Satire at Spelling's expense Apparently one of the characters had been ripped from real life, as they say. In the pilot, she is employed on the soap solely because her daddy is a senior network executive. Now Marcy got her job on talent, which as you can see is minimal. This is a disturbing note on which to start a powerful satire. On the other hand, it was a great hidden victory for satire.
Nobody takes satire seriously anymore.
There are no sacred cows in society left, except, apparently, Aaron Spelling. Happily, Marcy Sternfeld is still in the show with some of her other shtick intact. It focuses on the lives of six young actors and how they handle becoming rich, famous and powerful. A control freak, Becky plants the seeds of envy and paranoia. They are almost as funny as the real Darren Star.