“Lucky Strike”
September 9th, 2008
The only noteworthy thing about 90210’s third official episode is that there is nothing worth noting.
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Okay, so I’m not going to end the blog post there, that seems like it would be a poor strategy. There’s actually a lot of little things that the show is doing right, but for the most part it is struggling to define itself as anything even close to memorable. The show just isn’t going out on any limbs here: while there is something very breezy and attractive about this universe, when the “big events” do take place they feel like plot devices and little else. The setup here is so transparent, so lifeless that it is the very definition of rote, and the only thing bringing any life to the equation is cameos and callbacks to the original series that I am purely ignorant to.
So while I actually think the cast is stepping up to the plate here, I can’t say that the producers are giving them enough to do.
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