In selecting “Hide and Seek” for NormalPeople, you’re picking a song with deeply entrenched connotations. To quote the song itself: Where are we and what the hell is going on?
Where are we and what the hell is going on, indeed. Photo: Hulu Almost exactly 15 years ago, The O.C.’s Marissa Cooper pigeonholed Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek.” In the series’ explosive season-two finale, she picked up a gun and fired a bullet into Trey Atwood’s shoulder, the kickback cuing a now-notorious bridge — “mmmmwhatcha say” — and, for me, a Pavlovian response: I hear Heap’s auto-tuned drone, and Trey’s spectacular 20-second fall replays in my brain.
Granted, Normal People does not go so far as to involve the line “mmmmwhatcha say” in repurposing “Hide and Seek,” but nonetheless, the track was the last thing I expected to hear in a cerebral setting: Encountering “Hide and Seek” here, out of context, felt disorienting and distracting, like running into your dirtbaggiest ex with an elegant, academic new partner.
The O.C., meanwhile, was made of moments like Marissa shooting Trey. Despite some legitimately good performances and snappy writing, no amount of prime-time gloss could obscure the big soapy heart beating at its center.
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