If you’re of a certain age, or at least were interested in the exploits of teenagers circa 2003, a certain plinking piano tune will instantly take you right back where we started from. And now that Fox’s landmark teen dramedy The O.C. is turning 20, we all have an excuse to go back there too. The show’s creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage sat down with VF for a look back at the series on the occasion of their new book, cowritten with journalist Alan Sepinwall, titled Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History. With the benefit of hindsight, they can see clearly what went right about the show—Ryan and Marissa’s When Harry Met Sally–inspired New Year’s kiss, for one—and what didn’t, including the decision to kill off Mischa Barton’s Marissa at the end of season three. (“It’s something that we regret, and looking back on it, we wish we could have come up with a different solution.”) More than anything, Schwartz and Savage seem amazed that a show they created when they were pretty young themselves has continued to have such an impact. Says Schwartz, “Obviously, when the show is ending, you don’t have the ability to see 16 years into the future from that moment that people are still going to want to be talking about [it].”
Elsewhere in HWD, Savannah Walsh reads the tea leaves in Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s latest dodge about playing James Bond; Natalie Jarvey finds some depressing answers to the burning question of when Hollywood’s double strikes will end; Austin Butler shares how Tom Hanks helped dig him out of his immersion into Elvis; and Katey Rich catches up on the stars that might actually be able to promote their movies this fall, regardless of when the strikes end.
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