When Does Taylor Townsend Play Again

Fictional character from The O.C.

Taylor Townsend
The O.C. character
Autumn Reeser every bit Taylor Townsend
Get-go appearance	"The Shape of Things to Come" (episode 3.02)
Concluding advent	"The Stop's Not Near, Information technology'southward Here" (episode 4.16)
Created past	J.J. Philbin
Portrayed by	Fall Reeser Bella Thorne (flashbacks)
In-universe information
Nickname	Tator Tot, Peaches
Gender	Female
Title	Madame Taylor de Maumaront (2006–2007)
Occupation	Loftier school student (at the Harbor School; graduated) College student (at the Sorbonne; departed)[a]
Family	Unnamed father (father; estranged) Veronica Townsend (mother)
Spouse	Henri Michel de Maumaront (ex-husband)
Significant other	Ryan Atwood (left unclear) Jack Hess (affair) Seung Ho (ex-young man)
Residence	Newport Beach, California Formerly: Paris, France

Taylor Townsend is a fictional grapheme on the FOX telly serial The O.C., played by Autumn Reeser.

Reeser was promoted to series regular for the quaternary flavour in light of cast member Mischa Barton's departure.

Characterization [edit]

Groundwork [edit]

Taylor is the daughter of Veronica Townsend, a successful sports agent and chair of the parents' commission at The Harbor Schoolhouse. Her unnamed father left them when she was young. The only mention of her father is in episode 3.02 when Summer mentions raffling off a gas guzzling SUV from Taylor's father'south dealership, and in an episode in flavour 4 where she is trying to convince Ryan to meet his father by telling him that her begetter "lives in San Diego with his new family, and is in Newport once a quarter to bank check on his car dealership", and tell him that she hasn't spent more than 20 minutes with him since 2d course.^[1]

Taylor is highly intelligent, quick-witted and over-achieving. She is thought to be multi-lingual, speaking French, Spanish and Korean in several episodes, and narrating a majority of her valedictorian voice communication in Latin.

Personality [edit]

Taylor does not get much attention from her female parent and Reeser described her character'south "desperate ambition" every bit a issue of troubles in her habitation life.^{[2] [3]} Described as the "preppy, double-crossing nemesis of Summer Roberts"^[4] who is said to be able "to handle a chainsaw",^[5] Taylor Townsend was introduced into the evidence in the third season as a neurotic and annoying "goody goody"^{[2] [half dozen]} who stalks Seth and attempts to sabotage his human relationship with Summer.^[7]

Despite being an overachiever, Taylor is as well desperately needy and starved of affection and is decumbent to becoming besotted and obsessed with any homo who offers her assist or amore. This is largely the effect of the lack of a father effigy for much of her life and her being emotionally neglected by her perfectionist female parent. In season 4, she is often seen in Summer's room or at the Cohens' firm to escape her female parent's constant put-downs. She was initially portrayed as a manipulative and conniving adversary of the master characters, especially Summer.

Character arc [edit]

Season iii [edit]

Taylor kickoff appears in the third flavour, as Marissa Cooper is expelled from Harbor High School and thus barred from keeping her position as pupil social chair. Taylor's proceeds is office of the fallout from Marissa having shot Trey Atwood in lodge to defend his brother and her boyfriend, Ryan.

Taylor'southward power-grabbing encourages an otherwise reluctant Summertime to seek the social chair position. Summer's biggest test as social chair comes in organizing the almanac school carnival, as she successfully coordinates the mix of rides, food, and events. Nevertheless, when Summer plans a Fall trip the light fantastic for the school, she is overshadowed by Taylor, who takes credit for information technology, and the new Dean of Subject at Harbor.

Initially, only Summer seems aware of Taylor's scheming, while Marissa seems but mildly interested in the goings-on in Taylor'south life, and Summertime's swain Seth Cohen seems to not believe Summertime's story at all. At this particular dance, Summer follows Taylor and catches her kissing Dean Hess in his role. Though she tries to convince Seth of what she'south seen, no one will believe her.

