User Reviews

I haven't seen this show since I was a kid, basically back in the 90's. And I was pleasantly surprised when after deciding to watch something easy going that will also help my 90's nostalgia this pilot didn't disappoint me. Don't get me wrong, it isn't some sort of masterpiece, but I do my ratings based on the genre and when it comes to teen drama this pilot is a good explanation of why this show is a classic.

Wee are introduced to the characters. Some of them we see more about, like Brandon and Brenda the twins who move to the area and who are the centre of the two main stories. Some less about, but they still get to entertain us. Like freshman David who gets to drive drunk Steve home and messes up his car. This was actually the funnest story of the episode.

I always hear how Gabrielle Carteris was too old to play a teen. And yes, when I look at her profile she is indeed 29. But it is amazing how much she looks like a teenager, at least to me. Maybe it changed in later seasons.

And I must say seeing the old 90's clothes is fun. Some are fantastic, others horrifyingly ugly (like those pants Kelly wore the day after the party in school), but yet it is such a fun to watch.

The pilot episode introduces all the main characters and we get to know all of them. Not everyone's storyline is that interesting (Andrea's and Brenda's is a standout to me. Meanwhile Brandon and Marianne is just too much). The fashion is great, but Kelly's pants (choices were made that day).

Fav scene: when Mrs. Walsh throws the content of a box on the kitchen floor when Brandon is asking about the toaster. Not the strongest pilot, but let's see where do we go from here.

I really enjoyed this episode. It's really the only one I can remember really well. I've seen it so many times and it is a great show starter / pilot.

This is my absolute favorite episode of the entire series.

In this episode, Brandon and Brenda, move to Beverly Hills. They're twins and just started going to West Beverly Hills High School. Which is a big difference from where they're from. We see Brenda meet Kelly and Donna, the most popular girls in the school. They become friends. Good for Brenda. Brandon joins the school newspaper. And we meet so many fun characters.

Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10.

I recently started re-watching this show after being nostalgic for the 90s and my teenage years of growing up in California. "Beverly Hills, 90210" was a show that influenced me so much during my formative years. The first season began when I was in the 8th grade.

When I began playing espisode one to see the show for the first time in over thirty years, it caught me by a little surprise as I realized I had actually never watched the very first episode. Somehow I thought I'd seen all of them starting from the very first one, but as I watched one episode after another, I realized that I had only begun watching season 1 from around episode 10. Memories then came back. This show was not a huge hit from the start. It caught up mid-season when Fox played new episodes during the summer, when most other series went on hiatus. Around that time my girlfriends told me I had to watch it and that's how I started, and like everyone else, I got hooked!

So since I had never seen the first several episodes, watching them for the first time was pretty cool. The way they started the series with the first episode was perfect. The Walsh family moves from Minnesota to Beverly Hills, everyone must start with their adjustment phase, Brenda and Brandon meet all the gang who would later become their closest friends. Personally it took me back to when I myself also moved to California as a pre-teen and all the adjustments I had to go through and all the new friends I made. Back in the days, I watched the show because all the teenagers in America were and I, too, loved it. But now I see how close the show's background, its location, and timing had actually linked with my own life, though I was a few years younger than the main characters. I have a newfound appreciation for how this show impacted me personally.

For episode one... I liked the storyline of Brenda dating an older guy pretending to be a college student. I was that girl who couldn't wait to grow up, get older. So relatable and nostalgic for me, though I myself never faked my age to try to date older boys, lol. But I did have a girlfriend in high school who did the same thing as Brenda! I now wonder if she'd gotten it from this show.. lol.

The first season of "Beverly Hills, 90210" does a wonderdul job mixing in the wholesomeness of the Walsh family from the Midwest, with the more complicated life and culture of Los Angeles. As the show would go on to be known and praised for addressing multiple challenges and social issues that teens faced, more vividly and honestly than any other teen dramas prior, this season offers a plethora of great stories. Watching this over 30 years later today, it's still interesting, even thought-provoking, and most definitely entertaining.