The series revolves around a reboot of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), but fictional Tori's idea is more akin to that of a revival (such as the 2018 revivals of Roseanne (1988) and Murphy Brown (1988)), where the original characters are returning, some years after the end of the original series. A reboot, as its name implies, is when all previous continuity is discarded and started over from scratch.