‘Hidden Palms’: Pop quiz!
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Aw, you didn’t know that there was going to be a test, did you? Question: Moody Johnny is still communicating with Dead Eddie via instant messaging. Who is he actually chatting with online? Answer: A. Greta. She’s so gratingly verbose that she has to take on personas of the departed to use all her big girl words. B. Cliff. He kicks dogs, so obviously he has zero compunction about assuming a dead dude’s identity. C. Liza. She’s studious, employed, and sweet awkward. Therefore she must be a sociopath. D. Dead Eddie. Given that everyone playing teenagers on this show looks at least 25, there’s obviously some wrinkle in the space-time continuum that grants eternal life.
If you guessed ‘C’ - ding ding ding! We have a winner. That’s right, the big reveal of the night was that the mousy girl next door has evidence that Eddie didn’t commit suicide, but instead was murdered. It’s like Harriet the Spy, but with bloodshed. Hey, a girl’s gotta entertain herself if she’s too pale to loiter by the pool all day. And now we must pause for a moment of reflection: Of all the things ‘The O.C.’ gave television audiences - Mischa Barton’s boho homeless fashion sense, Adam Brody, Peter Gallagher’s singing, Adam Brody, Julie Cooper-Nichol-Cooper, Adam Brody - perhaps nothing has resonated as much as the show’s staging of hormone-fueled teenage fistfights. ‘Hidden Palms’ took a whack at it Wednesday night - but, sadly, it didn’t contain anything like the goofy genius of a line like ‘Welcome to the O.C., bitch.’ By comparison, Johnny and Cliff got into a popcorn-spilling tussle in the midst of a party - but, alas, it was promptly broken up by the parental units returning home. What, before someone got thown into the pool? Now that’s a pity party. In addition, for the next couple weeks, there’s going to be some jumbling of the ‘Hidden Palms’ schedule. ‘Jumbling’ is the polite term, actually...others may call it ‘burning off in desperation.’ Hidden Palms schedule
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