TMC
06-09-2021, 07:42 PM
https://decider.com/2019/02/12/beverly-hills-90210-kelly-taylor-injustices/
Bad things tend to happen to good people in daytime soap operas, but those bad things tend to get passed around equally amongst the many soapy players. In the primetime soap Beverly Hills 90210, however, there was one featured character that had bad things happen to them all the damn time. Sure, Donna Martin was almost raped, and almost didn’t graduate. And yeah, Scott Scanlon shot himself off the show. Dylan McKay’s dad was blown up and his fiancée was murdered by her own father because of him, and Kelly Kapowski/Valerie Malone never caught a break (but she was always kind of asking for trouble, wasn’t she?). Anyhoo, the one character that always seemed to be a magnet for maliciousness, a bullseye for bottoming out, a poor punching bag that got knocked around from Season 1 ’til Season Done was Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth). The irony here being that Kelly also happened to be Ms. Popular, the prettiest girl around, and the one character that all the ladies wanted to be and all the men wanted to be with.
Kelly Taylor, this is your tortured life in (902)10 chronologically-arranged steps!
Bad things tend to happen to good people in daytime soap operas, but those bad things tend to get passed around equally amongst the many soapy players. In the primetime soap Beverly Hills 90210, however, there was one featured character that had bad things happen to them all the damn time. Sure, Donna Martin was almost raped, and almost didn’t graduate. And yeah, Scott Scanlon shot himself off the show. Dylan McKay’s dad was blown up and his fiancée was murdered by her own father because of him, and Kelly Kapowski/Valerie Malone never caught a break (but she was always kind of asking for trouble, wasn’t she?). Anyhoo, the one character that always seemed to be a magnet for maliciousness, a bullseye for bottoming out, a poor punching bag that got knocked around from Season 1 ’til Season Done was Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth). The irony here being that Kelly also happened to be Ms. Popular, the prettiest girl around, and the one character that all the ladies wanted to be and all the men wanted to be with.
Kelly Taylor, this is your tortured life in (902)10 chronologically-arranged steps!