Remember watching the original and seeing Brenda and Dylan kissing passionately? OH that was soooo risque! I was an early teen and I remember thinking – Woo hoo! Check out that action! Nowadays, you can get that level of passion on a TV commercial. Forget about Prime time!
Jennie Garth says the new 90210 spin off is far racier than the original.In fact, she feels it might be too much for pre-teens to even consider watching.
"My kids are by no means ready to watch this 90210."
And co-star Lori Laughlin admits she’s often left red faced by her racy scenes with onscreen husband Rob Estes.
"I blush all day long.
Meanwhile, Estes adds,
"(We’re not) a mom and dad who are home eating bon bons. It’s a couple who’s f**king! "We’ll clear the kitchen so fast (to have sex), you don’t know what to do with yourself."
WOAH! Tis the way of today’s programming isn’t it? Kind of sad really. Makes kids grow up faster than they should because they are exposed to much more than is necessary at an earlier age.What do you think about where we are heading in the film and television industry? Is there any turning back? Is there even a need to?
so she doesn’t want her kids to watch her show but expect everybody elses kids to watch it…..nice.
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Jennie but still…she looks DIFFERENT. I’m glad that it’s a bit racier. The characters are older it should be a bit more adult -orientated. Can’t wait!
It’s a new cast of high schoolers, the old cast it there as a ‘cameo’.
Whoever did her makeup in this picture should be fired…pronto!
My 17 yr old loves the old 90210; I’m hoping that she’s going to be too busy going to school and working to catch this one to be honest. I always enforced to her while she was growing up that she DIDN’T NEED a significant other to be valued and/or be sexually active to be valued. I was amazed at how influential highschool/music/tv/movies/cell phones have been on her.
There are 7 years between her and her older sister and I definitely noticed a change in the attitudes of teenagers during that 7 yr gap.
Raising girls surely opens your eyes to societal pressures and influences.
I think media has gone to far and is responsible for shaping a self-indulgent, narcisistic, pleasure and fun-oriented society. Sure, parents have the ultimate responsibility to shape their children’s character, but how does a parent stick his or her finger in the dam to hold back the flood of images levelled at our children every day? I’m not a mom and shudder at the thought of fighting all that garbage.
Girls is my small hometown are looking at Gossip Girls and thinking that all those very high-end brands are somehow appropriate/necessary. I moved to a big city, became a lawyer, got a high-paying job and while I can afford it, it may still never be appropriate for me to own a Prada purse. Hello? Charity? Saving for retirement? But the navel-gazers in entertainment think that it’s a perfectly acceptable image to project.
Sad.
Well other people’s children are not HER responsibility.
I was sooo into the Old 90210. I was 15 so..old enough to watch. I was realistically the same age as them on the show. Parents should monitor what their children watch. Nowadays everything is easily accessible. With phones, computers etc…Info is out there. It’s up to the parents to gain the control! I dropped cable a yr. ago. It was to save money initially, but you know what? I don’t miss it at all. I buy the shows that I enjoy on dvd. My future children will not watch t.v until their prob. at least 5, and I will know what their watching!!
Good luck with that!!
Just got back from India and believe me, in the major cities they have all the shows that we have here. However, you’ll never find girls behaving that way, they have boyfriends and some sleep around but forget not feeling worth anything unless you have a boyfriend, never. So that leads me to ask, how are the mothers of these ‘teenagers’ behaving??? Perhaps they’re too preoccupied with looking hot beyond their years and making time for what they want to do instead of parenting.
Finally, a relative of mine in India is decidedly hot and skinny but now that her daughter is growing up she’s opting for clothes that are more her age even though she can pull off anything. Mothers have to sacrifice a lot to raise good girls, then nothing, not even TV shows can get in the way.
whoa, I would never ever have recognized Jenny Garth. She looks totally different, doesn’t she?? And about the new 90210 – I’m definitely not watching it. I watched the old one, and it was good. The new one seems to be trying too hard, trying to make teens look overly sexy and all that. Why do the characters in the show have to be dressed like that? (what I’ve seen on this site so far) Definitely a too grown up look on teenagers. nah, not interested.
