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I did not watch much of the show when it was originally on TV. Now, about 25 years after it started I decided to watch something that "is 90's" and BH 90210 was the show that right away got into my head.

So I went through all the 10 seasons, now in my 30's and I must say I really enjoyed it. The fact that the actors were older than the characters doesn't bother one at this point anymore, actually it helped. It almost brought the feeling back of me watching the show about the older kids who are already in high school, just like it was back when I was 10 and caught a few episodes.

It is of course very cheesy, yet entertaining. One can see how Aaron Spelling started and set up the formula for the teen dramas that followed Beverly Hills. It is also great to see the 90's go by in their clothes and the things they live through.

I loved their high school years, but I enjoyed the show pretty much until Valerie left. After she was gone it went downhill for me, but by that time the show was almost over.

While Valerie was my favorite female character, David was my favorite guy. He was a sweet kid from the start, although he has done a lot of stupid things during the show. Most characters had their charm. But even though I liked the show pretty much until the end, when it came to the adult time most of the original cast has lost their charm. I liked Kelly at first, but in the final years of the show I couldn't stand her. Steve stopped being fun but an annoying guy who will have a kid. And when Dylan came back he seemed like an annoying parody of himself.

Still, the show is a classic for me. As somebody who once in a while likes to watch some cheesy soap, this was a good entertainment with a great cast that fitted the show very well and will always be the faces that I associate with the 90's pop culture.

I admit I haven't watched this show for years, so am going on memory here. I watched every episode of Seasons 1-5. When the quality took a nosedive after Season 4 (but Andrea was still around) I started watched it less and less. From what I gathered the plotlines just got more and more ridiculous. The new main actors were all plain like vanilla, like Vincent Young, Jamie Walters, Lindsay Price, Vanessa Marcil, etc. None of the new replacements excited me at all. (Daniel Cosgrove was not bad).

But, in terms of pure gold, the Brenda years, love or hate the actress, Seasons 1-4, were the best. Season 5 clocked in some golden moments too although I hated what happened to Andrea's character, going from brainy nerd to reluctant mother. After that I wouldn't watch anything as a repeat or catch up on what I missed.

Several years ago, in 2016 I think, I was grabbed by some nostalgia and I started to rewatch "Beverly Hills, 90210". Of course, after three seasons it began to bore me and I moved on to something smarter. Since this month I was in total business and private chaos and I had neither the time nor the concentration to devote more seriously to films, I returned to it again. After the fourth season, I must admit it feels good. When you work from morning to night, seven days a week, this is the right choice to relax before going to bed. I think I'll definitely see it through all ten seasons. Maybe it has no value in an artistic and cinematographic sense, nor in terms of philosophical depth, but it has emotional and nostalgic value for us who grew up in the '90s and it is great for letting the brain out to pasture. And to be honest, it is very well made. Perhaps the stories are Utopian and with fairytale happy-endings, but they also make sense and point. The acting is quite solid and technically there are hardly any flaws. In this genre, only "Heartbreak High" beats it.

8/10

Well, growing up during 90210's run, I missed out on all the hype that this show received. Now, thanks to SoapNet, I can watch shows that were on while I was busy playing dress-up.

Let me be the first to say, that I never ever thought that I would EVER watch 90210, or get hooked on it. During a few weeks that I was grounded from my computer, I didn't have anything to do after I did my homework at 5 o'clock, so I turned on the TV. I normally would have put on Angel, but it was an episode I didn't care to watch, so I stopped on SoapNet and low and behold, 90210 was on. Immediately I went for the remote to change the channel but then I stopped and actually watched it. I was HOOKED. Mostly what hooked me was the romance between Dylan and Brenda.

Anyway, mostly what I remembered or heard people talk about 90210, was that it was all about drugs and sex and who was sleeping with who what week. (I don't know if that's true yet, but I have a feeling that it's getting to that point. I'm still in the "high school years".) As I watched more of the plot lines going on in the first, second and third seasons, things seemed really familiar. As I looked more at them, I really began to realized that 90210 curved the pathway for today's teen dramas like "Dawson's Creek", "One Tree Hill", "The O.C.", etc. Without 90210, these show's most likely wouldn't have been created.

