MP S03.E17: They Shoot Mothers, Don’t They?

Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210

Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.9 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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You thought a standard Season 3 episode of Melrose Place crammed in a lot of drama? STRAP IN, because here comes a for-no-reason midseason double episode, and it is a doozy. Amanda and Peter are still pretending to be a couple while secretly plotting against each other. Peter and Caitlin's plan to pry Amanda out of her contract is to arrange for everyone at the agency to take a drug test for insurance purposes, and for Amanda to fail it because the "antibiotics" Peter's prescribed her are actually THC...and since the only drug study at the hospital involving THC is the one Peter's just put Michael in charge of, Peter's hands will be clean. But Amanda finds one pill, gets Matt to have it analyzed, and confronts Peter with the evidence in order to keep her job. So then Peter has to escalate by arranging to "catch" Amanda and Michael in his office after hours, injecting her with a drug that will imitate the appendicitis cramps, and wheeling her into surgery she will not survive. Will Michael have the stomach to go along with it?! Jake insists on accompanying Jo to the Carters' to get Austin back, even though she is completely unable to be cool and reveals herself to Mrs. Carter while she's supposed to be waiting for the cops to come charge the Carters with kidnapping. Mr. Carter then shoots Jo in the back, which kind of complicates the emergency custody hearing set to take place when Jo still has an arm in a sling and Mr. Carter is still out on bail. Billy gets increasingly bitter and suspicious about what's actually going on between Alison and Terry, until he finally confirms it by spying on her at an AA meeting and seeing them mildly PDA-ing. Little does he know how quickly Terry wants things to progress, even after he almost falls back off the wagon after a disastrous performance in his first game back after rehab. After Amanda informs Sydney she's raising her rent by kind of a lot, Jane tells her to find a roommate, and Rikki -- a fellow waitress -- seems perfect! She's full of opinions about all Sydney's neighbors, and also about ways Sydney could improve her life if she just started attending the same self-help meetings Rikki does with her "guru," Martin! And hey, if Sydney can't afford his courses, maybe she could just work it off in his offices! Take aim at our latest podcast on "They Shoot Mothers, Don't They?"!

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0:00.0	Now, if I sound like I'm being bossy, it's only because I care.
0:05.4	Hello, everybody, but especially you.
0:17.4	This is again with this Melrose Place. Today's episode is Season 3, Episode 17. They shoot mothers, don't they? And now here are your host, Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Butting.
0:34.9	Hello, Tara and Dave. Hi, Sarah.
0:46.9	This episode is a mother, but before we get into that, let's talk about again with again with this episode 38 dropping March 12th. Let's read the February 1996 Playgirl interview with Jack Wagner.
0:52.8	I regret to inform you that there are unlikely to be extensive visual aids with this
0:58.0	episode since literally every page of Playgirl that is not this interview is covered in peen.
1:05.2	I'm not complaining.
1:06.9	I'm also not trying to get busted repurposing porn for y'all.
1:12.2	But we'll have lots to talk about outside of the cockyucopia. So we hope you will join us on Patreon to listen to that episode.
1:18.1	That's patreon.com slash again with this.
1:21.8	I'm really looking forward to this. So thank you, Sarah, and thank you Playgirl.
1:26.6	And thank you listeners. Thank you,
1:28.1	eBay. Thank you, Pinnisces. Okay. Thank you for joining us for this double episode. Why they
1:34.9	did this in January? I don't know. I mean, why they did this in the middle of the season,
1:39.2	it's because the show was such a huge hit. But as Sarah pointed out before we started recording,
1:43.6	like, why wouldn't they do this in February for sweeps? Don't know, but this is happening.
1:52.6	Yeah, I'd also like to lodge another complaint with the episode titling authority at Melrose Place.
2:03.9	It's based on they shoot horses, don't they?
2:08.1	Which, if you're not familiar with that film, like, it's, I mean, it's really dark.
2:14.4	This isn't as inappropriate as I am curious Melrose was.
2:15.9	Yeah.
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