DARCY EDWARDS GRADUATES: I don't know how I missed this, but here's some very cracksmoky casting news from the 90210 remake. First, Shenae Grimes -- DeGrassi's Darcy -- will be the main character, presumably the Shannon Doherty stand-in. Part of me wants to be outraged that a girl who attended the least attractive high school in North America is going to be popular in Beverly Hills, but the fact is that Darcy was a ringer. Of all the credulity-straining plotlines that DeGrassi did (from Emma's bracelet-bartering abandoned-van throat-gonorrhea to gay JT's baby-supporting Oxycontin dealership to Sean's townie-deafening fisticuffs), the least believable was probably the one where Spinner thought Darcy and Paige were roughly equal catches.
Incidentally, Darcy transferred to DeGrassi in probably grade 11 (they go 13 rounds up there) and has spent three years at the school (unconfirmed -- I missed the last two years), so assuming she spends a couple of years at BHHS, she'll have had seven years of high school. Which brings me to the next casting tidbit -- Jessica Stroup. Stroup will have been in high school even longer, say eight years, since her recurring gig this year was meeting up with Reaper's Sam at bars (drinking age in Seattle is 21) and generally serving as counterpoint to Missy Peregrym's weirdly expansive nose. STICK IT!
Finally, Arrested Development's Lucille Bluth plays grandma. Hopefully drunk and suffocating.
Very weird, that last one, but not as weird as the idea that they're going to film a show about BHHS where none of the main characters is Persian.
ETA: Sepinwall has the cast photo. That explains why I didn't recognize Tristan Wilds -- he's smiling. If the guy off to the right is supposed to be Persian, and I can't really see very well so don't get mad at me, but he looks Persian like Mickey Rooney looks Japanese.
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