The Hillz are alive with the sound of Lauren

I missed the original airing of Lauren Looks Back, since it's MTV, I am catching the rerun a couple hours later. It's a pretty awesome clip/review show, catching up those of us who have missed a single episode of Laguna Beach or The Hillz. I've taken a few pages of notes, but I'll consolidate it all to one sentence per segment. Well, maybe two sentences. And a quote.

1. It's all about Stephen, but he's too busy with Kristin to really take Lauren seriously. Stephen!

2. Stephen is a huge man-whore, completely "not available" for Lauren. Prom and graduation bring an end to high school, but Lauren only survives design school in San Fran for one semester.

3. Enter Jason, complete with that ugly girlfriend of his, Jessica. Also, enter Heidi, who walked with Kristin in a fashion show (a sign of things to come?).

4. Lauren and Heidi move in together and, miraculously, Lauren scores the internship at Teen Vogue and meets Whitney (my fave!). As she says, she "came to Los Angeles to take chances!"

5. Lauren and Jason have all kinds of problems, including a SUPER dramatic scene on New Year's Eve. Then, Lauren makes the biggest mistake EVER by becoming, as Lisa Love says, "the girl who didn't go to Paris."

6. Lauren, already being SO trendy with dark fingernail polish, realizes she can "never be normal" with Jason. Spencer and Brody are brought to the forefront, and Heidi and her loser BF hook up slutty Jen with Brody at a party.

7. Basically, Spencer is an idiot ("He is a sucky person!" / Brody & Spencer break up!). Jason gets out of rehab and, after being super nice to Lauren, she finds out that he's engaged to some not-so-cute tennis player.

8. It's all about Brody. Heidi is around, but she's still a bitch.