McBride patriarch Mack comes to town to ruin everyone's lives.

Having been assaulted, at the end of the previous episode, with Kyle's version of Eve's scandalous history, Peter kind of...acts like a grownup? He tells her what he's heard, then goes to Oakhurst to see what he can find out himself. Unsurprisingly, the small-town fascists make Eve look much more credible by contrast. Back in L.A., Kyle is still a mess, and Ryan is still sniffing around Megan's restrictive new work schedule. Wilshire Memorial has taken a cue from the rest of the country post-Monica Lewinsky by deciding to educate its staff about sexual harassment. When Michael isn't trying -- and still failing -- to confess his charity embezzlement, he's ignoring everything he was told in his sexual harassment seminar to flirt with a cute new nurse named Audrey. We will TRY not to punch too hard in our podcast on "A Fist Full Of Secrets"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This'

Kyle's reaction to Amanda kicking him out? Putting down his duffel bag and opening up his bag of pills. He's not trying to hear advice from Peter or Ryan, so Eve takes her shot -- then probably regrets it when Sharp Objects comes to town and Kyle orders her to perform as their new lead singer despite how uncomfortable she is about their lascivious looks. Perry is selling Michael so hard on the investment opportunity that Michael decides there's actually no risk at all if he just secretly borrows $100,000 from Peter and Amanda's children's charity. You'll never guess what happens next unless you've ever watched or read a single story about short cons. And when Megan ramps up her efforts to find lasting love for Lexi -- secretively, as Lexi has demanded -- Ryan starts to wonder whether her furtiveness is due to her having returned to her old job. We think we killed our podcast on "I Married A Jock Murderer"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href="https://ag

Kyle still hasn't figured out how to tell Amanda the news about his infertility, and has gone so far past the point of self-medication that he...gets on a plane and goes all the way to the other side of the country to "scout bands" in New York City. This is a great plan, because Peter doesn't want to refill his prescription of "relaxers," and you know who has access to drugs and a willingness to party? Bands! And their managers! Back in Los Angeles, Lexi is still trying to figure out what secret Eve is keeping from her; Peter says he doesn't care, when it's pretty clear he does. Lexi takes a break from harassing her ex's new wife to give Megan an important new assignment at her fake job: find Lexi a man! On the promise of becoming a name partner upon completion of the unorthodox assignment, Megan agrees. Deciding to give up on their divorce doesn't mean Michael and Jane no longer have any problems to deal with: they still have to pay their lawyers, but Michael refuses on principle

It's the winter holiday season on Melrose Place, and Santa's sleigh is about to get totaled. Dr. V has the charitable instinct of enlisting Michael, Peter, and their male neighbors from the complex to be temporary Santas at various local schools. Little do they know that ANOTHER group of Santas has assembled for much more nefarious purposes. Fortunately, a moment of mistaken identity is quickly cleared up, freeing the Santas for their various pursuits. Michael resumes divorcing Jane, only for an activist judge to order them to spend the holidays together. Ryan celebrates finally getting together with Megan by calling out from work for a multi-day bone-a-thon. Eve's hope for a beautiful first Christmas with Peter is threatened when Travis, the tree lot guy, tries to blackmail her into sex, and Kyle volunteers to get involved to help work out a little of his self-hating aggression on Travis's face -- because, oh yeah, while Amanda keeps talking about this being their last Christmas

Amanda and Kyle having decided they want to have a baby, Amanda's gotten herself medically cleared for action, and asks Kyle to do the same. But since he knows some of his Gulf War veteran buddies have had fertility issues, Kyle goes to his new pal (?) Peter (??) for a physical to see if he also got exposed to anything that compromised his baby-making capacity. The very busy Amanda also accepts Lexi's invitation that they bury their former animosity by starting a charity to benefit the hospital; since Eve is present when Peter's exes tell him about it, Eve gets territorial about Lexi and volunteers to join them, even though the more time she spends with Lexi, the more opportunities she has to reveal too much about her past. Ryan and Megan both finally get over themselves and agree to a date that doesn't exactly go the way either of them would like. And Michael and Jane try to move on from each other, even if neither of them seems entirely sure that's what they want. No, we certain

We found out in the last episode that Eve served 15 years in prison, and this week, we find out why; thus, all of us are one-up on Peter, since Amanda and Eve convince Kyle (to whom they spilled their secret) not to tell Peter, and he and Eve get married without incident as far as he knows. Kyle's not thrilled about it, but when he gets back to L.A. he finds much to distract him: a random baby to hold and be cute with; a plot of land he and Amanda might buy to build their dream house on; all kinds of SIGNS that the drama is behind them and they can talk seriously about settling down and starting a family. Meanwhile, back in Oakhurst, Lexi makes an ass of herself crashing Peter and Eve's honeymoon; the shock of finding out Peter went ahead and married another lady convinces her to stop acting the fool all over town. Jane continues dealing with her health scare, and Megan does a terrible job keeping her confidence, leading Michael into situations that confuse him as to the future of

The sex-driven roof collapse of the previous episode has thrown everyone into chaos. Jane is going ahead with divorce proceedings immediately! Ryan is done with Lexi for good! Megan is also done with Lexi as a friend and a boss! Michael...is starting therapy, which is honestly probably a good idea and long overdue! Peter is suddenly bereaved, as he finds out his estranged father has died, apparently alone, and after the day it takes to settle his estate and not attend the funeral, Peter is re-evaluating his life. Specifically, he doesn't want to end up as lonely as his old man, so will Eve marry him? She will! And she'll have it in Oakhurst, which is alarming to Amanda for reasons we don't know! Kyle decides he's done hating Peter just in time to get very suspicious about his new fiancée, and try to save him from marrying an unworthy partner. We tell you whether wedding bells will successfully ring this time in our podcast on "Lethal Wedding 4"!

It's Jane and Michael's wedding day: take 2! Bad start: Michael is reunited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, who all soon realize none of them knows where Jane is. Amanda does, once Jane summons her to the hotel room she's booked (which: let's pause and congratulating her on figuring out THIS resource) to say she and Alex kissed and now she doesn't know if marrying Michael is a mistake. Amanda tries to hold everything together, getting the groom and all the guests to the church...but will Jane join them? Whether you're listening at sunrise or sunset, please enjoy our podcast on "Fiddling On The Roof"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ <a href="https://againwithth

In some ways, things for Eve and Peter seem to be going great: he's giving her his credit card for a shopping spree, broadly hinting that he'd love her to move in, and so on. Buuuuuuuut, there's also the fact that she needs a shopping spree because she barely has any clothes; and is she maybe so focused on Peter that she might pass up a chance to make a deal with a record label? That's not all, but don't get too excited: whatever her terrible secret is, that reveal isn't happening yet. Also not happening: Jane's participation in the final wedding arrangements, because Alex is demanding that she come with him to his studio in Chicago to help him with his spring line. And if this puts them back together at the same place where they boned on the eve of her last wedding to Michael, so much the better for him! Michael tries to prove that he really does trust her by staying away, though if Peter wasn't around to keep distracting him, Michael would definitely b

Eve is about as eager to get things going with Peter as a person can be. And she knows he and Amanda were formerly married. And she recognizes that her instincts about relationships may not be the greatest. But no, she is not going to listen to any of Amanda's suggestions about how to handle things with him. Megan is trying to walk the narrow line between staying on Lexi's good side (and in her employ) while letting Amanda know Megan respects her; she's also, maybe, starting to thaw on Ryan. Lexi, meanwhile, is holing up in her condo trying to drink away her public humiliation. Michael and Jane's story is still mostly spinning its wheels. At least Alex does what he can to change things up by suggesting that Jane become the face and body of his fashion brand, while also enlisting Amanda to break Jane and Michael up on threat of Alex pulling his business. Then there's a city-wide blackout that throws everyone into disarray! You don't need to see a dang thing to enjoy our po

After being drawn to Eve's (a) medical level of neediness and (b) siren song, Peter asks her out. And Amanda is all about it, giving Eve tips on how to land him and even lending her an outfit. But then Eve is a little too aggressive in kissing him goodnight, and too eager to try to walk back her first impression, to the degree that both Peter and the audience is left wondering what her deal actually is. We're not going to find out from Amanda this week, since she's got her own problems: BizLine has nominated her for Woman Of The Year, and since Lexi simply cannot have that, she uses back channels to try to talk the editor out of giving it to Amanda and, when that doesn't work, starts a rumor that Amanda slept with him to clinch her victory. Since Jane never noticed that Michael was on the property when Alex was declaring his love in the last episode, she remains focused on her suspicion that what Michael's hiding is an affair with Megan, despite being pr

When Peter makes a whole scene at the not-jazz club keeping Lexi from telling Amanda what she knows about Peter, Kyle figures out that he might be able to confirm his vague suspicions about Peter by joining forces with her, even going to her fake office to arm-grab her about it. Lexi keeps it to herself...for now. When Kyle's not laser-focused on taking Peter down, he's taking down Eve, a Lilith Fair manquée trying to book a gig at the club. When she collapses in the parking lot downstairs, Amanda takes an uncharacteristic interest in her. Ryan's interest is still on Megan: refusing to take no for an answer when he asks her out, he forces her to bring Lexi as a chaperone on the date he bullies her into accepting. And Michael is STILL suspicious that Jane is going to cheat on him with Alex, and sets traps to try to prove himself right, some more. Listen to our latest episode to hear all about "Not Quite All About Eve"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href

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Kyle is still morbidly focused on Amanda, Peter, and the missing diary page, which is such a waste of energy since Peter is probably going to trip himself up soon enough: LEXI has winkled out his most recent terrible secret, which if Kyle knew she'd done should make him very ashamed that she's shown him up. When Kyle's brother Ryan isn't reading way too much into his every interaction with Kyle, he's doing his fake job for Amanda: both Ryan and Lexi's newest employee Megan travel to Arizona to try to land an eccentric soap client. When mishaps throw the rivals together, Megan actually one-ups Ryan in the touchy department. And we should probably create a macro for this: Michael is suspicious that Jane is going to cheat on him with Alex, and sets traps to try to prove himself right. Our podcast on "Dr. Jealousy" is good for what ails you! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' b

Having convinced himself that Megan is suicidal, Michael leaves town to follow her to the trailer park he's been given to understand she grew up in. Except whoops, it's a stately manor with horses all over the lawn, and parents who totally know what she's been doing since she left home; it was, according to Megan's mother Teresa (Shirley Jones!), the news of Megan's former profession that caused her father's debilitating stroke. Will Megan's disappointments in Los Angeles convince her to return to ranch life, or will Michael, the guy who just jilted her, lure her back to the complex? While he's out of town, Amanda sends Jane to try to land her old design school friend Alex as a client, and Jane decides to try to ignore their history for the chance at 25% of his fees if she's successful. At first he's too cold; then he's...way too warm. Speaking of being cold and then warm: Peter, rushed to the hospital for surgery on that gunshot wound. As doctors are yelling jargon over him in th

It's been a hot second since we got a single-storyline episode, and all it took was Matt getting killed (offscreen) in a car crash! Everyone absorbs the news in their own ways, but only Amanda bothers to go see Matt's mother, who doesn't want anyone from the complex to attend the funeral but has no compunction bequeathing Amanda Matt's diary. And it turns out that all those times the writers didn't bother giving Matt anything to do, we should have assumed he was just out of frame, listening to all his neighbors' most shocking secrets and noting them in his journal. Michael's sexy secret job in Chicago? Amanda's true feelings for Peter? How Kyle became estranged from the brother we never knew he had -- the brother who then shows up at the jazz club? And a page SO HOT Amanda tears it out and hides it?! YES. Listen to our latest episode to learn all about "The World According To Matt"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href="https://againwiththispodcast.com/c

Taylor having inconveniently gone into labor in the middle of a pounding rainstorm, the ambulance can't get to the beach house in time and Michael Jr. is delivered at home, to his two biological parents and the blonde lady so desperate for her chance at motherhood that she's ignoring every instinct a sensible person could possibly have and agreeing to raise him with the unreliable man with whom she first re-initiated contact last week. Taylor took her last moments as a childless person to INSIST that Michael and Jane agree to take custody of the baby...but she sure does seem crestfallen that Jane and Michael Jr. are getting along so well! Michael calls Jennifer to tell her she's an aunt, but she's still in the middle of getting dumped by a guy who doesn't deserve her, and when Jane finds out Michael was involved, she orders him to fix it. On the other side of the country, Sam shows up at the radio station that probably started immediately regretting having hired Jeff, and begs him

After Peter failed to call off Mr. Beck's hired goons in the last episode, his plan starts to come into focus: she's kidnapped, and Peter's going to be the hero who saves her, in the process winning her back. And it actually...seems to work? Kyle has to humble himself by asking Peter for ransom money, for starters, though Peter is too worried about what the guys might do to relish it very much. The only problem seems to be that Amanda has more ingenuity and a stronger survival drive than Beck's henchmen anticipated. Taylor lets Jane know that she wasn't just idly talking at the end of the last episode: she really does not want to raise the baby she's carrying, and really thinks Michael and Jane should do it instead. Though Jane still isn't sure she and Michael are going to reunite as a couple, she's in (?), but will he be? And will he have time to hear a pitch when he's so busy trying to split up Jennifer and Billy? Mind you, they don't really need the help what with Sam around, s

