Her Monday must-watch

This may be the Fall TV lineup, but tonight marks the return of Summer! Rachel Bilson, best known as Summer Roberts on The O.C., stars as Zoe Hart on the CW's Hart of Dixie (9/8c), tonight's must-watch.

So just how has Summer fared in the post Seth Cohen era? Well, she played one of many is-she-or-isn't-she-the-mother love interests for Ted on How I Met Your Mother (she wasn't), and starred in the movie Jumper with her is-he-or-is-he-not-her-fiance anymore Hayden Christensen (I think not?). But the engagement I'm most interested in is that of an audience with her new show.

Will we buy this former spoiled California teen as a brilliant surgeon? Will the chemistry she has with any of the southern gentlemen she encounters in Bluebell, Alabama compare to that with nerdy, loveable Seth? Will this show live up to the hype I've created in my own head? If anyone can make the answers to all of those questions "yes," it is surely adorable, charming Bilson.

In related news, Bilson's former co-star Mischa Barton was featured in a segment on Access Hollywood tonight. Coincidence? Or the strategic maneuvering of Barton's agent? I'm guessing the latter. Assuming she even still has one.