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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 5638
Released: July 29, 2008 |
| Our Price: $33.73 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Television: Series
Rating: NR
Release Date: 29-JUL-2008
Media Type: DVD
Description of Beverly Hills, 90210 - The Fifth Season:
The most popular zip code of the '90s changes dramatically in the fifth season, the halfway point of the show's 10-year run. With the departure of one of the primary characters--Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty)--multiple new faces arrive (and stick around) on Beverly Hills 90210 for the first time. The most well-known and well-remembered is Tiffani Thiessen as bad girl Valerie Malone, an old family friend of the Walshes, who arrives in Beverly Hills seeking refuge after her father's suicide. Valerie almost immediately becomes the love interest of both Steve (Ian Ziering) and Dylan (Luke Perry) and displays a penchant for smoking pot in the Walsh's house and shooting pool in comically seedy pool halls in the middle of the day. The two other new romantic storylines feature Kathleen Robertson as Clare Arnold, first seen as Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley)'s stalker and eventually as David Silver's (Brian Austin Green) rebound girl after he breaks up with Tori Spelling's Donna (who's holding onto her virginity until marriage); and Jamie "How Do You Talk to an Angel?" Walters as working-class Ray Pruit, the new boyfriend of Donna.
Season five firmly establishes the new 90210 soap-opera formula and shifts from message-driven plotlines to character-based action. Perry definitely has some of the finest moments this season as we find him completely broke and fallen very far off the wagon. From alcohol to cocaine to heroin to rehab, Dylan hits bottom with a car crash and we're forced to endure one of the most ridiculous (but accidently hilarious) episodes in Beverly Hills 90210 history: "The Dreams of Dylan McKay." The other characters don't have nearly as dramatic storylines this season, but there's still plenty of action. Brandon and Kelly (Jennie Garth) are figuring out how to be in a relationship while he's constantly fighting bureaucracy and special interests in campus politics. Donna is falling in love with Ray, but finding out a bit too late that he's not quite who she thought he was. Things get a lot more ridiculous, amusing and fun this season and 90210 remains as compulsively watchable as ever.---Kira Canny
Beverly Hills, 90210 - The Fifth Season Reviews:
BRENDA'S a GONER 
2009-10-10 - This season is where it starts to get good because BRENDA left. She was terrible...
beverly hills season 5 
2009-04-17 - The Beverly Hills 90210 season 5 DVD's I bought seemed like burned copies. The quality was not very good. Overall, I still enjoyed watching them.
Who doesn't love this show?
2009-02-07 - If you are a child of the 80's and grew up with this show it is a really fun trip down memory lane for sure! For anyone else that wants some cheesy writing and high school/college drama that you could veg out on for hours this is it!
Beverly Hills 90210
2008-12-20 - I love all characters show!! It may help for the teenagers and young adult to live in a right way to deal of life! Right now I have Sixth of all. Looking forward to get them all. I will hand them to my kids when they get older to look out for their lives and maybe more maturities. It is excellent shows!! Thank you!
An enjoyable season of a solid show 
2008-12-14 - I recently picked up this set of 90210 and enjoyed reliving it for the first time since it went off air back in 2000. I wasn't a die hard fan of the show back in the day but I did watch quite regularly... really I was more into Melrose place, 90210's sister show. Still, I did watch this show regularly...
The early years of the show (seasons 1-4) were huge culture events for young people all over the world in the 90's, they struck a chord because of the willingness to tackle many issues ... drugs, alcohol, etc. Whilst I did watch the show during these seasons , I really enjoyed watching the show more in the later years ... starting with this season, my first to purchase on dvd.
This season saw a shift from being a little on the preachy, educational side in the early years to a more entertaining (for me anyway) melodrama, the focus was less on issues and more on relationships this year... a lot of people didn't like this switching of gears. But I did, and if you liked the more soapy feel of later 90210, then you will enjoy this season for sure..
We knew the characters so well by now having watched them grow in previous seasons and we really cared about them as an audience, they all had that likeability factor that is crucial to any hit show. So, it was nice to see the characters blossom further this year in preparation for the real world after college.
Shaneen Doherty had been fired after year 4, but my they struck gold with the introduction of bad girl Valerie this year, she was edgier and more entertaining to watch than spoilt Brenda ever was. Valerie was developed slowly this season and it was a hoot to watch her pretending to be nicey-nice at first to the walshes and the gang before becoming a bitch that you actually rooted for in ways.. she was the new star of the show.
As for the rest of the gang, donna developed nicely pursuing new relationships with guys like griffin and ray... having moved on from david, david coupled up with Clare Arnold and the two were a welcome comedic duo, clare has many great lines... steve was steve... moving from one hair brained idea/ scheme to the next, Brandon remained the moral anchor of the show and his relationship with Kelly was only starting out, Dylan went off the rails then back on them and spent the rest of the season pining in the background for Kelly, Andrea and jessy were doomed from the start and drifted apart slowly before bowing out of the show , also cindy and jim depart by season end.
All in all, this season is a good buy, it's light and fluffy in many ways, the odd issue crops up here and there and is played out through character's dilemmas but mostly its just nice to relive the stories/lives of old faces that we knew and loved.
(By the way, a lot of people complained that the music has been changed in many episodes, I didn't notice honestly , it definitely didn't effect my enjoyment of the show). Enjoy!
