They were all influencers without the benefit of iPhones. By the end of Season 1, Brenda slept with the soft-spoken rebel loner Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) without a shred of remorse Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) shared her traumatic experience about being date-raped Andrea Zuckerman (Gabrielle Carteris) shed her neuroses Steve (Ian Ziering) raged because of his childhood adoption Brandon got into a drunk-driving accident and virginal Donna (Tori Spelling) started befriending freshman geek David Silver (Brian Austin Green). 90210 (no fan ever referred to it by its full title) was the first small-screen entity to ever capture the attention of Generation X because it examined teens from the perspective of teens-with a healthy dose of sudsy melodrama thrown in. Not so much a black hole as a beige one.” Los Angeles Times TV critic Howard Rosenberg called it “a zip code for stereotypes and stock characters,” while Tom Shales of The Washington Post sniffed that the show’s producers “created a vacuum, a perfect void, a black hole in the already vast and empty TV schedule.
Expectations were low, as adults didn’t know what to make of it. It was dumped on Thursday nights at 9 p.m., opposite Cheers. Veronica Sawyer’s doom was our gain.īeverly Hills, 90210 premiered on Octoas a wholesome fish-out-of-water tale about Minnesota twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh (Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty) trying to adjust to a life of fast cars and loose morals in a luxe zip code. The story goes that when Fox entertainment chief Peter Chernin was putting together his schedule for the 1990-91 TV season, he had to decide between an adaptation of Heathers and an Aaron Spelling–produced series titled Beverly Hills High.
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