When Melrose Place premiered in 1992, it took prime-time soap melodrama and cranked it all the way up. Apartment complex? Yes. But really: a pressure cooker of betrayal, ambition, hookups, breakups, backstabbing, and perfectly lit pool scenes.
Spun off from Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place quickly found its own identity — darker, sharper, campier. By the time Heather Locklear’s Amanda Woodward arrived, the show transformed from twentysomething drama into full-blown glossy chaos.
