"Beverly Hills, 90210" Ashes to Ashes (TV Episode 1991) Poster

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8/10
Ashes to Ashes (#2.9)
ComedyFan201027 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This episode again touches the race relations. They did a similar topic before, but I must say with this episode they managed to do it much better.

Like they had this moment when Brenda and Brandon are in a car and he is mad that the new kid accuses him of seeing him as black. And Brenda says that maybe if it was not even a little bit true Brandon would not be so mad. So this way they went a bit deeper into some subconscious ways we might be aware of race.

And was great to see Vivica A. Fox at the beginning of her career. She was beautiful! This is one of the great parts about such old shows, to see people who we later saw making it in their small first roles.
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10/10
The lowest rated episode in the shows run?
ally-mcnally0121 February 2022
How have so many people given this one star? In the context of not only the show but also in how it handles the tense subject of race relations this is absolutely a ten star episode. You could show this episode in classrooms TODAY and have it be relevant. It shows how yes, there may be issues from both sides of the table (how Devo talks about how it's unsafe for Brandon on the streets of Inglewood), but one side of the table has far more leverage and the privilege of blindness to racial plights (also demonstrated by Brandon going there full of naïveté about how dangerous is might be for HIM). It packs a lot to be analyzed into less than half an hour, and shows the real murkiness of race relations in America.

Funny, no one-star-people left a written review. I'd love to know their explanation for so intensely disliking such a well executed episode.
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10/10
Still relevant. VERY.
sergeman_ec-133-26518026 April 2021
I'm watching this in April, 2021, and not only are things still the same, they've gotten WORSE.

This series has its ups and downs, like all series, but they did touch upon some subjects that bring the American experience into interesting perspective.
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