The show, which aired on the Fox network, was about a group of attractive high school students living the sweet life amid Southern California affluence while dealing with teen angst, as well as a raft of more serious issues such as date rape, AIDS and teen pregnancy.
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Since 2016, Perry had played Fred Andrews, father of Archie Andrews, in the television series “Riverdale,” a dark twist on the Archie comic books, but more than 20 years earlier the actor had been a heartthrob who adorned the cover of scores of magazines aimed at adolescent girls, thanks to “Beverly Hills 90210.” Perry was not among those announced as returning for the limited run of six new episodes this summer. Perry was taken ill the same day that Fox television announced it was reviving the “Beverly Hills 90210” series with many of the original cast, including Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling. TMZ said on Monday that Perry never recovered consciousness. Perry was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday after suffering the stroke at his home, celebrity website TMZ.com reported last week. This was definitely a show for teens, but there was no expectation that one could actually be these teens, an alienating yet comforting balance that contemporary teen shows, 90210’s offspring every single one, don’t quite strike.'Beverly Hills, 90210' star Luke Perry dead at age 52 Close Menu
That these adults-as-teens were navigating all of this-both the breast cancer scares and the thirtysomething dating habits of Brandon Walsh-made it naughtily fascinating, while also keeping everything at a distance, assuringly once-removed.
When 90210 premiered in 1990, inventing the teen soap opera, it trafficked in a semi-wholesome mix of melodrama and public service announcement, navigating love triangles, relationships, and almost not being able to graduate high school because you got drunk at the senior prom, along with anti-drug warnings, eating disorders, teen sex, and STD testing. This age kabuki, this barely submerged maturity, was a quality of almost the entire cast, and while it was (and is) fun to make fun of-I love looking up Gabrielle Carteris’ age, because as old as I think she is, she’s always older-it’s also what made the show work, what made it dangerous and safe all at once. I remember smuggling a Tiger Beat into my house, underneath my shirt, my heart smashing, my shame and guilt about my purchase communicating so much more about the meaning of the magazine’s contents than the cheesy, wholesome pinup photos inside.
This last charge, that Perry and his co-star Jason Priestley were some sort of ersatz, teeny-bop distillation of Rebel Without a Cause, mattered to me not at all.
He was a brooding Heathcliff with a Porsche, a Byron of monosyllabic California brah poetry (“It’s Dylan, you know the drill”), and-with his pompadour, sideburns, trick eyebrow, leather jacket, white T-shirts, and sensitive soul-most certainly a knockoff James Dean. As played by Luke Perry, who died Monday at the tender age of 52, Dylan McKay was a bad boy with a heart of gold, a surfer dude with an old soul, a poor little rich boy with negligent parents and a drinking problem. Obviously, I would have grokked his appeal anyway. By the time I actually laid eyes on Dylan a few weeks later, when a friend’s older sister was watching Beverly Hills, 90210, I was primed to like him.
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