LATimes: A return to ‘Melrose Place’
August 27, 2009
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Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer are the kinds of writers who bring back popular people from the dead only to kill them.
In 1997, “Melrose Place” viewers were devastated when a car struck and killed Sydney Andrews(Laura Leighton) on her wedding day. But in the pilot of Slavkin’s and Swimmer’s remake, Sydney is alive and looking sensational in her middle age — until she’s discovered floating in the apartment complex pool about 10 minutes into the show.
That the executive producers have chosen to kick off the new series with the resurrection and swift death of a fan favorite is a fitting tribute to the ’90s version and the classic episode in which the villainous Kimberly Shaw (Marcia Cross) returned from the dead.
But in another sense, the second death of Sydney Andrews signals how different this series is from the one that aired on Fox from 1992 to 1999. Camp has given way to noir, soap has morphed into mystery, and acting and dialogue have become more sophisticated while alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity and even murder remain among the permanent residents of the fictitious 4616 Melrose Place.
“What was so important to us about Sydney’s death in the first 10 minutes is that it means anything could happen,” Slavkin said. “And that appeals to us as well as it saying that this is our own thing. It will feel nostalgic, but it’s not the old ‘Melrose.’ “
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