"Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" (2004) TV series 2004-????

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Writer:

Gary Auerbach (developer)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

28 September 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Reality-TV

Plot:

MTV follows eight teens living in Laguna Beach nearing the end of high school and beginning the next chapter of their lives.

Plot Keywords:

High School | Teen | Teenager | Student | Surfer

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Kristin Cavallari	...	Herself (28 episodes, 2004-2005)
Stephen Colletti	...	Himself (27 episodes, 2004-2005)
Talan Torriero	...	Himself (27 episodes, 2004-2005)
Lauren Conrad	...	Herself (26 episodes, 2004-2005)
Taylor Cole	...	Herself (18 episodes, 2005-2006)
Alex Murrel	...	Herself (18 episodes, 2005-2006)
Dieter Schmitz	...	Himself (17 episodes, 2004-2005)
Casey Reinhardt	...	Herself (17 episodes, 2005)
Jessica Smith	...	Herself (17 episodes, 2005)
Jason Wahler	...	Himself (17 episodes, 2005)
Raquel Donatelli	...	Herself (16 episodes, 2006)
Kyndra Mayo	...	Herself (15 episodes, 2005-2006)
Alex H.		(14 episodes, 2005)
Kelan Hurley	...	Himself (14 episodes, 2006)
Alex Atkinson	...	Himself (13 episodes, 2006)
Chase Johnson	...	Himself (12 episodes, 2006)

Also Known As:

Laguna Beach (Australia)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:G (some episodes)

Filming Locations:

Laguna Beach, California, USA

Company:

Go Go Luckey Productions

Quotes:

Alex Hooser: It's fate telling you, you need to get a new car.
Kristin Cavalleri: Exactly! I'm gonna be like Dad. You're Buddhist, you believe in that.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "One Tree Hill: Forever and Almost Always (#6.23)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

Flown

MTV's Laguna Beach and the Decline of the American Empire

This program could be an ingenious strategic weapon, were it created by terrorists to facilitate the eventual disintegration of the moral fabric of America.

"Laguna Beach" and its ugly sister show, "The Hills" comprise a layer of bile accumulated atop an age of media diarrhea that is severely damaging the values system of a generation of kids. The mere concept of delivering "fabricated reality" to a youth demographic before they are adequately media-literate and intellectually equipped to make such a critical distinction presents a set of truly frightening possibilities...and the fact that it's justified as mindless, harmless fun is arguably the most cynical and insidious part of it.

The fallout is that we're going to see a lot of severe depression and a marked lack of ambition in the forthcoming generation, when the crushing blow of reality takes hold - a reality in which their media-fed perceptions of automatic entitlement to celebrity and wealth are challenged.

Were I a parent, I would honestly consider putting a content filter on MTV so as to spare my kids the surgery-free frontal lobotomy provided by this type of content.

In fact, I would sooner buy my kids subscriptions to the Spice Channel than let them watch this crap.