A Guilty Pleasure for the '90s

Bcaldc10

With all of the bad comedy and heavy drama on television Melrose Place proved to be a guilty pleasure to view on Monday nights.  Just pure old fun.  Heather Locklear and Josie Bissett were wonderful to watch and the addition of Rob Estes in season 5 kept the last three seasons going. With all of the backstabbing psychos running wild the Estes character of Kyle McBride became a sort of moral compass that gave badly needed balance to the show. The fact that Estes a success was no surprise as he is a very talented and charming actor.  Season 6 was pretty rough with the writing all over the map.  Season 7 came back nicely a smaller cast, better writing and better storylines but it was too late.  Actually, the newly appointed (at the time) FOX TV President cancelled the show.  He was fired the next year to no one's surprise.  The finale was a little bit disappointing with an unbelievable ending finding Amanda and Peter being together again.  This whole situation was handled abruptly and less than smoothly.  It just happened all of a sudden.  Anyway, the show was fun and will be one of the shows always remembered in televsion history.

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Bcaldc10 26 August 2001

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