Just like 90210, I too needed a week off. The show needs to reoup itself from a horrid return in the New Year. Its like coming back flat after the All Star Break for a team that wasn't in the lead but not too far out of it and with some good play they will be right in the thick of things. Rather than bash the show again, afterall they are trying, let's just go through a few things they did right.
- Naomi's mom has gone AWOL, or in real people speak the producers/writers/directors realized how bad she was and since they couldn't just switch her character to a friday night spot they booted her off the show. Naomi's dad cannot be too far behind as he is not much better, perhaps a Bart Bass ending to his run is warranted, setting Naomi up as the female version of Dylan McKay. Originally I pegged Silver as the next Dylan McKay but she moved in with Kelly and more on that later. Naomi has stepped up and I feel can assume this role, she will move into a hotel, possibly into Dylan's old suite. She has grown on me over the weeks while the show in itself has been on a downward spin. I look forward to her roles in upcoming episodes and if you were a Dylan fan, so should you. Speaking of Dylan, his return to BH 90210 aired on Soapnet this weekend and it was must watch TV for me. His first few episodes back were, in my opinion, the best of his return. His wanting Kelly Taylor (must have been the drugs), his relationship with Gina and the chip on his shoulder he still carried with him after the death of his wife. It will be a great few weeks catching up on these episodes.
-Ryan is back and he is burnt out on teaching. I am sure that is not what he is burnt out on but the true benefit of him being back was that he told off Kelly Taylor when she just assumed it was all about her as always. been waiting for someone to do that since Steve Sanders did back at the Spring Dance. Welcome back, Ryan, catch a shave and get over Kelly, you can do better.
-Ty is back with a whole new and different attitude and he is the father of Adrianna's baby. In a previous post I mentioned this as a possibility, if you dont believe me then feel free to refer back. Too early to tell how the rest of this will play out but since these two are the leads in the play I am sure it will be interesting. Look fro Annie to eventually take the lead as adrianna's pregnancy gets closer and possibly things can heat back up with her and TY as Ethan recovers from this ridiculous accident. Speaking of the play, who is the new chic? what happened to Brenda?
-Dixon finally manned up and told Silver how it is. Silver was getting a little annoying and self righteous, she needed to be put in her place. What a coincidence her character went downhill after she moved in with Kelly. I can't wait to see her beg Dixon for forgiveness and promise that she will change while he is getting his jollies with the black bisexual. "Damn that's Good TV" ...... Ric Flair, 1998.
-Funny that they had Ethan trying out for the school play with the premise he doesn't know how to act, do you think this was just as funny to the writers and do you think the writers are secretly debating whether or not to kill off this character? I got a funy text message from the Little One on this topic, it went as follows:
Ethan: "I am not an actor"
Dear Ethan:
We Know.
Little One
Thanks Little One.
And the rest:
-Lost returned. From the folks I conversed with about the subject, mixed reviews. I personally am not into the time travel element. Imagine that USAIR plane that went down in the Hudson and those passengers got off the plane and it was 1972, 1984 and then they hit land and its 1955. The whole human element to me has now been lost. It was beleivable that a group of scientists went to this island to do some studying and then got stuck. But this time travel, I am too old for it. I don't buy it, it can't happen.
-The auditions for American Idol used to be really funny, now they are just dragging out and its the same thing over and over. I like the new judge though, she is a female Simon and Simon probably feels threatend.
-Chloe back on 24, I couldn't be happier for the stay at home mom.
-30 Rock continues to deliver week after week.
-Bromance is hilarious, check it out. It is so stupidly funny.
-Gossip Girl v. 90210. Look at how kids in NY and kids in LA grow up. Hard to believe they are all in HS.
-Someone actually called to tell me that Randy Orton won the Royal Rumble on Sunday. He got the idea to call me to tell me this by reading my blog. Thanks for the info, i am still wondering what to do with that info so i decided to share it and maybe someone has some idea.
Till next week, hopefully I won't need another week off.
Jeff
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Really?
As I watched last night i kept thinking about what I was going to write in this blog. I am still clueless. My initial reaction was to post a blank entry. That is what last night's show was, blank. There was nothing to it, nothing happened. Something should have though, anything. It was like a bad version of High School Musical. I had read an interview with Jason Priestly on tvguide.com and he said if the writers had a good story line for Brandon he would consider coming back. Not that he is doing much now, I am mean you don't have a few hours to kill and get on the show, I am sure Kelly Taylor will sleep with you if that entices you, apparently not Dylan as he would rather live in Montana, well done Kelly Taylor. Anyway Jason Priestly had stated that 90210, the zip code is the show and that is why it can continue and have this whole new cast. I decided to take him up on that, knowing that none of the old cast would be on this week. Well they laid a big fat donut in my eyes. Hopefully that won't continue. Since nothing really happened there is not much to write about. It is as if they waived the white flag and didn't want to compete with the big boys this week. In a week that had the Golden Globes with Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan's speeches, the return of Jack Bauer with fours of 24. As if almost stabbing someone in the eye with a bic pen wasn't enough, chloe returned on monday, that was huge. The return of American Idol, this week and Friday Night Lights comes back on Friday. This was the week that 90210 could have made some noise but it looks like they were afraid of failure and they through together some deleted scenes and called it an episode.
on th the random thoughts
-liked naomi this week, she really stepped up. She got a lot of press this week and it did her well
-navid got cool overnight, a little like david silver.
-ethan is horrendous, I cant even waste the time to speak of it. In the daily news i read an articel about Fast Times Ridgement High. The writer went undercover as a HS student so the movie can be an accurate portrayal. Are today's hs students acting like ethan and annie? probably not, at 16 they are just hooking up, drinking and smoking. This Lovey dovey sh*t is bs, Silver is right.
-I am 30 years old, a little awkward watching 2 16 year olds about to have sex
-who really thought they were going to have sex anyway, it was only a matter of time before a parent came, the alarm went off or Ethan turned into a pathetic loser
Enough about this week's show, let's just give them a pass.
unrelated to 90210
-Friday night lights is back on friday
-prison break has met its maker and will air its last 6-8 episodes on fridays beginning in april
-gabrielle carteris (andrea) turns 48 this month ------ 48!
