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MATTHEW PERRY NEO NOIR EPISODE OF 'BEVERLY HILLS 90210'

Matthew Perry and Jason Priestly Beverly Hills 90210 Year: 1991 Rates: ***

Having caught an extremely horrific strain of COVID and suffering profusely for a week, and then sustaining for another week even after finally testing negative, the biggest blessing in disguise is that Amazon Prime has the original BEVERLY HILLS 90210 for binging, and, while it's a corny teenage melodrama meant for teenage viewers back in the glorious 1990's, there are few guilty pleasures that fill the time so perfectly...

One particular first season episode, intensely titled APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, now has sad irony, featuring the late Matthew Perry as a rich kid tennis star whose father (Nicolas Coster) wants him to win at everything... 

Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month

Meanwhile Jason Priestley's central nice guy Brandon Walsh reads Perry's script, a kind of steamy neo noir... sporadically played out in grainy hues... about a similarly troubled, brooding rich high schooler... 

But this one kills his father, and, whether truth and fiction are one in the same is the anticipated twist, it's not one of the best episodes yet isn't shabby either, giving Perry an extremely dramatic role without the signature sarcasm that would make him a star on FRIENDS, and a pop culture legend thereafter.  

Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month with Ian Ziering
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210 dramatically repeating to a shrink the word "FRIENDS?"
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month with Jason Priestley
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month with Jason Priestley
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210 with Jason Priestley and Nicolas Coster
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month
Matthew Perry on Beverly Hills 90210: April is the Cruelest Month with Sharon Case as Darla Diller

 

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