I think I've got about five or six weeks until I have to figure this out, but I'm the kind of person who likes to have the big questions settled ahead of time. And this IS a big question. If my older two are anything to go by, New Baby will protest loudly when I try to read while nursing (I'm sorry, I know there are some women out there who are happy to gaze at their baby during the hours of nursing, but I'm not one of them. After the first few days, I'm pretty ready for distraction). That means that my hours of TV watching will be increasing this fall - as if they weren't extensive enough already.
Anyway, I'm going to have some new shows to my repertoire. My question is, should one of those shows be the new version of 90210?
The CW is resurrecting the old show, and promises that Kelly and BRENDA (also Nat, but I never really cared about Nat) will be on the show. I mean, Kelly and Brenda!
Before you make too much fun, please realize that when the show originally aired I was in college. And back then, we didn't have cable in our dorms. No one in the liberal arts had even heard of the internet. Most people didn't have VCRs or Nintendos in their rooms. We had seven TV channels for entertainment. And for whatever reason, 90210 was considered great entertainment.
EVERYONE was watching it. I started watching it in the company of all the upperclassmen in my dorm. Several of whom were BU hockey players - gorgeous future Olympians who loved to make fun of Dylan. A year or so later I dated a guy from an Ivy League school - and their campus didn't have a Fox affiliate. His frat got together every few weeks to watch the taped episodes of 90210 that someone's mom sent. That's how popular the show was.
Those of you who remember the later years, well, ick. I know things got bad. I stopped watching sometime when all the characters were in college. But those first few years were so compelling. So, do you all think I should set up the DVR for the new version or not?
I know it probably won't seem (or be) as good. I know that Hot Guy will make fun of me mercilessly. But I'll feel a lot better if I know I'm not the only mom in her late (grrr) thirties watching it. So, are any of you going to do it?
