If you thought Melrose Place: The Second Season was a roller coaster ride, then Melrose Place: The Third Season is the entire theme park! So many changes take place during this season. If you've been keeping up with the series, Season Two's cliffhanger had Alison (Courtney Thorne-Smith) bolting through a window after realizing her father molested her, leaving Billy (Andrew Shue) at the altar, a mystery blonde running over Michael (Thomas Calabro) with Jane's car and Jane (Josie Bissett) being arrested for the murder, and Amanda (Heather Locklear) getting out of a very sticky sexual harassment suit with her mother's fiancee. As Season Three picks up, Michael survives the hit and run, but suffers from amnesia. First Jane, then Sydney (Laura Leighton) is arrested for the attempted murder, eventually finding herself committed to the looney bin. In the meantime, Jo (Daphne Zuniga), pregnant with Reed's child, finds herself in a custody battle with Reed's parents, eventually resulting in her having to give up the baby to adoption, but not before Kimberly (Marcia Cross), as insane as ever, kidnaps her baby. Melrose gets a new character in Dr. Peter Burns (Jack Wagner), a megalomaniac who takes Dr. Levin's place as Chief of Staff at Wilshire Memorial. Dr. Burns successfully seduces Amanda, causes a hostile takeover of D&D, places Amanda at the helm and just as swiftly deposes her and breaks her heart. He eventually tries to kill her and finds himself in trouble with the law.

When Amanda regains her position at D&D through some fancy footwork of her own, she soon learns she has Hodgkin's Lymphoma and has to deal with her treatment. In the meantime, Sydney gets out of the nuthouse, falls for Jake (Grant Show), fends of Jane's crazy boyfriend/business partner and joins a cult. Poor Syd - she just can't stay out of trouble. Alison, having confronted her father for his abuse of her, breaks up with Billy and goes back to drinking, goes through recovery and ends up taking Amanda's job at D&D. Of course, Amanda soon screws Alison out of the job and Alison ends up getting tangled up with a new D&D employee in Brooke (Kristin Davis of Sex and the City fame), who turns out to be quite the little trickster. She finagles her father into hiring Alison for a position in Hong Kong, all so she can get her claws into Billy, who marries her at the end of the season. Jake's mother dies, he reconnects with his older brother, Jesse, who steals Jo from Jake, eventually resulting in Jake and Jess falling off of a tall construction set. A true cliffhanger, well, building-hanger.

Special Features, at least up until Melrose Place: The Third Season, have never been impressive. They've basically been cut/paste jobs of parts of the show strung together to talk about relationships between certain characters. This season, however, we finally get some fun Special Features. Melrose Place: According to Jake is a featurette with Grant Show taking a look back at the character that put him on the map - Jake Hanson. It was neat to hear his insight into playing the character and its great fun to see him as he looks today. The best Special Feature, however, is a featurette called Everything You Need To Know About Melrose Place: Season 3, hosted by hilarious comedians/writers, Michael Colton and John Aboud. They pose as actual residents of Melrose Place, dishing on the various characters there. They've also revamped the intro video for Melrose Place, themselves dressing up as the various players. It's riotously funny stuff.

Suffice it to say that the season winds to an end with Kimberly having rigged Melrose Place with enough explosives to take out half a city block. Who lives? Who dies? Does Amanda rebuild and redecorate Melrose? Stay tuned to find out in Season Four!