-Go Gators, 3rd national championship, 2nd in 3 years and Tebow is staying
-my netflix movie this week was The Wackness, about teen life in the mid 90's in nyc set to the ready to die cd by biggie
till next week
jeff
on th the random thoughts
-liked naomi this week, she really stepped up. She got a lot of press this week and it did her well
-navid got cool overnight, a little like david silver.
-ethan is horrendous, I cant even waste the time to speak of it. In the daily news i read an articel about Fast Times Ridgement High. The writer went undercover as a HS student so the movie can be an accurate portrayal. Are today's hs students acting like ethan and annie? probably not, at 16 they are just hooking up, drinking and smoking. This Lovey dovey sh*t is bs, Silver is right.
-I am 30 years old, a little awkward watching 2 16 year olds about to have sex
-who really thought they were going to have sex anyway, it was only a matter of time before a parent came, the alarm went off or Ethan turned into a pathetic loser
Enough about this week's show, let's just give them a pass.
unrelated to 90210
-Friday night lights is back on friday
-prison break has met its maker and will air its last 6-8 episodes on fridays beginning in april
-gabrielle carteris (andrea) turns 48 this month ------ 48!
-Go Gators, 3rd national championship, 2nd in 3 years and Tebow is staying
-my netflix movie this week was The Wackness, about teen life in the mid 90's in nyc set to the ready to die cd by biggie
till next week
jeff
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Brenda Lives
I was actually getting worried that they were going to kill Brenda off the show and we would only be stuck with Kelly as our face from the original, luckily they came to their senses and we are not through with Brenda just yet.
Overall, I enjoyed the episode after the layoff. Annie has proved to be a tough strong minded girl. A little too touchy feely with this Ethan guy though. By the way, as i have told you before I have a friend who is an actor out in LA and happened to have dinner with him while he was in NYC over the holiday. I have been pushing him to get on 90210 before he gets too old, for my benefit of course, not his. He does have connections to the show though. He worked with Ethan on an episode of Supernaturals (they are currently doing webisodes) and he read with Annie at a casting call. Thought that was pretty cool. I often reccomend his movies when they are released. Currently on netflix you can find "My Sassy Girl" (also starring Jack Bauer's daughter), "Boxboarders" and "American Zombie".
on to last night's episode
-great t-mobile commercial recapping the entire season so far. I felt like i was watching an episode of Dukes of Hazzard, they used to do that towards the end after a commercial
-how much do you think Dr. Pepper paid for all the product placement at the Peach Pit?
-Dylan must have left a lot of money to turn the pit into what it is now
-Let's talk about Adriana --- An admitted slut at the age of 16, but making a face turn from heel status, so we are going to have to accept this behavior as long as Navid and her support group keep her straight. Random internet research uncovers a rumor that Ty will be back as possibly the father of Adriana's baby. Will she keep the baby? have an abortion? put the baby up for adoption? I am sure Kelly Taylor will put her two cents in. She can speak from experience of being the 16 year old slut and the mother to a child out of wedlock. Could Brenda adopt this baby?
-Brenda's illness -- I honestly thought she was going to have a terminal illness and was preparing to say goodbye with the prospects of reuniting the entire cast for her funeral but as i stated before i am relieved she will stay and perhaps have an expanded role.
-I am not convinced the adopted son is gone. Good spin though with the PI being involved. Tracy Clarke has go to have something more to do with this. I find quite unrealistic that in the middle of the night she was able to come up with $200,000 dollars to pay the gambling debt by way of her soon to be x-husband without the involvement of their divorce lawyers. This angle should not end here.
-The bisexual--- as i posted a few weeks ago, we knew she was gay. Thanks to loyalist EMA for the scoop. Sometimes internet rumors can be true!
-Did Dixon look comfortable at "his type of party" I bet he expected something way different. It looked like a Kirsten Cohen bash held at the Newport Beach residence. I have no comment on his rendition of Amazing Grace, i don't do that so I don't know. A celeb sighting rather than just a reference would have been cool but I guess CW doesn't have the budget.
-Back to Tracy Clarke for a second, let's take it abck to the season premiere of season 7, this would be the gang's senior year at CU, and Brandon was working at the TV station with Mark. In this first episode they were auditioning anchors for the news show, and who was the sexy anchor, that auditioned? None other than Tracy Clarke who obvioulsy didn't get the job becuase that went to Brandon's soon to be girlfried Tracy. Do you think at some point Tracy Clarke will approach Kelly Taylor and say "Hey we were at CU together back in 1996".
-how many families sit around playing pictionary like that?
-When Sean showed up in Annie's room before he left, that was spooky
-Naomi was a little inappropriate with Sean in those pictures --- its all about perception. That is why this story line will not die.
other random thoughts
-Real World Brooklyn starts tonight, I say no chance it tops Real World Hollywood. RW Hollywood is the Heavyweight Champion of the Real World Series.
-Chuck Bass is the Dylan McKay of the new millenium. Once again another extraordinary performance
-Just completed reading the autobiography of Ric Flair "To Be The Man". If you read and enjoyed Ric Flair at anytime in the 70's, 80's, 90's or this decade, it is definitely worth the read ----- Wooooooooo
-Lost 1/21 --- I can't repeat this enough
-Looking for a big comeback from jack bauer and 24 this season starting on Sunday
-and last and certainly not least ---- Go Gators, going for their 2nd national championship in the last 3 years under Urban Meyer and 3rd overall
Overall, I enjoyed the episode after the layoff. Annie has proved to be a tough strong minded girl. A little too touchy feely with this Ethan guy though. By the way, as i have told you before I have a friend who is an actor out in LA and happened to have dinner with him while he was in NYC over the holiday. I have been pushing him to get on 90210 before he gets too old, for my benefit of course, not his. He does have connections to the show though. He worked with Ethan on an episode of Supernaturals (they are currently doing webisodes) and he read with Annie at a casting call. Thought that was pretty cool. I often reccomend his movies when they are released. Currently on netflix you can find "My Sassy Girl" (also starring Jack Bauer's daughter), "Boxboarders" and "American Zombie".
on to last night's episode
-great t-mobile commercial recapping the entire season so far. I felt like i was watching an episode of Dukes of Hazzard, they used to do that towards the end after a commercial
-how much do you think Dr. Pepper paid for all the product placement at the Peach Pit?