In "The Perfect Storm", Summertime manipulates Taylor to finally get proof of an matter between her and the Dean to present to Seth by telling the daughter that Dean Hess and another faculty fellow member at the school were making out under the bleachers.

Seth and Summer somewhen convince Taylor to go to an surface area motel (the aforementioned motel where Luke Ward and Julie Cooper had an thing, also as where Ryan met upward with his one-time girlfriend Theresa Diaz one night) to meet with the "Dean," just to surprise her when they reply the door and begin throwing out accusations. Threatening to tell everyone of the affair, Summer forces Taylor to tell Seth's dad the truth. Later, Sandy confronts Dean Hess and tricks him into believing that he has pictures of the two of them kissing on his Sidekick. In return for keeping quiet, Sandy tells Hess to permit Ryan (whom he kicked out) back into Harbor, and then resign.

Despite being something of a socialite, Taylor is highly looked down upon by her classmates. During "The Swells", classmates threw things at her after she organized a mandatory senior lock-in and attempted speaking to her classmates. Seth came to her rescue, unwittingly gaining Taylor's affection in the procedure. Taylor, wanting to go on him for herself, refuses to allow a late Summer to come to the lock-in by pretending that she could not hear her. Information technology is also in this episode that nosotros learn why Taylor may be then conniving and manipulative. Her own mother, a highly driven sports agent, is shown as emotionally cold toward her girl.

Their human relationship is again brought into focus in "The Safe Harbor". When Seth and Summer wanted to get Marissa back in Harbor, they went to Taylor as she could go more names for their petition to reinstate Marissa. Taylor at first wanted nothing to exercise with it, just she soon gave in and helped out. Threats from her mother to have away her car and college money momentarily deterred Taylor from protestation efforts, simply she emerged at a school board hearing on Marissa's side, defying her mother. It was a determination that earned Taylor new respect from her classmates, and from Summer specifically, leading to her becoming friends with, non only Summertime and Seth, only likewise Marissa and Ryan.

Later in the year, Taylor develops a romance with a male Korean waiter, Seung-Ho. He takes her to the prom, and his cousin, a member of a Korean boyband, takes Summer.

Season four [edit]

In Season iv, Taylor secretly arrives back in Newport after attending the Sorbonne University and needs to seek legal advice as she is married to a Frenchman. Henri Michel de Maumaront, her married man, refuses to sign divorce papers, though. She begins hiding out at various locations to avoid running into her mother. Taylor then goes to Brown to visit Summer, and soon returns to Newport and stays with the Cohens. Kirsten Cohen tries to help Taylor through her situation by helping Taylor tell her mother. Taylor somewhen does tell Veronica, and in a fury, she kicks Taylor out of her house. Thus, Taylor starts living with the Cohens. In The Metamorphosis, Taylor gets a alphabetic character from Henri Michel, once again proverb that he will non sign a divorce paper, and is asking Taylor to go to France to settle everything. His lawyer eventually shows up and says that the merely way the ii can get divorced is if one of the party is unfaithful to their marriage. Taylor then tells Henri-Michel's lawyer that she is having an affair with Ryan Atwood. Ryan does not find out about this until he translates the divorce papers he was asked to sign, as Taylor's lover. Ryan soon backs out on Taylor when he finds this out, but Sandy Cohen talks him into helping her.

When Ryan arrives at the meeting identify where Taylor and Henri-Michel's lawyer are, he gives Taylor a osculation to "prove" they are together. Henri-Michel's lawyer sees this and agrees to return to French republic with the news of Taylor's adultery. Soon, Taylor realizes that she has an infatuation with Ryan and brings to his house a peach torte she prepared herself.

