Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Thursdays, I will be reviewing Malibu CA, which aired in Syndication in 1998 and 1999.  Almost the entire show is currently streaming on YouTube!

Yes, this is from the first season. I don’t care. I refuse to waste my time looking for a second season advertisement.

This week, Jason ruins his life.  Or at least, that’s what I assume happened.

Episode 2.7 “The Long Goodbye”

(Dir by Gary Shimokawa, originally aired on November 20th, 1999)

Here’s the plot of this week’s episode, according to the imdb:

After a successful audition before Alex’s uncle the producer, Jason gets the go-ahead to make a demo recording. He’s surprised to see that the producer sent to work with him is a woman: a young, attractive one. Jason works with Kendall and there seems to be a spark between them. Stads calls from Europe. Jason tells her about the demo but not that the producer is female.

Wow, that sounds great!  (If you’re detecting heavy sarcasm, you are indeed a perceptive reader.)  Too bad this episode is one of the ones that has not been uploaded to YouTube.  Or actually, maybe it’s not that bad that I have an excuse not watch it.  I’ve never bought into the whole idea of Jason being this massively talented singer and songwriter.  According to Wikipedia, this episode was the last appearance as Stads so I’m going to guess that Jason not mentioning his producer being female led to a break-up.  Oh well!

Consider this a placeholder.  If this episode ever is uploaded, I’ll review it.