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Netflix launched the second season of The Purpose Of on the 18th of June, and, as in the first season, which is full of the ridiculous antics of Jack Morton (Jake Manley), the Knights of St. Christopher, and the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose. However, even a season with a magic war, werewolves, and demons couldn’t top the bizarre cameos of Beverly Hills, 90210‘s own Jason Priestley and Ian Ziering in the episode eight. In the first season, one of the jokes is the way that many famous people, including Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, are members of the Order, but we never thought we’d actually meet some of them.
In the episode, the pair playing fictionalized versions of themselves who do not see eye-to-eye. In fact, Ian called Jason “Mr. I-am-famous-in-Canada” after Jason comments that the other couldn’t even save his career with the magic, despite the fact that six Sharknado movies say otherwise. His appearance on the series coincides with a vote in favor of a new Grand Magus, who is the leader of the holder of the Order. Both cast their vote, along with the rest of the Order, and Jason finally wins the title over acting Grand Magus Vera Stone (Katharine Isabelle) — after promising to Ian he was going to lose the next five Comic-Cons. This surprises acolyte Hamish Duke (Thomas Elms), and causes one of the funniest exchanges in the episode with Hamish, asking, “Jason Priestley?” before Ian chimes in with, “And Ian Ziering.” While Jason did not survive the episode, which technically lives through Ian as the latter is transformed into Jason when Vera gives your desire for “fame forever.”
So how did the former Beverly Hills, 90210 the stars end up in The Purpose Of? It’s all due to the possibility of the dinner during the 2019 the San Diego Comic-Com. The Purpose Of‘s producer Chad Oakes invited the couple to a cast of the dinner because they had already worked together in the past, and the rest is history!
