Season 1 • Episode 17
LatestHunter shocks everyone by announcing her engagement to Dweezil Zappa, whom she has known for only a day. They plan to marry that Saturday. Hunter's agent arranges for a Spanish magazine to cover the wedding. In order to make the event seem more newsworthy, Hunter pays former Saved by the Bell star Elizabeth Berkley $25,000 to pose as her old friend and serve as a celebrity bridesmaid.
This "show-within-a-show" comedy from Darren Star takes a satirical look at the action behind the scenes of a teen prime-time soap. It centers on the on and off-camera antics of five actors who star in a fictional high school drama called Grosse Pointe
Writing
Darren Star weaponizing his own Beverly Hills 90210 experience
Acting
Lindsay Sloane's Marcy—desperate, brilliant, too real
Production
Fake show sets that perfectly mirror actual WB garbage
Creator
Darren Star
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Darren Star created this immediately after leaving 90210, making it essentially a $30 million subtweet at his own legacy.
The fictional show's title Grosse Pointe was chosen because Star grew up there—he's literally mocking his own suburban origin story while mocking teen TV.
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