A Masterpiece!

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

90s was a time of cheesy, over romanticized television and Beverly Hills 90210 is no different. This show paved the way for teen drama shows today. However, that fact is not saying anything in any way pleasant.Every teen drama show borrows staples from this show and is basically the same but with different premises. However, they are ultimately not as impactful for the current generation of kids who would rather watch "reality" shows and HBO programs. Remember, 90210 was popular at a time where this show was the first of it's kind and it was also on a huge network channel, Fox. It was on when there were only a five channels to watch on TV and a limited number of shows that got the entire family together. It was the first time there was a show geared toward teenagers in a decade of hokey family sitcoms like The Cosby Show and kid shows like Saved By The Bell. However, with the diversity of shows today, that does not mean much considering the shows it paved the way for, ultimately have no place in today's TV except for maybe satisfying the preteen girl demographic who have no idea of what it is like to be a teenager or have ever step foot in a high school. They are very much like a Taylor Swift or Britney Spears(in her early years) song: no actual substance or grounds to reality but are very stylish and pretty, so people love it anyway.Beverly Hills 90210 is probably the third most sappy, over sentimental, and condescending teen drama show I have ever watched, behind Secret Life of the American Teenager and One Tree Hill. It is not the best written show in the universe.Every episode has a very self righteous character basically talking down to another for making whatever mistake they are making with their lives. This happens literally in every episode. These characters, no matter how old they get, seem to not learn a thing from their own mistakes but once another person does not fit the standards of their faux moral "ethics", they have the audacity to judge them. One of the characters, Donna, works for a production company that hires a young girl to shoot a commercial for them. She was a spoiled kid who is forced to work by her mother but is also babied and given in to whatever demands she presents. Donna, a young 20 something who is just out of college, has no job, not much life experience or any children for that matter, actually tells the mother how to be a parent and talks down to her about how much she spoils her daughter and over works for her. Guess what happens at the end of that episode? After getting fired for not giving into the demands of a child, Donna gets her job back and the mother actually took Donna's words into consideration. Happy Ending, shall I say? That is exactly how life works in real life, huh? Something like this happens in every episode.This show also glorifies white privilege and ultimately takes real life issues, putting an over the top, very unrealistic spin on it.One character Kelly has been a burn victim, a rape victim and a shot victim. She also went through a miscarriage. She was almost married to character Brandon and yet broke it off on her wedding night. She also had an affair with her best friend's(Brandon's sister might I add) boyfriend and yet is easily the most judgmental character in the entire series, despite her obviously mistake driven personality.This show is not very character driven, it is far more story driven, which is part of it's problem.Ultimately though, despite it's ridiculous amount of flaws, we can not rid of it's impact on culture of teenagers in general. It opened up doors to talk about issues relating to adolescence. It might have not been the most accurate portrayal but was the biggest show during it's time and finally gave teenagers something to watch that interests them. Without it, we might have never had anything better.

I was always hoping that 90210 would be revived but was thinking it might take on a "30 Something: 90210" kind of style...unfortunately its a whole new cast and we're in high school again. Disappointing. I worked as a reader in L.A. for awhile--so, I know a little about writing. These are some thoughts: The Wilsons are interesting--well cast. Its a little too OC in style...a little too flashy & cliché in its rendering of Beverly Hills...the original series managed to break away from the clichés and created a rich and layered drama with lots of subtext. The show needs more warmth ...to slow its pace a bit and trust in a script--flashy graphics can't hide flaws in a script.Definitely develop the former characters--show us where they've been in the past 8 years and where they want to go. You've gotta bring Luke Perry back at some point to create a triangle between Kelly and the teacher who likes her...then Matt returns to teach History because he realized he was too good of a guy to practice law and was becoming cynical about the world.Please return the Peach Pit to its former down to earth glory--give Nat his personality back and a relationship with the cast...he was the father figure to the originals. We need a diner for the kids to crash into milkshakes not a Starbucks to stir lattes! Donna and David need to be struggling with the work-stay-home-family issue. Maybe reintroduce Noah who's never been able to get over Donna while she and David are exhausted balancing 3 children (1 and twins) , careers and their own struggle with one another over who gets free time. I really want to see some relevant issues to my adult age group a la 30 Something/ Once and Again style...will these writers jump on board please?? If the new series is only interested in the younger demographic, then PLEASE do a spin off targeting the parents or big sisters(as Melrose was to the original series). I hate to see the original characters wasted as guest stars.

