Cristofle

I normally keep better track on whether or not the streaming sites have access to her movies, but I just checked, and yes. All three of Mischa's seasons (plus the other season that shall not be named) are available on Hulu.

stlavin95

Hahahaha love your name for season 4

Cristofle

I truly have not seen an episode of S4, lol. Nor have I been tempted to.

stlavin95

I might watch it one day.

Cristofle

I was only invested in the majority of the cast in like...S1. By S2, I was mostly caring about Marissa, Sandy, and Julie. And by the end of S3, it was largely Marissa.

stlavin95

Fair point, what would you stop caring for the other characters?

Cristofle

Why did I? It was a combination of writing and acting. For Kirsten, it was definitely the writing along the way in S2, which I thought was heinous. Same thing for Summer in S3, especially later S3. For Ryan, it was a combination of writing- I felt the writing extolled his virtues and ignored his flaws, usually at Marissa's expense- and Ben kind of checking out in S3. With Brody, it was mostly acting- I definitely felt like he checked out hard in S3.

stlavin95

Okay, fair enough. The writing and acting did get worse as the seasons went on really.

Cristofle

I thought Peter and Mindy really kept going and kept it professional. Really, the actresses usually weren't the problem for me, lol, it was a few of the actors. I didn't have any problem with Kelly- I had a problem with the writing for Kirsten. I didn't even like Ryan through some of S2, and still the way she clearly separated him out when Sandy tried so hard to include him was pretty awful.

stlavin95

There really wasn't a lot that the actors & actresses on the show could do with the writing after S1 really. What Marissa storyline do you should have gotten more focus than it did?

Cristofle

ABSOLUTELY Trey sexually assaulting Marissa. Once Ryan found out, other than a few brief scenes that got no follow through, it was largely about how HE felt about it, not how she felt about being sexually assaulted. Hell, even before he found out, he was her primary concern. And the sad thing was, that was to me without question the strongest plot of S2 (granted, it didn't hurt that Logan Marshall-Green is one of the strongest actors the show ever had, who worked incredibly well with both Mischa and Ben), and it got completely dropped in S3, in favor of YET ANOTHER LOVE TRIANGLE, with an actor ill-suited to the role (Ryan D as Johnny) who beyond having no chemistry with Mischa, is someone she seemed to be almost repelled by, lol.

stlavin95

That storyline really should have been handled better because it could have been an great one imo.

Cristofle

The utter lack of follow through was really surprising, because it HAD been a praised storyline. Even by TWoP, lol. And Josh usually obsessively followed that feedback.

stlavin95

Following through on it would have been so much better on the Johnny storyline

stlavin95

What would you have wanted to see in S3 with the Trey storyline?