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Remembering ‘The O.C.’: Creator Josh Schwartz on the Show’s 10th Anniversary

10th Anniversary

Ten years ago, The O.C. premiered on Fox. Creator Josh Schwartz on the celebrated teen drama.

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Welcome to the O.C., bitch.

Ten years ago, those five words signaled the arrival of pop-culture phenomenon The O.C.—a drama on Fox that followed a group of teens and their parents in the bourgeois Newport Beach community in Orange County, California.

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Its protagonist is Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie), an at-risk youth from...

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