Brenda 90210
The other 70% is full of foolery, such as a young David Arquette whose character isn’t only an abusive scumbag but is also the the lead singer of a band called Waste Management good-boy Brandon’s sudden descent into gambling addiction Steve’s breaking into the school computer system to change his grades and-in an unfortunately experimental episode that’s a nod to It’s a Wonderful Life-two guardian angels watch over the cast and protect them from a bus crash that threatens to kill them all. They chant “Donna Martin graduates, Donna Martin graduates,” until the school board gives in.
From the moment she and her family move to Beverly Hills, she makes a huge impact, and her life is changed forever.
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90210 might be famous because Shannen Doherty left the series pretty early on, but her character deserves a lot of attention, too. Their digestive systems obviously didn’t tolerate any food that wasn’t prepared by Nat at the Peach Pit.ġ0% divine: Dylan and Kelly starting their juicy affair while Brenda’s away, thereby setting up one of the most infamous love triangles in pop culture.ġ0% divine: The “Donna Martin Graduates” arc: The students at West Beverly stage a walkout during finals after Donna gets hammered at prom despite the school board’s barring any student found drunk from graduating. Another iconic character we can add to that list is Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. Less good: when the girls mistakenly order “brains” at a French restaurant and basically barf on their plates. The breakdown:ġ0% divine: Brenda and Donna’s summer in Paris during which Brenda absurdly masquerades as a French native to impress hunky American Rick (Dean Cain, looking real good). Season three is the last before the gang heads off to college, and it’s an odd one because 70% is nonsense (Brandon's gambling problem, ahem), but the other 30% is heaven-sent. It’s no surprise that most television show dramas can typically be filled with backstage drama as well, especially with the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210.A lot of this behind-the-scenes drama eventually resulted in someone getting the boot, that someone being Shannen Doherty who played the role of Brenda. Courtesy Everett Collection Season 3 (July 1992–May 1993) The gang graduates, including drunk Donna. I guess her real reward (or punishment) was that, after 206 episodes, her real father, 90210 creator Aaron Spelling, finally allows the character to lose her virginity to David in a blaze of candles and white lingerie.
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Her payment? Realizing her season-five attempted rapist is out on bail, then getting held hostage at the TV station by a new stalker. Kelly displays some alarming AIDS panic as a volunteer at a health clinic Brandon starts dating Tracy, an anchor at the campus TV station who has nothing to do but be a jealous nag and an hour is spent watching Donna trying to rescue a deer during a wildfire in the Hollywood Hills. The interior lives of the characters are replaced with outlandish scenarios, including Valerie Malone’s affair with married Kenny and a heinous arc during which she lies about being pregnant and tries to extort $100,000 for a fake abortion. The gang starts their last year at California University, but a switch must have shorted somewhere because this shit goes off the rails.