'Melrose Place': Violet is Sydney's daughter!
Tonight on "Melrose Place," we won't be rid of Ashlee Simpson-Wentz just yet, as her character Violet is Sydney's daughter.Jonah & Riley
Riley and Jonah stay home all day to celebrate their engagement. Bomp chicka wow-wow. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Awesome Ella, who wants Jonah to hang a security camera in the courtyard.
This creates the Dull Couple Tension of the Week when he spies her comforting Auggie on the video. They fight. It's lame. They also spy Violet floating face-down in the pool at 2:00 am, very creepy.
J & R make up (of course) and make me want to barf as much as season one Andrew Shue (yes, Andrew. Not Matthew. I'm a doofus.) and Courtney Thorne-Smith.
David & Ella
Ella finds out there are major layoffs at her firm by the new VP Caleb. He wants to fire her but she convinces him to give her the weekend to land some hot-shot star named Jasper Barnes. I love Ella.
Meanwhile, David is selling not only his stolen art to a dealer for some quick cash but promises to deliver a fancy-schmancy watch that he's going to steal a party the next night. Ella wants to go with David to said party because Jasper Barnes is goign to be there and he balks until Ella reminds him that she's his alibi for Sydney's untimely demise. Pwned.
They show up at the party together, with Ella looking HOT in a white backless dress and white thigh-high boots. I still prefer Katie Cassidy as a brunette, but she's hot either way. Before she can find Jasper Barnes, though, she runs into Lauren with Rick. DUN DUN DUN.
Ella finds Jasper, though, and wins him over with her cheeky talk and ideas about his overexposure. He basically says if she sleeps with him, he's all hers, so she takes him outside, gets him to drop his pants and takes a picture of his penis. She uses that to teach him some lessons about publicity and then deletes the picture. SO SMOOTH.
Ella finds David and they jump (without much transition at all) into how David grew up poor in a trailer park until he met his dad. That was weird.
Ella heads to work and VP Caleb says he signed Jasper Barnes at Trudy's party because of the whole gay thing, BUT... Jasper wants Ella as his point person. Well done, Ella.
Lauren the Prostitute
Toby (aka Andre or Parker Abrams) hooks Lauren up with more clients before he leaves town. She acts like she won't have sex for money again, but we all know differently. Ella inadvertently pep talks Lauren into doing whatever she has to do to get that MD so she calls Toby's friend Rick.
They run into Ella and David at the fancy party but manage to cover and leave later to have sex. Rick talks about having a connection and seeing each other for real and she acts all standoffish and distant and demands her money. Is it for real? Or is she protecting herself from getting hurt? I suspect the latter.
Violet & Auggie
Auggie has what appears to be a stab wound on his back left shoulder. Hmmm. He hooks Violet up with a hostess gig at Cole, the restaurant where he works (after Ella hooks Violet up with some hipper, sexier clothes).
Auggie is questioned by the police about Sydney and we see via flashback how they met in AA. And ended up sleeping together shortly thereafter. Man, if she slept with Jonah she's got the MP Trifecta. Anyway, he confesses to Sydney that his former girlfriend was killed because of him. Auggie started a fight with a guy at a bar and Danine got stabbed and bled out right in front of him. Sydney helps him stay sober but breaks off the relationship so they can take the 12 steps seriously.
The detectives come at Auggie for stabbing a guy to death the night his girlfriend was killed. We find out via flashback that the night of her murder, Sydney was doing massive amounts of coke after David passed out. Auggie says he had to cut the cord once Sydney got back together with Michael Mancini. Sydney says some harsh things to Auggie about his girlfriend's blood on his hands and stabs him in the shoulder during a struggle. Hmmm.
Pool Party
At the end of the episode, all the MPers hang out at a pool-side BBQ and it's all awesome. Until we find out that Violet is Sydney's daughter. DUN DUN DUN. Also: I KNEW IT! The Dutch girl picked me! Not you, me! Holland loves Chandler, thank you Amsterdam, good night!
Except... Sydney says she never had a baby. Hmmmm.... I'll keep tuning in.
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I don't really care about plot "twists" on Melrose, but putting the reveals in the headlines of your articles for any of the shows on here...kinda annoying.
Agreed. No more revealing info in the headlines!
Then maybe you people getting spoiled by reviews should stop cruising TV-focused websites when you know what to expect. Just a thought.
And ditto on Violet being Syd's kid. Totally saw it coming. But Syd's denial of it may be legit, in which case paints Violet as perhaps the mentally unstable resident? If Ashlee Simpson starts ripping off wigs or blowing up buildings, I'm sending her a fruit basket.
I agree with Andy......don't look at these sites until you have watched the show. That's what I do.
With the red hair I figured Violet would turn out to be
Sydney's daughter. Violet is really bugging me.....okay who goes on a job interview dressed in dirty cut-offs? She thinks she can be a model- seriously???
Syd's denial was definitely legit as played by Leighton. She was freaked out by her cuz she sensed she was nutz and never had a kid. You could tell she wasn't trying to be mean...it would have been out of character to randomly "Throw away her own daughter and deny it" especially with her father/mother issues (Remember, "You're throwing me away!!" To her dad in S3). I think it's Kimberly's daughter.
Yeah, Johah and Riley are dull as dishwater. I wish the show had just given them personalities instead of stupid forced problems week after week. They really are Billy and Allison...
Since I'm looking at repeated patterns from the original show, I really had a vibe that Auggie was going to be gay - even though it's been revealed that Ella is bi - but him having slept with Syd has ruled that out (because bi-sexual *men* don't appear on television; tv can only do one or the other - gay or straight).
Ella really is kind of a fascinating character. Sometimes Katie Cassidy rubs me the wrong way just ever so slightly - but she has created the most interesting character on the show.
I'm sort of hoping that David's right and Violet turns out to be Kimberly's daughter and not Sydney's. Laura Leighton was very believable when she said she hadn't had a child...
Since it's just the 2nd episode, I'm not yet bothered by the Sydney flashbacks. (Though I still think it's a HUGE mistake to get rid of her character so quickly.)
I kind of find it humorous that everyone's lying so hard to the police. I'll be shocked it the actual murderer isn't someone from left field; I have a hard time believing the show actually intends to get rid of one the starting characters so quickly...
Another alcoholic who's GF was killed b/c of his actions. That happened on 90210 a million years ago...Noah telling Val his GF died b/c of drinking....
Ashley Simpson is creepy, i hope she's just role playing!
Should have been Violet in the pool. They need to kill off Ashlee Simpson to make this show better.
Absolutely loving MP.
Ella = Awesome.
btw, the suddenness of David bringing up his childhood was him deflecting. Ella almost busted him after he swiped the watch, so he pulled out a winning, "Look, what's that over there?!?" Which totally worked, too.
And yeah, Violet = Seriously Unhinged.
I believe Syd. Kid's not hers.