Beverly Hills 90210 is a good TV drama.From the first to the end it was good.The good seasons were from season 4 to season 7,were the kids go to college and have they faced there problems,with alcoholism and drugs.The best season for me was season 6,that was the best season that was ever made.I like the characters like Ray Pruit,Colin Robbins,Joe Bradley and Susan Keats in this season started everything like Ray who beat sometimes Donna or Joe who help her and he fought on the court from Ray,than was Dylan and Antonia who were married and later in the ten episode was shoot and killed,first i read some comment i tough that Valerie shoot Antonia but i read wrong,the ten was the best episode in season 6,then was Brandon and his love Susan i' thought they were married but i was wrong when she leaves him on the end of season 6,i don't like were Joe Bradley leave Donna and she breaks whit hem,than i like on the eden were Kelly breaks with Colin and she goes in rehabilitation center for admitted drugs and Colin was with Valerie and when the police catch him on the crime scene,i love the end when he was going to prison he spend two weeks in prison for investigation,later he was bail out from Valerie,she did everything for hem later on court he confess guilt but was sentenced for maximum two years,later he was running from the police and Brandon and Kelly help Valerie to catch hem,later Brandon and Steve catch hem,i love Kelly and when she was going down with Colin and her drugs and then was her roommate and friend Tara who later try to kill her because she tough she betrayed her,later she beats her and then was Valerie and David,she helped hem get over his mother crisis and when she was blackmail from her best friend Ginger,he nobody tels what Valerie did,i' Didn't like Steve and Clare they were boring.I can say i miss season 6.Hate season 7 its' boring,Kelly is single again and Brandon is with Tracy and i don't think they are not great couple,they not belong together,Donna is stalked from Ethan first i tough it was Ray but i guess wrong,the best episode's were number. 18:We Interrup This Program were Ethan takes the TV Station and takes Donna,Brandon,Tracy and others as hostages and number 10:Lost In Las Vegas,were David was robbed.I love the characters like were Brandon,Kelly,Donna,Joe Bradley,Ray Pruit,David,Susan Keats,Valerie,Dylan and Colin Robbins.My favorite and the best characters,were Kelly,Dylan,Colin and on the end Valerie.They all have problems,like Dylan he lost his father and his wive,his money he was alcoholic,he takes drug he get more women but he never won't have a relation,his first and last love was Antonia,i'Didn't like when he leaves Beverly Hills and never come back an till season 9,then was Kelly she was smart beautiful and she hate Valerie she takes drugs she was on fire and almost burned and almost raped and killed,she was engaged with Brandon but she break's with him,then was Colin he was an artist and he have a problems with cocaine and he drag Kelly into this, than he was going into jail,and on the end,he run away,because he was afraid. Later he was recaptured,with help Brandon and Steve and on the end was,Valerie she have a problem with cocaine and she was molested by her father and later she kills him,she was infection with AIDS on the end and she leaves Beverly Hills,she hate Kelly and she was her worst rival and nemesis,she was not so bad girl,she helped friends like was Colin or Dylan,she was a great girl,she have a few problem's,she Didn't have a few friends,her only and still best friend was Brandon,than i din't like that Brandon and Valerie leaves the Beverly Hills that's bad,even when Dylan returns was not so great,even his character did not save the show.I hope that some day i got season 6 on DVD.Beverly Hills 90210 was the best TV series Drama that was made,better than Merlose Place who watch this stupid show.Beverly Hills is the best,too bad that some characters leave the show.

When 90210 first aired in 1990, I caught onto it almost right away. I was a senior in high school that year, so it was very timely for me to watch high schoolers. At first I just remember "liking" it -- not going out of my way to watch it, yet somehow catching it often enough. I thought it was cool that the show played a lot of songs that were my favorite songs *at the time*), such as "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaac, "Joey" by Concrete Blonde, "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.By the spring time of 1991 and especially the summer of 1991, I was really really hooked. The 90210 bunch were an extremely intriguing bunch to watch, and I wasn't entirely unfamiliar with the background of a rich, elite public high school, as I went to one (albeit not in California). So even more so than ever, I felt it was a great depiction of what I saw in every day life while I was at school.I've read some of the other comments on this site, and I would have to agree that the high school years were the best ones. I was a hardcore "regular" watcher of 90210 during the first three seasons, the high school years. When they went to college, I still watched but sporadically. And my viewing of the show got less and less all the time. Somehow, intuitively, I just knew the show was not as good as it used to be.The shows are now on DVD (I'm watching Season 2 now) and I'm thinking I'll end up watching at least a little more than what I watched when it was in syndication, like maybe through more of the college years. But my heart is with the high school years.I also like the original cast the best, but in my occasional viewings of the later episodes, I can say that Valerie (Tiffani Thiesen) as well as Claire...at least had good presence.My favorite couple was Brenda and Dylan. To me they were the most Romeo and Juliet -- intense, dramatic, great chemistry. I remember when Kelly and Brandon were together in the later years (the ones I didn't watch very closely at all, but had some vague knowledge of through other people, catching 10 minutes, commercials and articles and stuff) I thought they were a weird couple....