-Dylan must have left a lot of money to turn the pit into what it is now
-Let's talk about Adriana --- An admitted slut at the age of 16, but making a face turn from heel status, so we are going to have to accept this behavior as long as Navid and her support group keep her straight. Random internet research uncovers a rumor that Ty will be back as possibly the father of Adriana's baby. Will she keep the baby? have an abortion? put the baby up for adoption? I am sure Kelly Taylor will put her two cents in. She can speak from experience of being the 16 year old slut and the mother to a child out of wedlock. Could Brenda adopt this baby?
-Brenda's illness -- I honestly thought she was going to have a terminal illness and was preparing to say goodbye with the prospects of reuniting the entire cast for her funeral but as i stated before i am relieved she will stay and perhaps have an expanded role.
-I am not convinced the adopted son is gone. Good spin though with the PI being involved. Tracy Clarke has go to have something more to do with this. I find quite unrealistic that in the middle of the night she was able to come up with $200,000 dollars to pay the gambling debt by way of her soon to be x-husband without the involvement of their divorce lawyers. This angle should not end here.
-The bisexual--- as i posted a few weeks ago, we knew she was gay. Thanks to loyalist EMA for the scoop. Sometimes internet rumors can be true!
-Did Dixon look comfortable at "his type of party" I bet he expected something way different. It looked like a Kirsten Cohen bash held at the Newport Beach residence. I have no comment on his rendition of Amazing Grace, i don't do that so I don't know. A celeb sighting rather than just a reference would have been cool but I guess CW doesn't have the budget.
-Back to Tracy Clarke for a second, let's take it abck to the season premiere of season 7, this would be the gang's senior year at CU, and Brandon was working at the TV station with Mark. In this first episode they were auditioning anchors for the news show, and who was the sexy anchor, that auditioned? None other than Tracy Clarke who obvioulsy didn't get the job becuase that went to Brandon's soon to be girlfried Tracy. Do you think at some point Tracy Clarke will approach Kelly Taylor and say "Hey we were at CU together back in 1996".
-how many families sit around playing pictionary like that?
-When Sean showed up in Annie's room before he left, that was spooky
-Naomi was a little inappropriate with Sean in those pictures --- its all about perception. That is why this story line will not die.
other random thoughts
-Real World Brooklyn starts tonight, I say no chance it tops Real World Hollywood. RW Hollywood is the Heavyweight Champion of the Real World Series.
-Chuck Bass is the Dylan McKay of the new millenium. Once again another extraordinary performance
-Just completed reading the autobiography of Ric Flair "To Be The Man". If you read and enjoyed Ric Flair at anytime in the 70's, 80's, 90's or this decade, it is definitely worth the read ----- Wooooooooo
-Lost 1/21 --- I can't repeat this enough
-Looking for a big comeback from jack bauer and 24 this season starting on Sunday
-and last and certainly not least ---- Go Gators, going for their 2nd national championship in the last 3 years under Urban Meyer and 3rd overall
Monday, January 5, 2009
Pre-Show and Catch Up
Happy New Year all!
Just a day away from the beginning of the next run of 90210 episodes. I must admit I will have to re-read all of the previous posts to catch up. I am excited for Brenda though, even if she is going to die eventually. Over the break I watched several episodes on soapnet and not one episode makes me like Kelly. I don't even want to get into it with her anymore as I am trying to be the bigger person in 2009.
January is a big month on the tube. This week Chuck becomes a billionaire (tonight) on Gossip Girl and rumor has it that Serena's boyfriend was written off the show. He was worthless. Her new boyfriend should have have been a bad ass like the guy marissa was messing around with on the OC after Ryan (not the girl).
Grey's anatomy is back but i have written that show off and 30 Rock is the only thursday night TV I watch.
Tonight as well is that ABC family show about the knocked up 15 year old with Molly Ringwald as the mom to this teenager directed by Jason Priestly. They must either be nuts or really just catering to the 10 year olds as they are going head to head with Gossip Girl.
Also this month set for my tivo is the return of Jack Bauer ---- Can he do something about Kelly Taylor or does there have to be a terror threat against the country?
Lost January 21.
The Real World Brooklyn debuts this month and from what i read it is just an absurd grouping with transvestites and all kinds of other creatures. I thoroughly enjoyed Real World Hollywood last season, all of those people belong in mental institutions which of course made for some good tv. That was jaw dropping reality tv at its finest.
As I am almost addicted to reality tv, 2 new shows debuted last week --- Bromance and The City. These are spin offs, yes spinoffs of my favorite reality show The Hills. Bromance with Brody Jenner and The City with Whitney Port. Did I mention these are spin offs of a reality show? I wouldn't characterize the Hills as a spin off of Laguna Beach because they had to graduate and that was their after High School life so it was more like a continuation of the nonsense. Whitney's show i watch because of my wife and for the possibility that LC might be on. Bromance is actually a contest to be Brody's "bro", quite comical. Several posts back i commented on Brody on how he was growing on me as a person and the GM of common sense on the Hills.
I had the occassion to me Brody at the Hills season finale party at Tavern on the Green and the guy is real, mixed up in all that hoolywood reality hoopla he was looking for a guy just to shoot the shit with about football. Big San Diego Chargers fan. My wife and a friend of the friend who invited us to the party arranged for this.
And the winner of Bromance is ........................
Explaining to Brody how the NY Jets can get into the playoffs after we had a heated discussion about the SanDiego Chargers chances of making the playoffs and how LT sabotaged my fantasy football season.
Frankie whatever his name is --- something spanish,
Whitney Port with the wife
Justin Bobby, strange bird.....
Audrina with clothes on
And my girl, Reality TV all star Lauren "LC" Conrad.Speidi was too cool to take pictures so they sat in a separate room all by themselves as none of LC's crew wanted to hang with them.
