Shark Bytes

Kimberly get's off scott free after blowing up a whole apartment building because stabbing her shrink in the hand, attacking her ex husband in court and trying to jump off the roof of the hospital prove she's insane and therefore should be released! Then, weeks later becoming a shrink ... treating Sydney of all people! and to top it off her multiple personality takes over a mental hospital and tries to give Peter, Michael and Amanda lobotomys!

im catching reruns now...this is such a great show,never knew when it got cancelled

Melrose kinda jumped from day one when it felt the need to use Kelly, Donna and Steve or David to give the show cred.

However it redeemed itself when Jo turned up 4 months later, then the smart addition of Heather Locklear sealed the deal.

It jumped again in season 4, with Starr gone the production staff seemed lost, I believe the other poster Justin who stated that Darren mapped out half of the 4th season, as clearly only the first 15 episodes were classic Melrose, after that it died a horrible death.

So to summarise the best of Melrose is Nov 1992 - Dec 1995.

I can't decide whose death made the show go downhill more: Kimberly's or Sydney's. They were 2 of my 3 favourite women on the show (the other being Amanda of course). It was not their time to go. And for them to DIE instead of simply departing is just too sad. They didn't deserve that.
The departures of all the other important castmembers kinda sucked too but not nearly as much as Kim and Syd. I didn't mind Jo leaving, she was getting on my nerves in season 4, it was her time to go. Jane was getting good in season 5, she should've stayed but hey she returned later on at least.

Why people are voting the bombing as the biggest JTS moment I'll never know. There's never a dull moment in season 4, it's sooo trashy and comical and intense but hey that's how I like my tv shows.

Have you seen Andrew Shue in ANYTHING since this show stopped airing? His acting "range" was exactly this: he would mumble his line,have a surly look on his face, and cut his eyes to the right. Period. Absolutely THE worst actor I have seen on television. (His sister is Academy Award winner, Elizabeth). We use to routinely ridicule "Jake" (Grant Show): all he ever did was hang around a bar playing pool, so we decided he made all his money as a male prostitute!

melrose place is really great show. amanda was my favorite character because at the end of the show she finally got the marriage she and peter deserved! and in real life heather locklear(amanda woodward) and jack wagner( dr. peter burnes) are actually dating!

Well i agree with the people who said it JTS after kimberly bombed the building BUT i still of course watched till the end of the series and sometimes still catch reruns.

Heres a few things that always bothered me though:
Jane did not return for sydneys funeral. Yet the next season she appears and is back with no mention of her sisters death. Michael wasnt even at the funeral i dont think. ODD.

How did almost every cast member wind up with an advertising job of some sorts? Billy was a taxi driver and dance teacher! Samantha was an artist(so technically i could see her getting a job) Lexi?? Meghan?(a hooker for chrissakes!!) jane? it was like everyone eventually ended up in that line of work. Oh and sydney was too i forgot.

Peter. Now i dont recall what season but remember when the dectectives come to amandas door and say the man u married wasnt peter burns, it was peter howell. So if his last name was howell than wouldnt taylor of been confused when she saw his picture and name in the newspaper(back when she was in boston) and the name was BURNS and not HOWELL. And if he left whatever state he was in after beths death and moved to L.A, how did he have time to mess around with Caitlynn(jasmine guy) in season 2?

And.. amanda. She was married to Jack Parezi and could never escape for years. Well then how did she faithfully visit EVE in jail in california every month for so many years?

ugh so many plotholes here and glitches.

I'm watching the reruns of melrose, one of my fav shows years ago. I never realized back then what a horrible actor Andrew Shue was. I have trouble even watching his scenes, it's actually embarressing.

LOL you're very funny Cathy - I get your irony...although I never felt it jumped the shark I do agree that it got worse after Kimberly's bomb and then worser after season 5. So I do get what you guys mean...

I believe that Melrose Place jumped the shark when Vanessa Williams (the actress that plays Rhonda) and Amy Locane left the show. Everything went downhill (deaths, marriages, etc).

Not having Alison and Billy ending up together.. I mean it was one of the premises of the whole show and in the end they f***ed it up.

I liked the show from beginning to end, it got more interesting with the addition of Amanda and I loooved Lexi... such a witch LOL

Amanda's transition from being the self-centered workaholic bitch to being the victim, was interesting. Even from the beginning, I always liked her. Strong woman with sense of self, very organized and afraid to let anyone hurt her.

HATED how they turned a cool, strong character (Jo) into this ransacking loser (when Jo tried to screw Jane over because of Richard).

Loved Brooke. Poor girl, always misunderstood.

The whole Peter storyline with Taylor being psycho and passing as her own sister was stupid.

My favorite characters: Amanda and Sydney. She had a nice death LOL

The whole gay sub-plots with Matt were really stupid. He always wanted to be serious with these guys, for a young guy living in L.A. during the mid 90's, he should have been more playful than that. He was always this righteous frigid boob.

Michael Mancini: I wish I could be him one day. Have people do horrible things to you and not care one bit.

This was Marcia Cross' launch to success. Her neurotic Kimberly only compares to the brilliancy of Bree van de Kamp.

Jane gets back together with Michael to piss off Richard????? Jake and Jane have a thing??? Jake and Alison (Alison???????????????? even Jane is more plausible) fall in love??????? WTF??? This series jumped the shark the second that Jake thought Jo was about to cheat on him in Hawaii and she found him humping Shelly, in season 4.

Yeah, the Special Guest Star status of Heather always bothered me too. But now that I think about it, it was probably written that way in her contract. It probably kept her free (free-er than the others) to do other projects. For example, on Y&R, there's an actress that's been there for years, and in huge storylines, but her contract type frees her up to work on other stuff or take longer brakes, etc.

Kimberly pulling that wig off and staring in the mirror revealing that scar was the freakest thing I had seen in my life! I was probably 11 at the time and saw it live. Not after the fact when I knew what to expect. I honestly had trouble closing my eyes that night.

“Melrose Place” was killed by the departure of creator Darren Starr, its unusually high episode order and cast exodus in 1997. Starr left the show at the end of the 3rd season as Kimberly was about to detonate her bomb. Although that may have been the beginning of the end, I think there had been many great moments after that point. I was really impressed with early season 4 episodes when the show looked and felt very fresh. The storylines, the music, the hairstyles, Antonio Sabato jr. – I loved it all. But, somehow in the course of that season, Frank South and his inept writers who took over from Starr just lost it. Although Starr had mapped out half of that season, they were incapable of finishing the job properly. Billy becomes evil, Jane turns into a bitch, Richard becomes a rapist – hideous! And don’t even get me started on the whole lobotomy thing. The amazing Marcia Cross saved the Betsy storyline and made it fun to watch, though. FOX increased the already unusually high episode order from 32 to 34 hours that year, so it may also have been very difficult for them to come up with quality scripts on time. Of course, by 1997 the actors began jumping ship as the show kept jumping shark so from the 12 that got star billing in the opening credits in the spring of 1996 as many as 8 left by the fall of 1997. No show can survive such exodus, especially when those amazing readheads Sidney and Kimberly are among them. I think “Melrose” worked best when it was campy and a bit over-the-top, but still managed to walk that fine line between reality and fantasy and keep storylines plausible, as they did in the brilliant second season.