Nov 19 2008
90210 Episode 1-11
TV.com: That Which We Destroy - Brenda and Kelly’s friendship takes a turn for the worse. Meanwhile, Sean moves in with the Wilson family, Naomi hangs with a new crowd, and Silver becomes jealous when a cheerleader pays a little too much attention to Dixon.
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Recap & Review: Now we all know 90210 won’t win any awards. It isn’t television that makes you think too hard. It’s a simple fun soap opera type show where we are allowed into the lives of a few individuals each and every week. We see adults and teens deal with real life issues. Some are more dramatic than others. I’m sure not everyone has a son they didn’t know about that shows up at their daughter’s sweet sixteen birthday party. That is what happened last week, and now we are dealing with that aftermath along with Naomi and Annie calming down from their fight.
The party quickly comes to a close, and we meet Sean Cavanaugh, who turns out to be Harry and Tracy’s son. He is in the military, and he will be shipped out in a few week’s time. Tracy shows up, and we have one big happy family. Harry has to deal with his feelings knowing that he has a twenty-year old son he has never meant. His concern is on everyone else, but he is the one that needs to think of himself.
At school the next day, Harry tries to find time to talk to Sean by asking him to help out with the school lacrosse team. These two continue to get closer, and Grandma Wilson even gives Debbie some advice on how to deal with the situation. The family goes out to dinner, and when Tracy continues to put Harry down, Debbie speaks up and offers Sean a place to stay with them. An offer he accepts. He even comes to the first lacrosse came of the year, which Dixon isn’t too thrilled about. Dixon is bothered by Harry’s new son, and how much attention Harry is putting on him. He feels ignored. Something is odd here with Sean though.
Kelly also tries to help in her own way as she pulls Annie and Naomi in for a conference to help them deal with the changes in their family, but all they can talk about is their issue with Ethan. At every turn during the day, these two are making it a point to fight each other. They throw digs back and forth, and it is even surprising that Annie is throwing more Naomi’s way. This is something Ethan even notices. Once Annie is made aware of it, she decides to change her own behavior. She becomes school mascot.
With Naomi on the outs with everyone after the party, she now has to find a new group to associate with. She ends up trying to join the blended’s, an older group who start to use her. She also tries to get closer to Ozzie by asking him a favor. He almost backs out on the favor though, which only causes her temper to let loose, and he does it anyway. Her payment for the favor is simple. He wants a kiss. She thinks its him he wants her to kiss, but he wants her to kiss the school mascot. Naomi has no idea Annie the school mascot though.
As for Kelly and Brenda, there is something going on there as well. Brenda has stopped returning Kelly’s calls, so she goes one of Brenda’s performance. She is taking some of her own advice here. The next day, these two meet for lunch, and Brenda says she has just been busy. She does this right before she tells Kelly that they have nothing in common anymore. She thinks they should end their friendship. Kelly then tells her to go. However, at the school game, she gets a call about Brenda being in the hospital. She blacked out on stage, and Kelly is her emergency contact. The two talk, and we find out the real reason Brenda ended their friendship. Brenda slept with Ryan. This is where we see Kelly walk out.
And this is where we see 90210 come to an end. Until after the holidays anyway. We are going to be left hanging until then. There were two scenes in this episode that stood out to me this week. One was Kelly’s conference with the girls where she compared friendship with girls to a plant. It had me laughing out loud. The other was the scene with the grandmother and Debbie. I really enjoy when these two are together in a scene, especially when it is just the two of them alone. I will miss 90210, but the holidays have always been the time of year television takes a break. What did you think of this week’s 90210? For daily television alerts, check here .
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