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Jo gets embroiled in a
custody battle with Reed's parents, who want to take their grandchild
away from the woman who "murdered" their son. Kimberly appears to want
to help her conspire to fake the baby's death so that Jo can escape and
live in anonymity with her child, but, having recently learned that she
is unable to bear children of her own, Kimberly actually plans to steal
the baby from Jo and raise him herself. She and Michael refuse to give
the baby back to Jo, but after Jo reports them to hospital chief of
staff Peter Burns, Michael relents and returns the child for fear of he
and Kimberly losing their medical licenses. Enraged, Kimberly informs
the Carters (Reed's parents) that Jo's baby is alive. Amanda later discovers that
she is suffers from lymphoma, and Michael begins to fall for her while
serving as her doctor and they have a brief affair— enraging the
increasingly unstable Kimberly. Amanda rejected Michael's advances once
her health was restored, and she put her energies back into reclaiming
her status a D&D, teaming up with upstart Brooke Armstrong (Kristin
Davis) to overthrow Alison as the new president. Brooke gets involved
with Billy and the two marry in the season finale, despite Alison's
interrupting the ceremony to beg Billy for another chance. Kimberly sets
Michael up for assaulting her, and he is bailed out of prison by Peter
Burns, who needs Michael's and Kimberly's help in testifying to the
medical board in the Amanda debacle in order for Peter to keep his
medical license. Peter seduces Kimberly into a romance to get her to
take his side. Once the medical board lets Peter go, his real motives
become all too apparent to Kimberly, finally pushing her over the edge
and, engulfed by demonic visions in her mind, she plants four fire bombs
in the apartment complex in a thrilling third-season cliffhanger. Due to
the Oklahoma City bombing that occurred in April of 1995, one month
earlier than the May cliffhanger, the actual bombing did not take place
onscreen... not until the beginning of season four. Those who turn up their
nose at Melrose Place are encouraged to give season 3 a look. The discs
feature every sudsy over-the-top episode from Season 3 plus several
featurettes about the show. To paraphrase the apocalyptic season
finale's famous last words: "It's not what you
think…it's better!" It is well worth the price to add this incredible
gem to your collection of pop culture history. UB |
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Despite a number of short-term
unwarranted arrests for a virtual plethora of misdemeanors,
which, for some odd reason, remain "classified", Cochaman Peef
has continued to let his beloved hemp play a substantial role in
his ever-waning life. Whether he’s smoking from a hand-blown
glass pipe while studying Eastern religion and Woody Harrelson
philosophy, or just smoking Jamaican sticks and watching Kung-Fu
with David Carradine on DVD [he claims to know Carradine
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Melrose
Place first aired on July 8th, 1992 as a sort of mature spin-off to
Beverly Hills 90210. The series lasted for seven seasons, ending in
1999. Paramount Home Video released the complete third season of Melrose
Place and soap fans everywhere rejoiced. The box set includes all 30,
hour long episodes and added extras to top the season off. You see... by
year three of ''Melrose Place'', it was abundantly clear that Kelly,
Brandon, Steve, David or anyone else from "that other postal code"
wouldn’t be making guest-appearances from here on out. The show was its
own beast— and a beast with some mighty powerful teeth... trust us on
this one. Melrose Mondays were in full gear across the country and this
show had not only hit its stride... it was EVERYONE's guilty pleasure.
''90210'' could be annoyingly political at times— especially in its
later years— but from the moment the ratings dipped on its spin-off
series, ''Melrose'' was transformed into a giant Snickers bar— it got
very nutty. But the truth of the matter is, it worked... and it worked
rather well. As the high-octane third season gets underway, Jane first,
and then Sydney, are blamed for Michael's hit and run accident, which
has left him with amnesia and Kimberly, the real culprit, getting off
scot-free. Though Michael eventually regains his memory and realizes
Kimberly was his attempted killer, the pair reconcile and soon marry in
an impulsive Las Vegas wedding.
The
Carters hire a nanny to steal the baby from Jo. After tracking them
down and getting shot in the back for her troubles, Jo ultimately
decides to give her son up for adoption, a course of action that she
explains to her young infant during their emotional departure. Matt gets
involved with a doctor, Paul, at the hospital who is in the closet and
still married to a woman. So Paul ends up murdering his wife and
meticulously sets Matt up as the perpetrator [mean, huh?]. Sydney became
a waitress at Shooters, where she grew closer to Jake, and ended up
getting involved in a cult with her new roommate but was rescued by Jake
and Jane. Jake reconciles with Jo shortly before reuniting with his
brother, Jess, after their mother's funeral. Jess sets out to infiltrate
Jake's life, getting involved with Jo and setting Jake up to be robbed
at gunpoint at Shooters and getting shot. Jo does not believe Jake's
claims against his brother until Jess gets violent with her; Jake takes
off to avenge her, and he and Jess tumble off the top of a construction
site in their brawl. After ending her relationship with Billy, Alison
descends into alcoholism and ends up in a rehab center to recuperate.
Amanda gets involved with Wilshire Memorial chief of staff Peter, who
secretly conspires to take her down as President of D&D so his old
girlfriend can take her place, and attempts to kill her on the operating
table in a fake appendicitis attack until Michael comes to her rescue
and Peter is arrested.
We
have to give kudos to the always luscious Heather Locklear... the
longest running "Guest Star" in television history as she not only
captivated and ravished an already rabid audience but she paved the way
for shows like "Desperate Housewives" by creating that perfect aura of
duplicitous diva. The character was so deliciously bitchy, you couldn’t
take your eyes off her! Oh, and I’m forgetting someone of equal stature,
the maniacal Kimberley (Marcia Cross)... who inevitably ended up
starring on our other guilty pleasure "Desperate Housewives". She was
the lass Michael left his wife (Josie Bisset) for, and again, like the
latter, was a seemingly normal person when she was introduced earlier on
in the show before being re-worked a hair-brained baby-stealing
hair-lacking psychopath. Just terrific! Thanks to this wonderful DVD, we
get to re-live the phenomena once again. Yes, season 3 is really
something, as acknowledged that year by the classic show about nothing,
Seinfeld, in the season 6 episode "The Beard," in which Jerry is forced
to admit that Melrose Place is his secret guilty pleasure ("Oh that
Michael," he rants, "I hate him, he's just so smug."). Season 3 is
grand, over-the-top fun, a real disc-grabber (the DVD equivalent of a
page-turner). Longtime viewers will appreciate the affectionate
skewering the show receives from comedians John Aboud and Michael Colton
in a bonus feature that presents an overview of the season (they're
right; the name of Jake's boat, Pretty Lady, is the lamest ever).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103491/