90210 Season Premiere! Who's psyched?!! I am!

Okay so for Season 2 of 90210, the producers brought in Gilmore Girls/Buffy alum Rebecca Rand Kirshner to revamp the show and make it better than season 1. I feel like some of the changes did actually improve the show, but I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little sad that oldsters from the O.G. show are getting pushed out. However, I think the season premiere showed potential, so let's get down to it.

Things that worked:

Making Naomi (Annalynn McCord), Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) and Silver (Jessica Stroup) BFF's- Even though last season Adrianna and Silver barely spoke, and Silver and Naomi were just sort of getting back to being friends, I can buy that they all got really close during summer school or whatever. I think that they work as a foundation to the show way better than Annie and Dixon do. Also, everyone loves a show that constantly shows you shots of three hot girls, walking, eating ice cream, and doing other hot things in tiny dresses.

Annie (Shenae Grimes) as outcast-Good job making Annie just openly be a bitch to everyone. She is such an annoying character that they might as well make everyone on the show hate her too! First, she suspects herself of murder, and now she is doing random idiots at parties. God, Annie, was killing someone not enough?! Now you have to sleep with dudes who have low IQ's too?! Someone arrest her and her crazy faces!

Quick cuts- Everyone, and I mean everyone, loves quick cuts set to music that the kids think is cool these days. Also, segues with dudes break-dancing is also super cool. Cuts down the time that you have to have plot or characters, which can be very helpful on a show like this.

Already introducing like 100 different possible plot points/conflicts/pairings/enemies- We've got: Teddy (new guy Trevor Donovan) as a possible spoiler for Adrianna/Navid (Michael Steger), Teddy as a possible new guy for Silver, Teddy as a possible obstacle for Naomi/Liam, Teddy as a possible Annie lover, Liam and his possible Annie love, Liam trying to get back with Naomi, Dixon single and on the prowl even though crazypants (or no pants) Silver is still crazy about him, Annie as a possible murderer (I think that is going to shake out that she really hit a dog or something, let's be real here people), Navid/Adrianna no sex problems, Naomi having slept with a guy married to the lady from law and order who is mean and rich now, Adrianna not being able to stop missing her baby, Annie and Dixon's siblingship going sour, Adrianna and Silver not being able to abide by Naomi's natural meanness/sluttiness. etc. That's a lot to work with for the season, so good job person who somehow threaded all of this into one hour.

Silver had a cute haircut!

The hilarious line from Naomi's married boyf: "You know when we met at Barney's, I had never felt like that before.."

Navid and Dixon's plan to get a cabana which was right out of Brandon and Steve's dorky playbook on O.G. 90210.

Okay, there were still dumb things, of course, like:

Silver/Dixon- Okay, so let me just try to forget that Ethan was getting awesome before he left the show (BAD CHANGE) and that Dixon was acting like d-bag. BUT the show won't let me forget what a douche Dixon is because he dumped Silver for TEXTING someone five minutes after the got back together! Dumb. And Silver freaking out and not being able to breathe didn't make any sense because they had been broken up ALL summer and she seemed fine about it! Also, the whole, "Ethan's not going to be on the show anymore, so I choose you..." thing was a stupid way to attempt to resolve that plotline. I want Ethan back. Hmpf!

Everyone looks old- Some people ARE old! The guy who plays new hottie Teddy is 31, and he looks 31. Adrianna is being styled way too maturely, maybe because they are pairing her with him in the future, but she looks like Courtney Cox Arquette now instead of any kind of high schooler, even a glamorous one from Beverly Hills! Liam is like 25. Are they getting rid of hottie teacher Matthews because there is no way an actual 23 year old would look right teaching a 31 year old? (I hope not I love him! But their summer school teacher was the black gay comics guy from Chasing Amy, so that was exciting for me. HE looks good for his age!) The married guy that Naomi was doing, who was supposed to be twice her age (32) is actually 40, and he kind of looks older I think. Sorry Steven Brand. The girls are all like 20 and under, so it creeps me out that they are being paired with such older men. At least they gave Liam that weird floppy teenager haircut.

Navid's shirt was too small. Get a bigger shirt dude.

The fact that Dixon would not let his obviously very upset sister finish her sentence and then he just abandoned her. He is becoming a big jerk.

Silver wore a huge belt and no pants to the first day of school! Is her character not supposed to be cool at all anymore, and just a trendy hot girl too? Let's end this no pants trend people!!!

Oh, and next week? That's right, it's been on Law and Order, 20/20 and Oprah, and now you are going to see 90210's take on the plague that is infecting our children. SEXTING.