Ryan soon has indisposition, and when Taylor hears virtually information technology, she thinks it'due south her duty to cure him. Then, she pretends to exist his sleep therapist in an attempt to seduce him. She uncovers Ryan's unresolved feelings towards his late ex-girlfriend Marissa, and towards Marissa's other ex-boyfriend Kevin Volchok who killed her in a motorcar accident. Once she realizes that she and Ryan weren't meant to be, she only decides to give him some tea, that actually helps him go to sleep. But when Ryan tells her he doesn't know how he feels nigh her, she tells him to kiss her to see if he feels annihilation. Once they kiss, she takes advantage a niggling chip, so stops herself mistaking his silence for indifference. Afterward the kiss, Ryan fantasizes about Taylor washing windows, dancing on the kitchen counter and riding on roller skates, during each of these fantasies Ryan hears Taylor talking muddy to him. Ryan realizes that he likes Taylor and he asks her on the engagement. Even so, during the date, Ryan realizes that he isn't prepare to brainstorm a new emotional human relationship. Taylor tries to make him jealous by paying a homosexual guy named Roger to pretend that he likes her, just he uncovers her move and tells her he'southward not sure well-nigh a human relationship, something she says is a long way off, and that any current relations should be purely physical. Taylor and Ryan kiss in a cupboard and get-go making out while playing a game of seven minutes in heaven.

In The Chrismukk-huh?, though, Ryan is afraid Taylor thinks that they are both going out and is afraid to ask her to Christmas dinner. Taylor, bringing a present she wrapped herself, heavily hints that she would like to come to dinner. When Ryan coldly rejects her, Taylor works herself in to a fury and starts yelling at Ryan when he is on the roof hanging Christmas lights. In her angry state, she climbs upwards the ladder to yell at him, but they both end up falling and going into comas. In their comas, they entered an alternate universe and Taylor hears data that convinces her that Marissa is still alive. When she finds out that Marissa was supposedly alive, she immediately tells Ryan, who sets out to look for her. He subsequently finds out that it was actually Kaitlin Cooper, Marissa's younger sister, who was returning from university. Taylor, realizing that Ryan is not over Marissa, goes to a Christmas party in her coma dream and finds out that in her coma she is a boy, and sees her mom bullying him. Taylor then goes and stands upward to her, defending herself and calls her mother a bowwow. Doing this, she wakes up from her blackout.

Veronica Townsend (after some persuasion from Julie) comes to the hospital to see Taylor but is more disappointed that she missed her flight to Mexico. Taylor tells her to go a terminal-minute flying, hugs her and wishes her a Merry Christmas. The run into makes Taylor happy that she can finally cut her female parent loose.

Back in the alternate universe, Ryan, even so not sure what to do, tries to matchmake everyone with the right person but realizes that that'due south not the instance—it was that he had to read a letter from Marissa and move on from her. At the beach, solitary, he finally reads it and slips out of his coma. The 2 have no retention of what happened in the alternate universe, however they both realize that they are at rest with their internal demons, Taylor beingness her relationship with her mother and Ryan reaching closure in his human relationship with Marissa. Ryan rekindles his relationship with Taylor.

Ryan and Taylor are now officially boyfriend and girlfriend. Ryan attempts to organize a special rendezvous for himself and Taylor in The Earth Girls Are Easy merely is foiled when Seth decides he and Summer will "tag along" on the trip, due to Seth's failure to program New Years festivities for Summertime. Ryan mistakenly thinks that Taylor may have concealed a prior sexual run into when Seth reveals that Taylor packed a pregnancy test for the trip. The examination was really for Summer who was "late" and whom Taylor suspected might be meaning with Seth's child (information technology turned out to be a fake alarm but Seth and Summer got engaged anyhow). Taylor is angry with Ryan's supposition that she has been sleeping with other men and the pair argue. Only to subsequently make up when Ryan realizes that the test was not her and her defensiveness was due to her fears of being seen as a "promiscuous divorcee". Taylor forgives Ryan for jumping to conclusions. Later that dark, Taylor puts on the lingerie she gave Ryan every bit a souvenir, and this is the start time they actually fool around.

