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Beverly Hills, 90210 - The Complete Second Season

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As a huge fan of Beverly Hills, 90210, I have been waiting for season 2 since the day after season 1 was released. Overall this is a good season, although not as good as season 1 or season 3. The show tried to remain true to its roots by tackling tough issues, and although this act is pulled off well, it leaves the viewer feeling like every typical high school cliché is touched upon.

The biggest disappointments for me in this season were in the following areas:
- At times the transfer to DVD appears incredibly grainy and in poor quality.
- On the DVD cases for discs 6 and 7, the episode overviews are not consistent with the actual plots for each episode. I have written them correctly in the list below.
- The soundtrack: This issue makes the show a lot worse off. Music by Seal, R.E.M., Monie Love, Garth Brooks, Chris Isaak, Roxette, Robert Palmer, Janis Joplin, The Bangles, Color Me Badd, The Pretenders, and many other artists has all been replaced by forgetfully bland generic studio tracks. I realize that it's not always possible for all of the original music rights to be obtained for a series, but the omission of every noteworthy song affects the overall quality and experience of the show. The two episodes where this is most evident is in 'Chuckie's Back', when Steve pulls away from the gang on a bus, the song '2000 Miles' from The Pretenders is played, resulting in a heart-tugging ending. The episode of 'The Next Fifty Years' starts out with 'Friends In Low Places' by Garth Brooks and hypes up to 'Work It Out' by Monie Love as the gang teaches Scott how to dance. Those songs all appeared on the original series but were replaced on the DVD version with no-name songs that will surely leave hardcore fans frustrated.


To anyone who thinks that music isn't such a big deal, think of Tarantino movies like Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill - without their incredible soundtracks they wouldn't have been nearly as good or memorable. Had the original music for the show remained intact, I'd rate this season a solid 4.5 stars. Instead, I give it a 3.5 out of 5.


The episodes are as follows:

DISC 1:
1) Beach Blanket Brandon: Brenda has a pregnancy scare which causes her to re-think her serious relationship with Dylan. Brandon leaves the Peach Pit and gets a job at the Beverly Hills Beach Club.
2) The Party Fish: Brandon's job at the Beach Club leads him to becoming friends with a sports promoter, who wants to make Brandon his gopher boy. Brandon cuts off the relationship when the friendship becomes to complicated.
3) Summer Storm: Dylan is injured while surfing and the Walshes invite him to stay at their home while he recovers from the accident. Jim catches Brenda and Dylan making out and wants him to leave. Kelly falls for a new guy, but is confused by his mixed signals.
4) Anaconda: Dylan and Brandon argue after a late night poker game at the Beach Club ends with a break-in. Dylan is the prime suspect, as it turns out he's been pawning family items to keep afloat.

DISC 2:
5) Play It Again, David: Kelly has a hissy fit when her mother starts dating David's dad. Brandon begins mentoring a boy and learns that there may be more to him than meets the eye.
6) Pass, Not Pass: Andrea and Brenda both have a crush on their drama teacher. Brandon buys his dream car, only to find out he bought a lemon.
7) Camping Trip: The kids take off on a trip to Yosemite and end up with cabin fever as they are stuck inside during a torrential downpour. The honeymooning couple in the cabin next door are already fighting. Dylan saves Brandon's life as Brandon almost falls off a cliff.
8) Wildfire: New student Emily Valentine has the girls in an uproar and the boys in a frenzy.

DISC 3:
9) Ashes to Ashes: An African American family moves in down the street from the Walshes, resulting in a racially motivated attack.
10) Necessity Is a Mother: Dylan's bohemian mother Iris comes back from Hawaii and moves in with him. Dylan resents her parenting, after an 11 year absence from his life.
11) Leading From the Heart: Brandon and Brenda's wheelchair-bound cousin comes to visit. Kelly is interested in him, but Brenda worries that Kelly will end up hurting him. Brandon feels guilty and apologizes to his cousin about the accident that crippled him.
12) Down and Out of District in Beverly Hills: Andrea faces an investigation by the school district due to her living situation. Steve's new girlfriend only likes him for his money and connections.

