Welcome to Summer Cooldown, our weeklong tribute to all things cool in pop culture. Through our role models of chill and our misguided attempts to emulate them, to the DGAF heroes so defiantly uncool they’re ice cold, we’ll attempt to define the undefinable and celebrate the characters and questions that shaped us.
When The O.C. premiered in 2003, Ben McKenzie’s Ryan Atwood was the very picture of classic cool. A brooding bad boy with a heart of gold, he had the leather jacket, the tight white tank top, and the mean right hook. Guys begrudgingly admired him, girls openly swooned after him, and it all made perfect sense in the familiar logic of teen dramas. Read more…
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