Posted on 02/23/2019 7:09:25 AM PST by EdnaMode
This is the part of the election cycle when the @GOP will paint the Dems as socialists to deter you from voting in 2020 for the party that actually fights #ForThePeople. They’ll drill the word “socialist” into our daily vernacular. Don’t be fooled. This is strategy not sincerity.
I liked Melrose Place.
Brooke Langton was hot. Too bad she didn’t toss ‘lissy off the balcony and snap her neck like a twig.
Gorgeous, best looking chick on Melrose. She’d could have been a big star if she wasn’t a lousy actress.
I tried as I might to watch “Melrose Place”, I just couldn’t quite get into it. Although it was the first season, which seemed just boring. I preferred the earlier fare of Aaron Spelling, namely “Dynasty” and even the unfairly lambasted “The Colbys.”
I had the similar problem with “BH 90210”, at least in the early seasons. I was 16 when the show premiered in 1990, aimed right at my age group, but I was utterly baffled at these twentysomethings (and in one case, that 30-year old actress who had been playing teens on soaps a decade earlier) ALL playing my age that year. Just couldn’t relate and didn’t know anyone like that.
I didn’t care for the early High School seasons or the initial girls at all (Shannen Doherty was too hard, Jennie Garth was a bitch, Tori was a flake and Gabrielle was too old, boring and plain - and worse, it became readily apparent she aged a decade in just a few years on the show). I liked it better later on, after the 5th/6th season after they had more attractive and interesting girls (Vanessa Marcil, Lindsay Price, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, et al).
The first season doesn’t resemble the rest of the show very much. It took a while to a get in the “trashy soap” groove. I think you would like it.
Re: BH 90210
I don’t like casting adults to play kids, find kids that can act, they exist and look more authentic!
Gabrielle Carteris, now SAG President.
I didn’t watch them at the time but later in syndication. My mom must have watched Melrose at one point cause I had a memory of a scene that I later recognized.
Both were continued. “90210” as it was called centered on a former student going back as the principal, they made it seem like he had hung out with the gang but was never seen on screen. I watched it the first year or so, it went off the rails and had cast turnover.
The Melrose continuation flat out sucked.
I never kept watching the Dynasty reboot after the first couple eps. I was sure it would be cancelled but no.
I’ve only seen a few Colbys.
With respect to BH 90210, Brian Austin Green was at least believable. He is a year older than myself, but looked at least 2-3 years younger than his real age back then (he was also on “Knots Landing” previously as Donna Mills’s son), so he could’ve played a HS freshman or sophomore. Everyone else looked either college-aged or older. As an aside, I hated Green’s character as he veered perilously close to a wigger wannabe.
You’re right that they simply should’ve cast for 14-17 year olds to play age appropriate.
I heard about the continuations of the two shows, but never watched them, obviously.
They ran a lot of these shows on the defunct SoapNet, which gave me the chance to see some of them since I passed on watching them initially. They ran “The Colbys” early on. The show was good in the first season and got off track in the second, with Fallon getting abducted by space aliens in the series finale (they made light of that storyline when she and Jeff magically returned to “Dynasty” that fall). It didn’t help they scheduled the show opposite the top-rated NBC shows on Thursday night (and at one point, opposite “Knots Landing” when it was still high in the ratings).
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