Mr. Beck from the last episode is about to go out of town, but first he makes sure Peter knows he's already started making arrangements for a deal the two of them discussed offscreen. It seems to involve extremely conspicuous hired goons posting up at the jazz club being obvious, and given the look of them, Peter's regrets start up well before we have any idea what the scheme even is. Speaking of schemes involving people who lived at the condo in the marina: Coop is having a bad time with Lexi, but the more he rebuffs her advances, the more determined she seems to get him to cave. Trying to prove to Lexi how confident she is in her relationship with Coop, Megan accidentally reveals how horny she is for the $5 million Coop will collect at the end of their marital year, which really undercuts his bargaining position with Lexi. Michael, a practiced liar, seems to think not only that he can keep Jane and Taylor from finding out about each other, but that he can do so whil

Peter's more committed than ever to his scheme to get Amanda back, even though Dr. Visconti does not agree with him that a recurring sex dream -- in which she starts by resisting Peter's advances only to relent almost immediately -- is prophetic. Elsewhere: you're never going to believe this, but Coop and Lexi's sham marriage is a problem from DAY 1. The first problem: Coop and Megan can't be cool about it at all. The second: neither Lexi nor Peter seems to remember he was the one who told her this one weird trick for getting $10 million out of her father's estate. Michael seems to think Megan's official singleton status means he should try to get back together with her; when she shuts him down decisively, he has second thoughts about going back to Chicago for his 10th (lol) college reunion. His classmate Jane is excited to see him too, but dashes his hopes of reuniting with her in a more intimate way with some big news. At the agency, Billy and Sam deliver a great (lolol) campaig

It's not enough for Megan to spend her waking hours stressed out about Lexi's legal troubles and how easy it would be for Coop to solve them: she has to have extremely dramatic nightmares about them too! When Lexi herself fails to convince Coop with a practical argument delivered while casually stripping down to her slip, she realizes the only way her pitch has ANY shot of working is if it comes from Megan. Lexi's ex Peter wants to start courting Amanda immediately upon her return from the Dominican Republic, fresh divorce in hand, but whoops, she and Kyle got married again offscreen. Is Peter too late?! As Taylor's pregnancy continues taking up space in Michael's mind AND house, he tries to resist caring about his imminent progeny, but the ultrasound blob printout he's tucked into his wallet tells a different story. And while Billy and Jennifer are happily canoodling all over the complex, Sam gets increasingly upset about it -- and considering how aggressively Jeff pursued Sam wh

Can Kyle stop Rory before he straight-up murders Amanda?!

Returning to the Dominican Republic to expedite her divorce from Kyle only reminds Amanda of how romantic her last trip there was, when she and Kyle were falling in love. Meanwhile, whatever scheme Rory has cooking seems to have sped up his timeline, so the smooth-talking gigolo routine needs to go into overdrive, too. Back in L.A., Kyle enlists Jennifer in his campaign to push Taylor into confessing her big secret about Christine, while Michael advises her against it. Michael, at least, seems to have given up his campaign to reunite with his ex, and spends every scene with Megan verbally abusing her while Coop looks increasingly constipated about it. Peter returns to Lexi seeming to have finally noticed what the rest of us have known all along: she's boring and she sucks. Speaking of "boring" and "sucks": THE SAM/BILLY/JENNIFER/JEFF QUADRANGLE, which is STILL HAPPENING GAAAAAAAH! Make yourself a tropical drink (heavy on the rum), and join us for our podcast on "

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Coop brings Megan to Philadelphia for the last phase of his job interview. Will she elude Larner's clutches? Michael can't keep the secret of Taylor's pregnancy, and neither can Jennifer. Once Kyle finds out, will he and Michael be able to test its paternity without letting Taylor find out the truth? Peter's stress level goes so far through the roof that the hospital's psychiatrist lends Peter his cabin to chill out. Will he remain chill once Michael follows him there? Rory is still working his angles with Amanda. Does she actually hate herself enough to let him? And Jennifer is getting increasingly territorial about Billy. Will she finally just tell him what Sam has actually been doing with Jeff, since Billy has somehow remained the very last carbon-based life form on Earth to find out? All these questions AND MORE are answered in the gigantic Season 6 finale, so get comfortable while our latest podcast tells you all about "M.P. Confidential" and "The Nasty Minded Profes

Coop is still boring us all with talk of his big job in Philadelphia, and while Megan is still strongly considering joining him if he gets it, there's a problem: the head of the search committee is coming to town, and the restaurant where he wants to meet Coop and Megan happens to be in the hotel where Megan formerly worked. While this is weighing on Megan, her worst friend Jennifer pressures her to be more considerate of Michael, whose clinic is so deep in debt that he is openly considering burning it down for the insurance money. Coop's ex, meanwhile, runs into Rory, and old friend from Cleveland; once she finds out he's divorced, she immediately decides to set him up with Amanda, all the better to keep her away from Peter. Amanda really must be off her game, because she can't immediately clock Rory as a bounder. Kyle goes to Dallas to try to get more clues about what Nick was doing in L.A., and he does when his ex-landlady reveals that Taylor came to see him. Taylor tells Micha

Christine is still dead. Nick is still gone. And yet we're still hearing a lot about both of them. Amanda is so racked with guilt that she's taking it out on Kyle, whose attempts to bridge the gap between them all come out very hostile. Then Kyle gets a letter from Nick informing him that Taylor's dead, which she proves she is not by walking into the scene seconds later, but it still sends Kyle on an investigative journey into whom Christine had contact with in her last days, and why. Both the remaining blond doctors are annoying the (annoying) women in their lives with unilateral decisions about their living arrangements: Coop is up for a job in Philadelphia and assumes Megan will be overjoyed to move there with him if he gets it; Peter, having been back with Lexi for one date, buys her a condo on the marina. Michael and his clinic continue their downward spiral, though at least he has regular gossip updates from Taylor to distract him. Speaking of gossip, Megan happens to be lea

Having accidentally killed Christine in the last episode, Nick springs into action with a cunning plan, and drags Taylor along: they're going to call a suicide note in to Amanda at the hotel where she and Kyle are staying on their wedding night, then leave Christine on the tracks so that her corpse will be obliterated past the point where any physical evidence of Nick's actions can be determined. And it works, particularly as regards Taylor's agenda in the larger plan, because Amanda tries to conceal the suicide message from Kyle, then blames herself for her seeming part in Christine's death. And Kyle is so determined to get her past it that he even enlists Peter to convince Amanda that she's innocent before eventually deciding he agrees with her, actually. But the two surviving co-conspirators can't help turning on each other. Billy and Sam continue boring us all with their infidelity, though their respective co-cheaters do escalate their interest (but just a little -- the season

Christine -- or should we say "Christine"? -- is ready to pull the plug on Operation Reset Kyle's Life, but Taylor and Nick have invested too much in it and simply will not allow that to happen. The next phase involves "Christine" confessing suicidal ideation to Peter so that he'll (a) commit her on a psych hold and (b) use all her professions of love to his own advantage with Amanda by telling Kyle and pushing him and Christine together. Unfortunately, Peter does only the first thing and very much not the second; in fact, he basically orders Kyle to leave Christine alone and marry Amanda as fast as he can -- which just requires Taylor to escalate the situation further. Here's what's not really escalating: anything between Billy and Sam OR the people who have crushes on them. Sam panics after sex with Jeff and tells him it absolutely cannot happen again. But Jeff is ready to throw away his whole career for her! Until she tells him not to and then he doesn't! Jennifer, mea

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So the last episode showed us that Christine was definitely alive; definitely wrote that letter years ago that Taylor apparently forgot about and had to go to Dallas to have Nick explain; and definitely was really injured in the war, she's also in cahoots with Nick, against Kyle. In this one, we're told that although money is apparently involved, and Christine doesn't feel great about her part in it, and this is also kind of a plan FOR Kyle, in the sense of rekindling his friendship with Nick? But other than that there is a plan, we don't know what it is, except that it involves Christine acting like she really needs a lot of attention from Kyle and is still constantly thinking about suicide -- and, honestly, how much acting is involved is an open question. As A plots go, we've had better! Moving on: Lexi has moved out of Peter's place, and (chastely) in with Coop. Megan is upset that Coop could throw her over so easily, so she heads straight back to Michael, and

The time has come for a midseason two-parter, and new characters are popping off. Having mooched some extra ER shifts from Peter, Michael meets a shady gentleman (how shady? His name is Spider), who encourages Michael to revive the shuttered medical clinic in his neighborhood. Much as we were expected to believe that Michael doesn't know how strip clubs work, we're also expected to believe he doesn't understand the quid pro quo implied. Meanwhile, with Mrs. Mancini still in town, Jennifer has to keep asking Billy to pose as Craig -- and since Sam is still head over heels for Jeff, she has no problem giving Billy permission to do it and leave her alone, basically. And after Lexi's father Thomas suffers a health emergency in the middle of a conversation with Peter, Michael's ex-wife, Megan, stumbles secret knowledge about it that she wishes she never had. Mancinis: drama magnets! When Kyle and Christine have an awkward reunion that immediately resurrects Angry Kyle, Christine enlist

We join Jennifer just as she's absorbing horrifying news: Mia Mancini, mother to Jennifer and Michael, is coming for a visit -- just as her children's lives are falling apart! Michael has to do some fancy footwork to explain why he doesn't want to bring Mia to his office, but it works, and when Mia mistakes Billy for Craig, Jennifer just decides to run with it! Billy is more willing to play along than he might otherwise be since Sam is preoccupied: landing Jeff Baylor means committing to have her run his campaign, and although Jeff knows she's married, he maaaaaybe doesn't care, and maybe Sam doesn't either what with Billy being such a jerk to her all the time. Taylor guides Amanda to finding out more information about Christine, but slightly overplays her hand by telling Amanda things only Nick knew, which Amanda then repeats to Kyle. But everything changes when Kyle very belatedly receives a letter Christine wrote him years ago. Thomas only has one scene, but he makes it count:

Once again, the medical practice is a flashpoint for drama. Peter can plainly tell that Lexi's father Thomas has no respect for him, because Thomas is not even pretending to hide it. (It's not like we can really say Thomas is WRONG to think Peter is bad news for his daughter, but since he much prefers Coop for her, it's not like his judgment is perfect.) Coop is keeping a close eye on Michael and Amber, noting their cohabitation and making sure Amber gets invited to a big reception the practice is throwing to impress a bunch of "hospital bigwigs." Once there, Coop doesn't let her champagne glass empty, and though the consequences are predictable, we must ALSO say that Coop had nothing to do with Amber showing up in what would be quite brief even as a nightgown, plus also braless; Michael did THAT to her/himself. Amanda's recovery takes a sudden turn for the better, just in time for Taylor to track Nick down in Dallas, break into his apartment, talk up the jazz club, and get the fu

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Our A plot is a good old doctor roundup! Michael is using all his romantic tricks to lock down Amber; when she resists, he (rudely) assumes it's because she's embarrassed about her job and what his friends (who) will think of her, and (annoyingly) the show doesn't let her tell him she's rejecting him for any number of other very good reasons. When Megan dribbles some baloney about never having really dated, Coop suggests that they start their relationship over in a "courtship" mode. Bob, having recovered his memories about the night of the hit-and-run, confronts Peter with a blackmail threat, but he doesn't want money: he wants Peter to break up with Lexi so that Bob can have her for himself. (Billy, Sam, and Jennifer also stop by for one scene, presumably for contractual reasons.) Since Amanda is still paralyzed, Taylor starts looking for ways she can use the situation to her advantage with Kyle, spying on him when he goes looking through his old foot locker. When Taylor actually

Amanda and Sam's crash site still hasn't been found, and Kyle is DETERMINED to locate it NO MATTER WHAT and REGARDLESS of whose actually experienced toes he steps on!!! (Billy is also there, kind of circling Kyle and yapping like that little dog in the old Looney Tunes cartoon.) Anyway -- spoiler? -- the ladies are located and treated for their injuries, and it turns out Amanda wasn't just whining about her back: it is seriously injured, to the degree that she may be paralyzed. (Or just have to stay in bed for a while because of Heather Locklear's pregnancy.) While Sam is still recovering -- and totally convinced by Billy's version of Connie's snitching about their kiss -- Billy urges Connie to go see her, promising he didn't tell her anything about...you know. GloveCo is thriving, but Coop still wants to get rid of Michael; soft-hearted and/or stupid Megan just wants him to ignore Michael instead. While Peter is occupied by Amanda's treatment, Lexi lavishes her attention

The GloveCo lawsuit is behind us...sort of: Michael is so bitter about having been cut out of the business for the obvious reasons that he uses his Chief of Staff position to forbid the glove's use in surgery by ANY hospital personnel. Coop hatches a plan to strip Michael of this authority, but it's going to require that Michael believe a woman who hates him also wants to bone. Hmmm, could it possibly work?! Peter is also an accessory to this plan, but he's got his own problems: Bob is back in town (crutch-free), and since he's looked up Peter and Lexi's address and popped by, Lexi decides to atone for her crime by giving him a job. It's Billy's birthday, and though Sam has planned a huge celebratory extravaganza, it's going to have to wait until next year: Amanda's bringing her on a location scout for a new client's campaign. Left alone with Billy, Connie only needs to wait for him to get slightly tipsy to create the conditions for him to try to make out. But then Charlie shows u

Having learned in the last episode that Lexi (a) has a problem with pills and (b) ran a guy over, Jennifer wastes no time putting her intel to use on Michael's behalf: she tells Coop she can get Lexi to release him from his alimony obligation if Coop will drop the lawsuit against Michael and turn over any relevant documents (which she still believes are fake anyway). Evidently, Coop is too focused on winning Megan away from Michael to think through all the implications, and agrees -- so it's too bad that Megan, despite talking big talk about her plans to divorce Michael, seems extremely susceptible to his love bombing via gifts. As Sam gets increasingly distracted by her long hours at work, Connie seems to be taking advantage of her absence by creeping ever closer to Billy (particularly to his lips). And though Kyle's heartbreak over Amanda is making him even worse at business than usual, a well-timed visit by JON SECADA has Taylor hatching plans to save their lease...and also....

