Alan Sepinwall’s review published on Letterboxd:
Have been revisiting The OC recently and got curious about this Adam Brody vehicle. It’s very good, committing to the absolute tonal weirdness of its concept — basically, “What if Encyclopedia Brown was still a private eye in his 30s, but was haunted by a kidnapping he never solved as a boy?” — in ways that are both funny and immensely sad.