The death of Shannen Doherty on July 13 at age 53 continues to capture the world’s attention.
Frankly, I’ve been having trouble keeping up with all the coverage — and if I’m having trouble (what, with my Google Alerts and all), I imagine you are too.
To make all the newsy articles, reflective essays, analyses, and photo galleries that have come out and still are coming out easily accessible, I’m compiling everything in this post and will update it periodically.
Below, you’ll first find everything I shared in the July 16 edition of “Teen Drama Links.” Underneath that, I’m sectioning off each new batch of links with the date I’ve updated this post.
Please note, this will not be an exhaustive compilation. Though this list is quite lengthy already and going to grow, it is not literally every little thing that has been published about Doherty. Like “Teen Drama Links,” this is a curated roundup of notable articles, particularly those related to “Beverly Hills, 90210” and the teen drama genre.
That said, if there’s something missing that you think fellow fans would like to read, feel free to drop it in the comments below.
July 16, 2024
“Shannen Doherty’s Mother Speaks Out After Actress’ Death: ‘My Beautiful Girl and My Heart’” (People)
“Shannen Doherty’s Close Friend and Doctor Describes Her ‘Beautiful and Loving’ Final Moments” (People)
“Shannen Doherty’s Courageous Life: How the 90210 Star Made It Her Mission to Inspire Others Amid Cancer Diagnosis” (People)
This is the magazine’s new cover story.
“Shannen Doherty Agreed to Finalize Her Divorce from Ex Kurt Iswarienko 1 Day Before She Died” (People)
“The Sweetest Photos of Shannen Doherty and the Cast of Beverly Hills, 90210” (People)
“Shannen Doherty’s Life in Pictures” (People)
“Viola Davis, Katie Couric and More Stars Pay Tribute to Shannen Doherty After Her Death: ‘Fly So High’” (People)
“Shannen Doherty Recorded 4 Episodes of Her Charmed Rewatch Podcast in Her Final Days: ‘So Motivated’” (People)
“Shannen Doherty Opened Up About Wanting to ‘Embrace Life’ in Her Last PEOPLE Cover Story Before Her Death” (People)
“Fans React to Shannen Doherty’s Death Years After Her 90210 Costar Luke Perry: ‘Say Hi to Luke for Us’” (People)
“What It Was Really Like to Meet and Interview Shannen Doherty for an Us Weekly Cover Story” (Us Weekly)
“Shannen Doherty Dead at 53: Remembering Her Life and Legacy” (E! Online)
“Remembering Shannen Doherty: A Career In Photos, From ‘Little House’ To ‘90210’” (Deadline)
“As Brenda in ‘90210,’ Shannen Doherty played a complex adolescent not unlike herself” (Los Angeles Times)
“Remembering Shannen Doherty, the Quintessential Gen X Girl” (TIME)
“In ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Shannen Doherty Redefined Teen TV Drama” (The New York Times)
“Shannen Doherty’s Final Act Was a Podcast That Put It All Out There” (The New York Times)
“How to Watch Shannen Doherty’s Most Notable Performances” (The New York Times)
“Remembering Shannen Doherty: A Gen X Icon Who Fought Like Hell to Live” (Variety)
“Nobody Could Break Shannen Doherty, and Everybody Tried” (Rolling Stone)
“The Emotional Intensity of Shannen Doherty — and Brenda Walsh — Won’t Be Forgotten” (Glamour)
“Shannen Doherty was irresistible, underrated, and permanently shackled to misogynistic speculation” (The Independent)
“Shannen Doherty was the 90s bad girl everyone loved to hate. She was more complex than that” (The Guardian)
“Shannen Doherty’s Brenda Walsh made it OK for good girls to have sex in high school” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
“She’s known for ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ but Shannen Doherty has other iconic roles” (CNN)
“Shannen Doherty’s most empowering quotes about her cancer battle before her death” (New York Post)
“19 Glorious Vintage Pictures of the Late Shannen Doherty” (Vogue)