We've said a lot of hurtful things about Coop, because he is a bad character and we have assessed him accurately. But one of the smartest things we've ever seen him do is try to get Craig on his side in the glove lawsuit by showing him the hard evidence that proves Coop really did come up with the idea first. When Jennifer is present for Craig's deposition, where he truthfully testifies about it, she confronts Michael about what he may have gotten her into; Michael has her on side, but he's going to have to do some fancy footwork to keep her there, which will be hard now that his attention is split between that and obsessing about Megan and Coop's burgeoning relationship. Peter returns to the scene of Lexi's hit-and-run and finds the victim, an unhoused person named Bob. Though he tries to keep Lexi from finding out what she did, even she is able to put the pieces together when the cops show up and tell her about the person Peter saved after some scofflaw ran him over. Amanda cont

Peter confronts Lexi about the pills he found in her purse, which he went ahead and asked Coop about behind her back, and guess what: she feels betrayed! Fortunately, she's easily distracted by the project of redecorating not just the condo, but the offices of the Mancini Glove Company, too. Décor is the least of Michael's concerns: he's busy trying to convince Megan that she's extremely frail, and also that he was the one who kept a vigil during her coma, both of which require that he keep Coop far away from Megan. Meanwhile, Jennifer's loose lips give Coop yet another front from which to attack Michael. Amanda continues trying to convince Kyle that she wasn't dishonest with him about Eric (even though...lady, come on). But now that Taylor's crept one step closer to reuniting with Kyle for more than a twenty-minute stand, she's got a new project: convincing Kyle to let Amanda sell her share in the jazz club. Amanda's got different hassles at the office, what with Sam and Billy ta

After the previous episode's cliffhanger gets resolved, Amanda must do damage control, trying her very best to convince Kyle that she did NOT accept Eric's offer even though, yes, when Kyle kicked his way into Eric's suite, she WAS in bed with him, naked. Then Billy stops by Kyle's to tell him that a bunch of their clients have come back, and whatever Amanda did, it's working. Hey, Billy? STAY OUT OF IT. Taylor keeps hoping unrest between Kyle and Amanda will mean she can slide back in with him. While Megan remains comatose, Coop is (unsurprisingly) drawn to her; at the same time, he and Michael wrangle over who gets to keep the bedside vigil. Lexi has gotten her prescription refilled, yet we're not sure the writers know what effect Valium has on a patient. Finally, the wedding draws ever closer, putting stress on Jennifer to find a date who will make Craig jealous, and causing Connie to get more direct about her feelings. Wake up! We made you a podcast on "My Little Coma Girl"!<b

Once again, the doctors are in disarray! When Peter bails Coop out of jail, Michael turns on both of them, convinced that even if Coop didn't physically pull the trigger at the beach house, he's behind the person who did. Michael's so fired up about finding the shooter that even Megan gets curious enough to join in the investigation. Coop himself is pretty shocked when Mrs. Shaw accosts him outside his apartment, and quickly figures out she's the culprit; since his was not his endgame with Michael, he informs her that he's going to send her back to Cleveland and have her check herself into a mental institution. PROBLEM SOLVED. At the same time, Peter -- a medical doctor -- can tell Lexi isn't quite herself, but not that she's pretty obviously going into withdrawal after running through the last of her tranquilizers. Jennifer is inspired by Billy and Sam's engagement to try to corner Craig into committing to dating her, and won't take "my wife was killed in front of me nin

Sarah will be back next week (yay!) so this week in lieu of a void of nothingness we're unlocking two episodes from the Again With This Club. 060: Let’s Watch Thomas Calabro On Law &amp; Order! Back in the unlamented Greevey era of Law &amp; Order: Mothership, Thomas Calabro played a variation on Robert Chambers named Ned Loomis in Season 1, Episode 4, "Kiss The Girls And Make Them Die." We have some notes. 064: Let’s Watch Josie Bissett, Laura Leighton, And Daphne Zuniga In Their Fantasy Island Episode! We couldn't NOT watch three Melroseans in the Fantasy Island reboot -- especially in an episode that's a meta meditation on aging in Hollywood and societal double standards. Did the show convert Sarah? And what's with the tomato boobs? JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href="https://a

While Amanda keeps the secret of Eric's designs against Kyle's entire hospitality empire, Eric completes his purchase of the KYLE'S/jazz club property, giving Kyle 30 days to exit. And that's not all: he's ALSO planning to sell Amanda's new agency to one of her competitors. However, he doesn't leave Amanda without hope: he will abandon all his plots if she will just do oooooooone little thing. Michael is still being harassed by either Kimberly or someone working very hard to convince him that they're her. Michael accuses virtually everyone in his life of being the culprit -- though not Craig and Jennifer, since his main complaint about them at the moment is that they're not giving him enough adulation at the newly formed medical device company. Peter is happy to use Michael's crazy-sounding stories against him in order to get his Chief of Staff job back, but otherwise his life is going pretty great. He can even openly date Lexi now, and enjoy total honesty in their relationship, b

The main drama swirls around the doctors this time: Michael's already had a prototype cauterizing glove made and is ready to start making money off it immediately by selling it to a medical company; Craig wants to use it to build a company himself, which will make him and both Mancini siblings money in the long term. When Jennifer sees that Michael's stubbornness is going to drive Craig away (from her), she engages in a little espionage to force Craig and Michael into an arranged marriage, business-wise. Though Coop does find out about some of this eventually, it can't be top of mind: he's found out that Lexi got his real books, he knows he's about to get screwed in their divorce settlement, and he wants to know who's to blame. And she's not the only woman in the episode who's giving him trouble. Kyle, continuing to stew (no pun intended) over the loss of KYLE'S East, asks Amanda why she told Eric about it. She says she didn't, which only makes Kyle more suspicious about

Michael is the pivot point for virtually everyone in the A plot. He helps Taylor cover up her non-pregnancy after a fortuitous fall down the jazz club's eponymous stairs. He hassles Megan so much that he drives her into Eric's arms. He takes an idle conversation with Coop about surgical tools and turns it into a proposal to develop a new device AND lets Jennifer pitch him on tricking Craig into backing it with Sydney's insurance money instead of blowing it on a cruise. But Michael's not the only one screwing Coop over: Peter is so fired up with love for Lexi that he takes it upon himself to steal Coop's financial records in order to assist her in her divorce machinations. Billy finally decides to listen to Sam the 400th time she tells him to depart Maryland and leave her alone, but his goodbye convinces her that she doesn't belong there either, and she comes home to (a) reunite with him and (b) interview for the graphic artist job he's trying to fill at Amanda's new agency. Make s

Still reeling from Sam’s shock departure at the end of the last episode, Billy takes time off from The AWA at the worst possible time to follow a hunch and locate her in Maryland, working at her mother Kate’s restaurant. Though Kate’s longtime employee Ernie seems kindly disposed toward Billy, he admits that Kate still feels guilty about mistakes she made in Sam’s childhood (edging us ever closer to confirmation that Jim sexually abused Sam), and may be overcompensating in her protectiveness of Sam now. Counterpoint to Ernie: it’s Billy. At the same time, Sydney’s father has come to L.A. to see Craig. He’s about to hand off something too significant to mail when a heedless Jennifer flounces out in her underwear and one of Craig’s shirts and Mr. Andrews decides maybe he never needs to see Craig again, actually. Can Jennifer smooth things over with her former distant in-law? As for everyone else: it’s just one romance crisis after another. Kyle is jealous of Amanda’s relationship wi

As we take a little time off for the holidays, we're opening up our voicemail box and playing some of your latest calls. In addition to learning about the Jackie Taylor-esque luxury one listener enjoys in her boudoir/kitchenette and another's suggestion for a New Year's resolution a certain Chris Marchette should make, we're answering your questions. Which 90210 or past Melrose Place character would we import to Season 6? What might happen if anyone in the gang crossed over into Law &amp; Order? If we all agree on Melrose Place's BEST couple (and we do), which is second-best? And more! Pop some champagne and join us! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes

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The organizers of a medical conference in Santa Barbara had NO IDEA their event was going to be a flashpoint for so much drama! First, Coop tries to get Michael to go and gets turned down flat. Then Megan tries to get Michael to agree to more therapy, so he claims he has to go to this conference and absolutely cannot get out of it! Then Coop tells Lexi he's not going to be able to see her when she comes to L.A., because he's going to, guess what, this conference. So when she says she'll just track him down there, he gets Peter to go in his place. Michael is delighted to hear that his wife has come to the hotel to surprise him...until he sees that it's actually Taylor, still looking for him to knock her up -- which is why things get complicated when his actual wife actually ALSO comes to surprise him, but Taylor will not let Megan interrupt their procreative schedule! At the same time, Peter happens to meet a gorgeous redhead who's loitering around the hotel seeming frustrat

Coop has not only taken Michael up on his invitation to join the medical practice -- he brings in a contractor to start talking about knocking down walls before he's even met Peter! Who by the way isn't thrilled to have this development sprung on him. Michael has MANY problems other than his business partner's rage: Megan gets him to enter couples' therapy, where they are challenged not to lie to each other for 48 whole hours. And: Taylor's plan to get artificially inseminated goes off the rails due to a problem at the sperm bank. Wherever will she find more sperm before she's done ovulating?! Peter also has some other plots cooking: after Amanda mentioned in passing that she might want to start her own new ad agency, Peter's enlisted Billy to come up with a prospectus, and believes that if he can just give Amanda the money to get it off the ground, she'll fall in love with him again for sure. Not thrilled with this plan: Sam, who is worried about what Craig will do if he suffers

For obvious reasons, Amanda is trying to void the lease that Taylor signed with Matt; for equally obvious reasons, she's annoyed that Kyle doesn't seem to care where Taylor lives or what she does. Then Amanda overhears Peter yelling at Taylor about her pregnancy, and tells Kyle about it. And when Kyle asks Taylor about it, she says that not only is it true...but that Kyle must be the father because Peter is sterile. Obviously, Peter is not thrilled that this rumor about him is going around the complex, until Taylor tells him that they can use this lie to break up Kyle and Amanda and reunite with their original partners. Coop has arranged for his extremely offscreen fancy surgeon friend to operate on Michael's hands; Jennifer uses this potentially dangerous moment in Michael's life to manipulate Megan into spending time with him again. It's lucky for Coop that everyone's too self-involved to notice how much attention he is paying to everything anyone says about Michael in

Wilshire Memorial has always been a flashpoint for drama, and that has never been more true than in our Season 6 premiere. Peter is still in Carmel, sorting out his feelings about Taylor's pregnancy and making a huge decision. Michael is entering into a devil's bargain with Jennifer, so that she'll convince her new roomie Megan not to turn against Michael. Matt has decided to do his residency at a teaching hospital in San Francisco, where Michael conveniently has a hookup. And Dr. Brett Cooper relocates from Cleveland to Los Angeles, apparently for the sole purpose of avenging Kimberly's death. Then there's the fallout from the Season 5 finale car crash: a couple of people are dead (one no one will mourn, and one we ALL will), and a lot of feelings are hurt. Kyle and Amanda have managed not to screw things up between them in the 12 hours or so they've spent boning all over her apartment, but now she has to go to New York and turn down that other job in person, because she got the hooku

Though being a bitch queen has generally worked out for Amanda, her run may be at an end: Craig and Sydney are conspiring to bring down D&amp;D from within, and her desperate attempt to get back the capital she poured into the jazz club fails when Kyle has to tell her he spent it on tables and bands and napkins and stuff. It's more than she can take -- literally (in a physical sense). And D&amp;D is not the only Melrose Place business going through changes: Jake has sold Shooters to an entirely offscreen buyer, but Alison doesn't seem too excited about starting her new life in Ojai: she picks a fight about putting her dreams on hold for his, races back to L.A., "forgets" she has important real estate papers in her car and asks Colleen to bring them up to Jake. She couldn't push the two former partners closer together if she tried! (...Hmmmm.) Michael and Taylor's scheme against Peter kicks into its final phase, only to risk blowback when this physician seeks a seco

Amanda returns from the DR divorced and in a great mood...until she learns that Sydney's employment was a condition of her settling her lawsuit. Sydney is suspicious about why Amanda is putting so many D&amp;D resources behind the launch of Kyle's stupid club, while Amanda is greedily jealous of Craig's relationship with Sydney even though Amanda didn't even want him when she could have easily had him, and just regular jealous that Kyle hired Jennifer to tend bar at the club without running it by Amanda first. Colleen comes back to town upon the very predictable end of her marriage, bringing David to spend some time with Jake before Colleen and David move out of state; Alison gets just as predictably bent out of shape about it, given that she was already worried that her infertility was denying Jake one of his longest-held life goals. Billy eludes the cops to get Jim his cash, only to learn there's yet another stipulation: Jim isn't leaving town without Sam. This finally leads Sam a

