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Running for 10 seasons in total and inspiring several more series in its wake,
Beverly Hills 90210 is undoubtedly one of the most popular shows of the 90s. A decade-spanning look into the developing lives of upscale Beverly Hills teenagers trying to navigate their lives through high school, then college, then early adulthood, particularly as the show navigated through topics both lighthearted and serious, the long-spanning coming-of-age series became a massive ongoing success for its central players, including Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Tori Spelling, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, and the late Luke Perry.
Back in the summer of 2013, the Syfy Channel debuted a little thing called “Sharknado,” a deliberately campy goof in which a bizarre weather anomaly caused a tornado filled with killer sharks to bear down upon Los Angeles in an orgy of barely adequate special effects while gnawing on a variety of vaguely familiar second-tier celebrities struggling mightily to keep straight faces. The end result was not “good” in any conventional sense of the term, but the combination of a certain goofball spirit and that undeniable grabber of a title came along at the point during the dog days of the season when people were desperately in search of some kind of weirdo diversion (it should be noted that at this point and time, the world as a whole had not yet turned into one giant metaphorical sharknado). It became a moderate cult sensation amongst people who had grown tired of the likes of “The Room” and were looking for a new cinematic oddity to goof on. Each summer since, Syfy has seen