Shooting the $hit

The “New” 90210 debuted on Tuesday with a lot of eager expectations. The majority of viewers were fans of the original 90210 which first aired in 1990. In order to lure the earlier viewers into the new series the producers integrated many of the stars such as: Shannen Doherty, Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth from the original series. Granted, that is a great plan to win back half hearted viewers but how long can they incorporate them without their presence being static. Many of the people watching are too young to have seen The 90210 and are enticed by a West Coast rendition of Gossip Girls.  It seems that the CW’s intention is to emmulate a trans-series cross between The 90210 and Gossip Girls; the problem is that most of the components were not transplanted correctly.

For those that don’t know, 90210 was a trendsetting, progressive, original, and avant-garde series. It pushed the envelope with it’s creative and vanguard ingenuity. Not only were the characters exciting and original but the cast of 90210 was responsible for a whole new era of debonaire style. The new 90210 is trying to hard to be something that already was, it’s a spin off that is spinning about as much as a broken clock, it’s stuck in time. When you think of 90210 what comes to mind is racy, promiscuous, sarcasm, scandals and sex. The new 90210 was well, how do I put this, dull.

After about an hour of the new 90210 I felt like I was watching a snootier version of Hannah Montana. I just felt that the show was geared at an entirely different audience; viewers from 18 years ago that now have 10 year old Miley Cyrus impostors as children. There was nothing provocative about the show at all; hell, they hired Jessica “Lucille Bluth” Walter — who played the booziest, horniest senior citizen this side of Blanche Deveraux on Arrested Development to play a grandma that “isn’t your typical bridge player.” Everyone is aware that Jessica Walter can play an over zealous and over age slattern so why not give her a love interest, how about her adopted black grandson…its not like it would be incest. The point is the actors look bored and the characters are stale, nothing progressive or intuitive has happened and it just seems like we are watching a bunch of pretentious 15year olds mocking the styles of the previous cast with much less bravado. I guess we will see what they will do with the rest of the season, but my guess is more of the same insipid and predictive show boating.

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