So, the question becomes, do I think 90210 is a good show? So far, yes. But I think it was essential to have something like this (at least in the first few years) on the air for teenagers to watch so that it could make a pathway for other shows of this kind.

90210 was a place where 8th graders like me thought high school would be: We would all have a car at 16, we would have a hangout spot to eat and dance with no parental supervision and that there would be lots of DRAMA!! 90210 has the campiness of Dynasty mixed with 80's after school specials and more guest stars than the Love Boat! Watch it for the love triangles, the cool outfits, hair bangs and it's fun to see where a lot of actors had early roles. Also the seasons of BB and AB (before Brenda 8/10 and after Brenda 6/10) are like watching two different shows with the same name. Luke Perry will always be a dreamboat. In real life, that was not my high school experience, although we did have a Subway across the street to hang out at senior year.

"BEVERLY HILLS, 90210," in my opinion, is an absolute FOX classic! I don't think I've seen every episode, but I still enjoyed it. It's hard to say which episode was my favorite. It would probably have to be the one where Brenda (Shannen Doherty) has a fight with Kelly (Jennie Garth). However, I think it was always sad when friends fought. I always wanted to cry at that. It would have been nice if all the main characters stayed with the show throughout its entire run. It seems that no one stays with a show throughout its entire run. Everyone always gave a good performance, the production design was spectacular, the costumes were well-designed, and the writing was always very strong. In conclusion, I hope some network brings it back on the air for fans of the show to see.

Beverly Hills 90210 was an example of a show that was hit because it had a good concept and great timing, becoming popular at a time when shows of its type were really taking hold in America.

I originally watched it at an age slightly younger than the depicted cast (depicted because the real actors are mostly 5-10 years older than their characters), the target demo of the show, and it worked!

I was glued to my tv wanting to know what was next, who was dating whom. But was it actually that good at the time, or was I seeing this show with "kid eyes"?

After now re-watching the entirety of the series to answer that question myself, I can safely say it's the latter. This show is actually quite bad overall, mostly due to repetitive storylines and inane character actions, but also due to one really horrific casting choice via Mr. Nepotism.

One thing is for sure, 90210 doesn't lend well to streaming. Having a week+ break between episodes must've made them seem more fresh, because watching one after another it becomes painfully obvious they keep reusing the same storylines, slightly different characters or actors involved.

"Who is currently cheating? Who is currently fighting? Who is currently in trouble with the law? Who is currently on drugs? Who is currently trying to woo someone new?" Rinse, repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Also, actors leave the show, and yet rather than come up with new plot lines for new people, the writers lazily give the newbies the old actor's stories.

Valerie replaced Brenda, Gina replaced Valerie. Noah replaced Dylan (for a while), Matt replaced Brandon. All were just slotted in with the previous character plots. And so forth.

I also hate how practically every argument or misunderstanding in this series could have been solved instantly if any character literally just said out loud "Wait, that's not what I meant!" Boom, disagreement solved.

But the absolute worst part of this series, and the thing that killed it and made it "less than" it could have otherwise been, has to be none other than "Saint Donna".

It's a fitting nickname, the other characters even refer to her as such at times. But if you watch the show closely as it progresses over time, it becomes more and more obvious Donna / Tori Spelling is controlling the direction of her character, and all must bow to Donna.

First of all, the casting, supposedly to avoid nepotism claims Tori auditioned anonymously, but that's a ridiculous argument because the producers knew who Tori was, she visited her Dad on other sets her ran. And she only got the casting call because of "who" she was to begin with. I mean, if she is such a great actress, please tell me about all the roles she got not involving her Dad or her later association with the show. You can't.

