Thursday, October 23, 2008

"Why were you guys ex-friends?"

Two great additions to the cast - Anna and Tiffany. We'll discuss Tiffany first, who I believe I will refer to as TyFFanI from here on out. She is WYLD. She steals, gets naked on camera in front of David Silver, and sneers at Cindy within the first 15 seconds of meeting her. I feel as though Aaron Spelling didn't really get to excise this desire for a wild child female character until Valerie Malone (Tiffani Amber-Thiessen), but TyFFanI was a good start. I could see her hanging at early NiN concerts, and I'm sure anyone could relate to the teenager who needs to tell you about their absentee parent within minutes of first meeting them. She also proves to be too wyld for Kelly Taylor, the notorious spoiled brat skank of the series. Oops, episode update - TyFFanI's just "been caught stealin'." 

Anna is a sad character - she is the mexican maid who serves as Cindy's only friend since she moved to Beverly Hills, and much of their communication is Anna, wide eyed and frayed, as Cindy rambles on like some old spinster speaking to her cats, furniture, lawn orniments. I guess Anna should have known what she was getting into, her first encounter with Cindy Walsh was as she was outside, furiously gardening.... at 8 am in the morning. 

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