90210 1.12 Review: Rich and Stupid in Beverly Hills
Spoilers, Spoilers, Spoilers Ahead!
After watching last night’s “Hello, Goodbye, Amen” episode of 90210, I have to wonder if showrunners are serious about viewers believing Harry Wilson is intelligent enough to be the principal of an entire high school. If so, he’s got to be one of the dumbest administrators in the history of secondary education, too.
In short, here’s what happened on the episode, which takes place right after winter break at West Bev:
ANNIE
Suspicious Annie and her mother Debbie finally convince totally clueless Harry (He’s my son! I just know he is! I feel it in my gut!) to ask Sean to take a paternity test before handing over $200,000 that Sean claims his no-good, dead adoptive father, who supposedly committed suicide, owed as a result of his gambling addiction (Yeah, right!). Of course, Sean cuts out before test time, but not until he turns psycho on Annie and tells her he thought she, of all people, would understand what it’s like to want a chance at a Beverly Hills lifestyle. Clearly, he thought wrong.
NAOMI
Naomi, who spends most of the episode trying to make Annie jealous about her much too-close and thoroughly skeevy relationship with Sean, blames Annie for screwing her family again when Sean vanishes without a trace. It turns out that her mother Tracy made a deal with her father in their acrimonious divorce and gave in to some of his demands to get the money to give to Sean, who stopped by for it before disappearing, along with the private investigator Harry and Tracy hired to find their child. Tracy is the episode’s second biggest idiot, followed closely by her boorish and boring daughter, who so needs to get over this lame rivalry with Annie. It grew old, like, five episodes ago.
ADRIANNA
Adrianna learns her rehab buddy Hank tested HIV+ after relapsing. Most distressing of all, she slept with him a couple of times — along with a whole bunch of other guys during her slutty druggie days — and she discovers she’s pregnant, but not HIV+, when she gets tested at Kelly and Brenda’s insistence. All 16-year-old Adrianna can think about after learning the devastating news, however, is what Navid, who’s completely absent during this outing, will think. Judging from the brief promo after the episode, we’ll find out next week, and it ain’t good.
KELLY & BRENDA
Kelly and Brenda finally mend fences when Brenda reveals she’s thinking about adopting a child after recently learning fibroids she had removed in the past have left her unable to bear children. Maybe the two women will get over sleeping with the same guy yet again — this time teacher Ryan — after all.
DIXON
Assuming that cheerleader Christina is romantically interested in him — and neglecting to share that assumption with Silver — when she lavishes attention on him, Dixon eventually learns she’s not only bisexual and has a girlfriend, but her father Franklin Whitney, the owner of a record label, knows more black people in Beverly Hills than Dixon imagined even lived there. Finally letting Silver in on why he’s drawn to Christina — she’s black like him in a very white town — Dixon is surprised that all his girlfriend wants is to meet Denzel Washington at Christina’s father’s celebrity-filled gospel barbecue. Obviously, the waif has her priorities in order.
The longer this episode wore on, the more tiresome it became to me, mostly because it was ridiculously clear that Sean was a fraud and a scammer from the get-go. Watching people get taken that easily isn’t my idea of entertaining, but I did enjoy the tremendous camp value of Kelly’s clownishly over-mascara-ed eyelashes (What was up with that? Did she shoot her scenes on the makeup artist’s day off?) and Adrianna smiling like a doofus while making a speech about her former drug addiction in front of her rehab buddies. The last was just so perfectly inappropriate and downright weird — honestly, her cheeks must have ached after the director yelled “Cut!” — I couldn’t help but smile — or rather, laugh — myself.
But, that’s just me. What did you think of “Hello, Goodbye, Amen”? Leave a comment and/or vote in the following poll to share your opinion.
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shannen is the saving grace of this show. CW needs to find a way to get back or this show is gone. I am probably not the only one who watches strictly for Brenda episodes.
I am probably not the only one who watches strictly for Brenda episodes.
Of course, you’re not, nb. Shannen’s why I watch, too, and she’s totally making it worth the effort. Great job.
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