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90210 - Season 5
‘90210’s final season might actually be its best one yet. Even then, it’s still very much the worst scripted show on American television. Yet, somehow, someway, it might also be one of the best? Either way, if you prefer drug dealing teachers or alcoholic ad sellers this show isn’t for you and you’d be wise to leave this review now. Because the upcoming paragraphs are nothing but praise for the most ridiculous show on the air.
Hot, young, white people in sunny California. There’s really not much else going on in ‘90210’. These people are incredibly dramatic, untrustworthy and actually kind of slutty. They don’t have to worry about money, housing, jobs or maintaining a relationship longer than two weeks. Instead they worry about launching careers that aren’t really careers, scheming, hooking up with random people and crying unnecessarily. The show is a scripted version of The Hills. If that doesn’t float your boat then ‘90210’ has very little to offer you. For those of us who don’t like “reality” TV, this drama is the closest thing to watching other people wreck their own life.
The fifth season kicks off right after Dixon got hit by a truck. He wasn’t driving and it was the middle of the desert but somehow his friend oversaw the huge truck anyway. Dixon is now paralyzed and we all know that is not going to last. Luckily, the show knows it too and doesn’t pretend to make a big twist out of it. Which is exactly the best thing about this season. After years of trying to delve into proper, quality storylines, such as Teddy’s coming out, Silver’s bipolar disease and Naomi’s rape, the show has given into its soap roots. This isn’t the show that is going to change people’s minds or teach them valuable life lessons. You watch ‘90210’ because you want to see pretty rich people do incredibly crazy things. And boy, does Season 5 get crazy. Nothing on TV is more soapier than this show this past year. People falling off of balconies, stalkers trying to kidnap and transport their targets, shootings, stage collapses, alternate universes, honestly, if I was to sum up everything that happened, this review would boggle your mind. So you’re just going to have to trust me that if you’re someone who’s happy ‘One Life to Live’ got picked-up, this show is very much for you. Season 5 is going all out.
Season 5 makes no excuses in order to tell the juiciest, most addictive stories it can tell. Somehow though, the final season feels more consistent and grounded than any before it. Thanks to its troubled history of showrunners, '90210' has sometimes ignored entire storylines in order to move into a different direction. Not this year. This season is all about remembering the past and building and growing. It's hard to picture someone like Naomi growing and yet even she makes some decent, adult decisions this year. She even tries to find that long lost brother that was once mentioned a long time ago. Annie, whose stories mostly involved dating basket cases, actually only has two boyfriends this year and only one of them dies! More importantly, her seasonal arc is all about accepting her past (she whored herself out to pay for her brother's rehab) and moving forward. Not bad for a character whose biggest character development happened when she killed a guy and only got house arrest for it. Silver is done dating too and not just because she literally dated every guy on the show. She has the cancer gene from her mother and has some life-size decisions to make. And Adrianna realizes that after year of taking all the blame from her friends, maybe she isn't the real problem. Granted, the best character realizations are saved for the girls as the guys are as flat as road kill on this show. But more than ever friendships are part of the story. You never quite believed these kids could be friends since they daily do terrible things to each other. So it's nice to see some of that being talked about and tested.
The reflective side of the season is definitely welcome. Instead of an endless supply of new characters that mostly figure as temporary love interests, there are only a handful of new faces, all with more than one storyline. Big arcs call back on some important stories the show previously told, which is nice. But again, this isn't so much a character drama as it is just a drama. Characters are always second to the stories that pop up. But with surrogates, tell-all books and overdosing princes, who needs real developments? By the end of the year you truly have seen everything.
'90210' never gets emotional enough to truly care about. It's more that pretentious rich kid in school that liked everybody but also didn't. So when the final minutes come around and the show spills the closure it could muster after the cancellation, there's little sense of nostalgia. Yes, some of the best friend/relationships of the show get a proper farewell. But I can't imagine someone feeling sad these characters are leaving you. I for one wished every single one of them a terrible fate at one point in the series. Luckily most of them suffered way worse on the show. Even the second-to-last pulls such a terrific ending that you can't help but feel that there won't ever be a show as crazy as this one. Shows will try to tell important stories with brilliant twists. They'll deem themselves too good for simple, throw-popcorn-at-the-screen, entertainment. And while that's probably for the best, '90210' will be remembered as the show that went from trying to be as cool as its big brother to just being the emotional train-wreck of a show you can't look away from. It just wanted to entertain. And for all intents and purposes, it did.