Enjoy the shows this week, we'll catch up on wednesday.
jeff
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
someone is gay!!!!
This article was passed along from a loyal reader. Its been so long i almost forgot about 90210.
Exclusive: Who's Gay on 90210?
It's a girl!
After all our guesses about which male character (Navid? Ty? That blond guy?) would come out of the closet on 90210, it's cheerleader Christina Worthy who is the same-sex-oriented cast member, sources tell TVGuide.com exclusively.
In the Nov. 18 episode, Christina (Lauren London) was macking on Dixon pretty obviously during the Spirit Dinner and then again at the lacrosse game. "Who's that?" Silver asked, as Christina sashayed away in her miniskirt. But we'll discover in the Jan. 6 episode that Christina has a girlfriend. (Before you ask, the girlfriend is not played by Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden; that's a different character and storyline altogether.) Christina is described as being bisexual by sources close to the show, which I'm guessing means that she'll also continue to carry a torch for Dixon. Confusing!
London had a memorable guest-starring gig on Entourage as Kelly, the daughter of Turtle's mechanic, and has also appeared in the movies This Christmas and ATL.
What do you think about this casting? Will Christina be a gay-positive role model -- or is a bisexual high school cheerleader just another male fantasy?
-its about time a show went out of the box and the gay character was a girl. I know the OC did it but it is just different. They did it to get the viewers with 2 hot girls making out.
-Chuck Bass or rather Ed Westwick was extraordinary last night. Broadway may be calling.
-On the friday after thanksgiving soapnet did a 90210 marathon entitled "Kelly's leftover" what a whore!! this deserves an entire post at another time. But just to further prove my point of what a two faced slut this girl really is, at 5 pm the Episode was on. The one where Dylan asks her to go on a trip around the world and Brandon ands her to marry him. Their sideburns must have been getting to their heads. Thank g-d the 90's ended and they lost those things. Anyhow, apparently Kelly and Brandon are dating in this episode when Dylan asks kelly to go around the world with him and instead of saying no i have a boyfriend she decides to think about and proceeds to make out with Dylan in braod daylight on the beach. It never occurs to her that she is doing something immoral. Then this poor bastard Brandon comes along (maybe this is why I lack a bit of respect for him) and rather than smack this bitch upside her head and call her out for the slut that she is, he goes and buys her a ring and asks her to marry him. She then has to think about it, but not without first hitting the sack with him. And then sometime after Brandon and kelly do the nasty along comes Dylan to see if Kelly has an answer. Of course she doesn't, she has not even showered since she was between the sheets with Brandon. But do you think that stops her from making out with Dylan right then and there while Donna and Claire look on, both knowing that Brandon just left after sex with Kelly. What a pig this girl is. And then she goes and chooses herself, she claims it is to save Brandon and Dylan's friendship but in reality it is to go to NY and hook up with everything walking like most 20 year olds do who come to NY for the summer to "intern". Intern as a whore!
till next time
jeff
Exclusive: Who's Gay on 90210?
It's a girl!
After all our guesses about which male character (Navid? Ty? That blond guy?) would come out of the closet on 90210, it's cheerleader Christina Worthy who is the same-sex-oriented cast member, sources tell TVGuide.com exclusively.
In the Nov. 18 episode, Christina (Lauren London) was macking on Dixon pretty obviously during the Spirit Dinner and then again at the lacrosse game. "Who's that?" Silver asked, as Christina sashayed away in her miniskirt. But we'll discover in the Jan. 6 episode that Christina has a girlfriend. (Before you ask, the girlfriend is not played by Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden; that's a different character and storyline altogether.) Christina is described as being bisexual by sources close to the show, which I'm guessing means that she'll also continue to carry a torch for Dixon. Confusing!
London had a memorable guest-starring gig on Entourage as Kelly, the daughter of Turtle's mechanic, and has also appeared in the movies This Christmas and ATL.
What do you think about this casting? Will Christina be a gay-positive role model -- or is a bisexual high school cheerleader just another male fantasy?
-its about time a show went out of the box and the gay character was a girl. I know the OC did it but it is just different. They did it to get the viewers with 2 hot girls making out.
-Chuck Bass or rather Ed Westwick was extraordinary last night. Broadway may be calling.
-On the friday after thanksgiving soapnet did a 90210 marathon entitled "Kelly's leftover" what a whore!! this deserves an entire post at another time. But just to further prove my point of what a two faced slut this girl really is, at 5 pm the Episode was on. The one where Dylan asks her to go on a trip around the world and Brandon ands her to marry him. Their sideburns must have been getting to their heads. Thank g-d the 90's ended and they lost those things. Anyhow, apparently Kelly and Brandon are dating in this episode when Dylan asks kelly to go around the world with him and instead of saying no i have a boyfriend she decides to think about and proceeds to make out with Dylan in braod daylight on the beach. It never occurs to her that she is doing something immoral. Then this poor bastard Brandon comes along (maybe this is why I lack a bit of respect for him) and rather than smack this bitch upside her head and call her out for the slut that she is, he goes and buys her a ring and asks her to marry him. She then has to think about it, but not without first hitting the sack with him. And then sometime after Brandon and kelly do the nasty along comes Dylan to see if Kelly has an answer. Of course she doesn't, she has not even showered since she was between the sheets with Brandon. But do you think that stops her from making out with Dylan right then and there while Donna and Claire look on, both knowing that Brandon just left after sex with Kelly. What a pig this girl is. And then she goes and chooses herself, she claims it is to save Brandon and Dylan's friendship but in reality it is to go to NY and hook up with everything walking like most 20 year olds do who come to NY for the summer to "intern". Intern as a whore!
till next time
jeff
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
My Wife Didn't Like This Episode and I Don't Blame Her
I decided well before last night's show to try something different with the blog. Unfortunately the show was horrendous last night and that will affect the delivery and the content. Given last week's episode, this week had so much hype to it, I know everyone was feeling it. What's going to happen? Are Annie and Naomi going to come to blows? etc. etc. etc. Well this show was 12 eggs short of a dozen. Possibly it was the hype that last week brought us and the anticipated return of Brenda that made you think you were going to be in for something special. Unfortunately it was not. It was overhyped and I brought that upon myself. It's a shame because it was a down week for Gossip Girl as well, not enough Chuck Bass. I haven't even watched the Hills yet, and I am getting nervous that that might be the worst six and a half minutes of tv this week. If you noticed i started capitalizing my "i's" and making an effort in my grammar and spelling for the sole reason that my wife said she may read it if I do a better job in the grammar department. So here is hoping she reads along with us, but after last night's episode I don't know if she will ever watch again.
