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"90210": Life's a Trainwreck

Posted by Lindy Parker

 

Show of hands: who had guys in their high school that looked like this?  Seriously, put them up where we can see them, because those pectorals certainly never walked the halls of our alma mater.  We're just saying.  Here's the up's and down's of this week's episode...

Happy: The episode opened with Lori Laughlin interrupting Ethan and Annie's giggly phone sex, which made us laugh for two reasons: 1. Ethan and Annie were attempting phone sex and 2. With all the shameless T-Mobile product placement, it's laughable to imagine these Beverly Hills kids use land lines. Ever. 

Sad: It's hard for us to take any dialogue on this show seriously.  It's that awkwardly written.

Happy: Grandma Wilson is just a drunk and bizarre as ever, but now it's manifesting itself in a weird power struggle with Lori Laughlin (who, it should be said, could probably eat Grandma Wilson for breakfast).  We're hoping it comes to blows.

Sad: The writers on this show appear to be trying to break up Silver and Dixon by making Silver (the only actress on the show who can carry a scene) as unlikable and inconsequential as possible.  Who's cruel and sarcastic when their boyfriend wants to sing in the choir? How annoying.

Happy: The female PE teacher with the oddly deep voice who claims to be "keeping track of Naomi's menstrual cycle."  Hmmm.

 Sad: Navid can't deal with the fact that DDG is pregnant by another guy, and kicks her to the curb in her time of need after claiming he'll stand by her through anything.  All lies.

 Happy: This interaction -- Silver on Ethan and Annie's shameless lunchroom PDA: "Are you guys in heat?"  Ethan: "How about a little privacy, Silver?"  Really? Privacy? In the cafeteria?  Sometimes the ludicracy of the dialogue kinda works out.

Sad: Annie and Ethan didn't stay broken up after her almost-de-virginization turned into a fight.

Our questions: Where is Brenda? Where's Ryan? Where's Kim, the undercover cop?  Who will save us from the perpetual Annie-Ethan "I love you's"?


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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for hooksexup.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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