Follow 90210Hot, young, white people in sunny California. There’s really not much else going on in ‘90210’. These people are incredibly dramatic, untrustworthy and actually kind of slutty. They don’t have to worry about money, housing, jobs or maintaining a relationship longer than two weeks. Instead they worry about launching careers that aren’t really careers, scheming, hooking up with random people and crying unnecessarily. The show is a scripted version of The Hills. If that doesn’t float your boat then ‘90210’ has very little to offer you. For those of us who don’t like “reality” TV, this drama is the closest thing to watching other people wreck their own life.
The fifth season kicks off right after Dixon got hit by a truck. He wasn’t driving and it was the middle of the desert but somehow his friend oversaw the huge truck anyway. Dixon is now paralyzed and we all know that is not going to last. Luckily, the show knows it too and doesn’t pretend to make a big twist out of it. Which is exactly the best thing about this season. After years of trying to delve into proper, quality storylines, such as Teddy’s coming out, Silver’s bipolar disease and Naomi’s rape, the show has given into its soap roots. This isn’t the show that is going to change people’s minds or teach them valuable life lessons. You watch ‘90210’ because you want to see pretty rich people do incredibly crazy things. And boy, does Season 5 get crazy. Nothing on TV is more soapier than this show this past year. People falling off of balconies, stalkers trying to kidnap and transport their targets, shootings, stage collapses, alternate universes, honestly, if I was to sum up everything that happened, this review would boggle your mind. So you’re just going to have to trust me that if you’re someone who’s happy ‘One Life to Live’ got picked-up, this show is very much for you. Season 5 is going all out.
Season 5 makes no excuses in order to tell the juiciest, most addictive stories it can tell. Somehow though, the final season feels more consistent and grounded than any before it. Thanks to its troubled history of showrunners, '90210' has sometimes ignored entire storylines in order to move into a different direction. Not this year. This season is all about remembering the past and building and growing. It's hard to picture someone like Naomi growing and yet even she makes some decent, adult decisions this year. She even tries to find that long lost brother that was once mentioned a long time ago. Annie, whose stories mostly involved dating basket cases, actually only has two boyfriends this year and only one of them dies! More importantly, her seasonal arc is all about accepting her past (she whored herself out to pay for her brother's rehab) and moving forward. Not bad for a character whose biggest character development happened when she killed a guy and only got house arrest for it. Silver is done dating too and not just because she literally dated every guy on the show. She has the cancer gene from her mother and has some life-size decisions to make. And Adrianna realizes that after year of taking all the blame from her friends, maybe she isn't the real problem. Granted, the best character realizations are saved for the girls as the guys are as flat as road kill on this show. But more than ever friendships are part of the story. You never quite believed these kids could be friends since they daily do terrible things to each other. So it's nice to see some of that being talked about and tested.
The reflective side of the season is definitely welcome. Instead of an endless supply of new characters that mostly figure as temporary love interests, there are only a handful of new faces, all with more than one storyline. Big arcs call back on some important stories the show previously told, which is nice. But again, this isn't so much a character drama as it is just a drama. Characters are always second to the stories that pop up. But with surrogates, tell-all books and overdosing princes, who needs real developments? By the end of the year you truly have seen everything.
'90210' never gets emotional enough to truly care about. It's more that pretentious rich kid in school that liked everybody but also didn't. So when the final minutes come around and the show spills the closure it could muster after the cancellation, there's little sense of nostalgia. Yes, some of the best friend/relationships of the show get a proper farewell. But I can't imagine someone feeling sad these characters are leaving you. I for one wished every single one of them a terrible fate at one point in the series. Luckily most of them suffered way worse on the show. Even the second-to-last pulls such a terrific ending that you can't help but feel that there won't ever be a show as crazy as this one. Shows will try to tell important stories with brilliant twists. They'll deem themselves too good for simple, throw-popcorn-at-the-screen, entertainment. And while that's probably for the best, '90210' will be remembered as the show that went from trying to be as cool as its big brother to just being the emotional train-wreck of a show you can't look away from. It just wanted to entertain. And for all intents and purposes, it did.
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