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10-22-2022, 05:24 AM
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/melrose-place/melrose-place-streaming-legacy/
Melrose also helped change the nighttime landscape because of the way it told stories: serialization. Owen says that prestige dramas like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere melded with iconic nighttime soaps like Falcon Crest and Dynasty to eventually produce “high-quality drama” like China Beach and Homefront, series that had continuing plot points and story arcs over multiple episodes and seasons. He says Fox used this formula for 90210 and Melrose, the latter doing it much earlier in its run and therefore “teaching a generation of viewers to embrace serialized storytelling; particularly the crazier, the soapier, the better.” (Previous YA-fare like Saved By the Bell hadn’t really explored this. Remember how quickly Jessie Spano kicked that caffeine addiction?).
Melrose also helped change the nighttime landscape because of the way it told stories: serialization. Owen says that prestige dramas like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere melded with iconic nighttime soaps like Falcon Crest and Dynasty to eventually produce “high-quality drama” like China Beach and Homefront, series that had continuing plot points and story arcs over multiple episodes and seasons. He says Fox used this formula for 90210 and Melrose, the latter doing it much earlier in its run and therefore “teaching a generation of viewers to embrace serialized storytelling; particularly the crazier, the soapier, the better.” (Previous YA-fare like Saved By the Bell hadn’t really explored this. Remember how quickly Jessie Spano kicked that caffeine addiction?).