I think I've got about five or six weeks until I have to figure this out, but I'm the kind of person who likes to have the big questions settled ahead of time. And this IS a big question. If my older two are anything to go by, New Baby will protest loudly when I try to read while nursing (I'm sorry, I know there are some women out there who are happy to gaze at their baby during the hours of nursing, but I'm not one of them. After the first few days, I'm pretty ready for distraction). That means that my hours of TV watching will be increasing this fall - as if they weren't extensive enough already.
Anyway, I'm going to have some new shows to my repertoire. My question is, should one of those shows be the new version of 90210?
The CW is resurrecting the old show, and promises that Kelly and BRENDA (also Nat, but I never really cared about Nat) will be on the show. I mean, Kelly and Brenda!
Before you make too much fun, please realize that when the show originally aired I was in college. And back then, we didn't have cable in our dorms. No one in the liberal arts had even heard of the internet. Most people didn't have VCRs or Nintendos in their rooms. We had seven TV channels for entertainment. And for whatever reason, 90210 was considered great entertainment.
EVERYONE was watching it. I started watching it in the company of all the upperclassmen in my dorm. Several of whom were BU hockey players - gorgeous future Olympians who loved to make fun of Dylan. A year or so later I dated a guy from an Ivy League school - and their campus didn't have a Fox affiliate. His frat got together every few weeks to watch the taped episodes of 90210 that someone's mom sent. That's how popular the show was.
Those of you who remember the later years, well, ick. I know things got bad. I stopped watching sometime when all the characters were in college. But those first few years were so compelling. So, do you all think I should set up the DVR for the new version or not?
I know it probably won't seem (or be) as good. I know that Hot Guy will make fun of me mercilessly. But I'll feel a lot better if I know I'm not the only mom in her late (grrr) thirties watching it. So, are any of you going to do it?
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I have my doubts it will be anything but bad. I say you've be better off to get drunk on some strawberry hill and remember the days that was all you could afford than to waste time on the show.
Nope. Don't do it. It's only going to be a shell of the old show.
New Baby will be okay with the reading. Can't we hope so, anyway? : )
I never was allowed to watch 90210 but I always wanted to...
I say TiVo away. Worst case it's a great show to make fun off. Sort of like ER, 3 seasons ago. It sucked but was really fun to mock. 2 seasons ago it just became stupid. Last season was just painful. And I hear they are continuing it YET AGAIN.
So if that crap is still on television, 90210? Come on. Gotta be better.
I'm totally planning on watching it!!!!! If it's too stupid, then eventually, I'll part ways, but it's too irresistible to pass! It'll probably suck, but I can just record it and then watch it....right after I go to the New Kids on the Block concert! :) And yes, I'm really going! :)
I have to confess....I am totally looking forward to the new 90210. I think I watched every episode as cheesy as that sounds.
Now...what does BU stand for? Just wondering if you are a fellow alumni!
It will bite. Download first season of Madmen (AMC). You will LOVE it and there were 13 episodes last year and its just starting out season two. It will make you feel young :)
I am SO undecided about this one. I love me some 90210, that's for sure. But remakes? Are hardly ever as good. I'll probably try it though - just to see how it goes.
PS/Thanks to Netflix, the Postman and I watched the first 4 episodes of The Love Boat last night. Sweet!
I'll admit it was a guilty addiction when I was in college too. I will be checking out the new one, but I doubt it will be any good. I'm curious though. Worth a look-see.
No way. There is and will only ever be room for one 90210 in my heart!
I absolutely loved the old 90210...until Brenda left. But a remake? No thanks. Nothing could replace the original.
Ok, I know this post was a millennia ago, but did you start watching this show? I'll admit, I've watched it. I don't watch the Real Housewives of Anywhere, but this is about at trashy-stupid as I go (that I'll admit). I just want to know that I'm in good company. So...share. Plz.
I absolutely loved the old 90210...until Brenda left. But a remake? No thanks. Nothing could replace the original.
I have to confess....I am totally looking forward to the new 90210. I think I watched every episode as cheesy as that sounds.
Now...what does BU stand for? Just wondering if you are a fellow alumni!
I'll admit it was a guilty addiction when I was in college too. I will be checking out the new one, but I doubt it will be any good. I'm curious though. Worth a look-see.
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