TeenDramaWhore

Since this was the very first season of 90210, I think it’s important to do some sort of critical assessment.  But since I’ve pretty much done that already with my reaction posts, I’m going to turn things over to you.

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I intended to do this just for 90210 because, as I said above, it’s the “new” teen drama.  But if you’d like to see polls for Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill as well, post in the comments.

90210 (One Party Can Ruin Your Whole Summer)

• Previously on features a lot: Kelly threatening Liam, Jen/Naomi, Annie accused of ruing prom party, Silver rejected prom queen, Liam/Naomi, Adrianna in labor
• Naomi filling Jen in on what Liam shared with her.  Guess she never learned not to kiss and tell.
• Q1: “Oh, Jen’s not a grown up. She’s my sister.”–Naomi
• Jen refuses party but Naomi reminds her that it’s actually her house.  This won’t end well, I’m sure.
• Q2: “Benedict Annie is right there.”–Some girl
• Gotta love Naomi’s back-handed compliments.
• Who texted Naomi about Adrianna?
• So now Annie’s in charge of the party. Again, this won’t end well.
• LOL They’re trapped in a sea of limos
• Wow, this Phoebe girl is an annoying bitch!
• Liam is still being kind of sweet.  How long will it last?
• Of course Naomi doesn’t tell Liam that she already shared his secrets.  Will come back to haunt her.
• LOL This nurse is hysterically ridiculous.
• Why didn’t they just go to the ER?
• A capella at prom.  Wow.
• Kelly and Harry still kind of flirting with each other.  But here’s Debbie.
• That sundae bar looked amazing!
• LOL Harry takes the brownies with him
• The party is already in full swing and Annie’s already losing control
• Ethan and Dixon both staring at Silver. If only they could see how awkward it is!
• Dixon is venting to the wrong person.
• Q3: “What can I do?  I love her, man.  When she’s across the room I miss her.”–Dixon about Silver
• Wow.  Ethan’s is carrying around a picture of Silver.  CREEPY!
• Surprised Harry left the prom to the go to the hospital.  Who is in charge now?
• At least they’re wondering where Dixon and Annie are.
• Q4: “Where did you get those, piglet?
• Wow, Adrianna is giving birth 3 weeks only.  Are we just repeating the original’s Andrea storyline?
• Surprised Ade is kind of thinking straight, and about important things.
• Love that Navid is so on top of everything.
• Why does Adrianna want Brenda so badly?  What difference does she make?
• And since when is Brenda in China?
• Promo for Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.  At least they know their audience!
• Promo for Road to 90210 contest
• Dixon and Ethan chugging wine or something.  But where’s Silver?
• Wow, Liam sketching Annie from afar.  He’s so weird!
• Whew, the baby is okay.  And it’s a girl!
• Adrianna is okay, too.  Sort of.
• Doesn’t want to get attached to the baby, which is understandable.  She’s being really brave.
• Harry catches Navid lying about Dixon and Annie.  But how will he actually find them?
• Okay, Debbie and Harry acting ridiculous.
• Could really do without this pop brownie storyline.
• Since when does Dixon DJ?
• Silver is going to the wrong person for advice!
• Mature of Ethan to speak in favor of her and Dixon.
• Uht oh, Ethan has the wrong coat,which means Dixon has the one with the picture of Silver!
• Really, Debbie and Harry are just wasting episode time.
• Eek.  Debbie sees Kelly touch Harry and suspects crush.  Foreshadowing?
• Figure Phoebe’s sick.
• Annie should not be leaving the party to drive her home!  Stupid move!
• Jen lying to Liam about who she is AND tells him what Naomi told her.
• She really is going all-out on this revenge thing!
• Liam kind of reminded me of The O.C’s Ryan in this scene.
• Brenda!  As Cleopatra!
• She actually looks kinda good.  LOL
• Come to think of it, we never saw what happened with the school play.
