The _Beverly Hills 90210_ thread

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.

season has rebounded with "Steve outs a gay guy at the frat" episode

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."

yeah the rocker dude is way later, like season 7 or something

I am not watching these at work! lol

Spielberg sucks, huh?

Mostly

i have a new appreciation of your idea of what's worth (re)watching

Campy distractions have their virtues

Spielberg does suck but Shakey couldn't have picked a worse context to make the stand in

Imagine, rewatching all any of Bev 90210 in 2017 and not at least starting a podcast and patreon to justify it

Morbz is ref'ing a comment i made on another thread tbf

yeah the rocker dude is way later, like season 7 or something

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

also *love* Steve's dad, who plays every scene like he's the tough-talking heavy in a 40s noir film

Steve's dad and Kelly's mom are my favorite parents.

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

"Hold On" was the only hit, and it got substantial airplay in summer 1995.

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

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.

Apols in advance for spoilers 23 years (holy fuck) after the fact obv :)

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.

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)

Color me Badd! The Cardigans! The Flaming Lips! The fucking Cramps!

The quote is "This alternative music isn't bad!" about Flaming Lips.

luv you Steve Sanders

Haha yasss

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

So basically, "The Heights 2.0"?

Wait... the Cramps!? I def dont remember that!

Babyface and Jade otoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6_mDFx2Zi8

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.

Yep.

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.

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!

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

poor Mr. and Mrs. Walsh up and left for Japan

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.'

The new 90210 is described as irreverent and is inspired by the six original stars' real lives and relationships.

Written by Tom Stoppard

Nah, Pirandello. Six Actors In Search of a Pension Top-Up.

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

i was worried this would be an RIP thread, like maybe Joe E Tata

Yeah same. Damn we old now. A stroke!

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".

lol this one took me by surprise last night
https://ew.com/tv/beverly-hills-90210-guest-stars/?slide=5567472#5567472

huh Gabrielle Carteris is SAG-AFTRA president

Voted most likely to do just that at West Beverly iirc

lol

most unlikely to be granted her own talk show

in the episode where the gang wrestles with an anti-semitic/Nation of Islam-type "controversial" african american speaker coming to campus, Brandon gets in the classic line "Maybe we should have just invited Bill Cosby instead"

omg i just saw that episode

gotta be honest tho that grandma's got nothing on Andrea's first grandma