Megan snitches to Kyle about Jennifer's new strip club job, from which he extricates her just before she's about to accept a promotion from server to performer, setting her up in his apartment...alone, because it's time for Amanda and Kyle to journey to the Dominican Republic to finalize their quickie divorces, but oh no! Amanda's apparently terrible travel agent booked them in a resort that has had its one road washed out during the rainy season, so they're going to have to stay in a VERY rustic beach shack arranged by a random cab driver Kyle meets at the airport! Roughing it eventually brings out the best in Amanda, and the two get closer commiserating, some more, about the end of their marriages. But can it last, given Kyle's current house guest? Jennifer also witnesses Michael and Taylor scheming to trick Peter into thinking he has rage epilepsy and is physically abusing Taylor during blackouts; Taylor excitedly plants a big kiss on Michael to seal their evil deal, w

If you worried that we might not hear about the jazz club this time, don't! Amanda has decided she needs to formalize her partnership with Kyle, and he eventually agrees -- as long as there's no chance Peter is going to weasel his way in. Amanda is on the same page, but regarding Taylor, so a summit is arranged at which the matter of these two lingering divorces is finally addressed. Taylor is pretty eager to sign any paperwork Kyle puts in front of her considering that Peter is still being controlling about her full-on Beth impersonation, but Michael is still hanging around, looking to turn Taylor's building resentment against Peter, to Michael's advantage. Meanwhile, Craig is still pursuing his campaign to make Sydney horny enough to drop her lawsuit; it's too bad she's not the only one he should be trying to manipulate. Former fiancés Billy and Alison are not having a great time: Billy the idiot lets Sam convince him not to call the cops on Jim immediately; and Alison learns th

Our A plot is basically a thicket of bad decisions: Amanda and Kyle going into the JAZZ CLUB business together! Jennifer impulsively outing her five-month affair with Kyle -- because yes, she was the server he fooled around with in Boston! Alison drinking in virtually every one of her scenes and Jake defending it to Amanda and Billy! And Taylor going along with Peter's domineering-husband role-play! For a while, anyway. The former employee's of Sydney's (RIP) are both getting jerked around by the shadiest men in their lives: Jim is trying to extort even more money out of Sam, while Craig keeps tabs on Sydney by treating her to a Palm Springs spa vacation she seems to see no reason to question. Denise reluctantly goes along with a judge's order that Chelsea resume living with Matt, but on her lawyer's advice, she deputizes Chelsea to start keeping a snitch log they can eventually use to contest Matt's custody in court. Take off that sensible skirt suit and let down your french twist:

Sydney's not thrilled that the grift she and Harry ran on D&amp;D has resulted in actual injury for her. She is thrilled that he thinks they can take the agency for $5 million. Amanda's not worried about the lawsuit since this is exactly why they have insurance, but whoops, it turns out their policy renewal required some exclusions: of course the rickety stairs to the Business Balcony were among them, and of course Craig never got around to fixing them. But it's fine because he knows how to solve this problem: he'll just seduce Sydney so she drops the suit! Hey, I have a great icebreaker about one thing they have in common: carelessness with their insurance policies. Amanda can't concern herself too much with this, because she's got Kyle to hang out with AS FRIENDS. Just friends on the dance floor, talking about their dreams! That's a much more pleasant topic for her than a disastrous job interview she's just conducted with one Jennifer Mancini -- yes, Michael's younger s

Having lost everything thanks to Hilda's scam lawsuit, Sydney still doesn't want to accept Hilda's lawyer's offer to become his new partner in financial crime, but it's hard to deny they make a good team when they grift $2000 off another driver in well under two minutes flat. So she seeks a job waiting tables at Kyle's, which he's happy to give her as soon as he confirms it's really going to bug Taylor. But how long will Sydney hold out against Harry's attractive pitch -- particularly once she realizes she could use their combined skills against Amanda, her main rival for Kyle's affections? The aforementioned Taylor has problems outside the restaurant, too, as Peter keeps buying her dowdy clothes; when Kyle returns Peter and Beth's wedding album to her, she finally figures out exactly why Peter's giving her this extreme makeover. Sydney's not the only one hitting up a neighbor for a job in hospitality: Sam gets Jake to give her dad, Jim, a job at Shooters. Not even Billy'

The last episode having left both Alison and Kimberly in possibly mortal danger from their own bodies (and not fire, or Michael, as is usually the case), it makes sense that they share the A plot. Alison has been hospitalized with toxemia and orders not to do anything that might raise her blood pressure, including watch TV -- which seems crazy until some gossip Jake relays (well, look who's suddenly not to good to repeat scandalous stories) makes her laugh herself into a seizure. Mrs. Shaw has responded to Michael's call and is, justifiably, horrified by the sight of her daughter's condition. But while Kimberly wants to leave Los Angeles on good terms with the only two characters who are still speaking to her, Mrs. Shaw (again, justifiably) hates Michael and doesn't want to co-operate. Billy's not happy with the way Sam's father Jim is taking advantage of her, and the more he learns about Jim's life of crime, the less he likes him. And while Sam herself is clearly also uncomfortab

Alison continues to go stir-crazy on cervix-related bed rest, so when Amanda announces that she's taking over one of Alison's big clients, Alison decides the money is too important, and sneaks into the office for a day to do the pitch herself. Of course this is the one day Jake ever comes home early from Shooters, and the return of Seething Incubator Cop Jake is unwelcome to say the least. Things are far different for Alison's boss, however! Taylor has fully moved in with Peter, ignoring all hints and direct recommendations that she not plan to make it permanent. And the way people are sharing her personal business, she shouldn't plan on going back to Kyle, either: Amanda tells him what she heard Jake heard Alison heard in the courtyard in the last episode, so Kyle confronts Taylor and finally gets her to admit the whole truth about why they live in Los Angeles now. But if divorce has turned Kyle into a twisted husk, Amanda is living her best life: buying a Jaguar, killing the gam

With so many people's drama suddenly exploding into chaos, how is SYDNEY the pivot point? Well: she lets it slip in conversation with Peter that she slept with Kyle at the restaurant. Taylor walks in just in time to hear Peter confronting Kyle about it. And Kyle's at the center of a lot of eavesdropping action: first, when an ordered-to-couch-rest Alison overhears Taylor admitting to Kyle that Peter was once her brother-in-law, which Alison goes on to tell Jake; then, when Sam overhears Kyle telling Sydney that the news is out about their hookup. Oh, and: Sydney is the victim of an obvious slip-and-fall scam artist played by Edie McClurg! Somehow, Megan's arrest makes it to the newspaper of a large metropolitan city, causing her scandalized landlady to evict her on 24 hours' notice. Megan self-pities her way through the next couple of days, moving into a cheap motel and leaving all vestiges of her life with Michael back at her vacant house for him to collect. And Chelsea continues

Amanda immediately regrets revenge-boning Craig, but honestly, she gets off easiest in this episode! Taylor takes her bruised face to Peter's, and is horrified to learn that Peter totally knew that Amanda saw them fooling around but declined to tell her: now she's worried that the information is going to get back to Kyle, known loose cannon. Turns out she's right to be worried about BOTH those things, and probably should have spent some of her commuting time coming up with better cover stories than "I was at the gym" to satisfy Kyle's curiosity. She's such a bad liar, in fact, that Kyle returns to Nick to find out what HE knows; when he hears the tape of Taylor and Peter's filthy phone sex, it seems like he really wishes he hadn't. Josh The Pimp hatches an extremely baroque plan: Kimberly will think she's showing Michael that Megan is seeing clients again, but ACTUALLY Josh and Megan will be setting Kimberly up to look like a liar by lining up a fake client. But could it ACTUA

Taylor and Peter know that Nick is on to them since, you know, he told them -- and he's also toying with Taylor by suggesting that he actually MIGHT eventually show Kyle the photos. So Taylor and Peter hatch a scheme of their own, to disable Nick long enough for Peter to sneak into his apartment and steal the incriminating evidence. Meanwhile, Craig pouts his way into getting Amanda to rent him Alison's old apartment (VERY old, at this point -- has it been vacant this whole time?!), on the condition that he not use it to insinuate himself further into her life. And how could he, living RIGHT NEXT DOOR to her? Josh The Pimp continues his campaign against Megan and Michael's...do we want to call it happiness, really? Soon, we find out he hasn't returned to her life by random chance; he has a benefactor who busted him out of prison and who is really just using Josh The Pimp as a tool to break up Michael and Megan. Guess who it is? The answer won't surprise you. Jake, Alison, Billy, S

It truly takes no time at all for Nick to follow Peter and Taylor to a public place and snap a bunch of photos of the two of them having sex, so whatever Craig is paying him for surveillance...it's too much. Elsewhere at Kyle's, Carter is loving his new life as a dishwasher, until loitering in the parking lot makes him subject to menacing by a random street tough -- and, believe it or not, his week gets even worse after that. Jake returns to Los Angeles to try to reconcile with Alison, and stupid Sam continues being a crappy friend when she volunteers to help. Megan is still trying to prove that Kimberly does not, in fact, need Michael's attention full-time, but by the time the episode ends, she's going to be nostalgic for the time when Kimberly was her biggest problem. Put away your atlas; we're going to tell you all about "Men Are From Melrose"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus epis

The reconciliation with Peter that Amanda had hoped for is not going to happen quite yet: partly due to Peter's having run into a shirtless Craig at Amanda's, and (not that he's telling Amanda this) partly because Peter and Taylor have FINALLY had sex. Kyle has to take an emergency trip back to Boston, but asks Nick to keep an eye on Taylor in Kyle's absence, which hateful Nick is only too happy to do -- and it'll be pretty easy since they're both working at the restaurant and Nick is moving into Sydney's old place, right next door to the McBrides! Also getting embroiled with the McBrides: Carter, who decides that just giving up his software company wasn't enough of a change, and that he also needs to cosplay as a member of the working class by getting a job as a waiter at Kyle's -- where Craig happens to catch Nick giving Taylor and Peter a dirty look and enlisting him on the spot to spy for Craig, as part of Craig's ongoing campaign to date Amanda. Jake takes a brea

In another classic midseason Melrose Place two-parter, Amanda and Peter each notch a big career win through underhanded schemes against their enemies. OBVIOUSLY THESE TWO ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER, which is why it's so frustrating that timing and circumstances (read: the writers) keep conspiring (read: contriving) to keep them from reconciling. For most of this episode, Taylor's not even to blame, because she's occupied with Kyle's shitty friend Nick...who happens to have noticed how much Taylor lights up when Peter comes to Kyle's and vaguely threatens to use this against her, since apparently Kyle hasn't spent any of their bro time together complaining about it. When Sydney pushes Sam to the brink of insanity, Billy seizes his moment to invite Sam to move in with him instead, just in time for Alison and Jake to have a huge fight, requiring Alison to bunk with the newly-cohabitant. Sydney, meanwhile, is still working on driving a wedge between Carter and Walter. Megan would pro

Off-model July wraps up in the best possible way: with you! We set up a hotline (210.920.4699) you can use to leave us a voicemail day or night, and we were thrilled to hear from so many of you. We cover questions, like which scenes showed the cast actually acting well and which writer showed up to cameo in multiple episodes. And comments, like how mad people still are about that gay kiss cut from the Season 2 finale, and how the show has invaded their dreams. All this and much much more in our first -- but certainly not last -- call-in special! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our m

How do you make a game about the shows of the Darren Star Universe when one combatant literally wrote a book about his first show, and the other has barely watched it or its spinoff? Tara went back to the TV listings for nights when particular episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place first aired, and came up with a game about OTHER TV episodes that were opposite or around them on their original airdates. Who remembers the most about the TV shows of the '90s? By the end of this episode, we'll all know! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of

We did it for the secondary characters of Beverly Hills, 90210, and now it's Melrose Place's turn. Eighteen recurring characters enter the Thunderdome for a FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Which ones did we pick, and who makes it through multiple rounds of mortal combat to be the last secondary character standing? You'll have to listen to find out! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full e

The less said about a completely nonsensical fight between Sam and Sydney over Jane's former apartment, the better: the upshot is that Billy recommends that Sam explore her rights by talking to a lawyer about it, only to regret it when it turns out she knows one, because they used to date. While this is going on, Sydney blows town with Carter to visit important locations from his formative years. Are they sneaking off in defiance of Walter, or playing right into his hands? Jake is excited to show Alison the house he wants to raise their child in, completely oblivious to the look of abject terror on her face. While Michael is unconscious following his (latest) car crash, a hallucination of his two most recent wives seems to push him toward Megan. But when he comes to, Kimberly tells him she's ready to accept his help through her last weeks on earth. Amanda has regrets about how things are going in her marriage when Peter tells her he's rented himself a new place, and Peter's go

