90210 (Season 2, Episode 2)

So…90210 on Tuesday…did anybody watch it?

I was all set to write a synopsis when I discovered, lo and behold, the cw does it for you. If you missed it, check out their recap here.

Or you can check out mine-

Annie is still pissy about videogate and gets smart with her mom over the whole thing. Her parents disagree on how to handle it (dad wants to punish her, mom wants to talk it out) which causes some friction between them. The situation gets worse when dad talks to Kelly about their problems and takes her advice (that Annie’s been punished enough) and eases  up on Annie, leaving wifey feeling a bit jelly that he listened to Kelly and not to her (even though they were saying the same thing, basically). Dixon meets a new (older) girl and lies to impress her (about his age and leads her to believe that Navid’s lambo is his). Steve Sanders New boy (what IS his name?) decides to throw a party on his dad’s yacht and invites the whole gang where everything comes to a head, so to speak. Silver finds out that Naomi did send out the video, gets pissed and runs into Dixon’s new friend who (surprise!) is DJ-ing the party. Her feelings are hurt, but she goes over and meets her. She has the opportunity to bust Dixon for lying, but takes the high road instead, pointedly saying to Dixon, “I’m happy you finally found someone you can be yourself around.” Loved that. Love her. She also overhears Annie lashing out at Naomi (Annie lied and told Naomi that she and Liam did sleep together- totally blindsiding him- and says, “Isn’t it funny how every guy you love ends up loving me more,” or something like that just to hurt her back) Ouch. Silver was pissed at Naomi for lying to her about the video but she comforts her after that. They have a little heart to heart about love and broken hearts and removing tattoos- all of it very touching. Meanwhile, Navid and new boy bond and Navid decides he’s a good guy after all and that he likes him. New boy, for his part, tries to pull the okey-doke on Adrianna (reminiscing about when they lost their virginity to one another on that very boat, in that very kitchen) and gets rejected. Adrianna doesn’t kiss him, but she was tempted to.  Dixon (still lying) borrows Navid’s car to take DJ chick home…only she ends up driving and has no intention of going back to Beverly Hills, so she wisks him away for the weekend. Meanwhile, back on the farm, dad Harry is feeling some kind of way (intrigued, a bit guilty) about Kelly. She ims him and they set up a lunch date to talk. I’m guessing he knows something is wrong with wanting to talk to her more than his own wife, but ,what can you do? Aaaand…scene.

Interesting eppy. I will say this, Silver’s vulnerability feels very real to me. And while I applaud Adrianna for not kissing new boy while her bf was seasick upstairs, I wonder if she’s going to be able to stay locked-down if her feelings are…unclear.

Ok, girls. Truth time. After watching this episode, I had a few questions:

1) Have you ever loved someone so much that you wanted them to be happy, even if it wasn’t with you? And I mean sincerely, not that knee-jerk “oh, I’m so happy for you,” thing that people do when they feel compelled to say something and don’t want to sound like bitter, jealous, shrews. It’s not easy being the “bigger person,” but does love compel you to do it?

2) What do you do if you are with the one you love, but you’re also feeling the one you aren’t with? Far be it from me to declare at what age relationships and feelings become “serious,” but what do you do if you are a teenager and your heart is pulling you in two different directions? Do you stay with your significant other (s.o. from here on out) out of obligation (and love, but, face it, obligation b/c you said you would) or do you risk hurting him/her and follow your heart? How much can you trust those feelings? What do you do? What have you done?

3) Did Annie actually have sex with video boy or what? Am I missing something?

Speak your piece, ladies…