I actually PREFER the soap opera years of 90210, season 5 in particular is so bat shit crazy, it's obvious the 90210 creators were influenced by the immense popularity of their other creation and 90210's spinoff Melrose Place that they were doing identical storylines by the 94-95 season and 90210 had NOTHING in common with its issue oriented first (90-91) season by then.
Brandon cheats on Kelly with crazy Emily, while Kelly is trapped with a lesbian who's secretly in love with her in a sorority house fire that disfigures her that was set by rich fraternity bro Griffin Stone, what a name, to get back at Donna for dumping him for Ray Pruitt. Griffin frames Steve for the fire, who is arrested
Andrea has her extra marital affair with Dr. Peter, the man who saved her daughter Hannah's life. While Jesse her husband has been having his own affair. Andrea goes to a lawyer to get q divorce after Jesse learns about her affair but they decide to go to a marriage counselor and to move from 90210
Dylan looses his money after Suzanne and Kevin, the con artists steal his $8 million inheritance and kidnap his newly revealed half sister Erica in the season 4 finale, this causes Dylan to become a drunk again and a drug addict, sleeping with Valerie who is also sleeping with Steve after Valerie calls is off with Dylan his drug use gets worse and his car goes over a cliff sending him in a coma. When Dylan wakes up from his coma he goes to rehab and then travels back in time to the Wild Wild West where he discovers that Kelly is the love of his life.
Dylan hooks back up with Valerie and Erica finally gets in touch with Dylan and Dylan, Valerie and some weird friend of Dylan's named Jonesy go undercover to Mexico to get his $8 million back and to get his sister Erica back from the evil con artists, Kevin and Suzanne who kidnapped her in the season 4 finale. Kevin and Suzanne hold them hostage and shots ring out before the police arrest them.
Brandon joins political forces with his season 4 nemesis Josh Richland, who then is quickly killed off in a freak car accident outside the Peach Pit after Brandon becomes student body president, who tries to take down a dictator of a third world country!!! Who just happens to be speaking at CU University.
Kelly joins a cult after the fire fucks up her head, the cult is called the New Evolution and it's ran by the evil wheelchair bound Professor Finlay, Brandon and Dylan join forces and put their differences aside to save her from the cult.
Claire and David become a couple after bonding over looking for UFO's! They also make a kinky sex tape that gets in her father's, the chancellor of CU, hands.
Valerie gets a cut of the $8 million that Dylan gets back and uses it to buy out Rush Sanders, Steve's Dad, share of the Peach Pit after dark, where she begins blackmailing Ray, who is dating Donna, into having sex with her to keep his job singing at the After Dark, after Ray calls it off, Valerie fired Ray and threatens to tell Donna everything, this sends Ray to another gig out of town and away from Donna, which sets Donna up to get raped by the CU rapist...
Meanwhile a serial rapist terrorizes the college and eventually sets his sights on Donna, after he breaks into her house, he ties her up and almost rapes and kills her but David saves the day. Bitch Claire is pissed not that her "friend" Donna was nearly raped and killed but that her boyfriend David still has feelings for Donna and she breaks it off with him.
Ray becomes abusive and pushes Donna down a flight of stairs! Dylan finds out more info about the man who " killed" his father in season 3 in that car bomb explosion , bur he comes back from the dead in season 10
Brandon proposes to Kelly and Dylan offers her millions and a trip around the world with him but Kelly chooses herself...
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