At present that Taylor and Ryan are a couple, their relationship becomes more than serious. When Ryan's dad comes dorsum into the picture, Taylor realizes that their relationship is going to confront their first challenge and Taylor meets her young man's father at a dinner and things between Ryan and Taylor are going well.

In "The French Connectedness" Ryan and Taylor experience a bump in their relationship when Taylor's French ex-husband, Henri-Michel, comes to Newport, and Ryan feels that Taylor has more in common with Henri-Michel than himself. Events come up to a head when Ryan discovers Taylor lied about his job, telling her ex-hubby that he was an academic. Upset and aroused over Ryan not calling her for a week, Taylor rekindles her relationship with her ex-married man. Withal, when Ryan interrupts Henri-Michel'south poetry reading with a love poem that he wrote for Taylor, she realises that Ryan is the i she wants to be with. In the end, despite Taylor and Ryan'south affection for each other, Taylor calls things off until she can become a more independent person.

She seeks out help from a therapist, simply realizes that her and Ryan are right for each other and they get back together. Ryan and Taylor kiss and they hold to sort out their relationship issues. Ryan and Taylor become a couple again.

On Valentine'due south Day, now that Ryan and Taylor are a couple once again, Taylor wants to exercise something special with Ryan. They end up helping out Ryan's dad and then Ryan kisses Taylor and they drive to the beach for a romantic evening.

In The Milk shake Up Taylor tries to take Ryan to say that he loves her. To exercise this Taylor decides to effort to get Ryan boozer to "losen his tongue". In the run-up to Taylor'south nineteenth altogether party Ryan contemplates if he should tell Taylor that he loves her. He has been her beau for many months and he wonders if he is set to take that pace. She attempts to get Ryan drunk just instead she becomes drunk herself. While the couple talks about their romance and the obstacles they face, Ryan finally says he loves her. However he holds back when he finds out that Taylor applied to Berkeley. The prospect of going to college together scares Ryan and instead of his original gift, he gives Taylor a dictionary. Taylor subsequently explains that she had applied to Berkeley before they started dating and asks Ryan if he would have told her he loved her if he knew she applied to Berkeley. When Ryan does non say annihilation, Taylor immediately understands that he never would have said it. Distraught and upset, she leaves the party without blowing out her birthday candles.

Ryan, after some advice from Kaitlin, gives Taylor the original present he was going to give her, a volume of French love poems that Taylor translated. Ryan tells Taylor that he loves her once again. When Ryan tells her that he wants her to come up to Berkeley with him, an earthquake strikes. He immediately takes Taylor under his artillery and protects her using his body equally a shield and receives a hitting from Taylor'due south cabinet shelf.

The two survive the convulsion just Ryan hides the fact that he has been injured. Taylor is fine but she becomes very agitated and communicative. She speedily goes through her well-stocked emergency preparedness kit. Seth and Summer make it back to the house unharmed; Seth quickly covers for Ryan, who tries to conceal the fact that he bleeding from his back. Afterwards the ii depart the house Taylor and Summer look for Pancakes.

Taylor accidentally fires a flare at her mother'southward foot who came to bank check on her. Summertime, Taylor and Veronica make their way to the hospital. The two women are quite bitter towards each other but at the infirmary Taylor tells her mother she loves her. Her mother replies that she loves her besides and they share a hug. They both leave the hospital with Summer, the Cohens and the Coopers.

Series finale [edit]

Six months later, she and Ryan take broken up and Taylor has returned to Paris. Both of them refuse to run across each other but end upwardly meeting at the airport. Information technology was made very obvious, to them as well every bit Seth and Summer, that they nonetheless had feelings for each other. She was devastated when Ryan told her that the Cohens are moving to Berkeley, meaning she won't be able to meet him anymore. They go to talk at the Berkeley house before Julie's wedding. Initially they both concord to be friends merely unable to resist they kiss passionately and end up making out on the bed together, interrupted by the house owner. And so it was revealed subsequently that they had sexual practice.

