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It's the kind of thing that passes the time while you fold the laundry, and then you never think about it again.But he did say that he keeps in constant contact with Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty, Tori Spelling, Jason Priestley, Brian Austin Green, and Gabrielle Carteris, so he’d totally be into trying a reboot of the series again. But perhaps because expectations were lower than the top of Brandon's head (he was short, you see), I must admit that I chuckled at its audacious weirdness. They've only given critics the first two episodes, and Shannen hasn't even joined the group yet, so who knows how committed they are to making this as wild as it might be. It's more like a bonus feature on a DVD than anything else. It's hard to give a proper critique of something like this.
90210 reboot movie#
There are a certain number of silly meta-jokes, like the fact that Tori's husband is played by Ivan Sergei, who was Spelling's co-star in the legendarily campy TV movie Mother May I Sleep With Danger? It's hard not to think that a moment in which Jason is kicked right in the Priestley, as it were, is meant as a little gift to people who found Brandon Walsh to be a self-righteous gasbag. Jennie has had a couple of failed marriages, just like Garth, and Jason really wants to direct, just like Priestley. Brian is married to a very famous woman, just as Green is married to Megan Fox. Because Spelling is in fact an executive producer of BH90210, just as fictional Tori is driving the reboot and trying to get everyone on board. There's no question that they're flirting with a kind of uncanny San Fernando Valley, where the fictionalized actors are fake but also real, but also fake, ad infinitum. There is no straight-faced argument for it as an independent piece of work.īut as a nostalgic doodad, which is all that a lot of these reboots are anyway? It's kind of cute. It's not even of any potential value to anybody who isn't looking at it as nostalgia - in no way would this hold up as a new Fox comedy for a curious person coming to it fresh. On the one hand, this is a very strange way to make a reboot. Get it? So you're not catching up with Brenda and Brandon you're catching up with Shannen Doherty and Jason Priestley, playing fictionalized versions of themselves in a kind of showbiz comedy-drama-soap-farce about a potential 90210 reboot. Instead, what begins Wednesday night on Fox is a scripted show about the actors trying to decide whether to revive the teen soap they were on when they were young. Refreshingly, the makers of the new show BH90210, a nostalgia product for people who miss the original show, know there's no reason to.
In short, there is no ever-loving reason to revisit any of these ding-dongs. Their problems (Stalking! Diet pill addiction! Gambling addiction! Cocaine addiction! Meth addiction! Joining a cult!) would, in most cases, flare up and then go away, specifically because without them, there was no plot other than everyone sleeping with each other. They had money to chase their dreams regardless of talent (Owning a club! Running a newspaper! Having a boutique!).
They were generic rich high-school students who grew into generic rich college students and then generic rich adults. The characters on Beverly Hills, 90210 were never particularly interesting. How do you do a reboot when there's absolutely no reason to do a reboot? Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling play themselves in BH90210, which both is and isn't a Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot.