90210 – Recap & Review – Blue Naomi

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90210
Blue Naomi

Original Air Date: Feb 28, 2011

Meg – Staff Writer
meg@thetwocentscorp.com

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done to get someone to like you? Lie about your age? Fake an interest in some sports? If you’re Naomi Clark, you dress up like a librarian hooker, strip down to your skivvies, and when that all fails to work, just paint yourself blue.

Annie, Liam, and Emily
Emily is performing as Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (an excellent play – Oscar Wilde was a genius and I’d marry him in a heartbeat if he weren’t dead and gay). She’s overacting to the nth degree, but the crowd is loving it. Emily gets a standing ovation from her new besties, Ade, Silver and Naomi.

Annie is still persona non grata with her former friends. She does the right thing and tells Ade, Silver, and Naomi that she’s humiliated and is worried that everyone thinks she’s a total psychopath (hey Annie – considering you ran over a guy and nobody blinked, I think you’ll be okay…). Annie eats some humble pie and offers to throw Emily a birthday party as a gesture of good faith.

Emily confronts Liam about avoiding her. She apologizes for coming on to him last episode and claims that she was emotional and that she just got carried away (out of her clothes…). After she overhears Liam and Annie fighting, Emily tells Liam that she’s there for him if he wants to talk, or make out with a batch of crazy. Liam agrees to go on a date with Emily.

When they get back to the Wilson house, Liam goads Emily into talking about how she thinks that Ade, Silver, and Naomi are an ugly person, a loudmouth know-it-all, and an idiot, respectively. And… surprise – everyone is sitting right there for Emily’s surprise birthday party. And they heard everything. Naomi tells Emily that her life in West Bev is over. She takes the threat to heart and moves to Arkansas.

Adrianna, Navid, and Silver
When we left off last episode, Adrianna had identified Silver as “the cheating whore who stole” her boyfriend. Silver and Navid are still sneaking around, with lots of sneaking and sexting.

Adrianna tortures Silver by pretending to have discovered that the cheater is… Lila (Navid’s ex). Ade yammers on about how she’s going to make Lila’s life hell. She takes a picture of Lila naked in the locker room and tells Silver she’s going to send it to the entire school.

It’s obvious that Adrianna is having fun toying with Silver. Yikes – what kind of horrible person does that? Just as Ade is about to send the naked Lila pic, Silver stops her and confesses to being the guilty party. Ade sends the picture anyway. And when Silver looks at it, she sees that it’s not a picture of Lila. It’s a picture of HER (horrifying, but didn’t this happen to Annie last season?).

Naomi and Max
Naomi is pulling out all the stops to get Max to like her. She tracks him down in the library (cause that’s where nerds go – way to be creative, show), dressed up like some sort of schoolgirl sex kitten. Next, Naomi texts Max that she’s having a “science emergency” and lures him to the lab. She’s in a trench coat and underwear and downright mad when Max fails to be impressed.

She insults him, calls him gay and demands to know why he doesn’t like her (gee whatever could the reason be?). Max tells her that sure, she’s hot—but, “you’re a snob, shallow, and arrogant. You think I should date you because you’re into me. But I’m not.” Harsh, but not entirely untrue.

When Naomi Facebook-stalks Max and sees that he’s going to some sort of Avatar screening in costume, she dresses up like a blue alien (a Pandoran? Pandorian?). Unfortunately, nobody else is actually in costume. I have to give Naomi credit, though – she really does look kind of awesome. Max and his nerd friends make science jokes and are total jerks. When Naomi storms away, Max goes after her to apologize. Smooching ensues and, well, let’s just say there’s a lot of paint transfer.

Ivy and Raj
Ivy is still being a druggy. She neglects her schoolwork and draws a unicorn riding a tricycle smoking a joint, instead of writing a sonnet for English class. She’d much rather ditch class and make out with Raj. They meet up after school and Raj talks about how he spent his day biking, staring at the sky, and swimming with dolphins.

He and Ivy skateboard (isn’t she supposed to have some sort of board-sports related PTSD? Isn’t that why she started smoking in the first place?). Raj is cute and has a talented stunt double, so I can see the attraction from her end. He also freaks out a little when he realizes that she’s skipping classes, falling behind, and not really doing anything other than smoking pot.

They have a heart to heart and we learn that Raj smokes pot to relieve the pain he feels from chemotherapy and that he has terminal leukemia. Oof.

Dixon and Navid (and Snoop Dogg?)
Navid’s studio business is going well. Dix goes to get Navid’s Ferrari detailed so that Navid can impress a fancy potential client. While at the Ferrari detailery (I don’t know anything about cars), he runs into Snoop (Doggy Dogg). Really? Even Snoop looks like he can’t believe he’s on 90210.

Snoop compliments Dix on his “rari”—Dixon takes this as an invitation to start rapping. Snoop offers to play him his new single and they roll down the highway singing about LA and making elaborate finger signals to the beat. Wow. That actually just happened.

What did you think of the episode? What are you hoping will happen when the show comes back in April? Leave a comment and let me know your two cents!