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Dr. 90210, the cable reality series focusing on a group of Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeons, begins its second season by catching up with Dr. Robert M. Rey, who has become quite successful -- and quite wealthy -- since the previous season. We are also introduced to two new "characters," likewise plastic surgeons: Dr. Jason Diamond, a handsome bachelor, and Dr. Linda Li, who shares a medical practice with her anesthesiologist husband. As before, the personal lives of the surgeons take up as much screen time as their professional lives, notably in those episodes dealing with Dr. Li's efforts to become pregnant, and Dr. Diamond's relationship with his current girlfriend. Among the season's best episodes are "Psychiatrists With Knives," which details the many different reasons why people submit to cosmetic surgery; "Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number," in which Dr. Robert Kotler performs a face-lift on the husband of a previous patient; and the compelling "Board-Certified Plastic Surgeons," wherein a surgeon tackles a labiaplasty and the final stages of sex change operation. And in the season finale "New Beginnings and New Horizons," many of the on-job and off-job travails and triumphs depicted on the past 12 episodes are catalogued, addressed, and (for the most part) brought to closure. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi