Review: The Premiere Of The New 90210

90210 started back up again last night after an 8-year absence from the airwaves. It's move from FOX to the CW is proving to be a good one, so far. Here's a quick review of the show, Insaneinthesfv style! ;)

A family moves from Kansas to Beverly Hills. Dad (Rob Estes) is the principal and grew up in BH. Mom is Lori Laughlin. They do a reasonably good job of passing for 40.

Kids are 15-year-old Annie and 15-year-old adopted brother Dixon, who is Black, but so far, no race card is being played. Obviously, they're going to be the glue that holds 90210 together, just like the Walsh twins did back in the 90's.

They show up at grandma's house in Beverly Hills. It's fantastic. Dixon recognizes her as someone who was naked in some movie in the 70s. Hi, naked adopted grandma!

They go to school, and Annie sees some girl blowing some guy in a car.

Annie befriends the school's spoiled bitch princess, Naomi Clark, because you know every school's spoiled bitch princess is first in line to be nice to the new kids in town. It's just a given.

Anyway, the show went on for two hours, but who cares? I'm all about Naomi, she fucking rocks. In one episode, she plagiarized a paper, had a Sweet 16 blowout, and slapped a guy in one episode. She's gonna stir some shit up in Beverly Hills! (Until they soften her up and make her nice in the next season or two. Always happens.)

Other stuff:

-One of the main teen characters is a drug-addicted actress named Arianna, with problems at home and devious behavior.

-The lacrosse coach looks to be the same age as the people playing the high schoolers. He looks more like someone from an emo-lite band than a jock.

Original characters who have returned:

Kelly Taylor
Brenda Walsh (Yay!)
Nat
Erin Silver (a/k/a "Silver", Kelly Taylor's l'il sis, now 16)

Summary: Like the old 90210, but with more shameless sex and drugs.
Grade: B+
Prediction: It could do for the CW what the old 90210 did for FOX, which is a lot.