Kelly Taylor - Beverly Hills 90210

Kelly Taylor is just an awful person from the beginning of the series to the end.
In the first season she is a stuck up snob who speaks only of clothing and boys. The only reason she becomes friends with Brenda is to avoid having a fat girl as a lab partner. Kelly treats all those around her badly. She constantly betrays Brenda, even hitting on her boyfriend after they have begun dating. She asks Brandon to the school dance, and then flaunts it in Andrea's face, even though she knows that Andrea is in love with him. She treats Steve horribly at the same dance, forgetting his birthday and ignoring the fact that he is in pain because he has found out that he was adopted. She is more interested in trying to get his best friend to make out with her and in being spring fling princess.

In the second season, this selfish, bratty persona completely devoid of empathy or substance continues. She treats David and his father horribly, even though both of them are nothing but kind to her. She continues to treat Steve and Brenda badly when it suits her to do so and for no real reason. It is also in this season that she whispers to Brandon when he brings an African American girl to the Peach Pit; "This is very hip of you Brandon." Then in the next season she sleeps with Brenda's boyfriend. This is just disgusting. She not only sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend once, she continues to do it and be his "thing on the side". This is bad enough, but to top it off, she isn't even a good girlfriend to him. She makes him indulge her every crazy whim. When he needs her, for example when his father died, she refuses to go to the funeral with him because she thinks she looks fat.

The worst part about this character comes in the later seasons. One would think that at least someone who has broken apart loving relationships, thrown friends aside, betrayed others, and slept with almost guy friend she ever had would be non-judgmental. This is the good thing about people with a past. If they are matured by it then they grow to be less harsh on others around them. They become forgiving and take a more zen-like outlook on life. But with the awful Kelly Taylor, this is not the case.

When Brenda leaves the show, she is succeeded by Valerie and later Gina. These are two women with tragic childhoods. They did not grow up in privilege and sunshine like Ms. Taylor. She could never imagine the things those poor girls went through. Yet, from the moment they arrive, the same jealousy she showed towards Brenda reared it's ugly head. She berated them, outcast them and treated them like garbage. Not only did she NOT give them a break when they made mistakes (mistakes which were far more understandable given their backgrounds, as opposed to Kelly who did all the same things but for no reason other than an inability to care for anyone but herself), but she evolved into the most judgmental character on the show.

With Kelly's inclusion in the show, the message seemed to be that if you are a selfish brat who has no problem betraying everyone around you to get what you want; you will always be forgiven and always come out on top. Meanwhile, those you destroy will be cast to the side and disappear.