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'90210': Meet the New Brenda, Who Can't. Stop. Smiling!
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 2:10 AM on September 4, 2008
Perhaps you've heard, but a little show called 90210 premiered last night on the CW (to record ratings) and nobody is happier about it than lead actress Shenae Grimes, the smilingest girl who ever smiled. Though she's ostensibly playing the show's Brenda Walsh archetype, Grimes eschewed Shannen Doherty's near-goth hauteur to deliver two hours of the biggest, widest, most non-stop smiling since Denise Richards grinned her way through Starship Troopers. With the help of videographer Molly McAleer, we've assembled a montage of Grimes compulsively flashing those pearly whites; whether she's flirting with the school bad boy, bantering with a terrifyingly well-preserved Lori Loughlin, or wondering, "Gee, doesn't this high school seem like it came out of a generic Anytown, USA rather than a truly decadent Beverly Hills," Grimes simply can't stop beaming. Shenae, we're sorry — but like bad-girl blogger Silver, we're simply speaking the truth. Don't worry, we're still BFF's. Catch you at The Pit? [The CW]
Perhaps you've heard, but a little show called 90210 premiered last night on the CW (to
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Rilo-Andy
Posted 2:24 AM 4/9/08
I wonder how much peanut butter they had to use to keep her mouth moving...
Rilo-Andy
fanofshortcircuitremake
Posted 2:19 AM 4/9/08
Kelly's son was wearing crocs. This was not 90210.
fanofshortcircuitremake
mr hotpants
Posted 2:53 AM 4/9/08
She is the poor man's (aka the CW's) Miley Cyrus without the charm or ability to do anything mildly interesting. I did enjoy the high school aged Nomi Malone (Naomi) and that druggy chick has some promise to flame out in a fantastic way that will inevitably involve either a blackout before/during the big high school show and new Brenda will rise to the occasion. Yawn.
Oh, and the promise of scruffy teacher being shirtless would def make me watch again...as long as he promises to stop doing the Zach Braff mug-face-thing every 5 seconds. We get it, hipster teacher, you're hot...now shut up and take your shirt off.
mr hotpants
Old No.7
Posted 2:49 AM 4/9/08
Like the original 90210, The Hills, The O.C., and any other vapid drama about dumbfuck California teenagers, I will go through the rest of my life never watching one episode of this shit.
And be the wiser man for it.
Old No.7
el smrtmnky
Posted 2:48 AM 4/9/08
it's like an osmand family special. or shark week.
el smrtmnky
girlreporter
Posted 2:47 AM 4/9/08
At least when she was in the show Degrassi she put on her unhappy-princess face as frequently as she smiled
girlreporter
flamincheeto
Posted 2:47 AM 4/9/08
This show reminds me of a little show on Noggin called South of Nowhere.
flamincheeto
goldfarb
Posted 2:45 AM 4/9/08
"Constant smiling can be bad for your health if you're forced to do it as part of your job, for example as a flight attendant or shop assistant, a German psychologist has warned."
[www.spiegel.de]
goldfarb
Lulamaybelle
Posted 2:44 AM 4/9/08
Choppers here needs to take it down a few notches and will hopefully become more jaded as the season progresses.
Lulamaybelle
little stripes
Posted 2:43 AM 4/9/08
I watched the whole thing, because I had nothing better to do. It was PAINFUL. It was trite. It was boring. It was completely cliche.
little stripes
ForeverBlueGirl
Posted 2:38 AM 4/9/08
That was painful. The clip, I mean.
ForeverBlueGirl
kookla
Posted 2:37 AM 4/9/08
I tried to hang in there, but after 15 minutes, I was practically suicidal.
kookla
girlreporter
Posted 3:17 AM 4/9/08
@StellaBella07 . . . I'm totally with you. Darcy was more of a three-dimensional character, but this was the first episode so I have some hopes she'll fare as well here. I think she's a beautiful young woman. And I want my hair to behave as nicely as her hair.
girlreporter
nobodygrrl
Posted 3:16 AM 4/9/08
@winner: Is it wrong that I googled "Shenae Grimes anorexic" during the show?
Oh, how great it was to see Lucille Bluth again!
nobodygrrl
StellaBella07
Posted 3:13 AM 4/9/08
How can you be so mean about Darcy, especially after that whole suicide attempt in the gym showers? You know her super-Christian upbringing has caused her to have such a delicate ego!
She was very smiley, but I would be too if I got to jump from Degrassi straight to this...whether its any good or not, its a HUGE amount of publicity and her career will benefit immensely from it...
Plus, I think she's 20x cuter than Miley Cyrus.
StellaBella07
jasonelias
Posted 3:00 AM 4/9/08
Is that Tom Cruise's kid or something?
jasonelias
winner
Posted 2:58 AM 4/9/08
She was cute enough. I remember how I considered developing an eating order while watching Tori Spelling in the original series. These girls are FAR skinnier than Tori ever was.
The CFDA is keeping the modeling industry in check, but who the hell is responsible for teenage television?
winner
Sleepyhead
Posted 3:34 AM 4/9/08
I have a crotchety old man question. First, watch that clip again. Second, does anyone but me remember when TV screens didn't constantly have network bugs, Top Model ads, and the name of the goddamn show constantly sparkling and hovering in every corner of the screen? Those were the good old days.
Sleepyhead
ihateyourescalade
Posted 3:30 AM 4/9/08
No wonder she's smiling. The name "Shenae" automatically dooms someone to be a truckstop waitress or a two-bit actress. She clearly lucked out.
ihateyourescalade
BadenBaden
Posted 3:25 AM 4/9/08
Oh what, like the original was so groundbreaking?! come on! It's a fluff show. It was fluffy. It delivered. I'll keep watching.
BadenBaden
dluvvly
Posted 3:20 AM 4/9/08
Has 'Jump the Shark' ever had an entry that qualified in the first 15 minutes of the first episode?
dluvvly
TheQuestion
Posted 3:49 AM 4/9/08
@Sleepyhead: TOTALLY agree, those on screen ads or whatever the hell they're called are a royal pain in the ass! Now, to Brenda Mark II's constant grinning: I'd be willing to bet that dental work cost a mint, maybe she's just showing off so that she got her money's worth? No? Okay, yeah, then it was annoying.
TheQuestion
Caroline Meeber
Posted 4:06 AM 4/9/08
I think the writers wrote Brenda's constant scowly bitchiness into the show just to keep her from smiling and showing her hideous teeth. Although I was sort of happy to see she never got them fixed. Also, druggie drama girl is totally the Scott Scanlon of the reboot.
Caroline Meeber
wilmawonker
Posted 4:00 AM 4/9/08
where is the teen angst? is this what we get now that all kids think they can do no wrong in the world?
wilmawonker
TurdBlossom
Posted 5:38 AM 4/9/08
Shenae - squinting and smilling to convey confusion, angst, anger, happiness, and AWK-WARD (the parking lot/Jeep blow job scene) is NOT acting.
Gotta say though - the crop of guys they have on this version of 90210 is way better looking than the original.
TurdBlossom
DrAftershave
Posted 6:41 AM 4/9/08
is this a polident commercial?
DrAftershave
MrRewrite
Posted 8:42 AM 4/9/08
Without Luke Perry, the things gonna die an early death. Only he can bring the right level of kitsch, cheese, angst and cockeyed hunkdom to this tale. Find Luke now if you know what is good for you. I'm Mr. Rewrite, and I approved this message.
MrRewrite
crackbabyjesus
Posted 11:25 AM 4/9/08
I thought it was a tad ironic that Brenda 2 Electric Boogaloo was twice as skinny as any of the Beverly Hills Bunch. Even the druggie looked fat next to this chick. And the hipster teacher is not as hot as Nicky Katt on Boston Public back in the day. Although I'm sure he will make out with a student in five, four, three...
crackbabyjesus
britneyspearstears
Posted 5:14 AM 5/9/08
who cares, she's gorgeous.
britneyspearstears