I had this friend in University that introduced me to watching teen television during our breaks. We would watch together during our breaks and one of our favorite shows was 90210. I came from a sheltered immigrant family that didn’t really let me watch a lot of television with actual people in it, so at this point I didn’t even know 90210 was a spin off of the earlier version.

Immediately when we started watching the show I knew I was going to love it. Not only did it strengthen our friendship, it also gave me insight into what the world was really like. Crazy, dark, and not at all realistic.

It might not be this cinematic masterpiece, but 90210 is one of the most fun reality forgetting television shows out there.

We’re introduced to Annie and her family, they just move to Beverly Hills. Immediately they realize and we realize that Beverly Hills is like a whole other world. It’s not at all like a typical high school experience, and they even threw the most unrealistic life of a first generation immigrant into the mix.

There’s so much drama, there’s mad romance and of course there’s intense societal issues being dealt with. We get a barrage of characters, and all of them play the part so well. Of course I can’t deny it: Naomi is my favorite.
Some are completely unlikeable, but most of them are flawed, and all of them are just trying to figure out life.

Miss Naomi Clark was the It girl. She was a bitch, she was spoiled and she was ignorant. I think that’s the only flaw I can find in her, her ignorance. Eventually when she gets informed on certain things she ramifies her wrongs. I love her, she’s so flawed and oh so lost. You would think after the first season she would continue on her mean girl rampage, but once she realizes how badly she messed up she spends her time and energy figuring out her best self. Not to mention her outfits and hair – chefs kiss!
In my mind her and Max are happily married on some private island they own.

90210 is one of those 2000 shows that I wish still existed. It was drama for the sake of drama, there was no realism behind it, but there was hints of moral ambiguity that got us questions our own lives.
I live for television like this, it takes you completely out of your own brain and puts you smack down in the middle of this alternate world. It’s like a brain refresher.

That friend from years ago? Yeah we lost touch, but I still like to think that you can bond over television with so many people, it’s not just a source of entertainment.