DISC 4:
13) Halloween: The kids attend a holiday party, and Kelly's skimpy outfit sends the wrong signal to a college boy who tries to rape her. David and Scott spend the night waiting for an egg fight that never occurs. Brandon stays home to hand out candy and meets up with Emily Valentine.
14) The Next 50 Years: David struggles with the growing gap between himself and Scott. Scott's mom throws him a surprise Birthday party and David feels pressured to find "friends" to attend the party. Scott plays with one of his father's guns and accidentally shoots himself at the party. Scott's death causes a wave of interest across the school, and the students' interest in him causes David to angrily confront Brandon (who is writing a story about him for the school paper). The confrontation is accidentally broadcast over the radio to the entire school.
15) U4EA: Emily Valentine invites the gang to an underground club. Andrea and Steve spend the entire evening trying to find them. Donna enjoys the evening with David. While at the club, Emily slips a little something into Brandon's drink. Brandon feels he can no longer trust Emily, and breaks things off with her.
16) My Desperate Valentine: The recently dumped Emily refuses to accept that things are over between her and Brandon. The episode culminates in an emotional breakdown when Emily tries to set fire to the homecoming float that the kids made.

DISC 5:
17) Chuckie's Back: Steve's childhood nemesis, Chuck Wilson starts attending West Beverly High, and immediately starts pushing his buttons (just like old times). Chuck taunts Steve about the fact that he is adopted. Donna admits her true feelings for David and kisses him on the dance floor in front of the entire school. Steve leaves on a bus to New Mexico to find his birth parents.
18) A Walsh Family Christmas: The Walsh house will be empty this year, with Brandon and Brenda and all their friends making alternate plans. Steve searches for his birthmom in Albuquerque. Despite their original plans to the contrary, everyone ends up at the Walsh home for Christmas.
19) Fire and Ice: Brandon meets an up and coming figure skater but is rebuffed by her coach.

DISC 6:
20) A Competitive Edge: Brandon joins the track team and receives negative attention from his teammates for some of the articles he wrote as Sports Editor. Meanwhile, Steve is asked to join "The Program", which causes him to suffer from moodswings. Brenda is involved in a minor fender-bender which turns into a big fiasco when the other driver suddenly claims to have major injuries.
21) Everybody's Talkin' `Bout It: Opposing sides argue over a campaign to raise awareness about AIDS and STDs. The episode ends with Kelly's mom telling her that she is pregnant.
22) Baby Makes Five: Kelly tells her friends that Jackie is pregnant. Mel asks Jackie to marry him. Nat, Brandon, Steve, and Andrea spend some time at the racetrack.

DISC 7:
23) Cardio Funk: Brenda and Dylan's relationship is strained due to his friendship with someone from AA. The new karaoke machine at the Peach Pit brings out the whole gang for some off-key fun.
24) The Pit and The Pendulum: Brandon learns that Jim's latest work endeavor would mean the demolition of the Peach Pit.
25) Meeting Mr. Pony: In anticipation of finals, the kids pull a late night of studying at the Peach Pit, and when Brandon and Dylan go out back, a man enters the restaurant and demands the cash from the register while pointing a gun at Brenda. Brenda must cope with the emotional aftermath of the incident and pretends that she is okay while inside she's filled with fear and panic.

DISC 8:
26) Things To Do On A Rainy Day: The kids hang out at the Bel Age Hotel, hoping to meet Color Me Badd. While at the hotel, Donna witnesses her mother in a compromising situation.
27) Mexican Standoff: Brenda lies to her parents and spends the weekend with Dylan in Mexico, only to get stuck on the other side of the border. Meanwhile, back in LA, Kelly starts up with newcomer Jake Hanson, who was hired to build a canopy for Kelly's mother's wedding ceremony.
28) Wedding Bell Blues: The season wraps up with multiple simultaneous dramas: Brenda's father goes to collect her from the Mexican border, meanwhile Dylan is banned from seeing Brenda. Due to plumbing problems, Jackie's wedding venue is quickly changed to the Walsh home, and Jake shows up at the wedding and tells Kelly how he feels about her.
SPECIAL FEATURES: Meet The Walshes, Our Favorite Valentine, Everything You Need to Know About Beverly Hills, 90210.

