Dylan is still a reliably hilarious character - a selfish, entitled, aimless millionaire committed to a one-dimensional "literary rebel" persona (he likes Rimbaud AND Kerouac!)
― Οὖτις, Friday, September 8, 2017 5:48 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
but cmon he is so dreamy
― marcos, Monday, 11 September 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FDSPw8tgB4X8LS%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 September 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
knee deep in season 4 and I may have hit my limit early with the most egregiously awful episode to-date, the episode where Brenda finds a teenage girl's diary from the 60s. The entire episode consists of Brenda imagining the gang acting out the events in the diary, complete with bad wigs, cringeworthy dialogue (it feels like every other line is a period-appropriate song title/lyric reference), and the laziest plotting imaginable.
I was planning on watching up through the episode where Donna gets pushed down the stairs by her abusive rocker boyfriend but this may have been a bridge to far.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
it's clearly a filler episode but nothing is really played for laughs and the boomer 60s shit is cliched beyond belief. on the plus side, Brendan plays the gung ho ROTC recruit (in Robert McNamara drag) that signs up for Vietnam duty and promptly gets killed.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
season has rebounded with "Steve outs a gay guy at the frat" episode
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
the rocker boyfriend (the dude from The Heights!) is later, no? It's when Valerie enters the Walsh household.
Shakey, I like to imagine you at work watching these. Your boss knocks on your door, you say, "In a minute, chief."
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
yeah the rocker dude is way later, like season 7 or something
I am not watching these at work! lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Spielberg sucks, huh?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
Mostly
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 September 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
i have a new appreciation of your idea of what's worth (re)watching
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2017 00:44 (six years ago) link
Campy distractions have their virtues
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 September 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
Spielberg does suck but Shakey couldn't have picked a worse context to make the stand in
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 29 September 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
Imagine, rewatching all any of Bev 90210 in 2017 and not at least starting a podcast and patreon to justify it
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 29 September 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link
Morbz is ref'ing a comment i made on another thread tbf
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 September 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
I was so wrong about this, he is front and center in Season 5 and shit is wall-to-wall silliness now. Surm otm that Val is somehow the best thing that ever happened to this show - one of the only credible actresses/characters (also I love how her secret weed-smoking is portrayed as evidence of her inherent untrustworthiness lol)
Had totally forgotten Kelly's lesbian-burn-victim-Scientology-joining story arc wtf
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
also *love* Steve's dad, who plays every scene like he's the tough-talking heavy in a 40s noir film
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Steve's dad and Kelly's mom are my favorite parents.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
By 'the rocker' we mean Ray Pruit right? Googling him now it turns out he, Jamie Walters, did pursue a music career and actually sold loads of records. He's an LAPD firefighter now!
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/90210/images/6/64/RayPruit.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20170102181242 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/90210/images/a/aa/Jamie-Walters-01.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20160902124527
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
"Hold On" was the only hit, and it got substantial airplay in summer 1995.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
at the time I had the distinct impression that the show was def trying to launch his music career, a bid for cross-platform brand synergies blah blah blah
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
That was my impression too! It was really on the nose, which felt a bit off because he also had some domestic violence stuff going on (didn't he shove Donna down the stairs?). But it was 1994, I lived and saw this in Europe, and would not have internet at my disposal until a year after that. And I never looked back.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
Apols in advance for spoilers 23 years (holy fuck) after the fact obv :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
He shoved Donna down the stairs, at whose foot Kelly awaited, ready to make lesbian moves. Meanwhile Dylan watched, waiting to set them on fire while Brenda danced to Wilson Phillips in glee.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
Gah. Way to make me love you more! That is some memory.
(Wilson Philips yes! Such a BH90210 band... we need a thread or a poll or whatever specifically about the INSANE musical appearances on this show... My brother and I always chuckled at the standard Dave or Steve line going "Good band!" while some indie-band was sweating it on stage at some prom or dance or party)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Color me Badd! The Cardigans! The Flaming Lips! The fucking Cramps!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
The quote is "This alternative music isn't bad!" about Flaming Lips.
luv you Steve Sanders
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
Haha yasss
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 October 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
So basically, "The Heights 2.0"?
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 October 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
Wait... the Cramps!? I def dont remember that!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
Babyface and Jade otoh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6_mDFx2Zi8
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
so wtf we got to the Flaming Lips episode and their scene was edited out! I also noticed that the episode with Jade was missing, as was the episode with Color Me Badd. I assume Hulu must have some problem securing the music rights...? So fucking lame.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 October 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
Yep.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I have reached the end. In the season 5 finale Kelly *almost* becomes a lesbian, Steve hits on a transvestite, Brandon makes out with Valerie, Ray pushes Donna down the stairs, and Dylan gets dangled out of a funicular by a mobster. Everything has become so ridiculous *all the time* I'm now inclined to accept Alfred's initial estimation that after the first 2 seasons any semblance of recognizable teenage reality began to be eroded in favor of silly soap opera hijinks.
Dylan's past-life regressions were p funny tho. I think I liked "Hobo Dylan" the best.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 October 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Wife and I did a complete re-watch a few years back and I remember being pleasantly surprised by the second-to-last season, whichever one that is. If memory serves, Valerie puts the show on her back and carries it. Don’t give up yet!
― tobo73, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
my wife has soldiered on to season 6 w out me (she claims she will only watch it until Donna loses her virginity lol), I can't take it anymore
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
poor Mr. and Mrs. Walsh up and left for Japan
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
What in the
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/90210-revival-lands-at-fox-summer-debut-1191050
The six-episode "event series" will see original stars Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling play heightened versions of themselves shopping a reboot of, what else: 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
The new 90210 is described as irreverent and is inspired by the six original stars' real lives and relationships.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
Written by Tom Stoppard
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Nah, Pirandello. Six Actors In Search of a Pension Top-Up.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/luke-perry-stroke-latest-hospital-la-update-90210-riverdale-a8801711.html%3famp
― MrDasher, Thursday, 28 February 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
i was worried this would be an RIP thread, like maybe Joe E Tata
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 1 March 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah same. Damn we old now. A stroke!
― nathom, Friday, 1 March 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
I'm bummed this new miniseries is a meta-faux-reality TV thing and not, like, a proper reunion of the fictional characters "in-universe".
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
lol this one took me by surprise last nighthttps://ew.com/tv/beverly-hills-90210-guest-stars/?slide=5567472#5567472
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
huh Gabrielle Carteris is SAG-AFTRA president
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
Voted most likely to do just that at West Beverly iirc
― I'm scared my but won't fit in it. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
lol
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
most unlikely to be granted her own talk show
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link