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The Beautiful and the DamnedFrom Kelly Taylor to Meredith Grey, the long-suffering ladies of prime-time TV
SHIT HAPPENS Mostly to 90210's Kelly Taylor In the history of television, there are victims and then there is Kelly Taylor. As played by Jennie Garth for all 10 seasons of the original Beverly Hills, 90210, the kindhearted, once-slutty Kelly was the Job of prime-time soap operas. Consider the traumas she weathered: Born to a cokehead mom and an absentee dad, Kelly, in no particular order, lost her virginity via date rape, ODed on diet pills, was badly burned in a house fire, joined a cult, dated a cokehead, became an addict, was single-white-femaled, miscarried, got shot by carjackers, developed amnesia, was sexually harassed by a member of the medical profession, was attacked and raped in an alley, eventually killed her rapist in revenge, and lived through dozens of other comparatively piddling traumas. Kelly is the ultimate TV victim not only because she was afflicted by an absurd number of harrowing events—a decent amount of bad juju befell high-school cronies Donna and Brenda as well (cheating boyfriend, abusive boyfriend, school shooting for D.; cancer scare, pregnancy scare, mugging, unfaithful boyfriend, unfaithful best friend, quickie marriage, ideological fling with animal rights activists for B.)—but also because of the spirit with which she weathered these traumas: meekly. 
BRAINWASHED, VIOLATED, OVERMEDICATED In the gay '90s, Kelly saw it all As another television season comes to an end, Radar has scanned the airwaves for the most put-upon women on prime time in order to honor them with the Kelly Taylor Memorial Victim Award. Next year, upon her return to small screen in the CW's remake of 90210, Kelly herself may be joining this batch of oft-abused sad sacks. 
Are you truly serious with this crap! This is the best you could report on.... really. You must think the readers are truly dumb if they find this interesting. This reminds me of a esssay I put together 20 minutes before class with a hang over! IT'S A SOPA OPERA! GET OVER IT! If you look at what they put thru other women in reality T.V . this is nothing. Tell me what are exactly trying to say with this, cause you lost me at hello. Posted by: LeeHarvey on June 10, 2008 6:12 AM it's a fun article. you have to admit that it's way more fun to watch all the drama and sucky lives of others. i do have to comment though on the author not checking all of their facts first. peyton sawyer on one tree hill did not loose her dad (adopted dad). he is still alive, just working on a boat somewhere in some ocean. Posted by: lizzygilly on June 10, 2008 10:18 AM C´mon? How can uou forget lana lang from smallville, the girl most hit in the head in the history of humanity. Posted by: diogorccarvalho on June 10, 2008 6:25 PM Actually, Kate wasn't acquitted; she made a plea deal. And she's raising another woman's baby as her own. And she got married to a cop she had beat up so the authorities wouldn't believe he was in on helping her remain a fugitive from the law. Does that bump her up a notch or two? Posted by: doctorian001 on June 10, 2008 11:05 PM Advertisement Abby Lockhart also had an abortion during her first marriage because she was worried it would turn out bipolar like the rest of her immediate family. Posted by: rosserfan on June 12, 2008 11:30 PM Before you try out your pseudo snarky card and try to look "ultra cool" with all your comments about Peyton Sawyer maybe you should reserach what you have to say. Peyton did have two mothers die, her adoptive one and her real one, but her father didn't die. And I guess you are such a great actor that you can disrespect others who are trying to make it in the business. Hilarie Burton is a very good actreess, a lot better then the wanna-bes on the realiity shows and a lot of actors that litter the airwaves today. She is honest, and soulful in her delivery of Peyton Sawyer and she did a phenomal job in the indie film The List. Not to mention she just landed an "A" lister job playing Dakota Fannings mother in the movie "The Secret Life of Bees." Posted by: blueaeryn on June 13, 2008 11:10 AM Post a commentYour comment will not be visible for about a minute. If you don't see your comment when the page reloads, do not post it again. Reload the page in a minute, and you'll see it. < BACK TO Features |
    
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