So here goes the first running diary for The 9-0 Report:
8:35 pm
The dvr is set and I am plotting my time when I am going to watch 90210 when Scott calls for a little pre 9-0 hype. He is pumped, I am pumped and I am getting more pumped just talking about how great last week's episode was and how it is just starting to fall into place, we have our antagonist (Naomi) and our protagonist (Annie) as our main event, the undercard is filling in nicely and the return of Brenda Walsh tonight. Brenda is coming back!!! During this conversation I am in the kitchen with the 9-0 wife and she is wondering what two 30 year old guys are talking about. All she hears is "yeah its going to be awesome, I am pumped ...... she is coming back ...... such a bitch, its great" Scott has his night planned, he is having a nice chicken dinner and going to catch up on the blog before watching this episode to build upon the hype that we have created in our minds.
8:50 pm
With dinner in front of me I pull a strategic move to watch the end of prison break while I eat so that I have free hand during 90210 to take time stamped notes for the running diary. The wife doesn't mind.
9:15 pm
Right to scenes from last week and prior relevant scenes from past weeks. More than usual to build up the hype. To take a line out of the late Gorrilla Monsoon's library "you can cut the electricity with a knife in here"
9:17 pm
We start just where we left off last week --- outside with Naomi and Annie and their "brother". That's preety cool, almost like a to be continued episode, you don't see too much of that anymore. Ethan, Silver and Dixon are just watching the fight, this goes back to my point form last week, there are no best friends on this show. If either one of them had a best friend they would have intervened. Now back in the house Wilson family meeting with the "son" and Naomi is still there. I don't get that. After what she just did, If I am Annie I am kicking her ass out of my house. Then it gets wierd, Naomi's mom comes over and rather than run to her son or be filled with any kind of emotion she says "my son, my son". I am thinking this is either really bad acting or totally fake.
9:19 pm
Opening song and right to the first commercial break. Thank G-D for dvr. My wife now just realizes that I am taking notes and tells me that I am going to have to learn how to fast forward and write.
9:21 pm
Ethan and Annie are walking through the hallways calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend -- what losers. Could you imagine Brandon or Dylan doing this. There's Naomi, would be a good time for a cat fight but ......
9:23 pm
There's Kelly sticking her nose in where it doesn't belong and ruining what could be a good scene for her own pesonal gain and benefit. By the way is she qualified to be a guidance counselor? I guess if you were addicted to coke, stole your best friend's boyfriend, joined a cult etc. etc. etc.
Why is Adriana hanging out with Dixon and Silver a little wierd, no? Oh shit, my wife just realized what i was doing, this is not going to be fun but let me take the abuse for the benefit of 90210 ---- "I am so embarrassed right now, this is not even funny, who clocks the time? what kind of loser are you? if you don't stop I am going to watch in another room" Ok its over, i still have the pad and pen, we can continue.
9:25 pm
Silver's live blog -- another idea. Looks like Annie won the friends but what about Adriana, wasn't Naomi her best friend? and was Navid just absent from school this week? I keep checking the phone for the random text from the little one.
9:32 pm
First Brenda Walsh sighting and Kelly re-gifts some flowers from her office and Brenda is keen enough to call her out on it as Kelly is asking why she doesn't return phone calls. Do we have to get into this Kelly, do we? I would venture to say it has something to do with your comment about Dylan amongst other things oh great one.
halfway throught the show so far and it sucks --- so overhyped. Same feeling i felt at WMXX.
9:39 pm
Nice hair Tracy Clark.
9:40 pm
Possibly the best line on tv since Leave it to Beaver "Ward I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night" ---- Silver "That skirt is so short you are going to need two hairdos".
too little Brenda
9:42 pm
How come "brother" Sean doesn't hang with Dixon, Annie or Naomi?
9:43 pm
This lunch is pretty awkward with Brenda and Kelly. Brenda telling Kelly it is not like High School anymore, they have nothing in common. I would say, Brenda is cool, Kelly is not. Brenda doesn't want to fight over Dylan with Kelly, that's right she should just take her man. As awkward as this scene was, it was the highlight of the episode, and that's bad. Brenda and Kelly breaking up, WOW, sure took long enough. This is when i asked my wife what she thought now and she said "I am am supposed to be impressed?" she is a tough one to sell.
9:49 pm
The wife is not enjoying the show --- I wonder if it is me?
9:50 pm
Silver was playing with a rubics cube ---who does that? is it 1982? so retro, i love it. She is the type of girl who you will see in a bar playing Ms. Pacman.
9:53 pm
Brenda is in the hospital and Kelly is the emergency contact. Why not Donna or David? History means something to Kelly so that is why she came for Brenda but Brenda is honest and tells her she slept with Ryan. Kelly is mad, why I ask. Didn't she tell Ryan she couldn't see him and didn't want him to wait? There goes Kelly again being selfish Kelly Taylor trying to control what everyone else does for the betterment of herself. This girl is garbage, I mean really. Whore. Now I wonder did Brenda really sleep with Ryan or did she jsut say that so Kelly will finally be out of her life and she can have Dylan all to herself without the Kelly Taylor drama?
9:56 pm
The "son" is staying at the wilson house when off to bed he goes and he makes a phone call to someone to tell them he is getting in real good with the family. Who did he call? I have a theory but will save it for another post. I told my wife and 1 reader so far just in case. Being that the next episode is not until January 6th I will have to post in between as this show did not leave us off on a good note and I feel responsible to bring back some hype.