But nepotism happens a lot in Hollywood, her casting wouldn't have sunk the show by itself. No, it was the writers later turning 90210 into "The Donna Martin Show" by season 6-7, thats when it really got bad. With no Brenda to steal lines, Donna was given more lines / a larger role, and the series just buckled under her inability to carry it on her own. Was this really the writer's idea? Or hers?

Whatever you believe about that, the shenanigans on set led to the exits of Brenda, Dylan, and Brandon's actors.

Ultimately, I'm sad to think how good this series could have been had the original actors and plot lines stayed in place. But, Donna needed more lines, so an iconic tv love triangle was forever left unresolved.

Beverly Hills 90210 is one of the best drama shows of the 1990's! Especially since this show aired on FOX were most of the good drama shows air. This series is about the lives of a group of high school students living in wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood, then in the later seasons of the show they move on to their college days as they got older. The kids become friends and enemies, fall in and out of love, and go through an endless series of crises as this small group somehow becomes personally involved in every newsworthy social issue from alcoholism to South African apartheid to pregnancy to AIDS. Jason Priestley was one of the coolest actors on this show and so was Ian Ziering! The best actresses on this show were Tiffani Amber Thiessen and Kathleen Robertson. Tiffani Amber Thiessen was also on another FOX series called Fastlane and Jason Priestley is currently on another good FOX series Tru Calling! I can not believe that this series went all the way through the 1990's! I can't wait until they start putting this show out on DVD!

I went back and watched all seasons since I didn't finish them when I was younger. I still felt some type of way when Brenda left and felt like the show took a huge loss when Doherty was gone. Tiffany Thiesson was a nice addition and kept the show alive with her drama. I felt like having her take everybody's leftovers was just lazy writing, as well as the whole crew playing musical boyfriends. In real life, girls don't remain friends when our friends date our exes. It would have been nice to see women of color play a main lead or long term date one of the main guys, but of course it seems that every time a black character was introduced, it was in some type of agonizing stereotypical sense. Wrong side of town, dangerous, angry; then there's the one where the single mother leaves her kids home alone to go to work and the white people are there to judge and play savior. It is what it was for those days and for the times that it was for television. Most plots were written well and the actors did a great job in their roles.

Throughout the 1990s TV's "Beverly Hills 90210" (that # is a zip code) was a mega-popular program that spoke volumes to millions of unfocused teens all across the American nation, and beyond.

Put plain & simple - The "all-important" message that this series clearly communicated to that decade's lost generation was this - "If you're not young, beautiful & rich - You're nothing!" (And, yes, as you can well-imagine, zillions of gullible teens bought into this empty-headed propaganda, hook, line, and sinker)

Literally overloaded with "rich-kid" stereotypes - "Beverly Hills 90210" absolutely reeked of vicious rivalry, cry-baby angst, and petty personal dramas that had me convinced that one really wasn't any better off coming from a wealthy family, at all.

I cannot believe that this super-shallow series of pretty boys and girls actually ran for 10 seasons. 'Cause watching these 21 episodes from Season One was certainly more than I could stand.

While "Beverly Hills 90210" was making its ten year run, I never watched a single episode. The affairs of rich kids in Beverly Hills really didn't interest me; and, even though Jennie Garth and Tiffani Amber-Thiessan are real eye candy, that wasn't enough to tie me to watching a weekly continuing drama with what I thought would be such an uninteresting subject. However, when the Soap Opera Channel offered the show in sequence five days a week and my wife encouraged me to watch it with her, I reluctantly agreed. I'm glad I did, because "Beverly Hills 90210" is, in my opinion, the best written and produced continuing drama in TV history. Why do I say this? Because "Beverly Hills 90210" survived two radical format changes and remained consistently watchable for its entire 10 year run. Actually, "Beverly Hills 90210" is three different shows: an excellent "high school teenagers in love" show; a very good "college kids antics" show and a good "Yuppies in love" show. The creative talent managed to produce three above average shows with an amazing consistency of story lines and talent, using mostly the original cast. Nobody else has ever done this, at least to my knowledge. The producers are to be commended for keeping the cast remarkable intact, even down to the minor characters. To the best of my knowledge, only one character was played by two different actresses, that being Andrea Zuckerman's grandmother. Compare that to the more prestigious soaps, "Dynasty" and "Dallas." On "Dallas" alone, two actors played Gary Ewing, Digger Barnes, Miss Ellie and Kristen Shepherd (who shot J.R.), and three actors played Jenna Wade, and all of these characters were more important to the show's plotting than Andrea's grandmother.

