Spoiled for Choice

I can, off the top of my head, think of only a handful of television shows that I gave up on before they were canceled:

• Party of Five
• Ally McBeal
• The Practice
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• Dawson's Creek

This season, though, I've already given up on two program: One Tree Hill and The OC. I never actually expected much from One Tree Hill. My relationship with that show reminded me of days in college: it was like going to a friend's room to chat and ending up being acquaintances with her roommate, just because the other girl was around. In this case, it was The WB's pairing of One Tree Hill with The Gilmore Girls. I'd just sit there for the entire two hours and watch both shows. Now, though, it's as if my friend has moved, and I no longer have any reason to see the roommate in her new location. This is actually a pretty bad similie, though, because the shows are still paired on Tuesday nights; I just have no desire to stick around for the second hour.
But The OC! For a while, that was my crack. I was drawn in by the stupid, but entertaining, goings-on of the (mostly) disgustingly wealthy teens of Newport Beach. So the show wasn't even vaguely concerned with reality. So what! I get 365 days a year of reality, why I would I want more? So I watched the whole first season, and even stuck around for OLIVER, who sucked more than any television character ever, except maybe for Dawn Summers. The OC even managed to recover from its near-complete derailment during the Ollie Eps, only to serve up a rather lackluster season finale. Those writers just kept backing themselves into corners. I did, however, expect that this season would bring about some sort of rebound from the lame way in which the first season ended. But? No.
The characters were annoying, and too different. I tried, valiantly, I believe, to keep watching, even though they were hurting me so. But last week I just threw in the towel. I couldn't do that to myself anymore. Between library school and The OC, my meagre supply of Xanax was not going to last long at all! So, a mere 7 minutes into the episode, I just turned off the television and went back to work.
I told my boyfriend and a friend of mine that I'd stopped watching The OC and they both yelled some variant of "Thank G-D!" That's amusing, since they're both atheists. Is The OC that much of a foxhole situation? It's debatable, actually. I did find it hilarious that people who still watch, respectively, reruns of Dawson's Creek and DeGrassi: The Next Generation (or whatever it's called), think that they're programs are any better than The OC.

posted by Nicole @ 7:45 PM
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