9:57 pm
Scenes to the tune of O.A.R's new song. Brenda is pregnant and a lot of recapping. Speaking of Brenda rumor has it they are going to kill her off the show with a terminal disease. If they do this would her paqrents, brother and the rest of the gang want to come say goodbye or go to the funeral? overall disappointed. It is 50/50 my wife watches the show again. Me, I am in it for the long haul.
on the rest of the random thoughts:
-Reccomendation of the weak is O.A.R. if you don't know them look them up on itunes, not a bad gig. Been to a few of their shows and they are a lot of fun. The wife even had our wedding band learn one of their sonegs to play at our wedding.
-a part of me misses GREEK.
-Gators hung half a hundred on the ol' ball coach
-my neice turned 1 this week, good times
-did some charity last week for a good cause and i ended being more profitable as I won a year's membership at equinox and a signed marty brodeuer hockey stick which was donated right back to charity. Why do i want that, would he want a signed legal pad of mine
-Watched the Wizard of Oz this weekend, i was a little off as the last time i watched i was listening to Dark Side of the Moon. It is on my list of things to do this year, watch in its entirety.
till some other time when we will throw some theories around since this show just took on a Desperate Housewives approach.
jeff
So here goes the first running diary for The 9-0 Report:
8:35 pm
The dvr is set and I am plotting my time when I am going to watch 90210 when Scott calls for a little pre 9-0 hype. He is pumped, I am pumped and I am getting more pumped just talking about how great last week's episode was and how it is just starting to fall into place, we have our antagonist (Naomi) and our protagonist (Annie) as our main event, the undercard is filling in nicely and the return of Brenda Walsh tonight. Brenda is coming back!!! During this conversation I am in the kitchen with the 9-0 wife and she is wondering what two 30 year old guys are talking about. All she hears is "yeah its going to be awesome, I am pumped ...... she is coming back ...... such a bitch, its great" Scott has his night planned, he is having a nice chicken dinner and going to catch up on the blog before watching this episode to build upon the hype that we have created in our minds.
8:50 pm
With dinner in front of me I pull a strategic move to watch the end of prison break while I eat so that I have free hand during 90210 to take time stamped notes for the running diary. The wife doesn't mind.
9:15 pm
Right to scenes from last week and prior relevant scenes from past weeks. More than usual to build up the hype. To take a line out of the late Gorrilla Monsoon's library "you can cut the electricity with a knife in here"
9:17 pm
We start just where we left off last week --- outside with Naomi and Annie and their "brother". That's preety cool, almost like a to be continued episode, you don't see too much of that anymore. Ethan, Silver and Dixon are just watching the fight, this goes back to my point form last week, there are no best friends on this show. If either one of them had a best friend they would have intervened. Now back in the house Wilson family meeting with the "son" and Naomi is still there. I don't get that. After what she just did, If I am Annie I am kicking her ass out of my house. Then it gets wierd, Naomi's mom comes over and rather than run to her son or be filled with any kind of emotion she says "my son, my son". I am thinking this is either really bad acting or totally fake.
9:19 pm
Opening song and right to the first commercial break. Thank G-D for dvr. My wife now just realizes that I am taking notes and tells me that I am going to have to learn how to fast forward and write.
9:21 pm
Ethan and Annie are walking through the hallways calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend -- what losers. Could you imagine Brandon or Dylan doing this. There's Naomi, would be a good time for a cat fight but ......
9:23 pm
There's Kelly sticking her nose in where it doesn't belong and ruining what could be a good scene for her own pesonal gain and benefit. By the way is she qualified to be a guidance counselor? I guess if you were addicted to coke, stole your best friend's boyfriend, joined a cult etc. etc. etc.
Why is Adriana hanging out with Dixon and Silver a little wierd, no? Oh shit, my wife just realized what i was doing, this is not going to be fun but let me take the abuse for the benefit of 90210 ---- "I am so embarrassed right now, this is not even funny, who clocks the time? what kind of loser are you? if you don't stop I am going to watch in another room" Ok its over, i still have the pad and pen, we can continue.
9:25 pm
Silver's live blog -- another idea. Looks like Annie won the friends but what about Adriana, wasn't Naomi her best friend? and was Navid just absent from school this week? I keep checking the phone for the random text from the little one.
9:32 pm
First Brenda Walsh sighting and Kelly re-gifts some flowers from her office and Brenda is keen enough to call her out on it as Kelly is asking why she doesn't return phone calls. Do we have to get into this Kelly, do we? I would venture to say it has something to do with your comment about Dylan amongst other things oh great one.
halfway throught the show so far and it sucks --- so overhyped. Same feeling i felt at WMXX.
9:39 pm
Nice hair Tracy Clark.
9:40 pm
Possibly the best line on tv since Leave it to Beaver "Ward I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night" ---- Silver "That skirt is so short you are going to need two hairdos".
too little Brenda
9:42 pm
How come "brother" Sean doesn't hang with Dixon, Annie or Naomi?
9:43 pm
This lunch is pretty awkward with Brenda and Kelly. Brenda telling Kelly it is not like High School anymore, they have nothing in common. I would say, Brenda is cool, Kelly is not. Brenda doesn't want to fight over Dylan with Kelly, that's right she should just take her man. As awkward as this scene was, it was the highlight of the episode, and that's bad. Brenda and Kelly breaking up, WOW, sure took long enough. This is when i asked my wife what she thought now and she said "I am am supposed to be impressed?" she is a tough one to sell.
9:49 pm
The wife is not enjoying the show --- I wonder if it is me?
9:50 pm
Silver was playing with a rubics cube ---who does that? is it 1982? so retro, i love it. She is the type of girl who you will see in a bar playing Ms. Pacman.
9:53 pm
Brenda is in the hospital and Kelly is the emergency contact. Why not Donna or David? History means something to Kelly so that is why she came for Brenda but Brenda is honest and tells her she slept with Ryan. Kelly is mad, why I ask. Didn't she tell Ryan she couldn't see him and didn't want him to wait? There goes Kelly again being selfish Kelly Taylor trying to control what everyone else does for the betterment of herself. This girl is garbage, I mean really. Whore. Now I wonder did Brenda really sleep with Ryan or did she jsut say that so Kelly will finally be out of her life and she can have Dylan all to herself without the Kelly Taylor drama?
