Melrose Place
Tags: insanity, murder

Plot synopsis:
On May 21, 2009, Ausiello reported that Leighton's character Sydney dies in the pilot and sets off a murder mystery, but noted that the actress would continue to appear in multiple episodes of the season through flashbacks. The Los Angeles Times later confirmed that Sydney would be found dead in the first 10 minutes of the premiere episode, a turn of events which means "anything could happen" in the new series, according to executive producer Slavkin. "It will feel nostalgic, but it's not the old Melrose," Slavkin said. The Times added that initial episodes would revolve around the interrelationships of the apartment complex's seven residents and the theme that "no one is exactly who they seem," with Sydney's murder solved mid-season. As the series opens, new Melrose Place resident Violet finds Sydney floating dead in the courtyard pool. Student doctor Lauren reluctantly accepts cash for sex to pay her medical school tuition, as aspiring filmmaker Jonah is offered a directing deal in exchange for his silence about a famous director's indiscretion. David, Sydney's ex-lover and the police's initial suspect in her death, is bailed out of jail by bisexual publicist Ella, who provides a false alibi and has her own reasons for wanting Sydney out of the way. While David steals a valuable painting from his own father Michael Mancini in the dark of night, sous chef Auggie — seemingly the resident most upset by Sydney's death — burns a bloody chef's uniform.
Holding onto her job puts pressure on Ella, whose efforts to further secret crush Jonah's career do not help his relationship with his new fiancée Riley. Lauren is compelled to continue prostituting herself, and while Sydney's sister Jane's attempt to blackmail Ella fails, she follows through on her promise to clue in the police on Ella's motives for Sydney's murder. Violet is revealed to be Sydney's secret daughter, and schemes to both get close to Auggie, and punish Michael for mistreating Sydney.

Review: In many instances it's just hilarious, for instance crazy Kimberley committing Peter to a mental institute before administering shock therapy and almost a lobotomy (hahahahaha), or Michael's wedding vows to Jane on their second wedding, "Jane you were my first wife, my favourite wife and I hope to god my last wife." The outrageous antics and schemes to win over lovers combined with the fact that every second character seems to be a murderer or a criminal of some sort, it is a wonder that they are not all in jail!
I mean they've all been cheated on, dumped, married 4-5 times, been shot, run over, raped, sued, molested, paralysed, lobotimised, burnt, blinded, drowned, blown up, assaulted, tossed out windows, buried alive, stalked by psycho lovers, involved in war; gone bankrupt; suffered from drug addictions, impotency and alcoholism; had cancer, miscarriages, tumours, brain surgery, abusive parents, car wrecks and helicopter crashes just to name a few of the hardships inflicted upon these poor sods.
The newspaper advertisment must read "Melrose Place Tenant Wanted: Must be unbalanced and of a psychotic nature, prone to fits of violence including murder and arson.
Can't help myself, I love it and recommend it to anyone looking for a good laugh and some light hearted entertainment..
Melrose Place was another huge success in Russia when it first appeared there many years ago.
Sex, Greed, Lust, Betrayal, Affairs, Divorces, Drugs, Wealth, Bombs, Kidnapping, Scheming plots, Murder, and some of the most beautiful vixens on the planet made for one of my favorite TV-Series I hated to s.
This series was so well liked because something was always going on in the characters daily life.
The beautiful vixens were the reasons I also watched you name it you had them Heather Locklear was great as the beautiful but tough ad executive Amanda and Marcia Cross was great as the beautiful but crazy Kimberly.
If those two tough beautiful vixens didn't thrill you then you had Josie Bissett, Kristin Davis, Brooke Langton, Laura Leighton, Kelly Rutherford, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Jamie Luner, Alyssa Milano, and Lisa Rinna.
Speaking of the male characters great performances were given by Thomas Calabro and Jack Wagner both were great as good young doctors yet cunning and deceptive.
I hope some network picks "Melrose Place" up and shows the reruns from start to finish, I thought that back in 1998 that The E!
Enough said even if you haven't watched you will want to and if your like me you will want to watch it all over from season 1 to the finish "Melrose Place" was just that good..
In its heyday, Melrose Place was a fun and complex 60-minute roller-coaster ride every week.
Though many credit Locklear for the show's success, the real stars of the show were people like Thomas Calabro, Laura Leighton and Marcia Cross, as the Kimberly/Michael/Sydney storyline was the driving force of the show.
The writing, while always over the top, reached a new level of ludicrousness towards the end of season four and the show made no sense whatsoever (i.e.,  Evil Billy, Amanda using Billy to keep her job at D&D, and Kimberly's mutiple-personality story which culminated in her attempting to lobotomize Peter ).
By season five, the show had back down to earth and told more traditional soap stories (i.e. the Billy/Alison/Jake/Jane quadrangle and the Amanda/Peter/Taylor triangle ).
The show rebounded, but towards the end of season five things began to fall apart again due to the loss of several veteran cast members.
By the end of season five Marcia Cross, Laura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Josie Bissett and Grant Show were gone.
Especially damaging was the fact that the show had killed its two best characters in Kimberly and Sydney.
When the show returned in the summer of '98, there was a flicker of hope as several storylines became interesting to watch (i.e. the Kyle/Amanda/Peter triangle, the Billy/Samantha/Jeff/Jennifer quadrangle, and the rekindled Jane/Michael romance).
Melrose Place way better than Beverly Hills!.
I just enjoy catching up with the lives of the beautiful and gorgeous people of Melrose Place.
My favourite character is Alison (Courtney Thorne Smith) but my least favourite is Amanda Woodard (Heather Locklear) she is quite a B****.
The cast are brilliant and I love the situations, which the characters go through every week just as our lives aren't as dramatic as these characters.
Melrose is Glam but much better than Beverly Hills but as the seasons went on the series got over the top that's when I think it went downhill I think.
Backstabbing, betrayl, lies, weddings, murder, affairs, setups, and shocking twists all lead up to the explosive third season finale in which crazy Kimberly caused the entire Melrose complex to explode.
By the end of the season, Jane was burying Richard alive, Kimberly was calling herself Betsy and giving lobotomies to Peter, and Billy was the top dog at D&D.
Though the seventh season showed promise with sexy Lexi going up against Amanda and Kyle's sterility problem, 4616 Melrose Place got it's eviction notice and aired the "unforgettable" final episodes.
The series finale lacked that Melrose kick only supplied by the true unforgettable characters, Kimberly and Sydney..
The show is about a group of Melrose Place's residents, and all the exaggerated situations that happen with them.
Most of the things couldn't happen in real life, at least not with this frequency, but is happening with this group all the time.Now that it's over, I can choose to watch the 1994's season or the 1998's.
I loved Melrose Place.
That show still had so much life in it and I am surprised that even Beverly Hills 90210 lasted like one more year after melrose place and I never watched that show because I feel the actors on that show were not as good or as interesting as the Melrose Place characters.
From the beginning in 1992, to the end in 1999, I watched "Melrose Place" every week.
Every year at the season finale, I would say at the end, "I can't wait until September!!".I don't care what people say, "Melrose" became my favorite show.
The only thing that made me happy about the series finale was that Amanda and Peter were finally together again, and Eve ended up in jail again.
Aaron Spelling's "Melrose Place" concerned a group of young people in an LA apartment complex, and in its time, it was a highly popular show.
Melrose really started to take off when Heather Locklear joined the cast at the end of season 1.
One of my favorites were the ubiquitous establishing shots that seemed to be shown weekly: a young woman walking her dog, the jogger, and the pool boy cleaning the pool.As for interesting characters, there was Michael, who started off as a devoted husband and became a rogue, slutty Sydney, and Kirsten Davis as the girl Billy (Andrew Shue) almost married, who lays across a bed and announces, "I'm ovulating," which I heard the next morning when it was played on a local radio station.
"Might be looking for a 1 bedroom apartment at 4616 Melrose Place".
I remember watching the first episode (which was 90 minutes long) and remember all these people I never heard of (with the exception of Grant Show and Courtney Thorne Smith) and I liked it when it first came on with all the adventures that these 20 something year old characters.
I did like Sandy (Amy Locane) and I wish they kept her on as they can, because I did like Jo (Daphne Zuniga), then came along Amanda (Heather Locklear, an almost ageless beauty) who was cunning and shrew with almost all the characters.
