Beverly Hills 90210 Article: What I Like About...Beverly Hills

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posted by valandvic4ever

I think that Beverly Hills 90210 is a show everyone has at least heard of once or twice, but unless you were a teenager during the 90s, you probbaly never watched it. Well, the same was true for me.

That is, until CW started advertising the 90210 spin-off on every cable channel they possibly could. I heard stuff on the previews like, "the phenomenon that defined an era is back to touch a whole new generation of viewers." It sounded like a show I couldn't pass up. But there was one little problem: I knew nothing about 90210 besides the obvious - it's a zip-code in Beverly Hills.

What initially opened my eyes to this hidden gem of a drama is my fan loyalty to Jennie Garth. What I Like About You is one of my favorite TV shows of all time, and it happened to be during a re-run of WILAY that I first saw a preview for 90210. The blonde hair caught my attention right away; she looked so familiar...Wait a minute...Is that Val Tyler on my television screen? What would she be doing in Los Angeles? No, it's not Val - it just looks like her. No, it is; it's Jennie Garth!

Bits and pieces I had heard about BH 90210 suddenly fit. Kelly Taylor gave Jennie her shot at stardom. Kelly Taylor must be reprising her roll on the spin-off. That was all I needed to dig up the 1990-aired pilot on YouTube.

At first, I just wanted to gain a little background knowledge on the original West Beverly crew before I watched CW's updated version, but instead I got hooked. On both shows actually - the old and the new. However, I never imagined I would enjoy a soap-opera from another decade more than an OC-type drama aimed at my own age-group. BH 90210 is for the twenty-somethings; 90210 is for me. But I fell for what wasn't meant to be mine.

Don't get me wrong, every Tuesday night I eagerly tune into Annie and Dixon's high school intrigues. However, I always find myself comparing their lives to those of their predessors: Brenda and Brandon Walsh. What can I say? Maybe I'm just a sucker for old-school television.

I freely admit it; in fact I'll embrace it!

Just_me_12, mikail33 and 7 others like this

rose2 I like both but the old one is the best TV show of all time!

georgiapeach91 Good article, I love the original the best!!

clois222222 i love bh90210 love it there is not a character that i hate or can't stand they were amazing, legndairy.i love them all(brandon, brenda,dylan,kelly,david,steve,donna,nate,andria) but in 90210 i hate and can't stand anni and dixion. the actress of anni's character i think she trys too hard to play her which made me hate her(anni) not the actress. and dixion is just ssoooooooo boring, and he always trying to change silver he never ecpted her for who she is and that just drives me crazy (the same thing with nate and blair in gg) any way after few episodes of 90210 i stopped watching it. i relaized that i love bh 90210 so much and that i hate 90210.

CutiePie4Ever No shame in admitting it, lol. The original is definitely the best and it belongs in a category of it's own. I gave the new version a shot when it premiered, but got bored super fast and I didn't like what they did with the original characters either. A little bit too much historical revisionism for my tastes. Needless to say, I think the spin-off blows. I was 12 when BH 90210 first aired in 1990 and I followed the show throughout my teens in high school. Even some of the original's worst seasons put the spin-off to shame and that's saying alot. For a long time, I couldn't stand some of the original seasons.