Getting shoved through a glass table turns out to have been the last straw for Matt, who has an infuriatingly offscreen conversation with Peter about Dan; Peter then confronts Dan about it, and Dan reacts as though Peter has authority over him, for some reason? Peter also helps Michael meddle in Kimberly's private medical affairs after Kimberly lies to Michael that she's totally not dying at all. Once Michael knows the truth, he informs Kimberly that he's going to spending as much time with her as he possibly can; she pretends to go along, but then finds a pier. She loses the nerve to die by suicide then, but it's not her last attempt of the episode. At D&amp;D, Amanda starts right in using Craig's disclosure to her own advantage, but may overplay her hand when she involves Arthur himself. You're not going to believe this but Jane was no better running this business than she was any of the others we've seen her in charge of, and Sydney's doing a lot of scrambling to get on top of the m

Pretty much everyone crowds into the overstuffed A plot: Peter, with his regained doctorly confidence, attempts to reconcile with Amanda, but right now she's laser-focused on getting Craig to tell her his big secret about Arthur. Sam and Billy are annoyingly happy -- and since all the boning means Sam definitely can't let her Pill prescription lapse, she happens to be at the drugstore when Alison is picking out a pregnancy test. Matt comes up with a story about how he got his black eye, which no one finds convincing -- particularly not after Matt and Dan have dinner with Sam and Billy (?), and Dan can barely stop himself controlling Matt's wine consumption. Sydney grows increasingly frustrated by Carter's apparent unwillingness to spend any time with her outside of his house and away from his "online conferences." But the plotline's biggest fireworks are for Jane, who gets robbed at gunpoint in the store and struggles to determine what the right path forward may be. Megan and Kimberly

Sherry's holiday stay with Jane has now stretched into January, fraying the patience of everyone but an oblivious Jane. Sherry returns to her own place, and her local bar, worn down by the stress of living up to all of Jane's hopes for their relationship; Sydney, fortunately, can temporarily forget her irritation at Sherry's presence in their lives by spending more time with Carter -- very lucrative time, in fact. Sam doesn't seem to be at the store at all, as she runs around trying to sell some of her old paintings for quick cash so she can make it home to Maryland for a family reunion. But will her work find a good home? Peter is not having a great time during his separation from Amanda, which Taylor is straining to make permanent. Things at the practice are still tenuous too; can anything help him recover his confidence as a doctor? In other relationship news, Kimberly continues to puppeteer Megan into securing Michael's affections, while Dan escalates his control over Matt. Put dow

The holidays have come again to Melrose Place, but they're generally not going to be very happy. Peter agrees to Amanda's request that he visit a therapist, but then gets angry and jealous when her professional obligations prevent her from participating in his treatment. Kimberly tries to help the Michael/Megan relationship along by sharing her plan to bequeath Michael a big life insurance windfall, but Megan is understandably upset that Kimberly intends to do it by faking her own accidental death. Matt starts to push back against Dan's attempts to control him with his money. The end of Sam and Craig's relationship has her up in arms about his refusal to return her courtyard painting, so Billy volunteers to help her get it back -- just as Sydney admits that another piece of Sam's work is up for auction at a charity event, and that Kyle's actually been buying all the "Kirov" pieces at the restaurant but that Sam hasn't seen any money for them because Kyle's on a paymen

When, as predicted, Peter learns he's out of contention for the Wilshire Memorial chief of staff job, he ponders a change of career. Amanda thinks transitioning into medical research would be fine, but actually, he's thinking golf pro! She's annoyed enough by that prospect that she doesn't even notice Taylor sneakily reserving him to join her in marking the anniversary of Beth's death, but lighting candles in her memory isn't all she plans to do. Also: Taylor's request for two nights off a week from the restaurant leads Kyle to the dangerous choice of hiring Sydney as her part-time replacement. Michael, conflicted about the divorce, decides to move out of the beach house and in with Matt, instead of Megan. This is just fine with Dan, who asks Matt to sublet his place to Michael and move in with Dan instead! Matt is wary, but is he wary enough? Craig uses the mere threat of exposing Arthur's as-yet-undisclosed misdeeds to get him to drop the lawsuit; however, this win in his pr

Work continues to be a trial for both Peter and Amanda, although given their natural temperaments, he's having a harder time with it than she is. After choking in surgery at the end of the previous episode, Peter assumes -- probably correctly -- that he's doomed his chance to be Chief of Staff, and mopes that he's in a tailspin. Amanda's basically like, "You'll get yourself out of it, byeeeee," and takes off to D&amp;D, where she continues manipulating Craig to achieve her own ends. The Craig era isn't great for Billy either, and two of his still-living exes are really showing him up: Alison is seriously mulling Jake's partnership offer, and Samantha's being showered with expensive gifts by Craig, Billy's mortal enemy. Jane returns from Chicago and shares her big news with Sydney, who is nearly as shaken by it as Jane was herself. Sydney is upset at the thought that Jane already doesn't consider them sisters anymore, partly because she needs to talk to someone about Kyle and Jane's all

The promise of regaining Wilshire Memorial's Chief of Staff job has Peter re-energized about his career. He's even going back into the OR! Sadly, his good mood sours quickly, and when Amanda's not around to comfort him, he turns to...well, not the next best thing, but the thing that's around all the time: Taylor. Her contact with Peter is in direct contravention of Kyle's clear request that she stop spending time with Peter for the sake of her marriage, and is sick of her weaseling out of disputes by throwing his infidelity in his face. Meanwhile, Amanda -- the one who first alerted Kyle that he should be suspicious of the time Taylor spends with Peter -- is tied up with work stuff. Now that Craig has learned that he's the majority shareholder at D&amp;D, he's ready to start making changes immediately. Since this means a huge demotion for Amanda, she goes behind Craig's back to the old man, who asks her to play along with Craig's big plans for the sake of Amanda's mon

Peter's got a lot on his mind this week: Michael's confidently claiming that he's about to be Wilshire Memorial's next Chief of Staff; Amanda's found out about the time he's secretly been spending with Taylor. And while he's pretty sure he knows how to deal with Michael's BS in a way that will benefit himself, his plan to tell Amanda about his secret ex-in-law falls apart when he...runs it by Taylor first? Somehow she's the only person whose motivations he CAN'T see through. When Michael isn't pursuing his career goals, he's pursuing Megan harder than ever. Kimberly having ordered Megan to stop seeing Michael, Megan tries to ankle him for about ten seconds. Kimberly really is not getting what she paid for. Matt and Dr. Dan go on one date, after which Matt is ready to bone and settle down, in that order; Dan is very interested in Matt, but he wants to TAKE THINGS SLOW and MAKE SURE MATT DOESN'T GET HURT. What could his deal possibly be? Billy lets Amanda know what went down at D&amp;D w

Michael is more obsessed than ever with figuring out what Megan's trying so hard to hide from him, eventually memorizing her license plate number and finding out where she actually lives. She manages to stonewall him until he follows her to an appointment and she's forced into a confession. Elsewhere, Kimberly finds out what Dr. Stein found during her physical: she has an inoperable brain tumor, and a three-month prognosis. How will she tell Michael...or will she tell him anything at all? (Matt is also around, still trying to get things going with Dr. Dan.) Following her big disclosure at the end of the previous episode, Taylor convinces Peter to keep their connection secret from their spouses: Kyle can get so jealous, and it's not like there will ever even be anything for him to get jealous about! Amanda's work trip to Portland gives Taylor plenty of time to continue creeping on Peter, though now her creepitude is freighted with more meaning and history. She should possibly spend less

So Michael and Kimberly still aren't having sex, and her psychiatrist thinks there may be a physical cause. Will a complete workup reveal what the issue is, or is Kimberly perfectly content being celibate and having Michael as her best friend? Michael might be fine with that too, if it means he can keep having sex with the mystery blonde down the beach (Megan Lewis, it turns out), though he also may screw that up by demanding to know more about her life than she wants to tell him. Amanda and Peter are still snapping at each other, which Peter thinks he can fix by moving out for a while. And Taylor continues staring at him creepily whenever she sees him, though at least she FINALLY tells both him and us how she's connected to him. Jane is still determined to ruin Alison and Jake's lives. Jake reaches out to Sydney for help, and agrees with her that the right course is to ignore Jane and let her return to normal on her own; however, Alison refuses to get on board with this plan. Sydney h

The problems Amanda is facing in this episode are hardly the worst Melrose Place has ever thrown at her, but there are LOTS of them, and they're coming at her from all sides. D&amp;D is toxic in a whole new way, and her choices for second-in-command are apparently limited to Billy or Craig. Peter just seems to be goofing off instead of beating the bushes for new patients to replace the ones he lost while he was incarcerated -- and every time she catches him being especially lazy, one or more of the McBrides is around. Our queen does not deserve this! With the restaurant's opening upon us, Kyle is interested in acquiring some original art for the walls, and takes a liking to the piece Samantha created for the window at Jane's; Sydney nominates herself to be Samantha's agent, and to make herself more available to Kyle, too. The love pentagon grows ever more accursed, with Jane escalating her hostilities from brick throwing to tire slashing. Jake and Alison remain convinced that

Amanda and Peter's decision to take a quick honeymoon in Santa Barbara causes a LOT of unexpected ripples! Taylor, overhearing Kimberly and Michael talking about it at the practice, rooks Kyle into going to the same resort so she can continue creeping around Peter. While Amanda's out of the office, her slimy boss Arthur installs his son Craig (David Charvet) and makes Billy show him the ropes, but it's immediately clear that both Field men have a bigger plan for the agency. Jane frees Jake and Alison from Alison's burning apartment, but seeing them comfort each other seems to send her around the bend: while assuring the new couple that she's definitely totally happy for them, she tries to get Billy to join her in a scheme to break them up (which Billy declines, since he's all about Samantha again). And Michael drops a resistant Matt off at rehab...but maybe once he gets there he'll realize it's not so bad...? Sing it if you know it: we've brought you a new podcast on "Un-Janed Melody"!

Who's having problems with their living situation? Who isn't! Peter assumes that, now that they're married, Amanda will move into his nice big house; he has no interest in even discussing the idea of moving into her pokey little apartment. But then some tough financial realities take the decision out of his hands. If anything were to convince Amanda to change her address, it would probably be Taylor constantly trying to ingratiate herself to Amanda -- this time, by asking Amanda to take the Kyle's restaurant account at D&amp;D. Michael is disappointed to learn that Kimberly's decision to surrender her medical license will not mean she's more available to keep his home for him. And every time Matt leaves home, he seems to get into big, potentially life-threatening trouble. Billy reacts to the news of Alison and Jake's relationship by kicking his own door down -- which Samantha witnesses, and yet does not move her to find another apartment complex to live in. But Alison

Things are looking bleak for Peter's defense: Kimberly still hasn't recovered her memory, and when she gets coerced into testifying anyway, her sketchy story only makes his case look worse. You know who sure is interested in all of this for someone who, officially, doesn't know Peter at all? Taylor, whose need to start sniffing around the courtroom draws suspicion from Kyle, and also sticks him with all the work of moving into their new apartment. Alison is moving too, and Billy is both eager to impose his assistance on her and strangely put-upon about participating in a process no one asked him to be involved in. Michael also gets wise to Matt's theft of his prescription pad, but his threats come too late for Matt to have attracted the suspicion of his attending physician. Out in the woods, Richard is about as well prepared for his murderous activities as Jane was -- which is to say, not at all. All the confusion ends up requiring Samantha to get embroiled, again, and while she is sta

Peter tells Amanda it doesn't matter what the cops think about Beth's demise, or what her diary said: he definitely did euthanize her. Amanda's not bothered, nor is Det. Wylie when she confronts him about knowing all along that Peter had been exonerated: he's feeling good about the case now that Kimberly is in the wind. For...about ten minutes, until Michael finds her walking down the street. Kimberly admits that she can't talk to the cops about the night of Bobby's death because she doesn't remember what she was doing. When Amanda's newest tenant, Taylor, is surprised by the arrival of her husband Kyle in the city, she has to start doing some fancy footwork to convince him that she really just came on a lark but that now she thinks they should leave the running of their Boston restaurant to the guy who's handling it now, and open a second location in Los Angeles. He agrees, and is not remotely suspicious about how quickly she finds them a great apartment in a complex with a pool! But

Amanda doesn't want to believe that her brand-new husband Peter has been living under an assumed identity literally the whole time she's known him, but she also can't help finding Det. Wylie pretty credible. So she gets him to spill what he knows and follows the trail to Kansas City, to find out what went on there before he came into her life. Michael continues his vigil at Kimberly's bedside (Matt and his new ultra-quick speech patterns -- his speedy speech, you might say! -- aren't much help.) Everyone sure does hope Kimberly will wake up soon and confirm Peter's alibi, because the news of Peter's arrest is spreading far and wide -- why, it's even front-page news in Boston, where a Taylor McBride (Lisa Rinna!) gasps at the report and ditches her husband Kyle (Rob Estes!) to follow up. Jane and Sydney are trying very hard to plant a plausible cover story about Richard's disappearance and get back to their lives. But strange occurrences, from muddy footprints in Richa

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Obviously, Sydney knows her bargaining position is weak, but she really attempts many different arguments to convince Jane not to follow through on her whole Richard-killing plan. None of them works. A Hail Mary to get JAKE to talk to Jane and urge her not to make any "funky" decisions -- not that she specifies what those might be -- does bring Jake to the design studio just in time to see Jane trying to distract Richard from his (accurate) suspicions about her financial malfeasance by making out with him. So Jake's out on Jane -- and while you'd think that would just cause him to take Alison up on her advances, he's just too good a pal and doesn't want to betray Billy, who's trying even harder to woo Alison back than Alison is trying to seduce Jake. What a mess! Speaking of which: Willowbridge. Amanda and Michael are swiftly apprehended breaking in, but it's no big deal to Betsy, who simply locks both of them AND Peter in a boiler room and lets her staff know that all three of them ar