I watched 90210 as a teenager,and couldn't wait for it to come out on dvd.Season 2 was SUCH a disappointment! The quality is poor- very grainy in some parts.But what upset me the most was that they edited the episodes and took some dialouge out.For example-in the episode where we meet Emily Valentine,they cut out the song she sang to Brenda on the school lawn,and when they were at Brenda's house-they cut out the part when the girls were writing the lyrics to "addicted to clothes" to perform at hello day.Also-and this has to be the worst part about season 2-they changed the music!And replaced it with songs that don't go with the scene it's played with.Again-in the episode with Emily,when Brenda and Dylan get back together at the end,the original song that was playing in the car was Chris Issack's "wicked game"...watch the episode in season 2 on dvd,and it's something different! Or,in "beach blanket brandon",when Brenda breaks up with Dylan,originally R.E.M.'s "losing my religion" was playing...on dvd-it's some no-name song.Part of what made 90210 great was the music played-it really made some scenes memorable(thank god they didn't change the slow song every one danced to in "spring dance"!)I just think that if we're going to buy the episodes they filmed,then we should be entitled to the WHOLE episode-no deleted scenes,and more importantly,no deleted music.

This was one of the classic seasons of the show. I would have rated it 5 stars except that the original music was replaced...again. The acting was better and so many issues were addressed: breaking up with a first love, teen pregnancy, rape, death of a best friend, party drugs (U4EA, steroids, and others.

I highly recommend this season!

For true fans of "Beverly Hills, 90210" - especially the Second Season which was one of the best - not hearing the original music is bad enough... what's so much worse is the horrible, amateur, "home-made" music they replaced the original music with! Truly, it makes some of the scenes unwatchable. For example, when David gets them all to dance at Scott's birthday party -- the song they chose to replace the original doesn't even have the same beat so the characters are all dancing off-beat. At other times, the fake music is so awful it's distracting. I know it doesn't seem like the music should make such a difference but it does. You'd be far, far better off taping the show off Soapnet - it's on every day and on weekends, too.

The second season of "Beverly Hills, 90210" is even better than the first. This season deals with a variety of issues, including child abuse, post traumatic stress disorder, steroid use among student athletes, sexual orientation, and more. It also features some of my favorite Brenda Walsh episodes. The season kicks off with Brenda announcing that she may be carrying Dylan's child. There's also major Brenda/Dylan drama, as they break up and make up more times than I can count. Another great episode is the one where Brenda is alone at the Peach Pit during a robbery, and then of course there's the two-part season finale, which entails Brenda defying her parents to go to Mexico for the weekend with Dylan, and Jim Walsh ultimately forbidding the couple to see each other anymore.

In addition to all that, there's plenty of good stories involving the supporting cast as well. Steve embarks on a quest to find his biological mother, Kelly and David deal with their parents' budding romance, and Donna learns that her mother is having an affair. Oh yeah, and Brandon is just as much of a do-gooder as ever (he's TOO good, but you've got to love him!).

One sour note, much of the music from the original series has been replaced with crappier tunes for the DVD. That happens sometimes when a show is transferred to DVD, but it still sucks.

I'm looking forward to reliving Season Three of this awesome show on DVD very soon.

Believe it or not, this was the first DVD I bought lol. I know I should have bought Season 1, but I bought Season 2. I love this season soo much! Watching back brought me so much memories! You won't regret this DVD. This season makes viewers believe that this show is it in for the long run. It did 10 years!! haha. If you are a big fan of 90210 in the 90's, then this is the DVD you should buy. I'm planning to buy all seasons. The extras and the bonus on this DVD was very interesting to watch. I hear that there's more in other DVD boxes per season. I can't wait. I'm definitely saving up to buy Season 1, 3 and the rest soon.

The DVDs are awesome! I'm a big fan of 90210! Can't wait for season 3 to come out!

Beverly Hill 90210 is as much fun now as it was back when it came out! It's funny to see on this season how the microphone pops into the top view of the screen in a lot of the episodes, but it doesnt ruin the show. Quality product, can't wait for season 3!!

While I enjoyed season 1 and 2, Season 3, and 10 are by far the best seasons. When will season 3 be released????????? Does anyone know??? Season 3 is when Brenda goes to Paris and Dylon and Kelly hook up for the first time. Please hurry will season 3!!!!!

I have season 1 and was glad when season 2 was coming out. I love to watch 90210 over and over again. They should have come out with the series on DVD a long time ago. For some reason the DVD's are a bit grainy, not up to DVD quality, but I see past that and keep on watching them.