90210 returns with all-new episodes, while continueing story lines that have already been set up months ago. It results in an episode that has great pace, many stories and enough twists to keep the bar this show set for itself this season, as high as a guilty pleasure is supposed to.
Forget season one, even after a long, long break, 90210 is very, very entertaining. It really found it's place and own identity, which is something Dawn Ostroff (head of The CW, red.) would say and I would agree. The strong characters that went through lame and unnecessary cliche stories before, really suit up and came to their own. They fight, lie, dramatize and cry, and nothing of it feels out of place or unnatural. It's like, like they are actual high school kids...looking like twenty-somethings in a place where too much stuff happens to be real.
But still. Much hated Annie grows on you when manipulated into a relationship with actual creep Jasper. Forced to hold hands, still bitter about her friends who let her down (but are now trying to help her) and slowly rekindling with her family, Annie has to go through a lot, and it's actually interesting. That plus Shenae Grimes learned how to act.
Liam and Naomi are trying to give it a shot, but to Naomi's big shock (we're actually convinced she's just too dumb for her own good) putting two good looking people together doesn't always result in an interesting relationship. In fact, their scenes are so awkward viewers have to look away because of replacing shame. If a show can make you do that, it's working.
Meanwhile, Adrianna is climbing back up the social ladder, but found an unexpected companion along the way (hint: girl-on-girl story line nr. 243209 this season). Dixon is still hung up on Silver, who's still hung up on Teddy, who pretends to be a player, while still really being hung up on Silver too. Oh, and Ivy is still hung up on Liam, and Debbie confronts Kelly on being hung up on Harry.
It doesn't matter how ridiculous the settings are, the show deals with it in such a matter it feels real, more down to earth and logical. Characters are involved with more than just crushes and actually feel awkward, geeky, out of the group or helpless, confronting a few of the many emotions teenagers have. The first half of season two was good, really good, and because of 'Rats And Heroes' there's much faith that 90210 might be the sweetest guilty pleasure there is.
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