Product Description

The ensemble drama about young adults growing up in Beverly Hills is a blend of romantic drama and subject matter that crosses all cultural boundaries. The storyline has followed the Walsh family as they moved from a middle-class Midwestern neighborhood to wealthy and glamorous Beverly Hills, maturing from high school to college students, facing new challenges as they continue to grow and discover more about themselves and their personal ambitions. As their worlds evolve, old friendships will be tested as new relationships develop, but no matter how complicated their worlds become, they will always share in their strengths and experiences.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6344 in DVD
• Brand: BEVERLY HILLS 90210
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, Portuguese
• Number of discs: 8
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 1444 minutes

Amazon.com
Welcome to the first post-high school season of Beverly Hills 90210. While maintaining essentially the same formula in season four that's driven the previous seasons, things definitely grow up and heat up now that the gang has started college. They're all attending school together (of course), the fictional California University. Andrea decides against Yale and Brenda makes her way back to Beverly Hills quickly after a disastrous attempt at returning "home" to Minnesota. While Brenda's return and Andrea's decision to stay in Beverly Hills seems not only inevitable, but essential, it's interesting to note that season four is the final year featuring all original cast members. It's also the year the tone of the show most abruptly changes, making way for the much more grown up and sexier seasons to come. For these twentysomethings playing teenagers, the shift from high school to college allows them to relax a bit into their characters and really show off their acting chops (all except Shannon Doherty, whose seething anger is simmering just barely below the surface of her performances; her tension with the cast and producers at this time was widely documented). As in the years before, issues rule the storylines here and while we've got some repeat offenders (infidelity, date rape, racism, drug use), there's also plenty of fresh material that these actors clearly have fun with (anti-Semitism, pregnancy, campus scandals, and newly discovered siblings). Minor complaints: the lack of original music continues to be an annoyance; it seems this year that the generic studio tracks have gotten even worse. Also missing are the funny guys from VH-1's Best Week Ever doing the "Everything You Need to Know About Beverly Hills 90210: Season Four". The segment still exists, but with much less entertaining hosts. Otherwise, Season Four continues to deliver the goods any 90210 fan could want--drama, drama, drama--and it's only just getting started. ---Kira Canny

Customer Reviews

The series was great, the DVD not so much!
I'm not through the whole season yet but I am already mad at the EXTENSIVE cutting of scenes in the Greek episode. The cheesy music instead of the music from the series I can tolerate (but am SO happy they kept the music in Season 3's finale) but the eliminating of scenes I cannot. They completely took out the storyline of Aundrea going ot the sorority with her star of David and only show the aftermath, cut out the girls showing up at Alpha house and cut out the end where the girls pledge to the Peach Pit sorority.

They better pony up to the music rights because this is getting ridiculous. I won't pay money for DVDs with chopped up shows!

My guilty addiction ;-P
I still love this show even after all these years. I love watching the episodes that I used to watch over and over and this season really takes off.
I love the second episode (The Girl From New York City) where Donna is afraid to tell her mother that she and David are now living together at the beach. In Strangers In The Night, Andrea finally loses her virginity which becomes an interesting story line and I love Twenty Years Ago Today when Brenda's new love interest proposes to her and she accepts. Also later in the season we see David begin to use drugs and watch the problems that ensue as a result. And finally the other two 'shattering' story lines are Brenda's departure, and Andrea giving birth to a little girl.
I'm so glad they brought this out so soon after season 3 and hope this means that season 5 will be out soon too. I love this programe so much and love watching these discs pile up on my shelves. I still go back to them every now and then and start over.

An incomplete time capsule
I was 12 when "Beverly Hills, 90210" premiered. The show and it's actors quickly became my whole life. The show was a barometer of current events, fashion, the political climate (hence Brandon Walsh's visit to Washington, DC to meet Bill Clinton)..if it was happening at the time, it was on "90210". Especially the music. WHERE THE HELL IS THE MUSIC??? A huge part of the landscape in the late 1980's-early 1990's was the music-pop, hip-hop, New Jack Swing, and the beginning of the grunge era- and how it's influence spilled over into fashion, language, etc. Yet CBS apparently thought that to the fans of the show, any DVD, even one with horrible public domain music, was better than no DVD at all. All those scenes at the Peach Pit, with Jeremy Jordan, Color Me Badd, Shanice, Brian McKnight playing on the jukebox? You'll have to suffer through cheesy imitation-doo-wop instead. Brenda's breakup with Dylan? Remember how she listened to REM's "Losing My Religion" over and over because it was playing in his car? You'll have to remember it, because it's not here. The difference is even move glaringly obvious in this season as David gets a piano and entertains the gang with some popular tunes. Instead of the footage aired, some grainy cutting-room floor footage was used, with music straight out of a player piano or nickelodeon. My gripe with the DVDs is with this series in general, not with this specific boxed set. Overall, the picture, sound quality, and special features are good, and there are even a few commentaries that are particularly entertaining. But as one who likes to look back and reminisce on my younger years, and how "90210" fit into that, something's not just missing...it's been rewritten.