Peter is down bad at Willowbridge, but not out: he decides to try to work his magic on the soft-hearted, lonely, apparently horny Nurse Benson (Priscilla Presley!), offering to "make [her] happy," wink, if she'll just help him leave the hospital -- even just for one night! Meanwhile, on the outside, Amanda and (to a much lesser extent) Michael make pretty decent amateur sleuths, as Amanda tracks Kimberly's ATM use to the vicinity of Willowbridge, and the two hit the road in search of their troublesome loved ones. But with Betsy in control of Peter's care and the hospital, will it all be in vain?! Jane happens into a clothing boutique that's about to close, and spontaneously decides she wants to take it over. But when she goes to Michael for some quick cash, trying to guilt him into giving it up, he tells her that actually her sister's the one she should be trying to avenge herself on financially -- you know, because of that whole thing where Sydney drugged and paralyzed her? (That was

Peter gets a lot of bad news right away: Alycia's dead, Kimberly's in the wind, and all evidence points to him as Bobby's murderer. At least he convinces Amanda that he didn't kill her ex, even though she, you know, obviously knows he definitely DID try to kill AMANDA HERSELF. But never mind! He's very pleased when Kimberly appears at his house out of the blue, but despite criticizing MICHAEL earlier for not noticing wild swings in Kimberly's personality, Peter does not interpret the headband and sister-wife dress as representing one of Kimberly's alters. Betsy pretends to agree to corroborate Peter's alibi to the cops, but then enacts her own scheme to get him out of her way. Will amateur sleuths Michael and Amanda crack the case in time? After Alison gets between Richard and Jake (or rather Jake's murderous rage), she manages to talk Jane into meeting with a friend of Alison's at the DA's office (?) about pressing charges against Richard -- and Jane does seem optimistic and energized

How do you follow up an episode that closed with one partner in a medical practice getting arrested for sexual misconduct while the other -- who was actually guilty of the crime -- was left unconscious and possibly dead from a hammer blow by one of his wife's Dissociative Identity Disorder alters? It seems unlikely but "MELROSE UNGLUED ACTUALLY TOPS IT." Amanda finds a way to buy Peter out of his legal trouble, just as Kimberly decides to kick Michael out of the beach house for his own safety. Bobby accidentally discovers Sydney's new porn-producing sideline, and while she's dismayed that he feels so betrayed by her lies that he doesn't think they can EVER be together now, she doesn't back out of the movie, which is how she's the one to find out -- from Jimmy -- that Vincent wasn't behind the cable company double-cross. Her attempt to use this information to get back in Bobby's good graces does not go the way she had hoped! Jake asks Alison to find out why Jane, who's been stonewalling

Teri has decided to sidestep charges and just sue Peter over the Brandi affair. Almost everyone is telling him to settle -- like Michael, who offers to pitch in, and Alycia, who...is representing him despite their rather recent and quite acrimonious breakup; only Amanda is urging him to defend himself. Perhaps given all this trouble, he's a bit distracted when Kimberly begs for his help with her mental-health issues. Richard has arranged a meeting for himself and Jane with the biggest retailer on the east coast, but Jane is wary of traveling with him to see the client in New York, given her history with Richard. After celebrating a successful pitch together, Richard almost immediately proves her fears were very well-founded. Jo continues worrying about Tyler, involving Matt so that he can connect her with a prof of his who's a child abuse expert. How many boundaries will Jo break to confirm her suspicions about Laurie? Billy is surprised that Alison isn't making herself available to he

Though we might find it impossible to imagine D&amp;D without Amanda, it seems that her jerk boss Arthur Field doesn't think she's so integral: he still hasn't renewed her contract, even though she's still boning his golden boy Billy and fending off Peter's advances. Stung, Peter agrees to do Kimberly a favor by getting Michael out of town for a few days, and brings him to San Diego to judge a beauty contest (...sure?), where they meet Teri and Brandi, a mother-daughter team (Loni Anderson and Denise Richards!) who are determined to go to any lengths -- sexually speaking -- to assure Brandy's victory in the pageant, despite both doctors' attempts to remain chaste. Meanwhile, Amanda insists to Billy that she doesn't want him to speak up to the board on her behalf, but can he possibly follow such an order, given how he feels about her? Sydney's old friend Laurie (Justine Priestley, as in Jason's sister!) descends on the complex with her son Tyler, looking for a

It's time for the social event of the year: the Coastal Advertising Conference! And Billy has been preparing by going being Amanda's back to her boss, Arthur Field ("...Who?" exactly) and lobbying him to let Billy make the keynote speech even though Amanda has done it for the past several years. Amanda decides to spite both Arthur AND Billy by giving the assignment to Alison...and from there things get weirdly complicated and a perfectly nice old lady who used to be on Batman gets hurt in the process. Jane and Jake's relationship is also hitting some snags: Clare still wants to bone Jake even though she's now working for Jane, and though Jo tries as hard as she can not to tell Jake about Jane's tiki torching, she eventually cracks. Rita, a sexy and dangerous biker, joins the party in Kimberly's head, and Peter is not discerning enough to recognize her after two conversations, perhaps because he is not a mental health professional. And as Sydney keeps getting closer to

Now that Alycia has succeeded in pushing Bobby out of the company, Peter (whose injuries from that four-foot fall over the railing in the previous episode were not serious) is ready to part ways with Alycia: there's nothing left to scheme about and they don't really like each other. But she isn't ready to let him go, and informs him that buying his way out of both the cable company and their sham relationship will cost him $2 million. Maybe the vodka creep, whom Billy's still sniffing around, is interested in investing in this sector? Meanwhile, Peter spitefully presses assault charges against Bobby, and it falls to Sydney to bail him out and continue hanging around him despite his clear requests that she knock it off. Jake finally finds out about Jane's part in Richard's fashion show disaster and gets drunk and vengeful about it with a random woman he meets at a fashion-industry event...or is she? Kimberly continues to lose time to an increasingly angry Betsy; when Kimberly confides i

It's not only that Billy continues to be the absolute worst -- which he absolutely does. It's that Amanda keeps coming right up to the edge of shutting him down and then doesn't, because even though he's a pig, he's a pig who's bringing work to the agency. This time, his risky gambit is to take a vodka client he and Alison are pitching to get a true "American" experience at a strip club with mud wrestling, and then try to close the client by letting the guy mud-wrestle Alison. And when he steps to Amanda's own marquee client? ...Well, maybe we can forgive her for not reprimanding him since she's got other things on her mind, which we'll get to. The plans for Alan and Val's wedding cause tension between Alan and Matt, which only rises when Alan's doting parents show up, so relieved that the boy they'd been worrying about is not actually Funny or That Way that they're throwing themselves into the wedding festivities with near-evangelical fervor. Matt's attempt to seek comfort fr

This plot to bring down Bobby's cable company is turning out to be a real drag for everyone behind it! First Alycia has an attack of conscience about making Bobby look like a mobster when what he wanted most was to go legit. Then Peter hears from Amanda that she's on the company's board of directors, so if Bobby goes down, he might drag her down with him. Will Peter be able to get this scandal train off the tracks before it crushes his beloved?! After Alison sleeps with Billy and THEN tells him she's finished with him as a boyfriend prospect, Billy has nothing but time to launch his own schemes at D&amp;D: he tricks Amanda into agreeing to a gigantic raise if he can successfully pitch an airline client, then bones an employee from a rival agency to find out what they're going to be presenting. And would you believe there's even MORE workplace sabotage on the docket this week? After Jane abandons her own collection, having seen all her inspiration purloined by Richard, she take

You know how when you have one ex-wife working for you and then pick back up with the ex-wife you actually haven't divorced yet and this one lets you know she wants you to fire the other one? Well, Michael does! After Kimberly uses her wiles to convince Michael to let Sydney go, Sydney fires back with sexual harassment lawsuits Peter and Michael are kind of forced to take seriously. At the same time, Peter is firming up his relationship with Alycia and getting her further onto his side and against Bobby by telling her the real (or is it) story of his grudge against the Parezis. With Jane and Richard still bitterly fighting as they each prepare for interviews on a fashion TV show, Jo sort of tries to stay above the fray by bringing Jane some of her work from the office...and then accidentally leaves with more than she came with. Billy has apparently exorcised Brooke's spirit, but his bad attitude toward her is still present, and now he's just directing his excessively confident dickishn

As we probably all assumed after the last episode, Brooke is not coming back from her fall into the pool. Billy does his best not to let his estranged wife's sudden passing affect his life at all -- with a funeral to plan two days after her death, why wouldn't he still go to work and continue trying to get Alison to sleep with him? -- but it's not up to him: Brooke's restless ghost simply will not leave him alone. Michael, having determined that Kimberly is the right woman for him, won't take any of her many "no"s for an answer, and keeps pressing for them to resume a real relationship and not just keep having sex. Meanwhile, one of Michael's other ex-wives, Jane, turns up the heat with Jake while also soliciting Alison's advice on a pitch to a buyer. Jane then gets so smug about her success that Richard feels obliged to interfere with her deal. Matt is anxious about Alan's new love interest Val (Jeri Ryan!), particularly since Alan's producer has told Matt in so many

While Sarah takes one more week away, we are thrilled that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan of GoFugYourself.com can join us once again.... As Brooke's life rapidly unravels, no one cares except her mortal enemy Alison, who encourages Billy to help Brooke out financially (he does; she refuses) before finding Brooke living in her car and ordering her to come live with Alison instead. Brooke repays this kindness exactly the way you'd expect: by acting entitled to it and taking advantage of her restored proximity to mess with Billy. Peter is now scheming against Bobby on two fronts: in addition to trying to mooch information out of Alycia by dating her, he also hires Sydney for a side gig in sexspionage. Michael and Kimberly find themselves drawn back together by an extremely unlikely plot device. Jane complicates her relationship with Jo by setting up her new design studio in Jake's garage (???), depriving Jo of a parking space for her car. And Matt

Sarah is out this week spending time with family, so we welcome Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan -- authors, fashion bloggers, and longtime Melrose Place fans -- as our guest co-hosts.... It's pretty wild how Sydney's choice to abandon a partially paralyzed woman on the beach and leave her at the mercy of the tides has really sent everyone in their orbit into a tizz! Sydney herself is worried that people think she purposely tried to kill Jane and desperately doing damage control. Michael, still not convinced by any of Sydney's stories, contrives a scheme to force Kimberly to tell him the truth about the incident. And Jake is just as attracted to the partially incapacitated Jane as Michael was. But fortunately, Jane is determined never to be as helpless as she was on that beach: she doubles her PT sessions, and even pitches in at the studio to help Richard and his designs land a deal with a distributor! Now that she's on top of the world, what's left for Jane but to start makin

Jane's ongoing paralysis storyline basically embroils everyone this week, so let's run down the list. Peter, because Michael has made good on his threat to move out of the beach house as long as both Andrews sisters are there, and is now Odd Coupling it up at Peter's place. Bobby and Amanda, because their story branches off from Peter's. Matt, because Jo has brought him the pills she found in Richard's office to identify. Jake, because suddenly he likes Jane again. And Kimberly, because she was basically the mastermind behind the whole thing, wittingly or not. Folks: it's a lot. But that's not all: we also have the toxic triangle of Brooke, Billy, and Alison. Because of her lingering sense of responsibility toward Brooke due to having technically been her stepmother for five minutes, Alison is letting Brooke walk all over her at work. When Brooke misinterprets a moment between Billy and Alison in the D&amp;D bullpen, things escalate. We hope you are bewitched by our podcast on "Sydney,

In the aftermath of Brooke's suicide attempt, a guilt-ridden Billy does everything he can think of to fulfill what he thinks are her wishes: he tells her he loves her; he gets rid of Alison; he demands that Amanda give Brooke her job back; he even cleans the bathroom floor! So if Brooke assumes they're fully back on track and that she can resume using him to try to make that baby she needs, who can really blame her? Peter confronts Bobby and Amanda about their New Year's kiss, though the result is probably not what he was hoping. After overhearing Jane, Jo, and Alison discussing who might have drugged Jane, Sydney follows Kimberly's advice to cast suspicion on the OTHER most likely culprit, Richard, by planting her pills in his office. And when Kimberly's not trying to smooth out this situation, she's creating static between Matt and Alan by spilling all the gossip about Matt and Paul. And while Jake thinks he's totally on top of his whole usury deal, Monty the loan shark lets him know

It's about to be New Year's Eve, but not everyone's in a celebratory mood -- like Peter, who's getting sued for malpractice by some patient we don't know. Bobby invites Amanda and Peter to his house in Palm Springs, and though it seems like it'll be awkward with just the three of them there, Amanda rooks Alison into going, too. It's not like Alison has much going on back home: she starts out icing Billy out, some more. But then after Hayley's lawyer Norman tells Brooke that she won't inherit anything unless she has a baby, Brooke has to do some fancy footwork: first, tell Billy (outside the hospital) that she just found out she lost the baby; then tell him she wants to get pregnant again RIGHT AWAY. Billy thinks this plan is kind of creepy, though at least agreeing that Brooke is acting very weird rekindles Billy and Alison's friendship. Then Billy happens to run into Brooke's OB/GYN at the hospital and...well, things don't go well for Brooke from there. It turns out that the medical i

