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on the titles to order - huge discounts Melrose
Place - The Third Season
I finally get to see what Melrose Place was all about. This show was massively popular in Los Angeles in the early-mid 1990s, my friends were hooked on this show and would turn on Melrose Place when we were working late Wednesday nights to keep up with what was going on. I actually helped open a couple of shops on Melrose when the boulevard started to expand in 1982 and saw first hand the 'community' that grew up around the glitzy but punk influenced shops of that era. It was a vastly lamer and even more superficial place 10 years later when this show took to the air. Looking back, I can appreciate Melrose Place as a luminous reflection of that vapidness even if very little of the filming took place around the Melrose neighbothood. Melrose Place is a campy pre-cursor to Desperate Housewives (both shows have Marcia Cross in the cast), a ridiculous cartoon drama with shallow, supercilious but otherwise lovely pinheads who happily spend the majority of their days and nights gleefully plotting everyone else's personal and professional demise. On Melrose Place the women are all peroxide blondes or redheads, the guys are well-groomed and everyone jumps in and out of bed with whoever's nearby; a blatantly incestuous group that rarely dates anyone outside the office or their small apartment conclave. The whole affair is presided over by Heather Locklear as the J.R. Ewing of La La Land, she's the queen bee the drones buzz around. As the head of LA's most dysfunctional ad agency (her former boss hangs himself in her office), this vixen not only employs most of her compadres she owns the apartment building most of them live in, ergo she's never far behind whenever disaster strikes - and it does, every 12 minutes. In every breezy episode, it seems, people are told to, "Find another place to live," or "You're Fired." Thinly veiled threats pass as small talk. You get the feeling everyone's problems would disappear if they just moved a few blocks west and found a better job, one where their personal foibles wouldn't be aired so happily in public. After a slow start the series builds steam; by the end of the season every character is acting batshit crazy, flailing around at a fevered pitch. A stolen baby, rampant boyfriend / husband swapping, numerous blackmail attempts, a hospital staffed with psychotic doctors, unbridled backstabbing, a larcenous cult leader, clawing catfights - I can't even count how many times Amanda was fired or near death - all leading up to the explosive cliffhanger, one of the most memorable season enders of all time. There are 3 mini-documentaries included with this set - Melrose Place According to Jake, Melrose Place, Seven Minutes in Hell, and Everything you need to know about Melrose Place Season Three. You get all 30 of the 1994-95 episodes for only $38.49 if you order online now (that's 30% off the retail price of $54.99) - considerably lower than the previous 2 season's price. I'll be looking forward to season 4 of Melrose Place.
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