A few weeks ago I was aimlessly flipping through channels, looking for something to pass the time, and I landed on the new 90210 reboot. I'd seen maybe a handful of episodes when it first started; mildly curious to see what this return to Beverly Hills was all about. Who's the new Brenda? Does it start all earnest and message-y (remember when they ran out of "very special" topics and they resorted to urging you to give blood?) and then go full soap? The basic premise is the same: siblings move to Beverly Hills from the Midwest (Kansas instead of Minnesota this time, and they're not twins either), enroll at West Beverly, and gawk at all the fancy cars and fast living that LA has to offer. At the beginning they brought in a couple original cast members (Kelly was a regular for a while, Brenda made an appearance), and the Kansas kids had parents who had regular screen time, but it seems that has all been abandoned. I'm guessing they weren't getting enough young viewers and olds like me tuned out after a few episodes after the novelty of the reboot wore off.
Last night I caught the premiere of the new season (3, I think) and it was both entertaining and infuriating, like all the bad tv I love. I'd caught the last couple episodes of the previous seasons in re-run over the last few weeks, so I had a vague idea what was going on. This is the season that most shows that start in high school dread: off to college. You have to at least pretend for a bit that they're not all going to end up at the same school (ex. Andrea picks CU over Yale, Rory goes to Yale instead of Harvard, and while I can buy Willow wanting to stay to help the Scoobies, UC Sunnydale is no Oxford), but in the end the fates conspire to keep everyone in LA. Last night, Annie (the new Brenda) is all set to study acting at Carnegie Mellon, but on her way out of town she finds out that the money she was bequeathed by a recently deceased former starlet for whom she worked for a few weeks (yeah chew on that) is being contested by the relatives (um yeah!) so she has to defer a semester. That was quick. Poor Brenda had to go all the way to Minnesota, get made fun of by her roommate, and then move home a couple weeks later. Annie's brother, Dixon, was all set to go to Pepperdine, but drops out before he even starts to pursue his music. So it looks like everyone who is college-bound is headed to good old fictional California University!
Lest you start thinking that this show is actually about school, let me assure you that most of the show revolves around back-stabbing, love triangles, betrayal, and spending gobs of money on fabulous things. These people can't be more than 19 but they live such grown up lives. We already have a married couple (he has cancer, so it's kind of a carpe diem thing), and last night there was a proposal. It was declined, but not because they're obviously too young but because the young man didn't call the young lady all summer while they were apart. Okay... And we have Silver and Naveed shacking up (in the house she's lived in alone through high school), and taking in his sister who is a high school senior. And they're shaking their heads at her juvenile behavior (she wanted to go out at midnight and they wanted to go to bed), and agreeing that they should be patient with her because she's so young. She's one year younger than they are! Geesh. And let's not even talk about Naomi buying an enormous home (she needs an awesome pad to be able to throw an awesome party to impress the CU quarterback), or Dixon getting an ocean front Malibu apartment. I mean, these kids have a lot of money, so I guess they get to skip the crappy apartment with a billion roommates thing, but whoa. And how are they buying all this alcohol? Naomi throws a party with $200/bottle champagne how? The boys drink at a beachside bar and at least slip the guy some extra cash to overlook their age, which was plausible, but that gets erased at the end when Liam wakes up on the beach after too much beach beer to find he's bought the bar with the money he made on a fishing boat over the summer. He's 18!
It's so obviously cheesy and fake and terrible, but actually kinda fun, so I think I may stick with it this season.
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