Just in time for Jane to decide she should try to mend fences with her antagonists at work, Jo goes soft and asks Richard not to go through with his plans to push her out of the business -- at least not so close to Christmas! Richard agrees, but doesn't consider whether he should put the damning paperwork into a drawer or cabinet that locks. Kimberly continues treating Sydney, giving her actually good advice on how to turn herself into the perfect doctor's wife for Michael; she also prescribes tranquilizers to help Sydney sleep, without talking her through the potential dangers of taking them. Having failed to find anything incriminating on Bobby, the FBI agents on his case try getting at him by intimidating Amanda, only to galvanize her against them and possibly all figures of authority. A trip to the doctor ends in bad news about Brooke's pregnancy, which she can't bring herself to tell Billy. Also present: Matt, Alan, and evidence that Jake is actually putting his loan shark loan to

Look, at this point is it even worth trying to figure out what's going on with Kimberly's whole legal situation? Apparently the administration at Wilshire Memorial has given up, because they've agreed to let her work there again -- as a psychiatric intern, but still. The hospital turns out to be the nexus of a lot of new drama: Bobby makes a gigantic anonymous gift, crediting Peter as the rainmaker; and Sydney keeps hanging around trying to determine whether Michael is cheating on her with Jane. Meanwhile, Jane is oblivious about Richard's plans to cut her out of the business, though he might be wavering on those given the sexy dreams he's been having about her lately. All the Armstrongs (plus Billy) return to Los Angeles to bury Hayley, whereupon Brooke finds out about his financial troubles -- and the SEC investigation he's apparently left all his employees to deal with following his death. The reading of his will changes everyone's immediate plans and launches Alison into a tailspin

Once Amanda recovers from the shock of (a) seeing Bobby after seven years and (b) seeing the gun in his waistband, she agrees to let him explain himself: he still truly loves her, does not intend to kill her, and would never hurt her in any way. She's ready to say goodbye and part on friendly-ish terms...or so she says, but the single tear that falls down her cheek after her flashback to a night on the beach in Miami when he promised to get her out of marrying Jack tells the tale. Meanwhile, Peter is still trying to solidify his relationship with Amanda and isn't thrilled that she's spending any time with any other man, never mind one who's Mob-adjacent. Out in international waters, Hayley finally explains why they had to take their whirlwind second honeymoon under cover of night: he's trying to stay ahead of the SEC, and apparently thinks throwing all his incriminating papers in the ocean will solve all his problems because it's 1995 and no one has ever heard of "copies." He doesn't a

Between her great new radio gig and the removal of her wrist monitor, Kimberly is really feeling herself. And it turns out she'd like men to feel her too -- as many as she can get! She's so busy scoring that she maaaaaay not devote enough concern to Vic, who keeps calling the show to tell her how bad he thinks her advice is. However, she DOES take a break from her sexcapades to warn Sydney that receiving a gift of flowers from Michael means that he's cheating on her. He's not, exactly -- he's just lying and sneaking around with Jane, who's just using him to make Richard jealous. At least, that's the state of play...for now. Jake has been stewing over Matt's suspicions about Shelly's shadiness regarding the books, but when he confronts her, she shrugs off his worries and volunteers the password she thought she already gave him, no big deal! But Matt's not willing to drop the matter. While Bobby commences his project of following Amanda around Los Angeles looking for a chance to murder h

Remember when the Jo/Jane/Richard/Jake/Shelly situation was merely a love pentagon? WELL. Jane tries a power play on Jo upon her return, with Richard, to the studio after their Hawaii sojourn, leaving all of Jo's photography gear in the lobby and informing her that she's fired. Richard then informs Jane that in a 50/50 partnership, she can't unilaterally fire anyone. After seeing Jo and Richard looking happy at the surprise birthday party Sydney has thrown for Michael, Jane hatches a new plan for getting Richard back on the hook: she'll make him jealous by dating a professional guy! Maybe someone who's already been in love with her once! Little does she know that Michael and Sydney are back to liking each other for real...not that Jane would probably care. And Matt starts working at Shooters just in time for Jake to need help logging into Shelly's accounting system and show him how her setup is not as transparent as one might hope. Alison and Hayley hit up a

After Jack kicks off in the cold open, everyone who knew anything about the circumstances surrounding his death braces for possible consequences. Michael thinks he can delay the autopsy results from getting to Nick, Jack's lawyer. Peter ignores whatever Kimberly's up to so that he can support Amanda. But she's mostly just happy the only person she ever feared has died...until Sydney gathers both her bosses and Amanda for a sushi dinner, to tell them she has an incriminating tape of Amanda and Peter that she'll pass on to the authorities if Amanda doesn't give her half her share of Jack's estate. Brooke is too sick to accompany Billy on a business trip to Santa Barbara, so Alison arranges to take her place so that she can get some face time with Billy and decide whether she really does still love him, or if she's ready to move on and accept Hayley's weird afterthought of a wedding proposal. And due to a hiccup with their travel plans, they end up getting more time together than she'd ho

Inconveniently, Jack continues to live. Amanda is still keeping vigil at his bedside while also strategizing with Peter on how to get them both out of this, but when she tries to self-medicate with Halloween party shots, Peter intervenes...and then gets everything he wanted, if not quite the way he wanted it. At the same time, Sydney has determined that Peter and Amanda are doing something shady, and is disappointed when Michael tells her she can't use the blackmail material she acquired by secretly taping Peter and Amanda in Peter's office, over the phone. But perhaps Sydney has finally figured out she doesn't always have to listen to Michael? Jane decides she and Richard should go to Hawaii for an "inspiration shoot," to collect ideas for their next line. She starts to cool on the idea when he suggests that Jo come with them, rather than finding a local photographer, convinced Richard is just trying to maneuver himself into a romantic situation with Jo. She's right, and her calling h

We pick back up where we left off with the last episode: Amanda and Jack, tussling at his house. In the process, Jack ends up flying off a third-story balcony onto the hard floor of the foyer, and since Amanda doesn't think she can call the authorities, she enlists Peter to help her deal with the situation. His scheme to get Jack admitted to the hospital with a minimum of questions from other personnel seems to work, until Michael sees Peter and Amanda leaving Jack's room together and inserts himself. At the same time, Fake Henry keeps pestering Kimberly, while Kimberly keeps pestering Dr. Joyce Brothers on her apparently 24-hour-a-day radio show. Jake can't stop being jealous of the time Jo is spending with Richard, nor Jo of Shelly still hanging around. Hayley and Alison make their relationship official by telling Brooke and Billy they're in love -- but there's yet another level to which Hayley wants to take it. Finally (...in every sense of the word), Matt and his mother bury his da

Psychological torture is the order of the day: Brooke harasses Amanda by taking on Jack's new cable company as her latest client, and Jack lets Amanda know that if she tries to take too hard a line against him, he will retaliate by coming after her friends. Meanwhile, Peter tries to walk Kimberly through a therapeutic process that involves apologizing directly to all her bombing victims -- at a party celebrating the fact that she didn't succeed in killing them, no less -- and returning to the laundry room where she planted her explosives. Maybe this would work if it didn't coincide with Michael and Sydney's new project: deploying an actor who kind of looks like Henry to show up and talk to Kimberly the way the "real" Henry used to do. The Hart &amp; Mancini crew, and Jake and Shelly, are now fully snarled up together in a romantic rat king: Jane has written off Jo for snitching on her to Richard while also trying to talk Richard into taking her back; and when Jo misses a loosely define

Now that Jack's told Amanda he tracked her down so they could officially get divorced, she's eager to get the process completed so that he can leave town; she doesn't even want any of his assets or their community property -- not even that big-ass painting!!! But as he keeps hanging around, she starts to worry that he's going to resume behaving in ways that made her fake her death to flee him in the first place. Elsewhere at D&amp;D, Brooke is so focused on making Alison tell her exactly what's going on with her and Hayley that she's apparently forgotten that she's a VP now and as such has responsibilities she's supposed to fulfill -- like bringing in business. Panicking, she declares that she'll deliver her father's company as a client, forcing her to beg Alison to help her do it. When Hayley actually does come in as a client, however, he makes sure to do it in a way that elevates Alison and humiliates Brooke. Extremely improbably, "the medical board" has judged Kimberly sane enough t

Once Peter brings in a sketch artist to draw a portrait of Henry (fka Schmob) from Kimberly's description, he is determined to find out who he is -- a real person? a stand-in for someone else she knew? Kimberly can't summon the memory, so he calls her mother, who is clearly stricken at the sound of his name, and comes to L.A. to tell Kimberly the whole sordid story. Elsewhere, Peter gets subpoenaed -- along with Michael and Dr. Hobbs -- to testify in Matt's sexual discrimination case. (Once again, we must report, Matt does a poor job respecting lawyers' function in the legal system, including outside courtrooms.) Jack lets Brooke know he's in town, and that he's going to need her to co-operate with him on reuniting with Amanda. She tries to keep everything to herself, but when Billy follows her to a meeting with Jack -- assuming, reasonably, that she's cheating on him -- she actually tells him the truth, for once. At the same time, her father goes around her to Alison, hoping she will

Since discovering Amanda PAREZI's Florida driver's license, Brooke evidently hasn't stopped thinking about what it could mean and how to use it to her advantage. So when she heads off to Miami to (as far as Billy knows) investigate a commercial real estate investment, she quickly turns up Amanda and Jack's wedding announcement and Jack's home address, where she meets the man himself and determines that his wife, Amanda, died five years ago. Brooke returns to L.A. to extort her way into a better job and there will probably be no further repercussions! At all! Oh, and while she was gone, Billy started to share her suspicions that Alison's eyesight had returned, and got Alison to come clean. Peter confides in Sydney that the reason he's so focused on keeping Kimberly out of detention is that he had a sister who was mentally ill, and was too young to have helped her when she was in crisis. Michael decides the best way to keep Kimberly from being released is to keep riling her up i

Remember the last episode when Matt punched Paul at the hospital and his lawyer Alicia was like "Please don't" and he was like "Cool, cool," and we thought he understood why such actions would NOT be good for his case? Well, in THIS episode, he's just decided to wire himself up and try to maneuver Paul into confessing to all his crimes so that he can get it on tape. Alicia destroys the first, not-especially-incriminating recording Matt makes, telling him it's inadmissible anyway, and when Matt pushes back, she agrees that she shouldn't represent him anymore. Instead of taking this as a bad sign that he needs to sort himself out, Matt accepts an invitation from Paul to go over to the manse and just talk. Oh, MATT. Jane hires Jo to be Mackenzie Hart's in-house photographer, even boldly inviting Jo and Jake out for a celebratory dinner with Jane and Richard. Somehow, Jane did not foresee Richard using this occasion to bitch at Jane, through Jo, that Jane fired his photographer in

Things are starting to get back to normal-ish at the complex: with the place under construction, Amanda has arranged for the tenants in the intact apartments to billet the ones whose apartments were ruined...and invited herself to Sydney's place. This is only one of Sydney's problems this week, however: instead of talking to Jo, the only other person affected by Jess's death, Jake is self-medicating with booze and alienating everyone who loves him -- including Sydney, whom he fires when he judges her insufficiently festive at the bombing survivors' party he throws. Good thing Peter and Michael need a receptionist! Speaking of whom: while Michael remains skeptical of his motives, Peter continues trying to help Kimberly, mostly to no avail: Kimberly won't co-operate with a court psychiatrist's assessment of her sanity, and Amanda refuses his request that she not file stalking charges against Kimberly. Meanwhile, Matt doesn't help his case by confronting Paul at the hospital and punching

The Season 4 premiere picks up where the Season 3 finale left off: with Kimberly setting off an explosion at the Melrose Place apartment complex!!! In the immediate aftermath, we kind of just have to sort out who lived and died, but don't worry -- there are way more of the former than the latter. Peter has Kimberly (justifiably) committed to a psych ward; it doesn't seem like Schmob is still bothering her, but she also can't remember her part in the bombing or believe she actually could have done it. Billy and Brooke's marriage gets off to a rocky start when Billy asks to postpone the honeymoon due to, you know, all his friends who are injured -- most notably Alison, who has gone blind. It's probably only temporary, but she doesn't want Billy to know that. Matt is hurt by what he perceives as his parents' lack of support following his arrest on charges of capital murder, but does accept the fancy criminal lawyer they set him up with. Considering how much he hated Jess, and the reason t

Incarcerated at the county jail, Michael gets help from an unexpected visitor: DR. PETER BURNS. Apparently the whole time he's been gone he was just lying low on the advice of his excellent attorney, who's cleared him on all legal charges. Peter does still need to convince the medical board not to pull his license, which is why he's going to bail Michael out: to extort him into extolling Peter's skills as a doctor, which Michael is all too willing to do. (Peter's also romancing Kimberly all of a sudden, but that couldn't be so that she will ALSO vouch for him with the medical board...could it?!) Kimberly's mirror antagonist is also still around, and urging her to do harm to all the people who are trying to destroy her life; she doesn't need much convincing. Billy and Brooke are hurtling toward the altar, telling Hayley they want to hold the ceremony in a matter of days. Amanda is thrilled to be the one to tell Alison, when she phones the agency looking for Brooke, about the engagement.

