For the small price of $6.25 million you can buy the right to yell "Welcome the O.C., bitch!" with impunity. The mansion that housed Ryan Atwood and the Cohens for one season of pure classic television and three seasons of wavering mediocrity is up for sale. That's right Newport's go-to crib for every fundraiser and rich people function imaginable was actually a real house, not some Burbank soundstage. If you're among the rare, dedicated few who made it to the end of the series—which, you definitely should if you haven't, despite an abominable third season, the series finishes quite strong—then you know Cohen Manor was reduced to ruins in an earthquake and the whole family packed up and moved to Berkeley. So it's comforting to see the structure standing as it should.
With that said, a few key aspects that formed the TV house of our adolescence are missing irl. There's no infinity pool and worse yet, no pool house. And it's actually located in Malibu, not Newport Beach. If there's actually a bagel slicer is anyone's guess. It is, however, an Italian villa boasting six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, four acres worth of land, and a chef's kitchen. And the front is more or less identical. So, good enough. Wow, just writing about this has the nostalgia raging, word to Chrismukkah and Oliver Trask. Too bad we can't go on a stream-binge, this will have to do.
