If you are a viewer continuing to watch North Shore, you must either be a glutton for punishment, or dying to get a better look at Tessa, played by Amanda Righetti. Considering the show is not on cable and thus without any nipple or even a little butt crack to be had, you would have to be hard up for some images of her having sex to proceed with this death march. I wouldn't even waste my time writing this down if I wasn't working at a job affording me approximately 7.5 hours of free time per day. North Shore is pretty bad and it is annoying how they try to gimmick their way to popularity. The writers are continually finding ways to awkwardly begin or finish a scene. This week we are forced through a painful Mark McGrath cameo, which appeared about as natural as Theresa Heinz Kerry speaking at Bob Jones University. Mark McGrath is now going to be associated with so many other B and C-listers who made their own cameos on the show. I bet he either got drunk and lost a bet, or slept with somebody and forgot he made some promises. Then again, maybe he is just in the B-list like most everybody in this town.
Nicole would probably cheer Mark right up after talking about her last few days. She left her groom at the altar, admitting she had said yes to the wrong man. When she went to find the guy who was the right man, he was tapping a girl who was not only trying to take over Nicole's job, but was a felon to boot.
That is not all. The aftereffects of a shattered relationship was not enough to last the episode. The producers decided to try another instance of OC plot transferral by dragging us into the "scorned boyfriend is out for revenge" twist with TVgasm friend Dylan Bruno. Dylan's character, the roulette wheel-named Trey Chase wants his dear MJ and no Chicago punk with an H2 is going to get in his way. But to pull this off, it's not enough to simply act generous and forgiving to win back MJ. The correct way to go about things is to get all of her friends to love you, and make the current boy look crazy and sound paranoid. This strategy took over a month on the OC, and the one week abridged version wasn't that impressive either. Trey tries to kill chase by knocking him into the street, trashes MJ's room to make it look like Chris did it in a jealous fit, then not only steals Chris's car, but kidnaps MJ to show his commitment.
As pathetic as that all sounds, Nicole can trump that. After breaking off her ceremony, she pouts and threatens to leave for Hong Kong so she can stop and had millions of guys around her that don't speak English. Hate to break it to her, but Hong Kong might have more english speakers than some parts of the US, and certainly large chunks of Los Angeles. But what about fighting for your love? Jason saw Jerry Maguire and he's not going to take "No" for an answer, it's just not good enough. He even threatens Walter Booth if he doesn't leave them alone. The problem is Jason has no leverage since nobody will tell him what happened in some shady harbor so many years ago. By now Nicole decides she needs to get back on the wagon. She drinks herself silly and tries to sleep with Frankie who offers her some advil instead. Brewing underneath all of this is a little bit of a feud between Nicole and Tessa. Since Nicole was leaving, Vincent offered Tessa the newly vacated position. Predictably, Nicole can't stand the thought of Tessa working her job and putting the move on her man, so she stays. And her father, he bought a house on the island and is going to stick around as well.
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