Ryan and Taylor spend time together as a couple. They sit on a railroad train together, as she prepares to go to New York and then on a boat to France. They share a heartfelt conversation near their relationship and share another passionate buss. The two thank each other for the happy memories they shared in the year. Ryan spends one last hour on the railroad train with Taylor before getting off in San Bernardino.

In a flashforward vignette, Taylor and Ryan are seen together at Seth and Summer'southward wedding ceremony, with Ryan as the all-time man and Taylor every bit the maid of honor. They both exchange glances and smile at each other. Taylor appeared in 35 episodes total.

Trivia [edit]

It was revealed in The Example of the Franks during a flashback set in 1998 when Taylor was 10 years old and attended grade with Summer, Seth, Luke, Holly and Marissa (Not seen), Taylor wrote the poem "I Wish I was a Mermaid" and Summer stole it from her and for a very long time Seth had mistaken the verse form for Summer's. Also in the flashback, Holly Fischer made fun of her by calling her Taylor Dorksend.

Reception [edit]

Rob Lineberger of DVD Verdict described Taylor and the other new characters as "detestable additions to the Season Iii cast" just and then went on to say that she was "a more than likeable version of Paris Geller from Gilmore Girls".^[8] Amazon.com described the "Tracy Pic-like Taylor" as "a welcome add-on" to flavor iii.^[nine] Daniel Fienberg of Zap2it described Taylor as going "from recirculated Queen Bee cliche to unexpected quirky amuse in a matter of episode[due south]."^[x]

During the fourth season, Kristin Veitch of E! Online described Taylor Townsend equally "the biggest reason we're all still watching the show".^[11] Michael Yarish of Yahoo! TV described Reeser's character as a "smart, French-speaking valedictorian [who] became a fan favorite with her sheer exuberance".^[12] Alan Sepinwall, a idiot box critic for The Star-Ledger, described Taylor's pairing with Ryan as "inevitable" because she was the "only bachelor, age-appropriate female regular".^[xiii]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Taylor's occupation at the fourth dimension of the series flash forward is unknown.

References [edit]

1. ^ "My 2 Dads". The O.C.. Flavor four. Episode ix. January 4, 2007. Play a trick on.
2. ^ ^{a b} Henderson, Angela (February 8, 2007). ""The O.C." Moment: Ryan and Taylor's First Kiss". The Herald-Acceleration. Champion Industries. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
3. ^ Fall Reeser (interviewee). Autumn talks Taylor (Interview clip). Autumn Reeser'due south official website. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
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4. ^ Herndon, Jessica (November 3, 2005). "The O.C.'s Fall Reeser". People. Time Inc. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
5. ^ "The Day After Tomorrow". The O.C.. Season 3. Episode xx. April 6, 2006. Fox.
6. ^ Hall, Lacy (Feb 21, 2006). "The O.C.'s Taylor gets naughty in Maxim". Goggle box Squad . Retrieved March 29, 2009.
7. ^ Luce, Patrick (November five, 2006). "DVD Review: The O.C. – The Complete Third Season". Monsters and Critics. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
8. ^ Lineberger, Rob (February 5, 2007). "The O.C.: The Complete Third Season". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
9. ^ "The O.C. - The Complete Third Season (2003)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
10. ^ Fienberg, Daniel (October 24, 2006). "DVD Review: 'The O.C. : The Complete 3rd Season'". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
11. ^ Veitch, Kristin (Dec 21, 2006). "O.C. Scoop: Taylor Townsend Talks!". East! Online. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
12. ^ Yarish, Michael (February 15, 2007). "We'll miss: Our Peaches". Yahoo!. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
13. ^ Sepinwall, Alan (November 16, 2006). "The O.C.: It is fourth dimension to stop all your sobbing". Blogspot. Retrieved March 29, 2009.

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