Melrose Place: Fourth Season DVD Review (2008)

Strife! Sex! Postmortem madness!

This fourth season of the popular, long-running series has nothing but ugliness in mind for the glossy residents of Melrose Place--which is just how fans want it, particularly after Kimberly (Marcia Cross) decided to blow up everyone (with mixed success) at the end of the third season.

The show offers just what you want from a nighttime soap opera--backbiting, infighting, greed, recklessness--and it does it well, at least as these things go, with one of the brighter high points being Heather Locklear’s conniving Amanda Woodward.

It's tough to go wrong with Locklear, who rarely disappoints, and it's fun to revisit Cross before she became Bee on "Desperate Housewives” and Kristen Davis before she switched gears and became sweet Charlotte on “Sex and the City.”

As a bonus for those who dig the D-list crowd, this season includes guest appearances by Chuck Woolery, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Priscilla Presley and Loni Anderson.

So, tart yourself up and go slumming.

Grade: B-