90210
Episode 5: Hate 2 Love
By: Carlos Uribe
90210
is a show about wealthy kids who do business and go to college in the
zip. Or something.
Spoilers
Ahoy!
Let's
look at Annie's love history. She was involved in a relationship with
Ethan. This put her in a love triangl with Naomi. After Ethan left
the show at the end of the first season, she gets involved with what
used to this show's bad boy, Liam. They break up when Liam decided
that instead of going to college he's going to go fishing. She dated
his half-brother Charlie before cheating on him with Liam. She also
dated the nephew of the man she killed. This newphew, Jasper, turned
out to be a huge creep who tries to kill himself when she breaks up
with him. She became a prostitute when she was in an open
relationship with Patrick where he paid for sex. She proceeded to
defrock a priest. This is all to state that Annie's choices in boys
haven't been the best. She now has a new love interests in both Riley
and Colin. Riley is a jerk in a wheelchair but he seems to genuinely
care for her. The person she's actually dating is Colin and he's
largely using Annie to get to Naomi's cell phone so that he could
hack Max's company. It turns out that super nice guy is not so nice
after all. This love triangle has now become less about Annie and
more about Max. The relationship between the two was never compelling
stuff on it's own and connecting with Naomi's entire arc helps to
make it actually interesting. That the relationship couldn't stand on
it's own speaks about how much it lacked chemistry but adding this
component gave it the necessary hook for viewers.
The
question becomes if Naomi realixes that it was Colin who hacked the
company through her phone. She had been trying to take down Alec by
revealing evidence of his plots to Alec. She tried to sneak into his
office only to fail at hiding from him. This is because Alec had
hacked Naomi's phone so that he can track her through GPS. Colin is
able to figure this out and he's able to reverse hack Naomi into
Alec's e-mail. What he didn't tell Naomi is that in the process, he
also hacked into the company's secure servers. Naomi finds out from
the e-mails she reads that Alec had actually pushed Naomi into
planning Madison's wedding. Naomi decides that Alec had tried to
break up the wedding and tries her best to get Madison to tell Max
this information. Madison never gets the chance and when Naomi
decides to just tell Max herself, Max finds out that they've been
hacked. The plot is mostly the same we've been getting from the last
few weeks: Naomi plots and Alec remains a step ahead. This hacking
helps to add a fresh wrench into their plotting. How will they react
to this? Will the two continue to fight? Will this hacking finally
bring them together? This plot was starting to become repetitive but
the show managed to find a way to ensure that things will stay fresh.
Adrianna
and Dixon are heading towards splitsville. Adrianna doesn't know why
Dixon and her haven't been able to connect over the last few
episodes. Dixon has been distant and the two haven't had sex since
the accident. She voices her frustrations to Annie. Annie finds out
from Riley that Dixon's parts should work properly and any
relationship problems they are having exist from before the accident.
Adrianna isn't happy when Annie relays this news to her. This is
something that any viewer should have known. Adrianna was pretty much
over Dixon when he got hit by the car. She had slept with Taylor.
Dixon had put his career on top of their relationship and that had
seriously eroded Adrianna's feelings for him. The accident had
temporarily hidden away the problems but they're becoming more and
more evident as time passes. Dixon puts his career over Adrianna in
one of the scenes. Adrianna is starting to realize that the reason
they haven't been able to connect like before is because her feelings
for him have changed and vice versa. She sleeps with Taylor while
Dixon is performing is a clear sign that Dixon is losing the girl he
loves. It's difficult to believe that he actually loves her when he's
only interested in her when he doesn't have to do his job. The crash
might have temporarily resurrected their dead relationship but it's
still a dead one.
Liam
continues to try and impress the college professor. Why care about
her when she doesn't take him seriously? He wants to prove himself?
Nope: he wants to sleep with her. That is such a predictable place
for the show to go but Liam and the professor slept together. Since
Liam is a celebrity, someone recorded it and Navid got his hands on
the video. I actually don't think this devlepment is any good because
the plot until that point was more about Liam trying to show the
world that he's serious about buisness. That he's a person whose
capable and intelligent. That was the whole point of the previous
episode. This entire episode seems to go in that direction. He
decides to drop the business plan but hires the professor as a lawyer
to force her to read his business plan. He ensures that she goes to
the night club and actually reviews the business plan. This plot is
about him earning the respect of the professor but all he earned was
getting inside her pants. It's not like sleeping with her was a
surprise or anything since it was evident the show was pushing them
together. I was hoping I was wrong because it doesn't fit the show's
theme. This wasn't supposed to be about sex but self-worth. Now it
has become about the sex.
90210
continues it's streak of delivering episodes that aren't completely
terrible. The only plot that truly flops is the Liam and the college
professor one. Annie's relationship with Colin is made interesting
because he's a criminal whose threatening Max's company. This threat
helps to add a layer to the Naomi plot with Alec. Adrianna and Dixon
might be predictably breaking up but the journey there has been
surprisingly executed well. Hate 2 Love might be annoying me with the
2 in the title, but it's a sign that 90210 is finally learning how to
be a competent and consistently entertaining soap.
Other Notes:
Also,
Silver continues to strip and Navid is jealous when she starts being
friends with Liam because he naturally assumes that they're back
together.
Dixon
is also have some health problem he's avoiding.
At
this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Alec had hired Colin to hack
into his own company to frame Naomi.
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