Melrose Place: Things Are Heating Up -- Trust Us On This
One good kiss deserves another
We'll file this one in the "what were you thinking?" file. After Jonah learns about the kiss between Riley and Auggie, he meets Kendra, the development executive, for cocktails. They kiss too, but Jonah tells her that he's engaged. The next day Riley offers to help Jonah work a wedding. And he keeps his secret buried until he decides to blow it out between the wedding and the reception. Nice. I'm sure the bride and groom appreciated that. Riley thinks that she solves the problem by breaking off her friendship with Auggie. When she asks Jonah to not see Kendra he refuses -- this is the only person in Hollywood who "gets his vision."
Sydney picked up David at his mom's grave
We've got to hand it to Syd, she sure knows how and where to pick 'em. She found David mourning his mom in the graveyard and picked him up then and there. We already know that their relationship was a messy one. But it turns out that David blacked out the night of Syd's death and thinks he could have been the one who killed her. In flashbacks we see that David woke up that night in Syd's bed with a bloody knife in his hand. He quickly buried it at a construction site but for some reason decides to go dig it up... and it's gone. A worker found it and turned it in to the police.
Ella is suspicious about Lauren's random hotel activity
Jessie Roberts is one of Ella's biggest and most squeaky clean clients. And he's overdosed. Helicopters are buzzing U of LA Hospital -- luckily, Ella’s bestie/roomie works at U of LA and guarantees her boss that she'll have it buried.
Ella asks Lauren to create new admissions documents that say that Jessie had an allergic reaction to penicillin. But it's as illegal and unethical as prostitution and Lauren wants none of it. Caleb tells Ella to offer "the nurse" $50,000 for her troubles to sweeten the deal -- after all, it's a week of walking around money for Jessie. And now that Ella has found the big wad of cash in a hotel envelope (hmmm…wonder what that could be from?) she fully believes that her roomie is selling her bod for money and knows that she could use the extra cash. But it's no dice for the good doctor who vows that her career comes first. So suddenly Ella takes the high road with regard to her client, tells the truth to the press, gets Jessie into rehab and boost his career to leading man status. Man, that girl can spin.
Rick Fox is the hot owner of Coal
Auggie wants desperately to impress the owner of Coal (the super yummy Rick Fox who, much to our chagrin, spent a total of 15 seconds on screen) and get his dish on the new menu. But then he watches his culinary nemesis, the dreaded Chef Marcello, steal his recipe and make it his own in what Violet calls "cooking plagiarism" -- though we would have preferred if she would have called it "culinary lip-syncing."
After all of the hell that Chef puts Auggie through, the boy keeps his cool until his boss talks about Riley like she's a hot piece of meat. That makes Auggie mad enough to pummel the man in the kitchen in front of the entire staff -- and Coal patrons. Buh-bye job. When Violet comes to comfort him the two end up in bed. Huge mistake? He probably would have been better off having a cocktail at that point.
Great Ella quotes
Week after week we seem to post quotes mainly from Ella, who clearly has the best lines on the show.
"No more putting that crap up your nose, or else you're gonna have a power lunch with River Phoenix." Ella to her client who overdosed
Lauren: "What are you doing?"
Ella: "I was just going to ask you the same, Pretty Woman."
Simpson sisters stick together
After the public learned of Ashlee Simpson’s release from MP, TV Guide is reporting that her sister, Jessica, is coming to her defense in a very public way -- on Twitter. Jessica tweeted her anger the other night. Jess blames the writers for Ash's departure, criticizing the writing and even mentions the own bad scripts that she's had to work with. Yes, we've seen Major Movie Star and Blonde Ambition...okay, we haven'tm but we've heard of them.
Now, even E! Online is saying that it's a choose-your-own-rumor adventure at this point -- option one that Heather Locklear got Ashlee booted and number two that Ashlee is a terrible actress and that no one has the heart to tell her.
Which do you think it is? Does Amanda (AKA Heather Locklear) already wield enough power on the set to get cast members kicked off the show? Is Ashlee lacking the talent it takes to make it on a prime time biggie? Tell us here!
Comments
For the love of God, please -- if you can't get rid of David, get rid of his horrible "poor little rich boy" routine and plot. It sucks, big time.
Jonah and Riley need a major overhaul. Either shake things up big time or get rid of them, because this whole "we're not ready to get married, but we're engaged" storyline is dull beyond belief.
I'm not saddened one bit by Auggie or Violet leaving. Just make sure the character replacing Auggie isn't so brooding.
Katie Cassidy's Ella is great so far, but: the whole "I'm the best publicist and I can fix everything" routine seems to happen in every episode. Downplay some of the arrogance and she'll be fine.
By far, though, I have to say that Lauren is my favorite character. Stephanie Jacobsen is pitch-perfect in her portrayal. She makes it believable, with a certain vulnerability that makes you like her.
Laura Leighton did a great job with her portrayal of Sydney. In terms of writing, I thought it was perfect for the character to take some responsibility for the life she led prior. What I mean is: It was nice to see her not coming through her past unscathed (alcohol, drug addiction). If it's possible, but I don't see how, it would be nice if Laura's character could come back from the dead.
As for Josie Bissett, she did fine, but I felt she added no substance to the series.
Jo Reynolds' return was a major dud. Then again, that's all Jo ever was to me on the original. I don't care if she returns.
I've been watching since September and I just had to get some of the issues that I had with the show so far...out.
Posted by: andrew | November 5, 2009 10:48 AM
I am totally hooked on the show and rootingfor it. However,i agree with Jessica. If Ashlee is getting written off, it's because the writers don't know what to do with her. She is doing a really good job playing psychotic Violet. Today's writers just don't know how to do it like Aaron Spelling.
The same goes for the Auggie. they're writing him off for being dark? That can work in the show's favor. They just aren't trying hard enough. That's just my opinion though.
Posted by: o | November 4, 2009 2:29 PM