90210

90210 is the 2008 CW spin-off of the original series.

An edgy, contemporary spin-off of the iconic drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," the new 90210 looks at life through the eyes of Annie Mills (Shenae Grimes, "Degrassi: The Next Generation") and her brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds, "The Wire"), whose first day at West Beverly Hills High School leaves no doubt they're not in Kansas anymore. The Mills family, including dad Harry (casting TBD) and mom Debbie (Lori Loughlin, "Summerland"), has relocated to Beverly Hills to keep an eye on Harry's mother Tabitha (Jessica Walter, "Arrested Development"), a feisty-but-faded former television star and a charter member of the Betty Ford Clinic. For Annie and Dixon, the awkwardness of being the new kids is made worse by the fact that their dad has taken a job as the high school principal. The school is one big culture shock for Annie, a sweet and friendly girl with a passion for the theater, and Dixon, a star athlete and scholar who was adopted by the Mills family after they took him in as a foster child. Annie and Dixon have a close sibling relationship, which they'll need to help them cope with all the new cliques and classmates, including Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord, "Nip/Tuck"), a hot, spoiled, rich girl; Ethan (Dustin Milligan, "Runaway"), a popular jock whose abilities rival Dixon's; Navid (Michael Steger, "The Winner"), an aspiring reporter who heads up the school's daily newscast; and Silver (Jessica Stroup, "Prom Night"), a rebel who produces and stars in a YouTube-type video series. Even the faculty seems hip and sophisticated at WBHHS, such as smart and funny teacher Ryan Matthews (Ryan Eggold, "Dirt") and beautiful guidance counselor Kelly Taylor (guest star Jennie Garth, the original "Beverly Hills, 90210"). The Mills family has just begun to realize how much their lives are about to change.

Examples of 90210 include:

Tropes

• Actor Allusion: Maeve Quinlan as the mother of a girl who dates another girl.
  • In one episode Dixon is given a fake ID with a Spanish name on it. Tristan Wilds is Hispanic.
• Alcoholic Parent: Kelly's mom again. She got worse.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Naomi certainly does want Liam. Annie seems to either genuinely not like him, or denying/hiding the fact. Regardless, she'll fall soon with the way things are going.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Silver is half-Jewish through her father's side, which traditionally would be the wrong side to make her Jewish but she did sit shiva for her mother (though this could be a case of the writers forgetting Jackie was never Jewish in the original series.)
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Adrianna big time. Fame rapidly turns her into an airheaded Rich Bitch.
• Betty and Veronica: The show has certain examples of this -
  • Annie (Betty) and Naomi (Veronica), with Ethan (Archie).
  • Ivy (Betty) and Naomi (Veronica), with Liam (Archie).
  • Rhonda (Veronica) and Annie (Betty), with Ethan (Archie again).
  • Genderflipped with Navid (Betty) and Teddy(Veronica), with Adrianna (Archie).
  • Then Teddy (Veronica) and Dixon (Betty), with Silver (Archie).
• Alpha Bitch: Naomi isn't all bad, and unlike a lot of Libbies she does have a genuinely nicer side, but she can still be an absolute bitch much of the time (and her sister is far worse.)
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jen seemed like a nice, caring older sister to Naomi in her first appearance. Right until we learn that she slept with Ethan while he and Naomi were together (she would later go on to sleep with Liam while he was dating Naomi and blame Annie for it).
  • Annie and Dixon's cousin Emily seemed like a sweet, innocent girl who looked up to Annie at first. Then she turned all of Annie's friends against her, tried to steal Liam away from her, got Annie fired from her internship, and suspended from school... all while pulling the Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
• Book Dumb: A rare female example - Naomi is of more or less average intelligence but it's frequently mentioned that's she's a poor student.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When Navid's father blames him for revealing information that led to the police investigating him for child pornography, Navid told his father that it happened because he (the father) broke the law.
• Chekhov's Gunman: After Oscar completes his revenge on Laurel, he stays around to help Naomi against Mr. Cannon.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Many characters, most notably Kelly Taylor and her son, Oscar and Mark Driscott.
  • Also Ty
• Coming Out Story: Teddy gets one, spaced over several episodes.
• Competence Zone: As of season four Navid and Silver play surrogate parents to Navid's sister Leila - who is all of a year younger than them but who acts and is treated like a 14 year old.
• Complete Monster: Mr. Cannon, He raped Naomi, Tried to rape Silver, took them both hostage and presumably DID THIS TO OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL!
• The Danza: Ryan Matthews is played by Ryan Eggold
• Date Rape Averted - Mark on Annie; Jasper ends up saving her.
• Dating Do-Si-Do
• Dawson Casting: Teddy Montgomery is 17 or 18. His actor, Trevor Donovan, is 31.
• Deadpan Snarker: Silver.
• Disappeared Dad: The show loves this trope to the point of Unfortunate Implications - Ivy, Naomi (and thus also Jen), Liam, Adrianna, Silver, Sammy (Kelly's son) and most recently Navid, Annie and Dixon all have absent fathers. In fact none of the teenage cast have fathers much involved in their lives by late Season 3.
  • In Season 4, Navid has a Disappeared Mom as well.
• Dude, Not Funny: Adrianna says her mom is desperate to be Dina Lohan while high. Dina Lohan is probably the last person any mom wants to compared to.
• Estranged Soap Family: Big time, even excluding those relatives who departed on bad terms. Notable examples include Naomi's mother Tracy who has not appeared since 2009 despite her daughter being raped, scammed out of her money by a cult, expelled from high school and nearly getting married.
• Executive Meddling: Season two drops Ethan and focuses a lot more on the new characters rather than the old cast. That's cleverly done for Kelly's mother's funeral as it's not shown and Silver comments that a lot of people that knew her but she didn't know attended.
• Expy: At least initially the Wilsons where clearly intended to invoke the Walshes from the original series (Annie especially was very obviously the new Brenda) though it's lessened with time.
• Fake Nationality: Michael Steger is a mix of several nationalities but Iranian(or anything Arabic) is not one of them.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: Annie is the sweet naive girl, Silver is the Deadpan Snarker, Adrianna is the one obsessed with glamor and fame, and Naomi serves as the cool big sister figure for the group.
• Girl Next Door: Annie.
• Granola Girl: Silver and Ivy both have aspects.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Donna. The Japanese people within the show appear to understand her; native Japanese speakers watching, not so much.
• Happily Adopted: Dixon (mostly).
• Hot Mom: Debbie. For that matter, we can add Kelly Taylor on this too.
• Hot Teacher: Matthews. Arguably Harry too.
• Huge Schoolgirl: Silver - Jessica Stroup is 5'8, which isn't so noticeable next to the only slightly shorter (and usually high heel clad) AnnaLynne McCord. But when standing next to the petite and waifish Shenae Grimes can look unintentionally hilarious.
• Jerk Jock: Mark Driscoll.
• Karma Houdini: Arguably Annie, whose punishment for a fatal hit and run (which she covered up for a whole year) is a couple of months of (offscreen) house arrest.
• The Ladette: Ivy.
• Last-Name Basis: Erin Silver prefers to go by 'Silver'.
• Like Brother and Sister: Almost the exact phrase Adrianna uses to describe her devolping friendship with Liam in Season 4.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Naomi evolves into this after her Character Development in season 3.
• Love Dodecahedron
• Love Makes You Evil: Jasper has been a good example of this.
• Love Triangle: Annie/Ethan/Naomi (first season), Naomi/Liam/Ivy (second season).
  • Also Annie/Ethan/Rhonda (so-so), Ethan/Silver/Dixon, Teddy/Adrianna/Navid, Teddy/Silver/Dixon, Adrianna/Navid/Lyla, Debbie/Harry/Kelly, etc.
• Mama Bear: Debbie can embrace this from time to time, especially when it came to Dixon and Sasha.
• Manipulative Bitch: Jen.
• My Secret Pregnancy: Jen kept the fact hat she was pregnant from Ryan. And when he did find out, she still didn't want him in the baby's life.
• Nice Guy: Dixon
• No Going Steady: With Annie probably being the worst offender.
  • Although Naomi looks like she might be a close second.
• Odd Friendship: Naomi and Silver. Later Naomi and Ivy.
• Operation: Jealousy: Ivy and Dixon form a fake relationship to show others (mostly Naomi) that they're over Liam and Silver respectively (in reality Ivy is still pining for Liam and oblivious to Dixon's growing feelings for her.)
• Out of Focus: Navid was nominally a main character from the first episode on but he had very little to do early in Season 1 before eventually being linked with Adrianna (who oddly was not an official main character at first but had a lot of early focus). In Season 2 and 3 Matthews is frequently out of focus.
• Preppy Name: Teddy Montgomery
• Promotion to Opening Titles: Adrianna, Liam, and most recently, Ivy and Teddy.
• Put on a Bus: Ethan. Which was totally random, though he was being replaced by Liam and no one really missed him.
  • Harry as of Season 3.
• Rich Bitch: Jen. Adrianna develops into one during Season 3 after her new found fame goes to her head.
• The Runaway: Dixon, escaping behind his parents backs despite that Debbie grounded him, and going to Australia with Ivy.
• Ship Tease: Season 4 has teased Adrianna with both Dixon and Liam.
• Smug Snake: Jen.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Focus of the show shifted from the Wilson family to Naomi somewhere between seasons 2 and 3.
• Stalker with a Crush: Jasper. Surprising?
• Straight Gay: Teddy, also Marco
• Suddenly Sexuality: Adrianna. And Teddy in Season 3.
  • Gia herself. It was true that there was little development up to the point where we find out but apparently all of the characters seemed to know.
• Surfer Dudette: Ivy.
• Taking the Heat: Austin took the blame for arson to protect Annie. Neither of them actually did it but the fire was started by Annie's friend Bree who was destroying evidence both she and Annie had been prostitutes; had Annie fingered Bree she would also have to reveal her own brush with prostitution and would have faced being kicked out of college at a minimum. Austin decided that Annie had more to live for so 'confessed' to get her off the hook.
• Teens Are Short: Both averted and played straight - the teenage characters have a decent range of heights and the tallest male and female characters (Teddy and Silver) are teens but Ivy, Annie, Adrianna and more recently Holly are all much shorter than their parents.
• Teen Pregnancy: Adrianna
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Ivy and Naomi, initially as rivals and later as an Odd Friendship.
• Took a Level In Jerkass: Adrianna in season 3. She even went as far as swapping out Silver's medication for Bipolar Disorder with placebos.
• Troubled but Cute: Liam.
• Two-Teacher School: Sure there are a decent number of teachers but apparently Ryan Matthews teaches Sophomore, Junior, and Senior English.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Liam the most but Dixon is also shirtless quite often,
• Wham! Episode: 'Confessions'.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Done with Annie's cousin Emily. Emily tells Annie's friends that she said a bunch of mean things about them (which wasn't true). When Annie calls her on this, Emily pretends to cry in front Annie's friends (who of course, side with Emily). Emily also trashes her own dressing room at the internship Annie works at and makes it look like Annie did it. The result? Emily is believed to be the victim and Annie is fired.