9:56 pm
The "son" is staying at the wilson house when off to bed he goes and he makes a phone call to someone to tell them he is getting in real good with the family. Who did he call? I have a theory but will save it for another post. I told my wife and 1 reader so far just in case. Being that the next episode is not until January 6th I will have to post in between as this show did not leave us off on a good note and I feel responsible to bring back some hype.
9:57 pm
Scenes to the tune of O.A.R's new song. Brenda is pregnant and a lot of recapping. Speaking of Brenda rumor has it they are going to kill her off the show with a terminal disease. If they do this would her paqrents, brother and the rest of the gang want to come say goodbye or go to the funeral? overall disappointed. It is 50/50 my wife watches the show again. Me, I am in it for the long haul.
on the rest of the random thoughts:
-Reccomendation of the weak is O.A.R. if you don't know them look them up on itunes, not a bad gig. Been to a few of their shows and they are a lot of fun. The wife even had our wedding band learn one of their sonegs to play at our wedding.
-a part of me misses GREEK.
-Gators hung half a hundred on the ol' ball coach
-my neice turned 1 this week, good times
-did some charity last week for a good cause and i ended being more profitable as I won a year's membership at equinox and a signed marty brodeuer hockey stick which was donated right back to charity. Why do i want that, would he want a signed legal pad of mine
-Watched the Wizard of Oz this weekend, i was a little off as the last time i watched i was listening to Dark Side of the Moon. It is on my list of things to do this year, watch in its entirety.
till some other time when we will throw some theories around since this show just took on a Desperate Housewives approach.
jeff
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The B*tch is Back
I have waited so long today, let's get right into the random thoughts on last night's episode:
-We have finally found a place where we can live with Naomi on the show---- as the bitch. I thought she fit the role perfect and has finally given lofe to this annoying character. i hope this continues throughout even now that their half brother has shown up.
-Speaking of the half brother, a little wierd that he showed up at harry wilson's house at midnight on the night of Annie's sweet 16 when Harry Wilson wasn't the one who hired the private investigator's to look for him.
-After a few weeks of dragging i am proud to say 90210 is back. Great episode last night highlighted by the Naomi heel turn on Annie. Like Ric Flair once said in one of his many retirement speeches "Damn that's Good TV". As stated in previus posts the the female villain is essential to creating good drama especially in high school. We knew Naomi turning on Annie was coming, it was set up beautifully and we were not surprised. (for those that don't follow a "heel turn" is when a good guy or crowd favorite turns bad or becomes a heel). The two greatest heel turns i can think of off the top of my head were Andre turning on Hogan in '87 and Hogan turning on all of us in the summer of '96 and joining the NWO. Naomi's turn was nothing of the sort as we were a part of the turn, only Annie was too stupid to realize. Naomi played it great and this should be the role that fits her. Valerie Malone was a true heel on 90210, Brenda never was. When Valerie showed up in Beverly Hills the show moved away from the 80's teen feel to a little more edgy 90's. I am all for Naomi now, the show needs scandals to survive, everything can't always be great.
-Again Ethan peaked while getting road head in the first ten minutes of the pilot. He has turned into a total geek and probably graduate early go to college and pledge Rusty's fraternity and be his little brother.
-Navid and Adrianna have stepped it up with their relationship, the show is never revolved around them but they still are able to add value. I think they are a better couple than Silver and Dixon right now.
-I finally figured out what the show is missing ---- Best friend's on the male side. We had Brandon and Dylan, they had this instant bond which couldn't be broken. They were like brothers but not brothers. The going trend on TV is this Bromania ----- Remember Spencer and Brody, the boys from Entourage, the gang on prison break, Denny Crane and Allan Shore on Boston Legal any cast of the real world -- the guys are always closer than the girls (for instance the 3 guys who ended the last and greatest season of the real world went on a bar tour together). There are no "Best Friends" on this show..... male or female, sure naomi and adrianna say it but we haven't seen it. Ethan has grown up in LA all his life, he had no friends before Annie and Dixon came to town, all he had was naomi. I know the same can be said for steve sanders and Dylan was a loner, Brandon was his first real friend. I believe this will be essential, you ned that male bond. We now have Ethan trying to be the peacemaker between the show's greatest feud, Annie and Naomi. That's pretty weak and needs to be fixed.
-Speaking of Annie and Naomi, their relation is very OC --- Annie's father and Naomi's mother have a kid together who is each their half brother on a different side and they are fighting over the same boyfriend. only the OC, 90210 never got this complicated.
-I am not even going to get into the Annie/Ethan Naomi/Ethan who is allowed to be dating whom subjuect. it is childish and immature. Perhaps maybe Kelly Taylor may want to weigh in on that, she is a model for this sort of behavior.
-and oh by the way kelly, i hope ryan nailed brenda good. I dare you to get mad at her for that. you think you can just show back up after you figure things out with Dylan and expect that Ryan is just going to drop everything to be with you. I mean just who do you think you are? I wish there was a Blair Waldorf to sort you out in the class of '93. That cop should have arrested you on the spot for being stupid enough to think you had a claim on Ryan. And why did you chase him down when he was leaving the school, to give him one of your morals lectures? Look in the mirror honey, steve sanders was right at that Spring dance back in '91. and we know Brenda should have worn another dress not you.
-and brenda didn't know the little girl from Minnesota put out like that, learning from kelly Taylor aren't we?
-now that the drugs are out of the school, i wonder what the fallout will be. this had to be the worst story line of the year.
-best scene of the evening ---- Annie standing up for herself. bravo little girl, (i hear you are like that off camera as well) she really gave it to Naomi the way Brenda should have senior year. I hope there is more of that to come. We can have a great mom/daughter mud wrestling match with lori loughlin and Annie v. Naomi and her mom.
