A week ago on the hit Bravo reality "thang" Real Housewives of Atlanta, if you tuned in you got to see the ladies who lunch take it outside for a beat down, but you also saw one of the fakiest, mushiest love scenes yet on the Real Housewives' franchise. Former, pro football player Ed Hartwell cooked a special dinner, spread rose petals to spell "I love you," played massage therapist, and finally took a bubble bath with his wife while murmuring the words, "Let's go make some babies." The ick factor was set on 11 on the Spinal Tap scale. That was then. Ed and Lisa Hartwell have been foreclosed upon and now that bathtub for two is the bank's property.
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Has Bravo gone to the well once too much? It sure seems that way. Hot on the success of 
Jason Wahler will spend the next two months in jail. No, you can't lock him up for simply being an idiot. He actually had to do something, like punch a city employee and a tow truck driver. Last year, the 20-year old co-star of The Hills and Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County blew his top when a tow truck was blocking the road as the driver tried to move an illegally parked car. Wahler reportedly got out of his vehicle and yelled racial slurs at the city worker and tow truck driver (both of them black) and then actually punched them both before being subdued. Blood-alcohol tests show Wahler's level was .22.
(S04E15) It's starting to feel very final isn't it? I'm really impressed with the way the series is wrapping itself up. Some of the cheese factor still exists (Seth getting help from the homeless folks again), but for the most part the characters and their paths are falling into place.
Project Runway aside, Bravo is obsessed with the SoCal good life. The network that brings you Work Out, The Real Housewives of Orange County and Million Dollar Listing doesn't think you're getting quite enough of a glimpse into what Botox-ed blondes and metrosexual old-timers are doing with their free time so 
It took a while, but MTV is finally releasing the soundtrack to 
Wear Chanel. Go to Harbor. Drive a Land Cruiser. Make an ass of yourself at a charity function. That's what they do in The O.C. and soon you can do it too, in a video game. Gameloft, the makers of Paris Hilton's Diamond Quest, is currently laboring over a game based on the FOX teen soap. It's a Sims-style game where you can wander around real O.C. locations and work on your tan or your muscles. Looks are apparently very important in the storyline of the game. You can choose to be any of the lead characters, Ryan, Marissa, Summer or Seth, or you can create your own character to shake things up in their McMansions. 
(S03E25) The trailers promised us that someone MAY not survive the season finale and they were right. Someone MAY not have survived. But the MAY and the plot history of The O.C. is what puts it all in question. There was most definitely a jilted ex-lover. And definitely a serious car wreck. Definitely an explosion. And most definitely it looked like a main character said their final, unrecognizable words before they stopped breathing. But the MAY is still there. Why?
(S03E24) Prom is over and enter the aftermath. But surprise, surprise...Volchok? Not dead. Thank God. Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly care if the guy lives or dies, but it would have just been bizarro times infinity if another one of Marissa's love interests ended up in the morgue. She does seem to like them on the brink of death.
(S03E22) This was one of those
weird episodes where suspension of disbelief is absolutely necessary. Somehow (only with the magic of television),
Berkeley and Brown are both having their incoming freshman weekends the same weekend. Weird. Especially
weird that they would have an incoming freshman weekend months and months and months before the school
semester even starts. But whatever. It's The O.C. and I forgive.
(S03E21) So much happened on last night's episode, I just don't know where to start. I'll just jump
to the part that shocked me most -- the attempted rape of that poor girl at Volchok's party. Marissa sees one of
Volchok's slimy friends slip a questionable liquid into the beer of an already wasted girl. Him and some of his buddies
then take the passed-out girl outside to a van to tag team her. For a few minutes, I actually didn't think that Marissa
was going to do anything other than remain her passive aggressive self. Luckily(!), Marissa follows them outside and
claims that she needed to get into the van because she left her sweatshirt in there (passive aggressive!). If I saw
some guys doing that to a girl at a party, it'd be hard to tell me apart from the Incredible Hulk because I'd rip the
doors off that van. In fact, it wouldn't even get that far because I would have ninja-kicked that beer out of the
dude's hand before he could even think about giving it to her. Marissa didn't do any of those things, but she did
(thankfully) stop the rape, so I won't criticize.
(S03E20) It's college acceptance (or rejection) day in Orange County. I just love how via the magic
of television everybody finds out on the exact same day if they got into college or not. I also love that none of the
characters oo the show applied to any safety schools. You would think that a guidance counselor would advise them to
apply to at least two schools, but whatever, everybody got into the school of their dreams...minus poor Seth. 
Another spring, another prom on The
O.C., but this year there's going to be a special guest. American Idol castoff, and real Orange County,
Calif. resident, Lisa Tucker begins work on the set of The O.C. next week.
For the record, I don't think Volchok is that gross. In fact, he's a pretty good looking guy. I don't think he
deserves the "ew" that Summer gives him. (But she does pass out the ew's pretty easily.) I'm not so crazy
about his drug problem, but I can understand why Marissa finds him attractive. He's got that motorcycle and no
discernible responsibilities. Plus, he looks like he could be good in bed. He seems like he'd be a very attentive
lover. And, it appears that is what poor Marissa is looking for....attention. 
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