Stop Being a Hater and Learn to Love The O.C.

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Summary: Finally, somebody gets it!
Review: The OC is is one of those shows that when you try to tell your friends how smart it is, they give you the kind of look that suggests you're trying to write a thesis paper on social dynamics using the Smurfs as a case study (clearly Gargamel's desire to eat the Smurfs defines him as a mass consumer, a binary opposite to the self-sustained community that is Papa Smurf's ideal...). I love that the show "gets" itself, and I love that the author here gets the show. This book is as smart and loaded with references as Seth Cohen on Jolt cola - and tracing the OC's teen-drama roots was just plain brilliant.