I haven’t missed this show one bit. However, they’re trying to tease me back in.
Kelly and Brenda are upset at each other. What else is new?
It kind of reminds me of this time. Truer words were never spoken. Stab in the back, I bleed.
Even you, yes you, can learn something from Beverly Hills, 90210. I was zipping through season 4 while on the eliptical machine at the gym and during this season was a two episode stint in which Christine Elise played her most famous character, Emily Valentine again. If you remember Emily from season 2, she was crazy in love and psycho. She even set the homecoming (or whatever high school deal it was) float on fire. During these two episodes, Brandon took a drive to San Francisco and found her and they fell back in love. Awwwww. How cute. But what Brandon didn’t know was that Emily had been accepted to study marine biology in France. France you say? Yes, France. But she was ready to give it up all for Brandon, who had just come back into her life after she thought she’d never see him again. He told her she couldn’t and that she had to go. She said that she couldn’t ask him to be faithful to her, but she could only ask him to be faithful to himself. And while I think it was only a week or two later that he was banging his teacher’s wife, I believed for that moment, that he was going to wait for her. So what’s the moral to this story? It’s that Emily had to live her dreams and move forward with her life. Whether you’re married, single, divorced like me, parents or not, crazy, sane, or whatever, there’s one thing that you can do for yourself. And it’s to be faithful to you.
Always move forward, never backwards.
Carrying on …
This review was originally written on Epinions.com.
Season 3 of Beverly Hills, 90210 was probably the most important season of the show’s run. By the third season, they had quite the fan following. This wasn’t a top ten rated show by any means, but for the demographic they were targeting, it was an immense success. There were many reasons that this was such a monumental season for the show, including one entire season long storyline love triangle. Not only that, but the teenagers from West Beverly High were seniors and the entire season was focused on them graduating and moving on.
But the season began in the summer and Dylan (Luke Perry) and Brenda (Shannen Doherty) were still in the midst of their rocky relationship. Kelly (Jennie Garth) and Donna (Tori Spelling) were supposed to go to Paris for the summer, but Kelly opted out. This lead to Brenda’s parents, the great Jim and Cindy Walsh, to send Brenda to Paris to get her away from Dylan. This is what happens in Beverly Hills. You irritate your parents because you miss curfew and instead of being grounded, you get sent to Paris.
Dean Cain in pre-Superman fashion is featured in the Paris episodes as a man Brenda meets and undresses with her eyes. But she pretends to be French so that he doesn’t know the true her. David Arquette also shows up in Season 3 as Diesel, a wannabe rocker who is the ex-boyfriend of Brandon’s young sophomore squeeze Niki. Seth Green plays a nerdy high schooler who gets set up on a double date with Brenda and Kelly. Burt Reynolds also shows up in a cameo on an episode in which a con woman uses Brandon and Steve to steal money from people who expected her to give them a Hollywood Tour.
The season long love triangle was expertly done. With Brenda in Paris, Kelly and Dylan get to spend time together and fall in love. But they try to honor their friendship with Brenda and you know how that works. Since Brenda also has something going on in Paris with Superman, the viewer feels the issue is fair and there is really no bad guy. Except, Shannen Doherty is so much of a better actor than both Luke Perry and Jennie Garth, she steals every scene and you start to feel sorry for her even though it’s almost a fair situation. Well, I guess if Dean Cain was Dylan’s best friend.
If you believe this article, then Jason Priestley will not get the sideburns going again as the iconic Brandon Walsh. But the article has a quote from him which he acknowledges wanting to direct again.
“They’re talking to my people about seeing if they can slot me in over there. I directed more episodes of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ than anybody. I directed 18 episodes.”
To this I say, throw some more money at these guys. If you add the old cast members in a way that helps with the ratings early on, this gives you some lead time into really getting the new characters over. I wouldn’t expect that any of the old cast members have a real continuing character that shows up on every episode, but if on week three, you teased the preview to next week with, “He’s been gone for 13 years, but he’s back, and he’s teaching Journalism,” I think you do a ton of viewers who wouldn’t watch the show regularly. And if the show is good, maybe you keep them.
Throw some money at these guys. Get them on the show.
What do you think? I think this time, it’s actually a guy’s t-shirt.
Thanks to cousin Miko for this.
Word on the street (well at least according to Yahoo! gossip site OMG!) is that Shannen Doherty is in talks to become Brenda Walsh 2.0 in the new Beverly Hills, 90210. With Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling already in, I wonder how much the old characters will overshadow the new ones. I have a feeling if too many of the old cast starts to reappear, none of the new characters will get over with the fans of the old show.
Luke Perry has supposedly said no, and if I were him, I’d probably say no as well. This way, if they want him badly enough for season two (if there is a season two), they’ll pony up the money. As for Jason Priestley, no word on him yet. They still have time.
I only hope that they reprise the scene where Brenda tries to explain why she thinks Kelly is a bimbo and says, “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck …” That would be great.
Thanks to E! Online, I found a story about the CW Network possibly doing a spin-off of the greatest television show of all time. Though more than likely, it wouldn’t be good because most spin-offs aren’t well thought out (Joanie Loves Chachi?), I’m all for the idea. Actually, what I’m for is having the old cast members just randomly show up on the new show. Who wouldn’t want to see Dylan McKay surfing still into his 40s? Can you imagine how awesome it would be to see Brandon Walsh and Emily Valentine back together again as a married couple with Emily popping euphoria into his drink time and again? Hell, forget a contemporary spin-off. Let’s put the band back together~!
It gives me great feeling all time, all my life to bring you the newest box cover art for not only Beverly Hills, 90210: Season 4 (aka Brenda Walsh’s last season), but also Martin Season 4 (aka the season right before Martin went crazy). They both come out in April.
I just purchased BH90210 Season 3 and received Martin Season 3 as a Christmas gift, so I have some major TV watching before the season 4s come out.
Enjoy.
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Here was our clue:
This two time Oscar winner had some bad things to say about her former television acting career.
She said:
“The producers never told me why, they just said it wasn?t working… Especially when it?s in its eighth season and no one?s watching it. You just think, ‘I?m not good enough for this show’?”
Who is the former Oscar winner and for bonus points, what show was she talking about?
Now everyone got it right except Eddy Zucko who said Sally Field and then went on to say that Sally Field was on The Hogan’s Family. I believe that was Sandy Duncan.
The answer is most definitely Hilary Swank. And the show she is talking about is the beloved Beverly Hills, 90210.
I have a bone to pick with her though. While the show was late in it’s career, the ratings weren’t declining. On a whole, they had declined, but in Season 8, they actually improved, or at least their yearly standing improved. And maybe young Hilary, you weren’t good enough for the show. I mean, were you even good enough for The Next Karate Kid? And really, Freedom Writers was just a broke ass Dangerous Minds.
Actually, I love Swank. Wait. That didn’t come out right. I enjoy Hilary Swank as an actress. But still, when you make fun of my show, you face the fury. But I’ll be nice. I was going to say that with Fergie’s face, and Hilary’s teeth, they could re-do Mr. Ed, but I won’t go there.