“Shannen Doherty’s Best 90210 and Charmed ET Interviews (Flashback)” (Entertainment Tonight)
“Saying Goodbye to Shannen Doherty; Remembering Brenda Walsh’s Style” (Fashionably Ill)
July 18, 2024
“After Luke Perry, Shannen Doherty’s death is even more devastating for fans” (Today)
“Shannen Doherty Made 90210. It Never Stopped Following Her Around.” (Slate)
“Opinion: Shannen Doherty was painted as a bad-girl ‘Veronica’ stereotype. She deserved better” (Los Angeles Times)
“Shannen Doherty Elevated Bitchiness to an Art Form” (Vulture)
“‘90210’ Reboot Star AnnaLynne McCord Remembers ‘Fighter’ and ‘Rebel’ Shannen Doherty” (Us Weekly)
“The Beverly Hills, 90210 Cast: Where Are They Now?” (People)
“The Best Shannen Doherty Movies And TV Shows And How To Watch Them” (Cinemablend)
“Shannen Doherty Tributes Extend to Torrance High School Where ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Filmed” (Los Angeles Magazine)
“We Owe Shannen Doherty an Apology” (The New York Times)
“Team Brenda Forever” (Vogue)
“Shannen Doherty’s Best Television & Film Performances” (Movieweb)
“How Shannen Doherty’s on-screen legacy changed our gay lives” (Pride)
July 20, 2024
“9-OH! News” (YouTube)
This is nearly 40 minutes of me talking about Doherty’s life and death with Peter Ferriero, host of the “Beverly Hills 90210 Show.”
“I Choose...To Grieve The Loss of Shannen Doherty” (I Choose Me with Jennie Garth)
“Shannen Doherty: Divorced After Death” (TMZ)
“Shannen Doherty Died amid a Contentious Court Fight with Her Ex. How She Was Able to Divorce Him After Her Death” (People)
“Roma Downey Details Last Night with Shannen Doherty Before Her Death: ‘She Lived Fully’” (People)
“TNT honors Shannen Doherty with ‘Charmed' marathon celebrating the ‘best of Prue’” (USA Today)
“Shannen Doherty’s Untimely Death Sparks Important Conversations About Healthcare Access And Equity” (Forbes)
“Dear Shannen Doherty: I’m sorry I bought the ‘I Hate Brenda’ newsletter in high school” (Today)
“Look back at Shannen Doherty on TODAY in 1987 (at 15!)” (Today)
“Shannen Doherty’s Most Essential Beverly Hills, 90210 Episodes” (Vulture)
“How Shannen Doherty’s Character On ‘Charmed’ Created A Safe Space For Gay Men” (HuffPost)
“How Shannen Doherty’s 1988 Box-Office Flop Changed Teen Movies Forever” (Movieweb)
“Actress Shannen Doherty dies at 53, after a nearly decade-long battle with breast cancer” (NPR)
Despite the misldeading headline, this isn’t an obituary — it’s an essay.
“Shannen Doherty’s Breast Cancer Journey Shines Focus on Health Insurance” (University of Colorado Cancer Center)
“Shannen Doherty’s Most Memorable Roles in TV and Film” (PopCulture.com)
“Quiz of the week: Which film was Shannen Doherty’s breakthrough?” (BBC)
July 24, 2024
Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills, 90210) was asked about Doherty’s passing in two new interviews. (WWD / WMMR)
“Remembering Shannen Doherty” (9021OMG)
“Remembering Shannen Doherty” (The House of Halliwell)
“What Shannen Doherty Understood About Brenda Walsh” (The Atlantic)
“Shannen Doherty’s death is personal for Gen X” (The Baltimore Banner)
“Shannen Doherty and Prue Halliwell Shaped My Love of Television” (Collider)
July 28, 2024
“Jennie Garth reacts to death of ‘90210’ costar Shannen Doherty” (Today)
“Jennie Garth Remembers Shannen Doherty, Talks New Podcast and Clothing Line” (The View)
“Jennie Garth on How ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Cast Is Coping With Shannen Doherty’s Death” (Entertainment Tonight)
“Celebrating Shannen Doherty: The Unaired STUBBS Shortcom” (Kevin Smith)
“Kevin Smith Recalls Last Conversation with Shannen Doherty: She ‘Really Wanted to Do’ Mallrats 2” (People)
“GUEST APPEARANCE: Shannon Doherty’s legacy of courage” (Finger Lakes Times)
It’s a shame Doherty’s first name is misspelled in the headline.