• Q5: “We both love drama, we both live pretty dramatic lives.”–Brenda to Adrianna
• Okay, fine, so they’re kind of similar.
• Come on, Brenda!  At least put Adrianna in wheelchair!
• WTF?!  Jim Walsh CANNOT be dying.  Please tell me this is a dream sequence or something.  I AM NOT OKAY WITH THE NEW 90210  FUCKING WITH THE OLD ONE!!!
• Okay, Brenda is acting really weird.
• Teaching Adrianna a lesson–say goodbye to your baby!
• Okay, so this is definitely a dream but SO NOT OKAY!
• Plus, how would Adrianna even dream the correct name of Brenda’s father?
• Wonder if Adrianna will keep the baby now.  Doubt the show wants that burden.
• LOL Silver jumped in the pool in her prom dress!  Looks like a lot of fun.
• Ack, Dixon is on to Ethan!
• Q6: “So how long have you had a thing for my girlfriend?”–Dixon
• Ethan covering really badly.
• Ethan’s right. He didn’t DO anything.
• Double ack!  Silver is interrupting at the worst moment!
• Q7: “You’re king jock, right?  So man up. Admit it.”  “Fine!  I like you Silver.”–Dixon and Ethan
• Q8: “I’ll be back here first thing tomorrow.  And by that I mean mid-afternoon.  Definitely before dinner.”–Naomi
• Ty signed the form.  And gave Navid a cigar.  Kind of being mature, given the situation.
• Debbie brings the “crush” up to Kelly!  Awkward!  But Kelly doesn’t deny it.  Hmmm…
• Uht oh, Naomi s looking for Liam—>catches him getting dressed in her room!
• Naomi determines it was Jen based on the clothes she finds.
• Q9: “I don’t ever want to see you again.”–Naomi to Liam
• Jen now says who she really is and Liam is PISSED!
• Q10: “You are a bitch!”  “Don’t be vulgar.  And yes, I am.”–Liam and Jen
• WOAH!  Naomi is accusing Annie!  Where is this coming from?
• Oh, she founds Annie’s wrap.  Had to be coincidentally there, right?
• Naomi throwing Ethan back in Annie’s face.  I guess it fits, given what Naomi thinks.
• Q11: “She acts like this innocent girl from Kansas.  That’s not who she is!”–Naomi about annie
• Everyone is turning on Annie!
• OMG, this is so mean!!!!!!
• Q12: “Screw you, Naomi.  Screw all of you!”–Annie
• And the volcano finally erupts…
• Wow, really can’t take Shenae’s acting.
• Annie calling the cops on the party.  And leaves with a bottle of alcohol…
• Okay, so now Brenda really IS there.
• Uht oh, adoptive parents have arrived!  Adrianna is understandably upset.
• Q13: “How am I going to say goodbye?”–Adrianna
• Q14: “All I can say is adoption is a wonderful gift.  And I’m speaking from experience.  That’s why I was in China.  I adopted a little girl.”–Brenda
• And that little girl is with Jim and Cindy right now!  Aw, wish we saw them!
• Silver chasing after Ethan.  Why not Dixon??
• Woah!  Ethan kisssed her!  Very intense!
• Q15: “I don’t think we’re just friends.  And I don’t want to be just friends.  I want to be something more or I don’t want anything.  Just think about it, Silver.  Why are you outside with me indea of with your boyfriend?”–Ethan
• He makes a good point, but ultimatums are never a good thing.
• Ugh, I can’t stand seeing Jen comforting Naomi.  Makes me so bad.
• Sara Foster is a wonderful actress, though.  Love how she plays the character.
• Police sirens!
• Adrianna does give up the baby.  I feel so bad for her.
• What kind of name is Maisie/
• Liam looks very sexy in bed!
• He’s leaving a message for Naomi.  I think it’s going to take more than that to fix this.
• Double woah!  Liam is being dragged off to “wilderness camp”!
• And now it’s daytime.
• And Annie’s driving drunk.
• And, of course, she hits something…or someone.
• Wow, she just committed a hit-and-run!
• Someone with a West Bev bumper sticker pulled up to thing/body/whatever.
• The end!
• Decent cliffhanger.
• Can’t believe they ended the Silver-Ethan storyline like this when Dustin Milligan won’t be back next season.  So unsatisfying.  This had a lot of potential!
• And what happened with the sirens?  They didn’t follow up with that.
• Come back tomorrow to participate in my 90210 season 1 evaluation!

