It's been some 30 years since that Thursday night premiere, but flashbacks of Dylan McKay stepping out of the shower at the Walsh residence, and the earwormish chant of “Donna Martin Graduates!” still visit me unbidden. Midway through 90210’s 10-season arc, I shipped off to college, where I found new inspiration in the work of “worthier” entertainers like Jean Luc Godard and Agnes Varda.
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It’s hard to imagine that the likes of Gossip Girland Buffy, or Friday Night Lights and Euphoria, would have ever come along without their sun-dappled precursor. The show set in motion a new kind of high school melodrama, one shot through with a down and dirty spirit. Somewhere around Season 3 I adopted a Brenda-like velvet choker and I purchased a Baja hoodie just like Dylan McKay’s-if I couldn’t date bad boy Dylan McKay at least I could dress like him. I kept tuning in, along with hordes of young Gen Xers who would come to consider Kelly’s sleepover revelation and the night Brenda loses her virginity to Dylan as their own personal touchstones. The Washington Post informed its readers that the show’s makers-including Star-had “created a vacuum, a perfect void, a black hole in the already vast and empty TV schedule.” I vividly recall reading at the time of my burgeoning fandom a 1992 Sassy cover line: “Can anyone on 90210 act? We ask an expert.” “Nothing if not predictable,” crowed the Los Angeles Times. My devotion notwithstanding, the show did not enjoy the most auspicious of beginnings. "What was groundbreaking was the way of looking at the lives of teens from their own point of view."
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"Young people wanted to see themselves reflected on TV," recalls Star, whose latest series Emily in Paris, recently premiered.
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Having gone their separate ways since the original series ended 19 years ago, Shannen, Jason, Jennie, Ian, Gabrielle, Brian and Tori reunite when one of them suggests it’s time to get a Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot up and running. It consists of 6 episodes and aired FOX television network in August and September 2019. Three decades on, the appeal has yet to wane, as if newcomers can sniff out the daring spirit that made the supposedly niche show an improbable hit. BH90210 is a 2019 event series based on the original. And 90210 itself has never truly rested, spinning off hits like Melrose Place and duds like Models, Inc., and, as recently as 2018, another rumored remake.