90210
Episode
14: Brother from Another Mother
Mini-Review
By:
Carlos Uribe
90210
is a show about wealthy kids who do business and go to college in the
zip. Or something.
Spoilers
Ahoy!
Are
you ready for a completely random plot development? Naomi is
heartbroken over her divorce with Max but she doesn't want to fill
the void with meaningless sex. She wants to have a relationship
without the sexual component. She decides the best way to accomplish
this is to force her life into her half-brother's life. She has used
a private investigator to find him. He's a small business owner who
runs his own taco food truck. This half-brother doesn't want anything
to do with his sister(s) because he already has his own family. He
doesn't know who Naomi is nor does he really care about her. Annie is
fine with this because he doesn't want his presence to cause more
stress in Dixon's life. When Dixon does find out, he's able to react
to the situation maturely because he's grown since the last time
there was a half-brother arc. It also helps that the show doesn't
really need him to create conflict between the two. Naomi is
eventually able to get across to her half-brother as the two decide
to open a restaurant. It's a plot that has some real emotion from
Naomi as she desperately wants a family. It makes sense this is what
she would want after her marriage. She dislikes her dad and she
doesn't have a strong relationship with her mom. Her sister is out of
the question for obvious reasons. That she would reach out to the
only other relative she has makes sense. It's not a bad plot but it's
weakness is that it literally came out of nowhere. At least have a
scene to prepare us before this episode that opens up the opportunity
rather than making it look like the writers just threw a dart and it
landed on this plot. Oh, and can this show settle on the character's
careers? They keep changing them so fast that it's difficult to
really root for them to succeed when they're going to be doing
something else when the show gets bored of it. Last season Naomi was
throwing parties. This season she's now going be a co-owner of a
restaurant.
In
other news, there are some other plot developments that aren't as
random. Dixon has lost his only client which puts his music label in
jeopardy. Since Dixon has yet to find his next calling, Annie decides
to help him by throwing a battle of the bands so he can sign new
talent. He doesn't find any but he does think he's found the right
singer in Michaela. This is going to create further tension between
Silver and her surrogate as Silver tries to control every minute of
Michaela's life. When Michaela revolts, Silver realizes she needs to
stop obsessing over her baby drama so she decides to open some kind
of truck business with Adrianna. What will they be doing? No idea but
it's just going to be used to create conflict between the two.
Adrianna accepts this because she decides to put her singing career
on hold again because she's now become known for taking her tops off
at concerts. I'm not sure why she's complaining considering how
that's better than being known as stealing your dead boyfriend's songs. The music label drama is a bit dull and I was as bored with
the surrogate story as Michaela was. Adrianna's plot point makes
sense but it merely exposes the short-term memory that this show can
have. The final two plots involve Liam and Navid. Liam is now
starting to deal with his post-traumatic stress disorder by being in
denial that he has it before deciding to confront his past. It's the
only character drama this episode has got and it works well. Navid,
meanwhile, is being pressured to provide test scores in a physics
test for the Cronus society after he uses their calculus scores to
cheat. I could care less.
Brother
from Another Mother is a barely enjoyable episode that has some
strong moments rooted in character but the baby drama is kind of
flatlining and I don't care about Navid or the music label.
Other
Notes:
I
thought Michaela's singing sounded awful.
YES Michaela's singing is TERRIBLE. They could have gotten a good singer, it really annoys me.
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