| > | | | | continuation or resolution which can be a bit of drag. |
| I didn’t really care much about it back then. | | | | Then there are also some episodes that don’t |
| When I was still young, I remember my mom and my | | | | leave you hanging at all, giving the audience all they |
| older sister watching 90210 episodes at night. When I | | | | want in one go. |
| was still young, I remember my mom and my older | | | | One of the features I like about the episode formats is |
| sister watching 90210 episodes at night. I didn’t | | | | that they give a bit in the opening of the show. I really |
| really care much about it back then. I guess I was too | | | | love shows that do that, they give you a slice of |
| young, but now I finally get to watch it and to | | | | what’s to come just to whet your appetite. |
| appreciate what made the show so popular back in | | | | They cut to the opening number; it makes so much |
| the day. The show has a reboot and is now being | | | | sense because it makes the opening song more |
| updated to our generation. I watched the very first | | | | meaningful. |
| few 90210 episodes reboot and I knew I would have | | | | The topics the new 90210 episodes are also |
| to watch every subsequent episode after that. The | | | | impertinent, very socially relevant to our time. The |
| producers really did a fantastic job taking out the same | | | | topics the show touches are adoption, divorce, and the |
| material and transposing it into a modern, up to date | | | | American culture of beauty that is based on thinness |
| setting. This makes the show fresh because the | | | | and material richness. Though the popular girls here are |
| conflicts are revamped and the very angst of our | | | | all so skinny and have expensive designer clothes that |
| times reflects in the character’s situation. | | | | would probably buy a whole village in the third world a |
| The 90210 episodes still follow the same format and | | | | month’s worth of clean healthy drinking water, |
| still have the same themes. It still centers on the family | | | | they are never the less shown to be superficial and |
| from out of town and a girl in her first time in Beverly | | | | unhappy. |
| Hills. The out of town girl is suddenly immersed into the | | | | However, it can be questioned as to whether the |
| shocking culture of rich kids and dolce vita. 90210 is a | | | | show really focuses on these problems. It just so |
| quantum leap from their small Kansas town. | | | | happens to touch on them but doesn’t really go |
| The show can be a bit confusing because of the | | | | the distance to tackle the problems head on. But all in |
| intertwining plot lines, by that’s all. There are | | | | all, the show is entertaining and the superficiality of the |
| some minor problems because they sometimes leave | | | | whole affair is tempered by a conscious self parody in |
| a plot line hanging for days and days without | | | | most 90210 episodes. |