The Sweetest Mother's Day Gift!

90s teens! Have you heard the news? They’re coming back. Brenda and Brandon. Kelly and Steve. David and Andrea. And, of course, our beloved DYLAN MCKAY. That’s right girls! Tori Spelling herself just confirmed that the original 90210 is getting a reboot. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

And thank goodness, right? Now our kids can see who the real 90210 cast was, not that knock-off series that ran a few years back with characters named Dixon and Tabitha. No, this is the real deal. So dig out your scrunchies, French-roll up your jeans, and get ready to go back in time. Back to the days of pretending that instead of being stuck at home doing Algebra while your dad snored on the couch, you were actually cool enough to live in West Beverly Hills and party at the Peach Pit.

So here’s what we know about this long-awaited reboot. 

Quite possibly without meaning to, Tori Spelling spilled the beans in an interview on “Access” last Friday. When asked about a paparazzi photo of her with fellow cast members, she casually mentioned that the crew was “having coffee in between meetings with networks.” 

And then she said the words 16-year-old me has been longing to hear since I last saw Dylan McKay’s brooding eyebrow raise on my living room TV and dreamed that I was Kelly and it was me and my perfectly poofy blonde bangs that won his heart. 

“It’s confirmed. We are doing a new 90210,” the actress said. And gasps of excitement were heard across the nation from moms who were once 90s teens and still long nostalgically for their youth. 

OK, Tori. We have a million questions. Will Donna and David still be together? Did Kelly really end up back with Dylan in NYC? How old is baby Maddie? Is Andrea now a grown-up newspaper editor? Are they all old now, like us? Are they the parents of tweens or teens themselves? WILL THERE BE A PEACH PIT?! And will the cast hang out there drinking wine and cocktails now that they are all graying, wrinkly 40-somethings?

Spelling gave us a few details to hold onto. In relatively vague terms, she explained that “almost” the whole original cast is coming back (Shannen Doherty has been battling cancer, so her commitment is not confirmed, and Luke Perry is currently starting in the CW series Riverdale, so he will only guest star on occasion. (Sigh. We will take what we can get, I guess.)

But that leads us to believe we will see regulars like Andrea and David and Brandon, and maybe even Valerie, Janet, and Noah . . . ?

Spelling also says the OG cast will play “heightened versions of ourselves” and that “fans will be pleasantly surprised because we will undercut that with scenes from the show.” She says to expect hour-long shows that resemble the style of Curb Your Enthusiasm. And, she added, “It could be fictional, it could be non-fictional, people will have to guess. And then we will have pop-ins, because we’re behind the scenes trying to do the reboot.”

I have no idea what any of that means, but you better believe I’ll be tuning in to find out! Only this time I’ll probably have a glass of wine in hand instead of a Sprite. I just hope they air the show by 9:00—I mean, we ain’t teenagers anymore, amiright? 

So when exactly can we expect the perfectly coiffed crew to grace our TV screens? Spelling says sometime in 2019! So not too long to wait to see what exactly the Walshes and friends have been up to these past two decades. Will the girls bring back lipliner and choker necklaces? And will the boys still wear those sunglasses that made them look so cool? Will the intro be them dancing on the beach with their mom and dad bods?! Can’t wait to find out!

So God Made a Grandmother book by Leslie Means

If you liked this, you'll love our book, SO GOD MADE A GRANDMA

Order Now!

Karen Johnson

Karen Johnson is a freelance writer who is known on social media as The 21st Century SAHM. She is an assistant editor at Sammiches and Psych Meds, staff writer and social media manager for Scary Mommy, and is the author of I Brushed My Hair Today, A Mom Journal for Mostly Together Moms. Follow Karen on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/21stcenturysahm/, Twitter https://twitter.com/21stcenturysahm , and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the21stcenturysahm/

In Your 30s the Stakes Feel Higher

In: Living
Woman wading in shallow pond with rocks

I’m in the years where I’m not old, but I’m no longer young. Some women my age are just announcing their first pregnancies, while others like me are navigating pre-teen and teenage years. The 30s hold a different kind of tension. The days move faster now. Not because little feet are toddling through the house, but because the calendar is always full. Afternoons are spent running kids to practices, sitting in parking lots, and juggling dinner between drop-offs and pick-ups. The conversations are deeper. The questions are bigger. The stakes feel higher. This season isn’t about sticky fingers and sleepless...

Keep Reading

Sometimes You Just Need a Day Off—Give Yourself Permission To Take One

In: Living
Woman looking at water

I didn’t need a sick day. I needed a well day—and I didn’t realize how much until I finally took one. We’ve labeled our time off into neat, acceptable categories. Sick days are for fevers and doctor appointments. Personal days are reserved for emergencies and obligations. But what about the in-between days? When there’s no real diagnosable health issue and no major event or appointment that needs attendance. The days when there’s nothing technically wrong, but everything feels off.  A day when you’re barely hanging on, but still showing up. That’s where the well day comes in. On behalf of...

Keep Reading

I’m Learning To Feel Like I Belong In a Room Because I Want Her To Know She Always Does

In: Living, Motherhood
Little girl looking in the mirror

It took me 39 years to like myself. I mean really, honestly look in the mirror and say, “You go, girl.” I understand the concept of progress, not perfection, but the idea of always working on myself became a tiring and unrelenting objective. Here I was shrinking that waist, smoothing my skin, studying hard, working way too late, and often burning the candle at both ends to yield results that were still less than the ideal. It’s all well and good to be a doer who sets reasonable and sometimes unreasonable goals, but throughout my teens and into my early...

Keep Reading

8 Truths for the Graduate Still Figuring It Out

In: Living
Teen girl sitting on grass looking at fountain

Dear Graduate, I know you’re feeling it all right now. Anticipation, trepidation, and then other times, you don’t know what to feel at all. I know because I once felt the same. I graduated from high school several years ago, and here’s what I want you to know: It’s okay if you don’t have it all figured out. Sounds cliché, but it’s true. Whether you plan to attend college, take a gap year, get a job, or you don’t know yet what you want to do, it’s okay. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. It’s so easy to fall into the...

Keep Reading

It’s Never Too Late To Start Again

In: Living
Family at mother's graduation

From a young age, I knew what I wanted my future career to look like. I pursued a path in healthcare, determined to use my gift for compassion to help others. I loved it. Being a small part of someone’s life during vulnerable moments made me feel like I was truly living out God’s calling on my life. Until I had children of my own. The work I did was exhausting—physically, mentally, and emotionally. What I didn’t anticipate was how that exhaustion would grow once I had children waiting for me at the end of each day. I was giving...

Keep Reading

From a Mom Failed By the Medical System: Your Experience Matters

In: Living
Woman holding baby standing by window

I was pregnant with my first baby in 2023, and my pregnancy was “picture perfect,” or so I was told. I went to all of my appointments, and every time I was reassured that everything looked great. My weight gain was “normal,” my baby was measuring appropriately, and his heartbeat was strong. My blood pressure was always a little elevated, but no one seemed concerned. Everything was fine…until it wasn’t. Looking back, I knew deep down something wasn’t right when I gained 10 pounds between my May and June appointments. I brushed it off, blaming a recent trip to Texas...

Keep Reading

Maybe that “Mean Mom” Is Just Busy

In: Friendship
Woman walking away

Ever since Ashley Tisdale wrote about leaving her toxic mom group, I have noticed something shift among women my age, moms in our 40s who built friendships through school drop-offs, soccer sidelines, neighborhood walks, and birthday parties. Here is the thing….no one wants to be labeled the “mean girls mom group.” Recently, I was out to dinner with a friend when she shared something that stuck with me. A woman had quietly left their local moms’ group and later treated them as if they were exclusionary. The final straw? She had sent a group text at dinnertime and no one...

Keep Reading

I’m Going to Tell You the Things Your Mom Should Have Told You

In: Living, Motherhood
Mother with three grown daughters

During my oldest daughter’s freshman year of college, I started being haunted by a recurring dream of an old-fashioned suitcase—one of those hard-sided ones that’s as big as they come. In the dream, when I open the suitcase, it’s overflowing with clothing, shoes, and all kinds of stuff that belongs to me and each of my three daughters. Everything in the suitcase is all jumbled together. Nobody else in the dream is worried about sorting through everything, but I am totally stressed about it. To top it all off, I have to deal with this suitcase while preparing for a...

Keep Reading

Your Worth Is Not Someone Else’s To Measure

In: Faith, Living
Woman looking over canyon

Insecurity is something we all carry in one form or another. For me, it has probably always looked confident and outgoing from the outside. But internally, it can feel heavy, complicated, and exhausting at times. And when someone comes along whose behavior reinforces those insecurities, it amplifies what was already there. There was someone I had hoped to genuinely connect with, but it was clear from the start that the feeling wasn’t mutual. From the beginning, their wall was up. No matter how kind I tried to be or how carefully I showed up, it never came down. Their distance...

Keep Reading

My In-Laws Don’t Like Me and It Breaks My Heart

In: Living
Family silhouette by the water

Since I was a little girl, I dreamed of what it might be like to gain an entire family when I got married. My parents were lovely. I never wanted for anything, and I had very involved grandparents. However, any other family was far away, and much of my childhood was lonely. I dreamed of brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law and their spouses to do life with. Maybe we would go on road trips together or stay in and play games and have a few drinks. I dreamed of raising our kids together and giving my children the cousin memories I only...

Keep Reading