television sorely needs.
January 29, 2015
Fashioned crudely to appeal to teenage masochism, the series plows old ground in the tritest possible way.
January 29, 2015
[It] looks like it'll hit the mark with the young target audience, and this early-summer start will help generate buzz, as it did when 90210 took off.
January 29, 2015
Somewhere in all the high-stakes soapiness and often deft and subtle drama, there is a pretty wicked satire of baby-boomer values.