TV Recap: ‘90210,’ “Women’s Intuition”

It’s only been 2 weeks since my favorite show with a zip code was on, and this week they really made up for it. Even though this week’s episode is titled “Women’s Inuition,” I’m thinking it should’ve been “Reality Check,” because that’s what a lot of these girls needed.

We begin with our resident creeps, Jasper and Annie. Jasper’s movie is finally wrapping up and Annie is still his muse. Bleck. I understand there are deeper issues at hand, but Annie needs to wake up and smell the reefer. Speaking of, the coincidentally titled Blaze student newspaper, will be doing a story about students and prescription drugs. The first place they’ll be looking for a source–Jasper.

Of course, once Navid warns Annie about Jasper’s possible business, she’s pretty offended. But, and that’s a big but, Annie’s face paints a very different picture–one that says: duh. And now Annie’s acting weird around Jasper, and she finally asks him about all of this. Jasper has the typical reaction, deny, and then throw all the delicious hot dogs you just bought into the nearest trash can.

The surf team is still getting along swimmingly, especially Liam and our newest member: Ivy. The two definitely have a flirty vibe going on, you’d have to be blind not watch, to miss it. After Ivy plays a small prank on Teddy, Liam says, “Man, I love this girl.” Hilariously enough, Ivy does one of those hopeful faces–”Oh, could it be true!” But soon after Liam brushes it off with the typical, but-you’re-not-a-girl remark.

June Cleaver, I mean Sasha is taking on the role of domestic goddess to the nth degree, building a little family for her and Dixon. Yet, Dixon doesn’t want to play, in fact, he’d like Sasha to have an abortion. In a not-so-surprising twist, Sasha would like to keep this baby. This sets off some tension between the two, and Dixon leaves. However, when he arrives home Blondie** is giving him a hard time as well.

Then in a moment of stressful panic, Dixon tells them the truth. Of course they’re upset, but Debbie–the wonderful woman she is–steps up and decides to help out. Dixon and Debbie drive right over to Sasha’s to help out with baby planning. Now, even though she likes such younger men, Sasha decides that she’s too old for all of this. She doesn’t really take a liking to Debbie’s advice and yearn to help out. Sasha tells Debbie that this is all between her and Dixon, setting off Debbie’s womanly intuition–and mine. Something’s up.

Moving on, or should I say, holding on–Navid and Adriana are still having issues. Though the two are broken up, Navid still can’t get over Adriana. At one point he even has a dream that she comes to the school after hours and sings to him while playing the guitar. Oh…wait…that wasn’t a dream though. Yes, Ade actually sang for forgiveness. She’s actually the one who can’t let go, often crying her nights away.

Finally Silver and Naomi ask that Navid get Adriana to go to one of her substance abuse meetings–in fear she might use again. But Navid won’t go to a meeting with Ade, leaving her in the same pitiful state.

Jen returns this week–thank God–to deliver her beautiful bitchitude. She and Ryan are still in relationship limbo, and this week things have come to a head. Ryan has finally started dating other people aside from Jen. After meeting Ryan’s new fling, Jen is immediately on the defensive. A day later Jen even goes to the poor girl’s place of work. Long story short–she rips the girl to pieces, and she and Ryan become exclusive.

This week’s major event is a, wait for it: “Hollywood party.” Yes, the ever glamorous party with no goal in mind other than to invite hundreds of random people. This means we were treated to the generic guest appearances we’ve all grown used to. Samantha Ronson and N.E.R.D. dropped in for this one. You’re probably thinking what I thought–these are celebrities? After hearing their, ‘performance,’ it’s no wonder that I haven’t heard anything substantial about Pharrell and his crew for a couple of years.

Jen and Ryan are in attendance of course, school teachers and bankrupt valley girls are the types of people this event is made for. Things get a bit awkward when Liam shows up, putting a possible wedge between the couple. Before you can even think about it Jen has made a preemptive strike and told Ryan that Liam propositioned her for sex during the party. Ryan, in his ever naive fashion, believes her every word.

Adriana also comes to the party, but only in time to see Navid flirting with a group of girls. She immediately about faces and walks out. So much for stepping out and being strong.

After the party’s over, Ivy catches up with Liam after he stormed out of the party. He’s not too forthcoming with his reasoning on Ryan’s allegations–but that’s not what this is about. In less that two minutes the two start kissing, and Liam lets her know he doesn’t want anything serious. Ivy just says, “What are you? A girl?”

Far removed from our Hollywood parties, Annie has returned to Jasper. She’s realized the error of her ways and apologizes for ever accusing him. The two quickly make up, and Jasper reminds her, “It’s me and you against the world.” Jasper then steps away for a minute after recieving a text–to sell Adriana some pills. Damn.

These two girls need some major help, and might want to take some notes from my favorite female of the night: Debbie. Deb tracked down Sasha to a coffee shop and has a plan up her sleeve. After reminding Sasha that she shouldn’t drink coffee, she begins to question her about her doctors appointments. I love the kill her with kindness approach that Debbie is taking. Soon Debbie catches Sasha in a lie about hearing the babies heartbeat–and I’m screaming at the television. This was wonderful, amazing even. I don’t think we’ll be seeing Sasha anymore.

What did you think about Debbie’s awesome attack? Is Adriana too far gone to be saved? When will Annie wake up? Also, are you ready for 90210’s first gay storyline?

**I can’t help but want to refer to Debbie and Harry as the band led by singer Debbie Harry.