Congratulations to 90210 for making it through its first season.

See how it ends tonight, and then come back here later in the week to see how you can participate in my season-end evaluation.

In the meantime, Korbi has a spoilish pre-finale Q & A you should check out.

90210 (Zero Tolerance)

• Yes, I missed last week’s episode.  Yes, I read a recap.
• Previously on focuses on Naomi/Jen, Silver dissing prom, Adrianna/Ty, Liam taunting Annie and Ryan/Jen
• Keep in mind the original 90210 only had one prom, the senior prom in season 3. Season one had the spring dance.
• Harry’s video about prom rules is actually pretty funny.
• This is the sophomore prom, so I guess each grade gets their own.
• Weird to think of them as sophomores.  Seems so young!
• Episode title comes from the fact that there will be “zero tolerance” for alcohol at prom after parties.  Similar to original 90210 forbidding alcohol/drunkenness at prom.
• Dorkasaurus=Charlie
• Mariah Carey/Glitter reference a little old
• Liam drew picture instead of writing essay.  I knew kids like that in high school.
• Why does Ryan have to look so dirty and greasy?
• Great news for Ethan apparently but what is it?
• Naomi and Jen moving into a beautiful house with Naomi’s money.
• Do Kelly and Harry actually discuss bad-cop, good-cop before each student meeting?
• Meeting with Liam.
• Awkward confusion over his father/stepfather.
• Liam threatened with military school.  Would probably help him, actually.
• LOL Silver doing spray tan.
• This spray tan girl is annoyingly perky.
• Will all her advice for Silver backfire?
• Naomi looks very settled in her new bedroom for just having moved in.
• Wow, Liam asked Naomi to prom.  She is hilar trying to play it cool and then absolutely freaking out.
• Who is this professor with the dummies?  Never saw him before.
• Is Liam’s taunting of Annie being a nice girl foreshadowing when a time when she will explode?
• Charlie is kind of adorable.  Reminds me of a young Mark Schwahn (creator of OTH).
• Annie agrees to go with Charlie but I’m not sure why exactly.
• Annie not having a date similar to Brenda not having a date in the original.
• Ethan accepted to All-American Lacrosse Camp.  Is this setting up Ethan’s exit?
• Why’d Ryan give that news?  What did he have to do with it?
• Apparently Ethan has a dad in Montana.
• We forget Ethan is “like King Jock” because he doesn’t act like it.
• Ethan should go to the prom with Rhonda! LOL
• Or with Annie, for old time’s sake.
• Will Ethan tagging along with Silver and Dixon backfire?
• Really like the lavender dress.
• Did someone bring all these dresses to Annie’s room?? Who does that??
• Have a feeling Naomi’s credit card will be rejected.
• Silver looks so beautiful!  I love that dress!
• Yup, I was right about the card.
• Jen’s going to prom?!  Since when do chaperons/teachers bring dates?
• Naomi asking Jen the right questions but Jen’s probably still lying.
• Jen blames economy but there’s got to be more to it.
• Prom is on the Paramount lot?  Really?  Hardcore.
• Nice that everyone’s trying to help Silver be comfy there.
• Red carpet?  And paps?  Seriously??
• Doesn’t even look like Annie’s wearing a prom dress.
• Uht oh, Ty is there.
• Naomi and Dixon nominated for prom king and queen.
• Here’s the cameo by The Veronicas.
• Everyone is dancing really funnily.
• Jen hardcore flirting with Ryan.
• Uht oh, here comes Kelly (who looks great!)
• Didn’t occur to me that Jen and Kelly would know each other.  Guess Jen’s been out of HS for like 5ish years and Kelly started there less than 9 years ago so I guess their paths could’ve crossed.
• Kelly is clearly uncomfortable.  But she did tell Ryan no commitment or no strings or whatever.
• Harry going to ruin plans for after prom party.
• Understand why Charlie’s hurt.
• Don’t like Naomi’s prom dress.
• LOL Liam is sitting at prom listening to his iPod!
• Yup, Harry interrupts the band and ruins the party plans.
• Charlie’s going to get Annie back!
• Jen knows about Kelly and Ryan just from vibes??
• Wow, Jen is holding a grudge from high school.
• Seems Kel is, too.
• Why are they harping on drama from years ago?  It’s so over and done with.
• Quote of the episode: “Being that you’re a guidance counselor, maybe you can give me a little guidance?  Tell me, Ms. Taylor, what does he like in bed?”–Jen about Ryan
• Wow, they’re calling it the Prommies.  Doesn’t get more cheesy than this.
• Surprised Ethan wasn’t nominated.
• Oh, wait.  He is!  Good for him.
• Dixon wins prom king and gets a hardcore crown and really fake Oscar trophy knock-off.
• Silver wins as a write-in candidate!
• Hope people did this genuinely and not to be mean.
• Aw, Dixon convinced everyone to vote for her!
• Wow, she gets a really beautiful crown!
• Silver being brave to go up there and give a speech.
• LOL Silver’s rant about prom.
• Dixon looks shocked.  Ethan looks pleased.
• Silver’s “weird zombie prom-loving loser” comment pretty much insulted like half the class, I’m sure.
• LOL Naomi immediately takes the crown after Silver rejects it
• Ethan rejecting camp.  Looks like Silver inspired him.  Maybe this won’t be his way out.
• Woah!  That girl just called Annie a rat!
• Silver says she’ll come back to West Bev but Dixon clearly not happy.  Insulted by zombie comment.
• Ethan is obviously crushing on her!  It’s kind of cute.
• Who is calling Jen?
• Kelly’s going to confront Ryan!
• Tells him Jen’s a compulsive liar.  Certainly seems that way.
• This side of Kelly reminds me of her original character, especially in the way she’d warn people about Valerie.
• Ha! Ryan thinks she’s jealous and Kelly point blanks says she’s not interested.  Good for her!
• Woah!!!!! Jen is married to some dude name Oliviae!
• A “walk to New York.” Very cute.
• Liam’s from the East Coast?
• Uht oh, Kelly spills the beans that Liam kind of had to go to prom.
• Good for Naomi for calling him out.
• But wait!  The black orchid shows that he did make an effort!
• LOL Liam used her Facebook page!!!  Hilar.
• So Liam does like her??
• Aw, yes he does!  He finally admitted it.
• Harry and Kelly kind of shared a moment there.  Foreshadowing?  Wouldn’t mind seeing a storyline with them.
• Navid confronts Ty—>they start fighting—>Adrianna says she’s in labor.
• Episode should’ve ended there. That would’ve been a good cliff-hanger.
• Naomi and Liam are having a real conversation for once!
• Aw, there’s fake snow!
• Kind of a sweet moment between them.  Sure it won’t last.
• Promo: Some sort of love quadrangle with Jen, Liam, Naomi and Annie.  Season finale!