When the first episode of aired on FOX in the fall of 1990 the first George Bush was president. The Gulf War had not yet been waged.
And a set of fictional twins named Brenda and Brandon Walsh moved to California from Minnesota, igniting a widespread frenzy across the US and a local one inside my childhood bedroom.I watched the pilot—“Class of Beverly Hills”—crossed-legged on the floor, staring up at my 13-inch television my grandparents had given me that year.
I didn't understand everything I heard and saw (namely a bit of business I realize now was a narrowly-avoided statutory rape scenario) but during that first episode, I fell hard for the lush West Beverly High campus, the sports cars, the drama, and the cliques of popular blondes,.