text:  Absolutely, it was. It was wildly popular and it influenced shows like Buffy and Dawson's Creek and The O.C. All those kinds of things owe a lot to 90210. On the show, Brenda and her family moved to Beverly Hills from Minnesota. And it's a sort of fish out of water premise. Brenda was our sweet heroine and did a lot of high school heroine kinds of things. She fell in love with the local bad boy. She survived various emergencies, had sex for the first time, all that stuff. Mm hmm.