I've Got A Secret...

I have a secret that is embarassing to admit to even my closet friends, family and anyone who would ever date me. It's a part of my past that I assumed was buried and gone... I must accept that there is a issue that I must resolve. I know what you are thinking my friend and you are wrong. I am not talking about drugs, sex or even food. So here goes my confession to the world and may the healing begin. I love the tv show 90210 with all my heart and soul.

Despite being cancelled 10 years ago, I feel a need to watch the reruns that air in syndication on Soap Net. I get so excited to see the gang from Beverly Hills that every afternoon I am right with them at the Peach Pit. One of my favorite seasons featured the cast at a beach club for the summer. Brandon dates a racist girl, Kelly and Dylan begin to fool around while Brenda is absent in Paris, Steve wins the volleyball tournament and David works on his keyboard skills.

The season where cousin Valerie arrive from Buffalo is also one of the best years of the show. Right away she turns the conserative Walsh homestead upside down. Smoking pot in the house, sleeping with Dylan on the D.L., and causing dissension and mistrust amongst the tighly knit longtime friends. Valerie sabotoges Donna and Rays relationship and ruins Kelly and Colin- Kelly's bohemian artist from N.Y. She also accompanies the now-broke Dylan to Mexico and excites me with her great acting skills- looking sexy in a bikini on the beach.

Later in the show's life cycle, the gang visits hawaii and meets Noah, a penniless drifter who saves Brandons life and Kelly is shot at the airport returning to L.A. I really admire Kelly's determination to graduate college despite the turmoil that accompanies her at C.U. University. She gets shot, burned in a fire, has eating disorders and an addiction to cocaine, but she still does well in school. Brandon leaves for a job in Boston and Donna's cousin Gina arrives to shake things up for the Beverly gang. She sleeps with everybody and causes distrust between Kelly and Donna. Eventually, David and Donna reunite, Kelly and Dylan get it right, and Steve finds a wife making all of the viewers happy. The show ends and we are left to a world of re-runs. I wish Darren Star (the creator) would make a movie. I will even give him a working title: "Brandon Walsh saves the World!"