Oh, what a night!!!

The new TV season started with a bang with the return of 90210 and the start of Melrose Place 2.0  These shows are not guilty pleasures; they are pure pleasure.  For instance, 90210 has ditched the adults and is focusing 100% on high school drama.  We have Adriana who was a drug addict who slept with pretty much half the school and became pregnant and gave the child up for adoption.  Now she wants to be “No Drama” Adriana and she is asking her current boyfriend to take it slow.  This leads to a great deal of pent-up frustration for the beau who is a virgin.  Meanwhile Silver who almost killed herself and then almost killed half the cast is stable now and sporting a Rihanna ‘do (not the mohawk Rihanna) got back together and then was dumped by her long-standing boyfriend because she was texting another guy who is now in Montana (hope she is on the ACME network).  Star vixen Naomi is dating an older man, at least she was until she found out he is married with three kids.  That led her to pursue the new kid, Teddie, who really is not new as he is Adriana’s “first”.  Finally we have Annie who was falsely accused by Naomi of sleeping with her boyfriend (actually Naomi’s sister slept with the boyfriend).  This false accusation led Annie to call the police and rat out the underage drinking at the party which led to all the kids at the party having to do summer school.  But that is not here or there for Annie as she thinks she may have hit and run a guy when she was drinking and driving and, of course, the guy died.  But it turns out the real perp is Teddie.

Not to be outdone, Melrose begins with a murder of one of the veterans from the old show (who looks like she has not aged a year).  This show features a bisexual publicist, a budding filmmaker, his fiancée, a chef, a poor med student, and a mysterious redhead played by Ashley Simpson Wentz.  I predict good things for this show as long as Pete Wentz never appears on it.