While all three shows are above average, the "high school teenagers in love" episodes are the best. However, I believe they were also the easiest to plot, since teenagers have more restrictions on their behavior and their problems are generally more direct, easier with which to relate and generally easier to resolve. This is only slightly less true for college students, but it's a whole different ball game by the time one gets out of school and into the "real world;" and, by the time these episodes were written and produced, the characters were no longer fresh. The loss of Shannen Dougherty ("Brenda Walsh") was the series first major blow, and the series slipped badly her first season away (the fifth). However, after a weak start, Tiffani-Amber Thiessan ("Valerie Malone") became a very impressive cast member. However, Shannen brought an inventiveness to the series which was never regained.

The second major blow the series suffered was the loss of Kathleen Robertson ("Claire Arnold"), at the end of "the college years". While other original cast members had left, including Gabriella Carteris ("Andrea Zuckerman"), Carol Potter ("Cindy Walsh") and James Eckhouse ("Jim Walsh"), I felt the loss of Kathleen Robertson the most. Kathleen's "Claire Arnold" was a fascinating blend of three of the main characters; she exhibited Brenda's daring, Kelly's poise and Donna's madcap sensuality. The show lost a lot of it's warmth with Kathleen's departure, as well as the (unfortunately) correct decision to place less emphasis on the older adult cast members. This happens in life as well as young adults leave school and are out on there own. The show also lost it's innocence when Donna (Tori Spelling) lost hers to David (Brian Austin Green).

The final blow to the series happened over two seasons. The departures of Luke Perry, Jason Priestly and Tiffani-Amber Thiessan badly shook the show, but for very different reasons. Luke Perry (Dylan McKay) brought a lot of romance to the show; Jason Priestly ("Brandon Walsh") brought a brash, crusading spirit; and Tiffan-Amber Thiessan brought a wholesome, mature sexiness that was sometimes at odds with the character she played. Worse, for their first seasons at least, the replacement characters, Vincent Young ("Noah Hunter"), Lindsay Price ("Janet Sosna"), Daniel Cosgrove ("Matt ) and Vanessa Marcel ("Gina") while all fine actors, did not bring the missing ingredients to their characters. While Season 9 was clearly the worst of the season (due mostly to unconvincing plotting), Season 10 was a triumph, starting strong and getting better every week. Lindsay Price shed the somewhat dowdy image of his first season and a half and showed how beautiful and sexy she can really be (not to the mention, the best natural figure of the female stars). Daniel Cosgrove gained stature as "Matt"; and, while never acquiring the "Brandon brashness," certainly captured Jason Walsh's earnestness. Most importantly, warmth and romance returned to the series. I watched the last episode wanting more and that's a great testimony to any show.

Here's my rating of the series pilot and 10 seasons

PILOT – ** ½ SEASON 1 - *** SEASON 2 - **** SEASON 3 - **** SEASON 4 - *** ½ SEASON 5 - ** ½ SEASON 6 - **** SEASON 7 - *** ½ SEASON 8 - **½ SEASON 9 - ** SEASON 10 ****

This was the most popular show in my country in during the 90s it was watched by everyone from teenagers to pensioners Brandon and brands could have been elected president of the world for their popularity. This is how most of them world though america was (especially behind the courtain boy wore they wrong)

Speiling obviously knew what he was doing.

This show was rebooted several times without it's success.

