Sep/090
Melrose Returns
Here it comes, the onslaught of new shows. I'm giving a shot to as many of them as I can. Here is one of the first to premiere of the new season: Melrose Place. If it is an indicator of what's to come this season... yikes. 
I felt my brain cells screaming with pain as they shriveled up. The good thing about the show is the format, which allows for people to come and go. They can add characters just as easily as they can make them move away. I hope after the pilot episode was tested they decide to add a few to the mix and maybe get rid of some as well. Right now, the majority of the characters seem either cliche or bizarre. From left to right we have a med student forced to pay her bills and ends up swallowing her pride and accepting cash for nookie from a guy she liked anyway, a chef and possible killer, the new bright eyed girl in town (played horribly by Ashlee Simpson-Wentz), Michael from the original show's son who happens to be an art thief (!!!!!), the blonde slut (The new Heather Locklear?), the aspiring filmmaker and his reluctant fiance. They felt the need to start the 
show off with a murder mystery involving one of the original show's craziest bitches, Sydney. I think she'll appear in future episodes in flashback segments, and I hope she does. She hasn't changed a bit. It's like they froze her in her apartment and just thawed her out again for the new show. I wish they hadn't killed her because she was ten times more interesting than any of the other denizens of Melrose Place. I give each show three episodes, so they have two more to make me interested, but I am not there so far. It doesn't have the pizazz the the original had. When it came out, it was so fresh and exciting. This new show feels generic and just a use of the format and recognizable name to pass off a sub par show. I also watched 90210 right before to see what was going on since I bailed halfway through last season. I should have stuck to my first instinct and never watched again. So dreadful.
If you want to give Melrose a shot, you can catch it Tuesdays at 9 on the CW.
