The thing is, our relationship with The O.C. is complicated and dysfunctional. Being from Southern California, we hate it for several reasons too petty and esoteric to get into right now. And yet, somehow we still can't keep from stopping whenever we find ourselves channel surfing past a re-run on the Soap Network, and inevitably, we find one or two moments of oddly satisfying pathos usually backlit by an alterna-garage band soundtrack that is Josh Schwartz's bread and butter.*
Case in point, yesterday we came across what is arguably our favorite scene from the entire series, possibly because we're suckers for both well-placed slo-mo and Finley Quaye -- Damn, Josh Schwartz and his penchant for a well-constructed coda.
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