Hello everybody.

This is again with this Beverly Hills 902.1 edition.

Today's deleted book entry is Season 2, Episode 25, Meeting Mr. Pony.

And now here are your host, Tara Ariano and sarah d bunting it's not like i'm going crazy branda gets held up at gunpoint season two episode 25 episode 25, meeting Mr. Pony. Half a dozen contrivances

conspired to leave Brenda alone in the peach pit after a late-night study session with the gang.

If Brandon had locked the front door, the junkie thief who forces Brenda to empty the register,

then makes her thank him for telling her she's pretty,

might have tried his luck elsewhere. As it is, Brenda's traumatized, and at least as far as we're

concerned, it's Brandon's fault. On the plus side, the robber can't have gotten away with much

cash given how few customers Nat actually charges. Shannon Doherty's portrayal of paralyzing terror and rippling post-traumatic anxiety

is quite well done.

But among the other factors working against Beverly Hills 90210,1, bad writing, casting nepotism,

a bragging jackass protagonist is an average episode's runtime in 1991.

What feels tense and well drawn at 41 minutes can lose a lot of momentum in 46,

and we see so many flashbacks to and nightmares about the robbery over the course of the episode

that by the time Brenda's asked to look at a lineup, we could not

only pick out the perp, we could draw him for the wanted poster ourselves. The episode tries,

admirably, to destigmatize counseling, but the messaging is stilted, when it's not downright

weird. Brenda puts on a brave face, but eventually decompensates and admits she can't

continue on her own. And that's important for viewers to hear, but by the time she says it,

it's been a mere two days since the incident. The set designer's conception of a therapist's office

with Brenda and the counselor in two side-by-side wing chairs is not a thing. It's nice of David to

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