I loved Jane (Josie Bissett) and I was upset when her mean sister, Sydney (Laura Leighton), did all these things to her (I could never to that to an older sibling and get away with what she did).
It was the show to watch but it did get boring about how many times could Billy (Andrew Shue, a good looking but a BAAAAD actor) and Allison would get back together.
I like Kimberly (Marcia Cross) who went through heaven and earth to be with Michael (Thomas Calabro), only to find him someone after she died.
But then there was Brooke (Kristin Davis) who I liked as this spoiled little rich girl who snagged Billy away from Allison, married him and made all these mistakes but to wind up falling into the pool.
But I also like Richard, (Patrick Muldoon) till he raped Jane, which was good that Jane was this strong minded character and became obsessive with Jake because of that.
It was good for a little time more but it was no more the same except for Lexi (Jamie Luner) who did things against Amanda and I always loved that last scene she had with Michael, who wanted to marry her in the pool and she turned him down and told him "You deserve better" - a man who did evil from the second season on could not meet his match.
I love the show melrose placethough we were both born in 1992 my friend and I watch it everyday on soap-net I am named after the Devious Gorgeous Stunning Incredible Scheming Conniving AMANDA WOODWARD!
And i love it she is my favorite character besides KImberly from the show I just love when Kimberly comes back on that stormy night and Michael kicks out clueless Sydney The cast of that show was one of the best ever, i only wish they could have come up with a better way for people to leave the show then to kill them.
Sex, Suds, Bombs, Back-Stabbing, Murder: After all, It's Only Another Day In MELROSE PLACE.
Melrose has everything you could ask for: Gorgeous men and women, outrageous plots, sizzeling sex scenes, better cat fights than Dynasty, more bitches than Dallas, more OTT story line than The X Files and much, much more adult content than the 90210 brats could even think of.
But lately, it has been losing a lot -- especially the biggest bitch ever to be in a soap -- Brooke Armstrong (Kristin Davis), and then mad bomber Kimberly (Marcia Cross) and the sizzeling red-head, Sydney (Laura Leighton).
I thought Billy (Andrew Shue), Jake (Grant Show) and Kyle (Rob Estes) were great as the good-looking, nice guys with bad luck in the female/relationship department.
Josie Bissett (Michael's ex-wife Jane) wasn't given enough substance later on in the series, and her character just kind of went downhill.
Melrose Place: The show that leaves you on the edge of your seat; just waiting to see who is going to sleep with who next..
I absolutely love Melrose Place!
Melrose has really been through a lot; from the very beginning shows when Vanessa Williams was on them to the very last shows with Kyle McBride and Eve. The show of Melrose Place was wonderful, through everything (although I must admit it was at its prime in the first few seasons when the original cast was still on there).
My all time favorite part of Melrose history was probably when we saw Kimberly standing on the beach at the end of a show, after we all thought she had died, and I also loved it when she took her wig off and we saw all her veins, after she had been in that accident!!!
Melrose Place was one of my favorite shows from the fifth grade until I was a junior in high school.The show had doctors who were pimps and male leads who could get any woman in the sack.
This is the best Drama-series ever that made of Aaron Spelling!Amanda(Heather Locklear), the Best bitch in  Television of all times!
A very big plus is that the SWEDISH beauty Victoria Silvstedt was playing "Ingrid, from physical therapy", in the absolutely last episode of Melrose Place..
but Melrose Place could be a nice memory.
In order to figure out what any character would do on the show, just think of the dumbest thing someone could do in that given situation and that's what's going to happen!
"Melrose Place" was sentimentally-driven soap-opera-style crap in the same vein of recent television shows such as "The O.C." - spoiled rich brats in California who party all day and night have a hard time finding love.We're supposed to feel sorry for them as their spouses and boyfriends and girlfriends cheat on each other, and each episode would end with a new "shocking" revelation being made, so that viewers become addicted and have to watch every episode.
Don't tell me how stupid and contrived it all was; I have a list of all the unbelievable and ridiculous things that happened, like Amanda and the doctor conveniently forgetting that the season before he tried to kill her in the OR, or Sydney actually going to Kimberly for psychotherapy, or a court ordering Jo to give her baby to the parents of the dead father.
