Who are the students and who are the adults? I have no idea.
I'll be honest, I tried really hard to watch the entire show, but couldn't get past the first hour. I've also never seen a full episode of the original 90210 either, but as a major consumer of televised content I feel like I can offer my opinion. I think the show was a little hard to follow at points, the plot was glaringly predictable, and the actors were not believable for their parts. I mean how old are they actually supposed to be? The teenagers look 25, the teachers look 25, and the parents are barely 30 at the oldest. I feel like the whole show (well, at least the first hour) was just a mash-up of other, more successful teen dramas.
I imaging the creative meeting behind it went something like this:
Suit: "We need a show that can capitalize on the things that made other shows like this a hit! What have you got for me?"
Pitch guy: "Well, we have this idea for a show that has the overly-mature actors and dialogue of Dawson's Creek, the unbelievable sex, drugs and rock 'n roll plot lines of Gossip Girl and um... a few of the out-of-work actors from 90210 are available!"
Suit: "GREAT! We shoot the pilot on Monday."
I also asked some of my Facebooky friends to leave me 3-word comments on their thoughts on the show and got some interesting results. Misty said, "Not watching it" and Erin said, "9021-no!" Stephanie said, "predictable. Anything else?" while Brennen called it a "Gossip Girl wannabe" and Eric called it, "complete pandering bullshit." Ouch. Literally, there were no good comments.
And after reading critiques from The Boob Tubers and Peacock Mafia I don't think me and my friends are alone in our opinions.
Did you watch the new 90210? What did you think?
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