I knew this would be a good episode of The OC, because we got a little bit of a viewer discretion warning at the before everything started. Part of the reason The OC has lost it's way is that it started to fashion itself as the show for the US Weekly crowd and consequently devoted its time to sill dramas attract your attention for one week. The problem was, there is only so many times you can put Nick and Jessica (or Ryan and Marissa!) break up before people start to look right past it on their way through the checkout.

As the show opened, the person who should have been given and advisory was Summer. The poor thing had to sit through Ryan and Seth playing Playstation, which isn't exactly new, but she doesn't have Coop to help her waste the time away. In fact, Sadie is nothing like Marissa, because Sadie knows how to play video games, and she really knows her way around a joystick (not that Ryan has had the pleasure). I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Sadie is great at Playstation; after all, she is poor, and if there is anything that you can learn from the OC, it's that poor kids will usually outshine their wealthy counterparts in many practical ways like home improvement and Ratchet: Deadlocked.

Summer is trying her best to work with the new group dynamic, but it is sort of hard to go without your best friend. Sadie is nice enough, but Summer doesn't like poor people the way Ryan does, so she has to keep her distance. Still, everything is going peacefully until we hear a knock on the door. Who could it be? Why it's Jess, the girl who nearly died at Marissa's house last year during a party. Trey took the fall for the party, and later, he and Jess hooked up. After the whole mess with the botched drug deal at the Bait Shop and Trey's shooting, the two of them decided to try things for themselves in Vegas. Jess got sick of that life, found herself a new boyfriend, and is trying to start her life back in Newport.