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    We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

    Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

    The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.


    I had to pull back on a lot of the partying that takes place on the show because the network has asked us to work with them on that.


    The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.


    As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

    We don't have any plans for any big stunt casting at this point. We do have four new characters who are coming on to the show, and they're all great.

    You can also expect fewer titillating twists, like the girl-girl kiss (and subsequent romance) between Marissa and Alex (played by Mischa Barton and Olivia Wilde ). That was a double-edged sword for us, ... because we were asked to pull back on the duration of the kiss while at the same time it was very heavily hyped. It was like some sort of game. But while everybody thought the kiss would be the start and end of it for them, for us it was really about doing a real relationship and showing how, after it ended, Marissa would be at a place of greater maturity.

    The idea that an indie-rock kid can be made into a TV idol, a heartthrob, is hilarious and gratifying to people in our world,

    Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

    this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years.

    Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

    It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

    I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

    I think, aside from being extremely attractive, the cast is really talented and can do humor and drama. I think the tone of the show surprised people.

    Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

    Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

    The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

    Julie and Jimmy are going to make another run at it, but you know that Jimmy Cooper ...

    I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

    I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

    Finally, in the episode with the Tijuana road trip, we watched a scene between her and Seth in the diner and knew This girl is amazing. Let's make her a series regular.

    For us, we've had so many cliff-hangers lately, we were really looking for the final episode before baseball to be less a traditional cliff-hanger and more a signal of the show being in a new place, ... There's a sense that the show has really moved over the course of those four episodes and set up some new dynamics.

    It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

    The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

    It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

    The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

    This year is senior year (for the teen characters) and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama -- who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us,

    Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor, ... It's going to bring back some of the classic, bitchy Summer -- there's really sort of an All About Eve thing between Taylor and Summer.

    I want every character be an outsider in some way.

    There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

    I think our show is very different from Orange County.

    You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.



    Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

    We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

    This year is senior year and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama - who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us, ... It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family.


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