In one of the first scenes of the new “Beverly Hills: 90210,” the most popular guy in school, Ethan Ward (Dustin Milligan, “Supernatural”), gets caught receiving oral sex in his shiny, black SUV from a girl who is definitely not his girlfriend.

The scene pretty much sums up the aesthetic of the whole show and there are several parallels between the scene and the show. The show seems like a great idea and it looks really good.

But, sadly, it’s not as good as hoped and you know it isn’t what you really want.

But you watch the show anyway, in hopes it will be better than you’d expect.

New arrivals to town, Annie (Shenae Grimes, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”) and her adopted brother Dixon Wilson (Tristan Wilds, “The Wire”), are the new principal’s kids. Immediately their lives begin to entwine with the cool kids’ world of lying, cheating and general debauchery.

In the two-hour series premiere’s roughly 80 minutes of actual show, around 30 plot elements were revealed. That figures up to a “twist” every 2.67 minutes.

Doesn’t that strike you as just a bit absurd?

The first hour built up to Naomi Clark’s (AnnaLynne McCord, “Nip/Tuck”) 16th birthday party, sort of. Naomi, the evil queen bee, mentions it a few times, and her parents use it as an excuse for her never turning in homework.

When the principal demands that she write an overdue book report, she gets Annie to give her an old one and copies it word for word.

We also learn of pill addictions, lacrosse team fights, hidden talents and every manner of relationship drama imaginable.

When the show finally reaches its climax, it paid off. The performance by indie band Tilly and the Wall at Naomi’s outlandish not-so-sweet-16 party put some much-needed life into the overworked show.

The second hour went straight back to the more is more policy the show follows. With a very difficult to believe secret from the past being revealed, it went from absurd to over the top.

Recent hit teen dramas, such as Gossip Girl, are indebted to the original 90210, which ran from 1990 to 2000.

This makes the weak rip-off that is the new “Beverly Hills: 90210” that much more disappointing.