July 29, 2024
“Let’s Honor Shannen Doherty” (Let’s Be Clear)
“Miss Rebel” (misSPELLING)
August 3, 2024
“Jennie Garth Shares How Beverly Hills, 90210 Cast Leans on Each Other After Shannen Doherty’s Death” (People)
“Sometimes We Have Big Feelings About Celebrities. And That’s (Mostly) Okay.” (CrimeReads)
August 7, 2024
“Let’s Listen To Your Messages for Shannen” (Let’s Be Clear)
“Heathers Producer Remembers Young Shannen Doherty as a ‘Spitfire’ on Set: ‘A Little Bulldozer’” (People)
“Streaming Shannen Doherty: She May Be Gone, but Her Movies (Good and Bad) Live On” (Coachella Valley Independent)
August 17, 2024
All further updates will be in “Teen Drama Links” each week.
I wrote this to a friend of a friend of mine who asked about people’s thoughts about Shannen. I figured I’d put it here, as well.
I wanted to talk to someone other than my favorite niece about Shannen. I feel like no one other than her and my husband can understand the depth of my feelings about this actress who I never got to meet, but yet feel so close to.
I’m old enough to remember her in the Little House spinoff as Jenny Wilder. I loved her then, and always made it a point to watch everything she was in. Well, everything is maybe an overstatement. More correctly, I would watch things just because she was in them (same as I did with Luke). Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Heathers, Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, Mallrats…
I bought her book, and finally I listened to her podcast and just began listening to House of Halliwell because they were going back to the beginning with her as one of the cohosts.
I love that she got to “be clear” on her podcast. I love that she got to talk to her doctors, mom, her friends, her exes, other celebrities she admired. I love that we got to hear her real, deep, deep unfettered belly laugh several times. You know what I keep thinking about as far as that goes? That episode in season one “It’s Only a Test” (Oh God, just as i wrote it it hit me anew that it’s the one where she finds a lump in her breast 😭) She’s sitting on her bed with Brandon and she’s afraid. She’s talking about their Aunt Sheila, crying, and then Brandon says something and she asks sarcastically something like ‘How much wisdom did you accumulate in that seven minutes’—he’s seven minutes older—he says, “A small lifetime”. They start laughing and hitting each other. Her laugh there?? It wasn’t an actor laugh. That was the laugh we got to hear on her podcast from time to time where it starts deep and then drops off for a few seconds into a silent laugh of just…almost no breath. A kind of ah ah ah stutter and then back to the deep laugh again. Man.
On her podcast you can hear how much she loved living, loved her life. My niece and I said a few times how much fun it would be to be able to be her friend. For an all too brief moment we were virtually allowed into the outer part of her inner circle. Her intelligence, her fears, her joys, her sarcasm, her humor, and her humanness just shined.
As much as I loved getting a glimpse into that outer part of her inner circle, it makes me rail against her death even more. She had so many more dreams left to live! So many things she wanted to do. I wanted her to go horseback riding in Utah with Katherine Heigl, rescue more horses and dogs, to have more time with her mom, her dog Bowie, her family and friends, to get back to Italy again, to finally find that man that would stand with her through sickness and health forever. I wanted for her what she wanted, to go on living, and loving, laughing, and learning.
I do know, and of course she knew it even better that that’s not really how stage IV metastatic cancer works, but I wanted to believe she’d be the exception. I am so sad that she wasn’t.
Man.
Fuck Cancer.
Charlotte Rozich, LMT
Thank you for this. 💕