Marissa & Alex’s Relationship On 'The O.C.' Lives On In Queer Hearts

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Marissa & Alex’s Relationship On 'The O.C.' Lives On In Queer Hearts
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R.I.P. to the best thing that happened to Newport Beach’s beloved yet doomed teenage socialite.

, writer Jill Gutowitz talks about how Lohan’s bisexuality in this era was seen as an extension of her mental health: She wasn’t dating a woman because she was bisexual, we were implicitly told, but as a symptom of her mental illness.

But I also saw a more assertive, realized Marissa than I remembered, and certainly more assertive and realized than she was in Season 1, brooding at the bottom of her driveway. Marissa is riding shot-gun in Alex’s Jeep listening to Rilo Kiley’s “Portions for Foxes” and never looks happier. She’s head-bobbing with abandon to The Black Keys in her room, hanging out with Alex’s cool queer friends, making out on the beach, figuring out how to do laundry, and learning about herself.

Of course, it doesn’t work out. Their relationship is ill-fated: Marissa moves into Alex’s apartment, but still spends her time organizing pep rallies rather than getting, I don’t know, a job to help pay rent. Julie Cooper shows up at Alex’s door and reminds her that Marissa has only been in love once, “and he looked a whole lot different in a wifebeater.”s creator, was under major demands from the network to keep the relationship sexless and short.

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