I used to watch the old 90210 and loved it so I decided I would watch the new one just to give it a chance. My jaw dropped when I saw the first 10 minutes of the show. When they showed Ethan in the truck with that girl and EVERYONE knew what was happening, it was shocking. Teenagers are watching this! I know they are exposed to this at school but come on. I think they went way too far. I will not be watching this show!
Whoahh! Didn’t you just love Oct 4th’s show. High school aged kids drinking and getting freaky. Who would have thunk!? Definitely going too far.
2 + 6 = ?
I think it is very, very sad. I could go on and on, but I will leave it at that.
Yeah, well I guess it depends which audience they are catering to.
Honestly, I think it is dispicable!!! Pre-teens and teens will want to watch this. “Hollywood “, is contributing to the moral decline in our country. Magazines, music you name it. I keep hoping the trend will reverse itself but I have been hoping after the last 10 years and it continues to get worse. What ever happened to wholesome family shows? It is a sad state we are in. Kids have enough pressure and I guess the pressure cooker is only going to get worse.Do you think the upcoming gernerations who will one day be taking care of us when we are old will even care or respect the older populations after they have been brainwashed to do whatever feels good?
I don’t know what time slot this show is going to be in but I hope it is late.
“What ever happened to wholesome family shows?” i’ve been on a family ties kick and have been asking myself the same question. in the 80s there were so many shows that reenforced values – each episode would center around a character learning a lil lesson, growing a lil stronger! (family ties, growing pains, *punky brewster* – my fav. punky brewster lesson, btw, was when punky was lost in the caves and there was a crazy scary monster and the only way she could get the monster to go away was to tell it she loved it over and over again “i love you i love you i love you i love you” and then it melted into a puddle… SO GOOD). you just can’t find shows like that anymore. not that 90210 was ever intended to be such a show – who doesn’t remember brenda and dylan mildly dry humping whilst making out? rawr!
Dear anonymous your rant and everyone’s on here leaves me baffled. When did America become so puritanical? In our country it’s okay for people to blow each other up, destroy each other, gut each other, and kill each other but if there is sex involved it taboo? Last time I checked guns kill people and nipples don’t hurt anyone.
Bring back Cosby, Family Ties, Eight is Enough and Saved By the Bell!!!
Don’t forget Full House!
Most broadcasters are socially irresponsible. If it sells, they will air it, and sex sells. I worked in commercial television for several years and will never go back. It is all about money, egos and more money. Now I work in public broadcasting where the quality of programming is the main priority, not making money (which is SO not important because public television is a non-profit). Network and cable television is not ALL bad, but the majority of it is.
What shows like this and Gossip Girl perpetuate is that a woman, no matter how confident, strong or beautiful can be nothing unless she is hooked up with a man. It doesn’t matter what job she has, or how great a life, it’s all about some skeezy man who ends up dumping her for the next available piece–which is usually her best friend.
I know its sad! Girls nowadays have so much pressure to be sexy (at an early age) and feel better about themselves if men are lusting after them which makes them make poor choices sometimes. Seems there is no innocence left about being a teen. I grew up with the original 90210, and it was wonderful and intriguing the way it was. Making the parents very sexual is not necessary..why? who wants to know about their parents sex life..Networks are trying too hard and everything is about sex..too much too fast. I miss those simple good shows, CosbyShow, Growing Pains etc..Kids should just be kids..Growing up is hard enough, you dont need to give a 14 year old a sex life. Its just irresponsible..
I agree with all the above posts. I remember when my daughter was a teenager (early nighties), she came home from school one day when I was watching My Three Sons. She said, “Mom, can we please turn the channel…nothing ever happens on this show!” My, how times have changed!
I have to agree, it’s all about the money. If it sells they don’t care who buys it as long as it’s making income.
We just have to do our best to guide our kids and just pray we did a good job.