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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 20514
Released: May 1, 2007 |
| Our Price: $15.90 |
| Used Price: $12.45 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A nighttime soap opera about the lives, careers, trials and tribulations of a group of young people living in an apartment building in the trendy neighborhood of Melrose Place. The show was a spin off of Beverly Hills 90210 and starred Heather Locklear as the scheming Amanda Woodward, head of her own advertising agency and owner of the apartment building.
Description of Melrose Place - The Second Season:
In its second season, Melrose Place turned up the heat, resulting in a funnier, sexier series. Alison (Courtney Thorne-Smith) continues to see Billy (Andrew Shue), Jake (Grant Show) moves in with Jo (Daphne Zuniga), and Jane (Josie Bissett) divorces Michael (Thomas Calabro), who shacks up with Kimberly (Marcia Cross). That leaves Matt (the underused Doug Savant), who has an affair with a sailor; Amanda (Heather Locklear), who sets her sights on Jake; and Sydney (Laura Leighton), who sets hers on Michael. A lot changes during the year: Sydney turns to prostitution, Jo kills in self-defense, Amanda and Jo catch a voyeur in the act, and Michael and Kimberly end up in the hospital when he crashes their car. Though Michael recovers after a few episodes, Kimberly slips into a coma and then disappears. Michael is told she's died; fortunately for fans, he was misinformed. Kimberly eventually returns, but though she looks the same, she isn't. Turns out, she's now a certifiable loony--and she intends to make Michael pay. As she memorably tells Sydney in the season finale, "You're looking at human garbage... when Michael's dead, God's gonna do a jig."
By the end of the second year, one marriage will have taken place, while another will be called off at the last minute. After an entertaining, if overly earnest first season, Melrose Place had found its footing. The acting isn't always first-rate--the crying scenes are particularly unconvincing--but 31 episodes in one year must have been draining on the cast (most dramas top out at 23). Guest stars include Parker Stevenson as a high-tech millionaire, Gina Gershon as a waitress/call girl, Linda Gray as Amanda's estranged mother, and future X-Men star Famke Janssen as a high-class hooker. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Melrose Place - The Second Season Reviews:
classic 
2009-11-02 - I love Melrose place and will not watch the new one. It's just not the same no matter what they do
great show never to be duplicated
2008-08-08 - its awesome to own because no one runs it except the soap opera channel which i dont subscribe to. i loved the show and i got a great deal. it was only 19.99 when i ordered it.
Beautiful people, ugly problems.
2008-06-28 - Melrose Place - The Complete Second Season is my favorite of this prime-time soap opera. Heather Locklear, Laura Leighton, Doug Savant, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Andrew Shue, Daphene Zuniga, and hunky Grant Show continue to deliver the goods. I think Marcia Cross returns this season and boy she is some nut! I loved this show and now I can watch these yummy episodes anytime I want. I highly recommend purchasing this sinfully addicting show, enjoy!
horrendous video quality ruins season 2 
2008-02-17 - Season 2, though enticing in its twists and turns, is painful to watch owing to its wretched picture quality. Even on a Sony Bravia 32" by way of a blue-ray player(blue ray improves the picture of even regular DVD's by 2.5 times) there is visible fuzz on the screen. I cannot imaging watching this on a regualar TV and a standard DVD player. It's laughable how bad the characters look thanks to an abysmal video transfer. CBS needs to publish Melrose Place on blue-ray to make the show watchable, lest fans cringe like Michael when he learned Kimberly was "dead."
I realize all older shows leave something to be desired in terms of picture quality, but this is a mess! Here's hoping the DVD sets of Season 3 or 4 are better.
Great DVD - Need Subtitles and Setup Options
2007-09-11 - i recently got both seasons available (1 & 2) and they should have put a little more work on the menu. They almost didn't have any menus, no setup options. I bought it and didn't realize that most of the chapters didn't even have english subtitles. I would have like to have it subtitled in spanish, but at least in english on all chapters! great dvd though. should have been better.
