- ABC FAMILY/Ron Tom
- Miguel Pinzon, Jennie Garth, and Tori Spelling need to get a clue.
Now that we’re pretty sure we’re getting a summer, it would be a shame to waste any of these precious, sun-filled hours watching TV, right? That is, aside from making sure to DVR the final season of True Blood, or keeping an eye out for the return of Masters of Sex or Pretty Little Liars. And, hey, don’t be ashamed if you’re a fan of that last one—lots of folks our age are. ABC Family established itself as a destination for drama with that hit, and with the success of such shows like Kyle XY and The Secret Life of the American Teenager (which helped launch Shailene Woodley’s career). Unfortunately, they’ve decided to pour some of that good will down the drain with contrived comedies, the most recent of which is Mystery Girls, a Tori Spelling creation, starring she and Jennie Garth.
But where Donna was naive (initially, anyway), Holly is just ditzy. And where Kelly was coolly confident, Charlie is grating and controlling. And anyway, the Donna-Kelly friendship was the breadsticks of the teen angst meal that was 90210 Version 1.0—it wasn’t the main course, just filler you kind of absorbed subconsciously while you were waiting to gorge on the fallout of the Dylan-Kelly-Brenda love triangle, or feast on schadenfreude as Donna and David dealt with being step siblings.
