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Willa, Melrose Place seems utterly redundant to me now. Its
great innovation was, as I recall, to make TV watching cool again.
Before Melrose Place, TV was in a sitcom stupor, a vast wasteland of
cinematic junk suitable only for children and old ladies. Then suddenly
Melrose Place came around, and my post-college friends were
gathering in batches weekly to watch what was really just a daytime
soap that happened to air at night ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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Should you doubt that Melrose Place has a unique purchase on
the hearts of longtime television watchers, I direct you to the
following positive reviews: “It’s as fresh as yesterday’s daisy,” “It's
still not good, mind you, but it's more honest and enthusiastic about
its badness, you know?” and “[It’s] operating at the same level of
glorious mind gunk as its predecessor.“ No, really, those are all
positive reviews. The new Melrose Place is exactly as bad as the old Melrose Place, and in the special 2+2=5 hours that occur after a long day of work, that’s entertainment ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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