90210 Reviews are a Mixed Bag – What Did You Think?
With no advanced copy of the 90210 pilot released, the entertainment media had to sit tight and watch the new Beverly Hills 90210 with the rest of us before releasing their reviews. Did you tune in for 90210? What did you think of the revamped version of the old classic?
We can tell you that there was a mixed bag of 90210 reviews – check ‘em out:
- Entertainment Weekly: It’s “corny but trying to be hip, crammed with subplots until the producers figure out which ones the audience responds to, and cast with mostly young faces that its network (The CW) prays will become teen idols.”
- Variety: It’s “a pallid copy of the original fish out of water story only with shinier cars, fancier clothes and Botox aplenty.”
- Hollywood Reporter: It “doesn’t embarrass as much as many had feared.”
- Boston Globe: It was “pretty bad.”
- Newsday: It’s “a perfectly competent and reasonably seamless revival that understands what made the original tick (and tick and tick), while being infused (occasionally suffused) with enough contemporary touchstones to remind new viewers that this isn’t their parents’ (or at least older siblings’) trusty fave.”
- Associated Press: “All the expected ingredients were there: gorgeous teens, lots of style and extravagance, raging hormones, and always the potential for backstabbing, broken hearts and payback. Same old, same old at West Beverly Hills High School.”
Let us know what you thought of 90210 in the comments!
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On September 3rd 2008, Rylee wrote:
I loved it, I’m 35 and was a fan of the first 90210. I thought the show had an excellent cast and the character depth was amazing. I can’t wait til next week. It’s been a long time since I loved a show!
On September 7th 2008, galfriday10 wrote:
The new “kids” all look like dried-up 30-year-old coke-heads. While it’s true that Tori Spelling would’ve fit right in (sans the fake knockers), I missed the tiny hint of baby fat present during Brenda and Kelly’s early years.
Hollywood’s anorexia obsession is getting really old.
On October 26th 2008, Crikey wrote:
Aaron Spelling would have been livid by the choice of Shenae Grimes for actress for this role. This lady cant act for s@#t!!! I have always been a dedicated 90210 fan and have watched every episode of the original series when I was younger. Gotta give Jennie Garth and Shannon Doherty credit, their performances are still awesome, even Ann Gillespie still has it, but this choice of Shenae Grimes for lead they need their heads read. She is so fake, her actings appalling, you don’t believe a word that comes out of her mouth and her stupid little giggles like shes trying to be nice grrr, its like someone scraping their nails down the blackboard. I just hope Tori comes back and has some say in this, seeing it was her Dads show Shenae is destroying and throws her ass right out of there before the show ends up as another failed remake because I sure can’t bear the thought of watching much more of her.