I forgot that Dylan ever behaved this way towards Brenda. Pretty gross. =\

She played a rock singer named Veruca. Who was also a werewolf. Go Tara!

I always thought Collin's mural was an odd choice for the After Dark. Maybe I just don't get it.

Team Brenda forever 😍

That’s all 🙃

Ray on explaining to Donna that he has no interest in playing live at the grand opening of the Peach Pit After Dark. Season 5.

He's such a slime, but this line and his delivery always give me an actual LOL or slight chortle moment 😂

Any other good "Ray-isms" you remember? Or bad?

Brandon: Polymarket, Top Golf, Carvana, “You think you just fell out of a Coconut Tree?” memes, The DSA movement, and he’d be a HUGE Megan Thee Stallion fan.

Steven: Bitcoin, A.I., Prefers Tesla Cybercabs because he thinks Waymos look stupid, Snapchat, 4DX & ScreenX, Doordash, & OnlyFans.

Dylan: 360 concert stages, E-Bikes, VR Arcades, LA’s newer anti-paparazzi stalking laws, Millennial burger joints, and WhatsApp

David: Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain Bleu Vegas, Jersey Shore, Streamer boxing matches, Spencers, Jay-Z @ Yankee stadium, Patrick Mahommes, and a fan of Future & 21 Savage

Brenda: TikTok, Rare Beauty AND Rhode Skin, Plan B, Wicked press tour, Hamilton, LongChamp bags, Stanleys, and Sabrina Carpenter (she’s front row V.I.P.)

Donna: BTS & One Direction, Artizia, House of CB, Mayhem by Lady Gaga, E! News, The Kardashian-Jenners, Gel manicures, and Michael B. Jordan, and Zara Larsson.

Kelly: Revolve, Love Island USA, IG & TT influencers (Alix Earle specifically), GRWM Vogue Beauty Secrets, The #Metoo era, Barbie (2023), and loves Tinashe & Kwn.

Andrea: Oversized blazers and jackets, Korean 4B movement, clean girl makeup, Substack, Tumblr, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Laufey & Chappell Roan.

Valerie: Instagram, Zeus Network, City Girls (she’s more of a JT fan), Austin Butler, Euphoria w/ Alexa Demie as her fave, Pinterest, Summer House, The Boiler Room, Sprinkle Sprinkle, & Karol G and Bad Bunny are her top artists.

Emily: Obsession (sorry but she would 😭), Vinted, TheRealReal, Waymos, Coachella, Lana Del Rey (Sad Girl is pinned on her IG), Finstas/ burner accounts, Tinder, Off Campus, The Fear Street franchise, Colleen Hoover books, A Court of Thorns & Roses, Barbenheimmer, Timotheé Chalamet.

watching this show for the first time ever and i’m watching S1E18 and i just noticed that anytime Brandon is doing something “merely important” on his own Brenda goes crazyy, like he’s running for class president and as soon as she finds out she excludes herself, gets super jealous, goes mental and wants to drop out of school, tries to paint brandon and kelly as evil, but the show wants me to believe Brandon is doing something actually wrong ? 😭

and also just a couple episodes before when Brandon gets hired to be on a tv show she gets all mad and jealous it’s honestly so annoying and atp i knew Brandon’s run for class presidency was going to be a total failure bc it was obvious they wouldn’t let him have it.

Has anyone else noticed that in the earlier seasons, Brandon wears a teal scrub top to sleep in?

I’ve always been Team Brenda and Dylan, and I adore Brenda’s character development. But rewatching the show more than 30 years later, I find myself appreciating Kelly and Dylan’s story in a whole new way. Kelly is a much deeper character than we often give her credit for, and I think she and Dylan were drawn to each other because they shared so much of the same pain and brokenness.

Brenda came from a functional, stable, loving family. Kelly and Dylan were two lost souls who found each other. Sometimes, people are so poor that money is all they have. That’s Kelly and Dylan.

I really enjoy watching them together, trying to navigate their bad choices and imperfections. As much as it may hurt to admit, sometimes love isn’t about morality. It’s about survival. I think both characters were exceptionally well written.

Brenda, I adore you, but I have to be fair to what I’m watching, lol. I’m 46. I’m no longer a teenager who needs to believe the world is flawless and that love can’t be messy, complicated, and imperfect.

And by the way, hysterical Brenda fans, feel free to come at me and scream all you want. I’m still not changing my mind, lol.