As part of our on-going salute to The O.C, bitch, prepare to embrace sweet sensitive troubled youth, Ryan Atwood (See also our look back at Rachel Bilson, our salute to Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows, and — old, but timeless — this Retrospective of Adam Brody that we did last year). Full disclosure: Ben McKenzie looks EXACTLY THE SAME as he did ten years ago, and he never looks bad. In other words: this is just eye candy. YOU’RE WELCOME.

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