Melrose Place: Complete Third Season (2007)

Strife! Sex! Hit men! Bomb threats!

This third season of the popular, long-running series introduced Kristin Davis (“Sex and the City”) as Brooke Armstrong, a not-so-sweet young lady who had nothing but trouble in mind for the glossy residents of Melrose Place, and who helped to push the series toward one mother of a cliffhanger.

The show offers everything you expect from a nighttime soap opera--backbiting, infighting, greed, recklessness, people flat on their backs with others on top of them--and it does it well, as these things go, with one of the brighter high points being Heather Locklear as the conniving Amanda Woodward.

It's tough to go wrong with Locklear, who rarely disappoints, and it's fun to revisit Marcia Cross before she became Bee on "Desperate Housewives."

As a plus, the third season includes guest appearances by former porn star Traci Lords and game-show host Chuck Woolery.

So, for fans of the series, naturally it's a must.

Grade: B