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Shannen Doherty Elevated Bitchiness to an Art Form
90210’s teen-girl clichés couldn’t compete with the power of Brenda Walsh’s adolescent rage.
It happened in an otherwise preposterous season-three episode called “Wild Horses,” in which Luke Perry’s Dylan leaves town after being accused of cheating on the SAT and has an affair with an heiress while David Arquette guest stars as an abusive keytar player named Diesel. She takes one look at her blonde ex–best friend, her nostrils flaring, her mouth curling into the equivalent of a fist ready to punch, and says, “You know, Kelly, if you’re trying to lose your bimbo image, I honestly don’t think this will help.” This episode, “Back in the High Life Again,” was the Super Bowl of 90210, a climactic moment fans had been waiting to watch unfold as Kelly and Dylan kept their unsustainable secrets for weeks.
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