Prior to beginning to watch the show on DVD today, I read that bit on Wikipedia, "switches camp for noir, and soap for mystery" and that totally sums it up in a nutshell. I have only seen the pilot, but this is definitely not in the MELROSE PLACE vein, we just happen to have characters (in what here in the beginning felt like it's aspiring to be a slasher movie, come on, a bloody body floating in the pool, and, look! Katie Cassidy!) who live at a studio set much resembling 4616 Melrose of yore.
It cannot be seen as a sequel, just as a re- imagined version, as Sydney died at the end of Season 5 of the original. Not that it's important. Obviously, the producers figured out the audience will enjoy it for its own right. If it fails as a proper sequel to MELROSE PLACE, I don't really mind, as long as it's an exciting show. And that it delivers in spades!
Katie Cassidy, exciting to watch, clearly the main draw-card. Ashley Simpson, why do they hate you so? I liked her in the pilot, Violet looked so pitifully dejected at the end when she couldn't get the guy 'and had to settle for a rain check' I really felt for her.
I will update as I go along watching further episodes.
"Nightingale". Ah, it's all becoming more clear. is clearly Sydney's daughter. The two hottest performers are Katie Cassidy and Ashlee Simpson-Weltz. I still do not understand why people are so against Ashlee, must be something they dislike about the actress herself.
It cannot be seen as a sequel, just as a re- imagined version, as Sydney died at the end of Season 5 of the original. Not that it's important. Obviously, the producers figured out the audience will enjoy it for its own right. If it fails as a proper sequel to MELROSE PLACE, I don't really mind, as long as it's an exciting show. And that it delivers in spades!
Katie Cassidy, exciting to watch, clearly the main draw-card. Ashley Simpson, why do they hate you so? I liked her in the pilot, Violet looked so pitifully dejected at the end when she couldn't get the guy 'and had to settle for a rain check' I really felt for her.
I will update as I go along watching further episodes.
"Nightingale". Ah, it's all becoming more clear. is clearly Sydney's daughter. The two hottest performers are Katie Cassidy and Ashlee Simpson-Weltz. I still do not understand why people are so against Ashlee, must be something they dislike about the actress herself.