Slumming is not an activity most people would associate with Beverly Hills but then, the members of the Abramowitz family who are the focus of Slums of Beverly Hills are not most people. A part of the lower middle class, the Abramowitz children are growing up with no mother, few standards and fewer social skills. In most cultures, that would be seen as a tragedy. Here, it is played for laughs. To accomplish this worthy goal, he just keeps moving them from address to address usually in the dead of the night to avoid paying the past due rent.
Education is permanent.
Slums of Beverly Hills is really her story, as it deals with the trials and trauma of the young Vivian s uncertain transition into womanhood. It won t be easy, growing up in close quarters with her father and her two younger brothers who demonstrate all the tact and compassion of a raging warthog. She is particularly blessed to have assembled one of the most slothfully delightful casts in recent memory. Miss Lyonne s Vivian is amazingly tacky and cheap. She knows it.