Fox's 90210 reunion series, BH90210, blurs fact and fiction to dizzying effect. Read Alan Sepinwall's review
is simultaneously attempting to be, the soap opera is unsurprisingly the most successful. “Life imitates art,” Tori tells Jennie while discussing her feelings for once and future co-star Brian Austin Green, andseems determined to blur the line between fact and fiction. The actors aren’t exactly playing themselves, which leaves room for affairs, intra-cast sexual tension, even a stalker.
even though several of them in real life have spouses who are either, like Brian Austin Green’s wife Megan Fox, extremely famous in their own right, or, like Spelling’s husband Dean McDermott, have starred in multiple reality shows with aIt’s the kind of material the actors spent most of their twenties playing . All are more comfortable with the melodrama than when the new series is trying for laughs.
There’s also, for that matter, already been a satire about what it was like working on the original series: the WB’s little-watchedEvery show in TV’s recent boom of reboots and revivals is trying to cash in on nostalgia for and awareness of a familiar brand name. Few are going about it as relentlessly, or at such a skewed angle, as. It’s meant solely for die-hard fans of the old show, while not really being a continuation of it. Even at its best, it tops out at mediocre.
And after a while, the sheer oddity of it all becomes a bit of a hook unto itself. Late in the second episode, a memorable figure from the old show returns, playing themselves but also as the network executive overseeing the revival. It’s so ridiculous and yet perfect that it bought at least another episode of viewing from me. I couldn’t always defend my viewing of the original show back in the day, other than that the characters were roughly my age and all my friends watched.
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