90210

It's good to see Joe E. Tata working again. However the new version of 90210 showed its first major flaw withing seconds of premiering. The principal (Rob Estes) and his wife (Lori Laughlin) have a son and daughter. The son, is apparently an adopt black kid (played by Tristan Wilds). So this is just such an incredible stretch in the name of diversity. Why can't you just have a friend at West Beverly be the token black guy. At least allow the show some credibility off the bat.

Ugh. So far so odd. Several tie ins to the original. Including Andrea Zuckerman's daughter Hannah being a school news reporter. No more newspaper for this generation now it is a television delivered medium. Of course this leads to the designated "cool" teacher (played by Ryan Eggold), whom appears to be just a Matthew Fox looking guy, to say "that girl looks about 30". Of course that is a joke referencing to how old Gabrielle Carteris (playing Andrea Zuckerman) looked/was.

Oh did I mention Jennie Garth's sister (played by Jessica Stroup)? Yup she had a sister in the original show. She goes by Silver. You know that was Brian Austin Green's characters last name.

The show also had a great opening scene of the high school. Lots of fancy cars and a boy receiving oral sex in his car. Fantastic. And later a penis joke. Oh boy.

On a real network I don't think this show would last more than a month. However this is on the CW which means it might even run for a couple of years.

The official 90210 website

Labels: Television

- posted by Doug @ 8:16:00 PM