Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV Series) My Desperate Valentine (1991) User Reviews

My Desperate Valentine (#2.16)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 30 October 2015]

This episode shows how Emily reacts after Brandon breaks up with her.

They really have made a good story out of it, by turning her into a stalker who keeps on calling him and dos everything to be near him. I like how they made it by adding so many things to it, including her letters. And we saw different reactions of people first thinking it was harmless and just feeling sorry for her.

It was also good that Brandon kept on saying that he likes her and she is not a bad person. Emily just had trouble understanding it.

The conclusion was also good with Brenda having a conversation with her and preventing her from making a mistake. It also put in a good point that we not always know the people around us and what they may do, just like they didn't know that Emily had psychiatric problems.

A Fatal Attraction A Poor Performance

[ecspringer-84759 · 9/10 · 27 December 2023]

In this episode of Beverly Hills 90210, Brandon Walsh ( Jason Priestley ) is in a horrifying situation when he's trying to break up with his girlfriend Emily Valentine ( Christine Elise ).

In a previous episode, Emily talks the gang into going to an underground club, and this leads to a rather stupid decision that involves Emily spiking Brandon's drink with a drug called Euphoria, which was actually a drug called Ecstasy.

Brandon would later feel the effects of what Emily gave him, and in the end Brandon would have a horrible experience with the whole night and the drug that has been forced upon him.

The situation leads into the events in this episode, Brandon has decided that it's for the best he and Emily break the relationship between them off, this includes being friends, at least for now, but Emily can't handle the situation and pretty much goes all Fatal Attraction on Brandon, such as threats typed on a typewriter belonging to Emily, the motorcycle that Emily drives, her tires are slashed, but only by her, just to get any sympathy from Brandon and his family, which gives her reason to stay at the Walsh house, by pretending that her parents are out of town.

Emily does things such as wearing Brandon's favorite baseball shirt, only to push the envelope more, this would later result into phone calls, much like the film Fatal Attraction, Emily uses the same tactic of calling the Walsh home and hanging up, then when the situation escalates into the fact that Brandon finally snaps on Emily, she threatens to burn down the homecoming float that the gang worked hard on, at the Walsh house.

While the 90210 cast are great as they always are in all the episodes, it's Christine Elise's performance that nearly makes this a little too comical, her acting is poor, but her previous episodes were pretty much the same, she's the most annoying character in the series, Emily Valentine certainly was the worst character the series had, when she disappeared, that was the best thing her character ever did!