-brenda is back next week, shouldn't only get better for the rest fo the month being that it is november sweeps.
other random tv thoughts:
-only 70 days to Lost
-big twist on Prison Break this week (no spoilers here)
-met whitney port's boyfriend this week on the hills, they actually show them meeting for the first time
-light on tv this week as i was travelling
other randowm thoughts
-go gators, looking like a bcs run is coming
-kudos to the TEP house at UF... a lot of shit went down at that place through the years, its just a shame similar situated jewish kids from south florida and the northeast won't get to enjoy that place as we all once did. Tep does i pass
-as i was visiting a friend over the weekend a grabbed their coffe table book and began to read and it is my reccomendation of the week "How to Roll a Blunt for Dummies" you can pick up a copy from the author himself on West 34th Street between 7th and 8th ave most days. Believe it or not it is not just about rolling blunts.
-speaking of TEP i saw my old tep house roommate. I will never lose touch with the guy but will never keep in touch with him, thats just the way he is. He is there when you need him and if you don't need him he is likely down for the count. A true character in his own right.
that's all for now and Naomi, welcome to the show please finally grab your seating card and join us!
till next week
jeff
-We have finally found a place where we can live with Naomi on the show---- as the bitch. I thought she fit the role perfect and has finally given lofe to this annoying character. i hope this continues throughout even now that their half brother has shown up.
-Speaking of the half brother, a little wierd that he showed up at harry wilson's house at midnight on the night of Annie's sweet 16 when Harry Wilson wasn't the one who hired the private investigator's to look for him.
-After a few weeks of dragging i am proud to say 90210 is back. Great episode last night highlighted by the Naomi heel turn on Annie. Like Ric Flair once said in one of his many retirement speeches "Damn that's Good TV". As stated in previus posts the the female villain is essential to creating good drama especially in high school. We knew Naomi turning on Annie was coming, it was set up beautifully and we were not surprised. (for those that don't follow a "heel turn" is when a good guy or crowd favorite turns bad or becomes a heel). The two greatest heel turns i can think of off the top of my head were Andre turning on Hogan in '87 and Hogan turning on all of us in the summer of '96 and joining the NWO. Naomi's turn was nothing of the sort as we were a part of the turn, only Annie was too stupid to realize. Naomi played it great and this should be the role that fits her. Valerie Malone was a true heel on 90210, Brenda never was. When Valerie showed up in Beverly Hills the show moved away from the 80's teen feel to a little more edgy 90's. I am all for Naomi now, the show needs scandals to survive, everything can't always be great.
-Again Ethan peaked while getting road head in the first ten minutes of the pilot. He has turned into a total geek and probably graduate early go to college and pledge Rusty's fraternity and be his little brother.
-Navid and Adrianna have stepped it up with their relationship, the show is never revolved around them but they still are able to add value. I think they are a better couple than Silver and Dixon right now.
-I finally figured out what the show is missing ---- Best friend's on the male side. We had Brandon and Dylan, they had this instant bond which couldn't be broken. They were like brothers but not brothers. The going trend on TV is this Bromania ----- Remember Spencer and Brody, the boys from Entourage, the gang on prison break, Denny Crane and Allan Shore on Boston Legal any cast of the real world -- the guys are always closer than the girls (for instance the 3 guys who ended the last and greatest season of the real world went on a bar tour together). There are no "Best Friends" on this show..... male or female, sure naomi and adrianna say it but we haven't seen it. Ethan has grown up in LA all his life, he had no friends before Annie and Dixon came to town, all he had was naomi. I know the same can be said for steve sanders and Dylan was a loner, Brandon was his first real friend. I believe this will be essential, you ned that male bond. We now have Ethan trying to be the peacemaker between the show's greatest feud, Annie and Naomi. That's pretty weak and needs to be fixed.
-Speaking of Annie and Naomi, their relation is very OC --- Annie's father and Naomi's mother have a kid together who is each their half brother on a different side and they are fighting over the same boyfriend. only the OC, 90210 never got this complicated.
-I am not even going to get into the Annie/Ethan Naomi/Ethan who is allowed to be dating whom subjuect. it is childish and immature. Perhaps maybe Kelly Taylor may want to weigh in on that, she is a model for this sort of behavior.
-and oh by the way kelly, i hope ryan nailed brenda good. I dare you to get mad at her for that. you think you can just show back up after you figure things out with Dylan and expect that Ryan is just going to drop everything to be with you. I mean just who do you think you are? I wish there was a Blair Waldorf to sort you out in the class of '93. That cop should have arrested you on the spot for being stupid enough to think you had a claim on Ryan. And why did you chase him down when he was leaving the school, to give him one of your morals lectures? Look in the mirror honey, steve sanders was right at that Spring dance back in '91. and we know Brenda should have worn another dress not you.
-and brenda didn't know the little girl from Minnesota put out like that, learning from kelly Taylor aren't we?
-now that the drugs are out of the school, i wonder what the fallout will be. this had to be the worst story line of the year.
-best scene of the evening ---- Annie standing up for herself. bravo little girl, (i hear you are like that off camera as well) she really gave it to Naomi the way Brenda should have senior year. I hope there is more of that to come. We can have a great mom/daughter mud wrestling match with lori loughlin and Annie v. Naomi and her mom.
-brenda is back next week, shouldn't only get better for the rest fo the month being that it is november sweeps.
other random tv thoughts:
-only 70 days to Lost
-big twist on Prison Break this week (no spoilers here)
-met whitney port's boyfriend this week on the hills, they actually show them meeting for the first time
-light on tv this week as i was travelling
other randowm thoughts
-go gators, looking like a bcs run is coming
-kudos to the TEP house at UF... a lot of shit went down at that place through the years, its just a shame similar situated jewish kids from south florida and the northeast won't get to enjoy that place as we all once did. Tep does i pass
-as i was visiting a friend over the weekend a grabbed their coffe table book and began to read and it is my reccomendation of the week "How to Roll a Blunt for Dummies" you can pick up a copy from the author himself on West 34th Street between 7th and 8th ave most days. Believe it or not it is not just about rolling blunts.
-speaking of TEP i saw my old tep house roommate. I will never lose touch with the guy but will never keep in touch with him, thats just the way he is. He is there when you need him and if you don't need him he is likely down for the count. A true character in his own right.
that's all for now and Naomi, welcome to the show please finally grab your seating card and join us!
till next week
jeff
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