I did lose interest as interesting people began dying at a frantic pace in the last couple of seasons-this show lost more 20 year olds to tragic accidents than France did in WWI-and thought a lot more could have been done w/Amanda's bout w/cancer and true love for a mob guy's brother, but I miss it and still have the theme show play through my head from time to time.
Billy Campbell(Andrew Shue) and Michael Mancini(Thomas Calebro) started out has nice guys, began to turn into guys we love to hate.
And Jack Wagner as Peter Burns  was the worst of the bunch, I really started not liking his character, and I was hoping for something bad to happen to his character.But it was Grant Show as the good guy rebel Jake Hanson, Heather Locklear as the nice but sometimes mean Amanda Woodward, Courtney Thorne Smith has the sweet but strugling Alison, and Marcia Cross has the sweet but sometimes insane Kimberly Shaw, made the show for me somewhat watchable.
I hate how they ruined likable characters like Kyle & Allison with their drugs and alcohol addiction.I know it's "character flaws" but I lost respect for them after that.Especially, finding out Allison relapsed in Atlanta, after all she's been through, no happy ending?I also dislike the fact that Jane returned in season 7.She didn't fit in once all the main characters left;It's like a senior going back to 9th grade.
John looked unbelievable as this character; tall, great looking, sophisticated, intelligent, looking like a fashion ad no matter what he wore.
I really identified with John in Melrose Place and can see great things in his future & I'll certainly do whatever I can to support his gifted talent and career.
I've seen almost every episode of Melrose Place and I simply love it.
But now Melrose Place is ending, and as a big fan I am saddened to see it go.
Does anyone have or know where I can get the originals Who is everyone' favorite character in Melrose Place Thank you for anyone's help.
Melrose place was a great show I loved the ending and how it was carefully planned/ I just got my husband addicted to soap net.
Ok, it may sound a little obsessive and weird but I LOVE Melrose Place!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of you watch the Style channel at 3 and see the episodes and I am sure all of you will be impressed and know what I mean when I say I love Melrose Place!I also LOVE Thomas Calabro (Micheal Mancini) He is damn fine!!!!.
Over the years we've seen the great, different, young cast (One of my favourites being the brilliant Rena Sofer who played Eve Cleary Burns.) come and go as we follow there lives in Melrose Place in California.
I can't think of a most intence clifhanger episode, than the ending of Melrose's 3rd season!
The cast is the best, the storylines are amazing and i do believe that MP has set new standards for prime time soaps.
MELROSE PLACE was one of those shows that was so bad that it was good..
in the grand tradition of DYNASTY, MELROSE PLACE took over the top characters and put them in unbeliveable situations.
With 4 episodes of Melrose Place being aired on syndication lately, I have become hooked.
I watched Melrose Place in my apartment in 1997 and it drew me in then.
I started watching one episode, and that was the end of it for me.
That's hard to find in a show...much less a soap.As far as the characters go...I LOVE Josie Bissetts wardrobe - what a beauty!
The other character who stood out, who I started out liking but ended up not loving too much, is Allison.
Also, reality is stranger than fiction and there's a good possibity that scenes just like in Melrose Place occur all over the world.
The show started of with a simmer, but shot off into the Nielsens' ratings when Aaron Spelling brought on Heather Locklear as the bitchy Amanda Woodward and when Dr. Kimberly Shaw returned from the dead after "dying" in a car wreck with fiancee Michael.
If people were to describe Melrose Place, you would hear all of these: murder, sex, adultry, backstabbing, secrets, lies, jeolousy, and hate.
The famous Melrose Place pool side explosion, thanks to wacko Kimberly who had set the thing up to kill everyone.4.
The episode where Kimberly prepares to blow up the Melrose complex (last episode of the 3rd season) is a true classic.
It continued pretty much the same way in the 6th season, but with mostly new (boring actors/actresses portraying them) characters.
What makes Melrose Place so arresting is just how human its characters really are.
Every character in Melrose Place has something to hide, or has done something they're not proud of.
With all of the bad comedy and heavy drama on television Melrose Place proved to be a guilty pleasure to view on Monday nights.