'90210': Take that, Jen Clark!
Tonight on "90210," Jen Clark finally gets hers, though it's not as satisfying as I'd like.Adrianna & Navid
Ade wakes up from a drug-induced stupor to find out that Silver's mom died and Navid had a pretty bad accident. At least she throws her drugs in the trash after hearing all the messages from Naomi. She tries to come back to Navid but he's having none of it.
When Naomi rejects her too, Adrianna goes home and flushes all the drugs. C'mon, Ade. You can do it. No more drugs. She goes to a meeting and then apologizes to Navid for acting like an addict, for not just letting herself be happy. She says she wants to be friends with Navid.
Ivy, Liam & The Plan to Ruin Jen Clark
Ivy overhears about the racehorse invite and tells Liam, but she gets suspicious that he's doing this because he still has feelings for Naomi. Ivy has a tech guy restore the recording of Jen, which is so stupid. It's gone, now it's back because of some tech wizard. What is the point of this? I don't care about a story arc taking awhile, but I do resent it being drawn out via some lame contrivance.
Anyway, they let Jen overhear them talking about the recording and Jen confronts Liam about it (as Naomi gets a third present). Naomi is led to a room to meet her admirer, while Liam and Jen argue about the sex outside. Naomi overhears and tells Jen she doesn't want to see her again. Of course, as Liam, Ivy, Teddy and Dixon congratulate each other, Naomi sobs in her hands. Sigh.
Jen & Ryan
Jen invites Mr. Mathews to her horse's first race at Santa Anita and while there, Dixon tells Ryan about Liam (without naming any names) and Ryan dumps Jen. She spins the whole "you make me wanna be a better person" line, but he's having none of it. They have an exchange about how he said if she was honest, she couldn't scare him off, but that's not really the point. She WASN'T honest. He found out all this stuff independent of her. That's not honesty.
Silver & Teddy
We don't even get to see the funeral, which kinda sucks. We just hear Silver talking about it. Show, don't tell, "90210!" First rule of theatre! Teddy sends flowers in lieu of going to the funeral and Silver finds him hitting tennis balls off the roof. He says he didn't go to his mom's funeral either. Silver hugs him and they start making out. Woo woo.
Later, at the races, Dixon gives his condolences to Silver about her mom and they sort-of make up, as Teddy looks on in the background. Is he jealous?
Annie & Jasper
Jasper's psychosis is showing, as he grills Annie (and then Adrianna) about what Navid remembers from the accident. She doesn't see it, though, and lies to her mom about a Chemistry study group so she can cavort with Jasper.But her mom finds her Chem book at home.
Dixon totally covers for her later, though, and they finally patch things up. That's awesome, I love their brother and sister relationship. And then right at the end, Naomi calls Annie and apologizes. Why did THAT make me tear up a little? I want the girls to be friends, just like on the original!
Thoughts & Tidbits
- Naomi and Silver dressing up in Jackie's clothes to "Maneater" was the best thing I've ever seen.
- Even though I hate her, Jen Clark and Naomi dressed in their racing finery was pretty hot.
- I love horse names. "Daddy Loves Pumpernickel" is outstanding. If I owned a horse, I'd name it "Gonna Be Glue."
- It was nice to see Jen Clark finally get it, but I was hoping for something worse Like tar-and-feathering worse.
- Ivy: You ever notice how some girls are so girlie that they sort-of skip femininity and go straight to "tranny."
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I was pretty annoyed about the Shiva quote since Jackie isn't Jewish (Mel is but Jackie didn't convert). Seriously... why can't the writers just go forward and stop trying to reference the past? Time after time they get it wrong.
Pretty sure they were lying about the recording. It seemed to me like they were just saying that so Jen could overhear them and confront Liam.
Glad I wasn't the only one to catch that, Catherine. I thought I was hearing things. Also, what happened to Kelly's son. He seems to have disappeared this season with no explanation.
I wonder if this will really be the end of Jen Clark or if we'll be seeing her again.
I thought the same thing when I heard the shiva quote. And would've have killed them to have Silver mention her father -- did Mel not even come back for the funeral?
And could Naomi's dress for the horse race BE any shorter? I swear, I think she took a tunic and wore it as a dress.
Andrea, you seemed to have missed out that there was no tech guy. It was all a set up to trap Jen.
Maybe Silver identies as Jewish and that's why she "sat Shiva" for her mother. I'm Jewish and my father is Catholic but my sisters and I will probably sit Shiva for him when the time comes. I mean seriously...this show has way more stupid plot flaws this season to pick this one thing out...:)
I want Jen back. This show NEEDS villains B-A-D-L-Y. Look at the disaster of Season One, where everybody was goody-goody, the family went bowling, nothing ever happened, and the audience fled so fast, the producers were fired.
Thank you Leslie. The author of this article does not appear to be the sharpest knife in the drawer. It was a ploy to make Jen believe the recording had been restored, thus setting Jen up to admit she had slept with Liam and for Naomi to overhear it.
Besides Mel - David and Donna wouldn't have gone to Jackie's funeral? Really? They should have just called this show something else and completely left out all past characters.
I'm sure Jen will be back eventually, and I agree that the show does need villains, but I don't think Jen was really that good of a villain. She wasn't a character I 'love to hate' - I just hated her.
What happened to John Schneider. I thought he'd be kind of an evil dad...
And it's nit-picky I guess, but the time changes on this show drive me *crazy*. I swear there was a scene with Annie and Jasper IN SCHOOL and the very *next* scene was Silver talking to Teddy as he was hitting tennis balls and it was NIGHT.
And I wouldn't say teary, but I struck by how easily I'm fooled when Naomi was on the phone. I thought she was calling Liam and when she said Annie, I admit it was kind of emotional.
I'm glad Annie made up with Dixon too. All this is actually a good way to sort of bring her back into the group so that they can then take down Jasper together.
But then again, if Navid knows who pushed him and tells the gang first, it'll just drive Annie closer to nutjob Jasper.
If he were a little more physically menacing, I think I might love a "Fear" plot where Jasper starts stalking/tormenting Annie and her whole family. That could be fun...
Could be just me, but I don't remember the show ever explaining where Mel was last season and it's weird that he wouldn't be mentioned now. I didn't miss seeing the funeral though. It was more interesting seeing the effects on Silver and how she was back into the swing of things and trying to move on - whether she completely wanted to or not.
And I know a lot of people have issues with Teddy - mainly because the actor is so old (I'm sorry, I've taught some in high schools and sometimes I'm blown away by how old some kids look - there's always one or two boys who I'd swear were in their 20's...), but I like Teddy and I might be able to get behind him and Silver. But Teddy's just a guest star, so I wonder if he'll be staying...