If someone wants a reminder of the 90s a rewatch of this is a must.

I was watching the show every week, waiting 7 days for new episode. I watched it again in 2010. Again at 2015. Now it's time for the 4th time, 2020. Every time i have this incredible feeling that i am again kid, waiting for my mom to scream "Turn off the TV and do your homework". Awesome days...

Baywatch is bad too. But in a different way. Baywatch is like driving on a mountain road. There are potholes, ravines, twists and turns. You never know when you'll suddenly meet a fallen tree, or be inches away from a 100 foot cliff. You will crash. It will hurt. But there's variety. The disasters are various, sundry, and exciting. New ways of being terrible every time.

Beverly Hills, 90210 is like getting stabbed with a fork. Over and over. Same fork. Same place. Every 44 seconds for as long as you watch. It hurts like hell. And it's boring like hell. Again and again. Stabbed with the same fork in the same place. Fork. Stab. Fork. Stab. Fork. Stab.

After watching the entire series, I like a number of others, have gone back to watching season one's episode. It doesn't take a Rhode Scholar nor a T.V. expert to see that this series 1st was created to center around the Walsh family.....Brandon and Brenda in particular. Eventually it started to create equal story lines and exposure of ALL of the main cast members. In the 1st season Brenda hooks up w/ hot H.S. prospect, Dylan McKay. Of course it was revealed that McKay wasn't supposed to last in the series. But as we all know he later hooks up with Kelly Taylor. It's written later on that Dylan and Kelly have known each other since elementary school.....and Kelly described Dylan as being "a guy she's had a major crush on her whole life"......causing so many fans to view them as the true soul mates with the hot chemistry between them. I was personally saddened at 1st when Dylan chose Kelly over Brenda. I will always prefer Brenda and Dylan just like I will always prefer Brandon and Kelly.

First season, Donna was such a minor character. Her rise seemed pretty obvious. First you usually saw Brandon and Steve or Brandon and Dylan as 2 different set of best buds. It took awhile before seeing the 3 together let alone just Steve and Dylan with no Brandon. Of course we see David Silver grow from being the freshman geek to the accepted cool guy. Andrea's character also grew. She seemed like she could have been outcasted at 1st.....pretty much just Brandon's friend. But in the end she was very much accepted and respected as part of the gang.

I am an older, afro-american male. I mention that to say that a number of people wouldn't expect me to gear towards this show. But I love this show and always will forever!

7 because it has a catchy theme song.

Other than that its just about white people who are in relationships and drama happens so instead of solving it they become jerks to each other. Where have I seen this premise before?

From the opening scene, this show delivers fashion and stories with romance and edgy storylines. Not too controversial but mixed with 50s era concepts and classic Beverly Hills fables. The best show on Fox by far.

I have always adored Beverly hills 90210, since I was a kid. Brandon, Brenda, Kelly, Donna, Andrea, Dylan, David, Steve, Clare, Valerie & co accompanied me through elementary school years, then high school, then life. This TV show is certainly the best of the 90s decade(if not the best ever!)and the new 90210 has nothing to do with it, really: it is just a boring, full of clichè and pale imitation of something that was almost flawless. The characters of the Original 90210 are so real that they manage to make us believe they really exist, somewhere in the amazingly beautiful Beverly Hills. We all feel we know deeply each of them, we all feel that warm sensation when we see their well-known faces on TV or on the page of a magazine: it is pure nostalgia. We all know by heart the amazing OST song and we miss them all now that TV shows characters mostly look like shallow, boring, selfish people with no ethic or good feelings inside, it is only a matter of "appearing"; maybe that is the portrait of what we have become nowadays, and this is more than sad. I still dream of meeting friends like them (and living in Beverly Hills, of course!), I will never forget what their adventures meant to me, to all of us.

Absolute garbage. You miss three season finales, multiple important events and episodes, and oh ya THE SERIES FINALE!!! Those episodes are all removed from the catalogue due to royalty issues with music and guest stars in the episode.