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On "The Return of Brenda Walsh & A Better Next Move For Shannen Doherty."

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This entry was posted on 8/26/2008 4:47 PM and is filed under Advertising,Pop Culture,Random Nonsense.

Let's get this right out of the way from the start. I'm a ShanDo fan.

Seriously.

There are many reasons why, but I think it all boils down to the theme of survival. Shannen Doherty is a survivor in show business. Moreover, she's not a 'survivor' like people with the last name 'Spelling' or 'Sheen' are. She's a kid from nowhere who's been shot to the moon, shot by the press, shot down by the press, and keeps on tickin'.

That's worth an extraordinary amount of respect.

Along the way, she's been idolized, demonized, glamorized and villified. She's done some brilliant work, some very popular work, some so-bad-its-awesome work...and some utter crap.
 
She's been written off so many times, the inkwell has run dry on snarky sarcasm.

And yet, like the awesome Stephen Sondheim song, Shannen Doherty can gloat and smile and sing, "I'm Still Here."

Heck, look at her resume. She never went away. There's a continuous block of work from 1981-2008. That's damn astonishing, for any actor, let alone Shannen Doherty.

So why do I have mixed feelings about her five-episode 'iconic' return to her old zipcode?
 
On the one hand, you can't blame the CW here. The original 90210 basically became utter crap (instead of angsty, enjoyable crap,) when ShanDo left the building. The buzz on their remake launched into the stratosphere when she signed up.

...but this needs to be a limited engagement for Shannen. We need to see Brenda, love her, and move on. Let's leave the past in the past, shall we? 

And give Shannen Doherty a damn series already! Seriously. Clearly, we're all waiting for the next series that ShanDo can rock out.  Alas, it wasn't "North Shore." 

Yet, whether or not she stays on 90210 or moves on to her next movie-of-the-week...or in fact, gets her deserved series (and career vindication,) Shannen's a survivor. And that's why we're all tuning in, really. To see this chick survive, against all odds, Garths and Milanos. 

You go, girl.  

 

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