Just in case Amanda wasn't fully convinced in the last episode that Michael was stalking her at home, Kimberly ALSO shows up in the parking garage at D&amp;D to creep Amanda out by following her to her car, which Kimberly has also tagged with a gigantic "Die, Bitch" on the driver's side. Amanda then gets on board, threatening Michael herself if he doesn't leave her alone, not knowing that Kimberly intends to trash the beach house, claw up her own face, and entrap Michael for having "beaten" her. But...there's more. Eek. While Alison gets her feet under her in Hong Kong, she's also anxious to find out what Billy thought of the heartfelt letter she gave Brooke to deliver to him, which is why it's too bad that (a) Brooke read and then shredded Alison's declaration of love and (b) wrote another one that basically left it to Billy whether he wanted to stay in her life or not. Jake wakes up in the hospital after surgery entirely convinced that Jess was behind the shooting, and is unimpressed

Jake is still not okay with Jess and Jo's burgeoning relationship, so much so that he kicks Jess out and fires him from Shooters -- and, when Jo tries importuning him on Jess's behalf, lets her know he's not interested in seeing or talking to her as long as she and Jess are an item. In retaliation, Jess hits up a local pool hall and picks a fight with some toughs, apparently to determine whether they're up for the job of messing with Little Brother (drink!). Brooke is such a good friend to Alison that she arranges for her to interview for a position at Brooke's daddy's company, which comes with a fat salary, and a surprise: it's at his international headquarters in Hong Kong! Billy is all set to talk Alison out of moving so far from her friends, until Brooke urges him not to get in the way of Alison's career progress. What will he do?! Sydney meets with Jim again and gets a surprise of her own: he's an FBI agent who infiltrated Vince's drug ring and is juuuuust about to make a bust. Bu

Sydney's gotten approached with a business deal from a couple of guys who just want to use the label to import and sell their pantyhose from China, and who know she used to work for Lauren. What could go wrong?! (You can probably guess.) She also happens to be home for the latest installment of Jess's attempt to bone Jo against every wall in Los Angeles, and since she hears everything on the other side of said wall at her place, she decides it's her place to snitch on them to Jake. Brooke does seem to be enjoying sex with Billy on its merits, but it also has fringe benefits, such as when he almost immediately betrays Alison's confidence and tells Brooke that Alison's On Notice with the D&amp;D board: if she screws up one more thing, she's out. Obviously, she's in the process of screwing up one more thing when Brooke passes this intel on to Amanda, so she barely has to put in any effort to undermine Alison with this one. Kimberly gets the honour of an early graduation from Camp No More

Brooke and Amanda's plot to depose Alison gets a convenient boost when a rep for D&amp;D's latest very important client happens to have a connection to Brooke's father: she's able to leverage what she knows about his past to manipulate Alison into pitching a concept that will, shall we say, not land. Meanwhile, Amanda is ALSO being set upon constantly by Michael, trying to talk her into seeing him again with compliments, begging, threats, and pasta. Kimberly has decided to change her situation by enrolling in an intensive program called No More Victims, which aims to teach her and her fellow boot campers how to regain control of their lives and learn to assert themselves. (We're not sure Kimberly's problem is that she was insufficiently assertive, but...sure!) Sydney approaches Jane with an offer to save the design firm with Sydney's ill-gotten insurance-settlement gains, and Jane is so desperate that she accepts, even on extremely unfavorable terms. And the more Jo tries to resist Jes

Michael's having a perfectly pleasant evening at home waiting for his wife to hurry up and die already when Sydney unexpectedly shows up and foils his plan. He's so distracted pretending to try to revive Kimberly that he doesn't notice Sydney stealing the suicide note for future blackmail purposes! Once Kimberly is conscious again, Sydney tells her about the scene she walked up on, but Kimberly denies she was trying to die by suicide: she says Michael poisoned her, and that if Sydney will help her plant evidence to that effect and also destroy her note, she'll give Sydney half the insurance settlement. When the cops show up and don't find the suicide note in their search of the beach house, Michael figures out who probably has it. Whom will Sydney be loyal to! Oh yeah: in the midst of all this, Michael also proposes to Amanda. It doesn't go great. Speaking of Amanda: she gets Billy to ask Alison to give her a job at D&amp;D, and it works! Amanda returns with a great attitude e

As Amanda battles back to consciousness, Michael's got his own fights: Kimberly reveals that she's returned early from Minnesota, she doesn't buy his stories about why Amanda's lingerie is all over the beach house, and he is officially on notice. This just convinces him to accelerate his exit plans, but then Kimberly runs into the city's insurance guy at the hospital before Michael does and takes possession of that big settlement check, forcing Michael to make nice. Meanwhile, Alison continues being a bitch to everyone at D&amp;D except Brooke. And why not -- Brooke is actually useful, offering her dad's palatial estate as a photo shoot location when another one falls through. Having Billy on her literal home turf causes Brooke to escalate her mind games with him, flirting super-hard just before her fiancé shows up. Surprise! Brooke later ends up at the hospital when Billy goes to visit Amanda, and Amanda makes a note. After making peace with Jake, Jess decides to tes

The members of D&amp;D's board of directors have taken notice of Amanda's increasing number of absences, and they've decided on a course of action: canning her and installing Alison in her place. It takes less than a day for Alison to learn that part of what made Amanda so surly in the role was the demands of the job. Desperate not to run into Alison, Amanda begs Michael to get her out of the complex, so he sends Kimberly to Minnesota to interview for a job at the Mayo Clinic so that Amanda can stay at the beach house in her absence. At the same time, Michael's also running a scam on the city, claiming the car accident five million episodes ago was caused by dangerous road conditions. He's close to a settlement, but Kimberly knows nothing about the lawsuit and is signing a bunch of papers he hands her without reading them because, apparently, she's forgotten...everything about her husband. Jake gets a call from an old friend in Washington State: Jake's mother has died, and he'

Amanda and Michael are back from New York and navigating their new circumstances. Kimberly tells Michael she knows he and Amanda shared a room. Amanda doesn't think their dalliance should get in the way of her treatment. And yet...this guy does enough fancy footwork to get himself and Amanda to a resort in Santa Barbara AND Kimberly's sign-off. Amanda leaves Alison in charge of submitting D&amp;D's paperwork to the Century Advertising Awards, and even okays Alison to "let it slip" that Amanda may be dying, just in case that shifts any votes her way. But when Alison gets there, she meets the charming coordinator, Brooke Armstrong (Kristin Davis!), who easily talks Alison into submitting her own account against Amanda's in the same category. Having tried and failed to talk Jane out of dating Jake, Sydney manufactures a situation at a rough bar from which Jake will be forced to extricate her. But will this succeed in pushing them closer together? You can't lose by listening to our podcast

Amanda having entrusted her treatment to Michael, the two of them head to New York so that they can doorstop the famous Dr. Steele and convince him to admit Amanda into his cancer study. But it's going to be hard once Kimberly calls Dr. Steele first and defames Michael, claiming his ultimate goal is to undermine Steele's study and get himself set up with one on the same treatment plan instead. And that's just the disaster Amanda knows about: she has no idea that, back in L.A., Alison and Billy are eating shit from a disgruntled client, who demands a brand-new campaign with one day's turnaround. After that pitch also fails to impress him, Alison tries one last gambit: a sob story, and not her own. Things are devolving quickly in Rawlings's police brutality case. Jo knows all too well what happens to civilians who try to challenge police power, and only gets more terrified about what could happen to her after Rawlings's victim dies. Matt volunteers to turn her photos over to the Internal

Once Sydney gets to see daylight again, she assesses her options and decides to stay at the compound. Martin takes this as proof that he's broken her, apparently, because he shows her where they keep the Abbot Way arsenal and starts right in on small arms training. What they don't know is that, back in L.A., Jane's been doing some research on Martin, figured out he's bad news, and convinced Jake to come with her to the compound to try to break Sydney out. Amanda has started chemotherapy, but is (of course) a terrible patient who refuses to acknowledge the physical toll it's going to take on her and adjust her working life in any way. As she leans more and more on Michael, Kimberly gets more and more suspicious. When Rawlings stalks Matt to Shooters and corners him into an introduction to Jo, he volunteers to be her chaperone while she shoots some of the seedier L.A. street life for a newspaper. But when he gets a call about a drug dealer, Jo gets a little too curious, and finds out wha

Though Amanda has apparently spent the entire time since we saw her last trying to ignore what Michael told her about the lump in her neck, he is refusing to let up, and another doctor at the hospital confirms his findings: Amanda does have Hodgkin's Disease. She resists Michael's forcible attempts to continue necessary testing, bitches out everyone who steps in her path at the office, but finally confides in Billy, swearing him to secrecy. Is this a confidence he can keep -- even from Alison, as Amanda expressly specifies? HMMM. Rikki gets Sydney out to the desert to a "retreat" with the rest of the Abbot followers, which apparently does not at all live up to the picture Rikki had painted of a resort-like experience. Sydney is sketched out when her assignment to perform the "tea service" exposes her to Martin, in bed with two ladies, and even more put off the next day when Martin orders his acolytes to write to their families asking for money. Sydney tells him she wants to leave, and

Someone puts sugar in Jo's gas tank. Someone slashes all the samples on the rack at Jane's studio. Someone breaks in at Jo's and steals all her cameras and gear. Jane points the finger at Sydney (who did, after all, have access to the motorcycle and the garments), who denies it...but the crime spree isn't over, and all the crimes do seem to target people Sydney considers her enemies. If not her, who?! Billy is concerned that Amanda seems run-down at work and even testier than usual, though she shakes off his concerns about her health. He's about to have his own worries, anyway: Alison's sister Meredith is in town, with a big announcement about her own sexual history, and an even bigger crush on Billy. The bigwigs at Wilshire Memorial can no longer ignore the possible mental health issues going untreated amongst members of their staff, so they order mandatory psych evaluations, to be co-ordinated by Matt. Kimberly tries to wriggle out of it by deploying her charm on Matt (which

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

Amanda suddenly has some competition for Head Bitch In Charge at D&amp;D when she walks into her office and sees JASMINE GUY sitting at her desk. Guy plays Caitlin Mills, an efficiency expert Peter has hired to shore up operations at the agency; Amanda is immediately suspicious -- and, as with every decision Peter makes, she has good reason. Amanda develops a scheme to try to blackmail Peter regarding a pretty obviously fake drug trial he's supposedly running, and maybe Caitlin has her off her game, because once again Amanda tries to leverage Michael, and we all know how that goes. ANYWAY: this is the snake pit Alison is returning to from rehab (and, despite what Amanda told her at Christmas, she also still totally wants to fire Alison), but Billy is really putting himself out to help her ramp back up. Unfortunately for him, the only ramp Alison wants to be on is the one that will get her closer to Terry -- you know, because he's really tall. Now that Jo has her baby back, she also nee

Already in a rage about Peter's controlling behavior, Amanda adopts a bah humbug attitude she takes out on everyone around her. And we all know the remedy: Bruce's unquiet spirit comes back to warn her about what will happen to her if she doesn't change her ways. Now that Jo has confirmed her maternity of the baby Kimberly's been raising, she apparently has no compunction telling everyone about it, including Peter, who orders Michael to return the baby immediately. Jeffrey is so eager to shower Matt with extravagant gifts that Matt can't help expressing his discomfort -- and how could that possibly backfire on him, in a loving relationship where everyone is definitely totally secure? After seeing Billy and Alison together on the Twin Oaks campus, Terry accelerates his pursuit of her. And Jane tries to broker a holiday peace between Sydney and their father. Wrap up nice and cozy: it's time for our podcast on "Holiday On Ice"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href="h

Alison tries to commit to treatment at Twin Oaks, but keeps getting static from Terry, an NFL star in her group who thinks she's being resistant to the process. After she confronts him about his third-grade-calibre attention-seeking, he admits that there's something to it: he's lashing out because he's also sexually compulsive, and he's drawn to her. When Billy doesn't appear at a special meeting for Twin Oaks clients to thank the people who got them to seek treatment (because, unbeknownst to Alison, Susan never gave him her message), Alison sneaks out and gets wasted, but Terry is waiting when she finds her way back, and helps keep her from getting kicked out. Once Billy finds out about Susan, the love triangle loses a side...but maybe Terry would like to replace her? Michael is hung up on Jane after their one-night-stand, and since he won't take "get lost" for an answer, she redirects the roses he sends her to the beach house, complete with card. Kimberly gives Michael an ultimatum,

Having canned Amanda for her leaking at the end of the last episode, Bruce is pretty sure he's righted D&amp;D's ship and is ready to set sail with a bigger role for Alison (which...is maybe proof of the bad judgment that got him here). Then he finds out that a consortium of doctors has bought up so much stock that he's no longer majority shareholder. He's all set to prove to the new overlords that he's still fit to run the agency until he finds out the consortium is actually Peter, and that his replacement is Amanda. He does not take this news well! When Amanda takes over, she immediately promotes Billy and orders him to fire Alison -- who, by the way, is now drinking so much that she doesn't even remember all the abuse she's heaping on Billy and Susan. He seeks advice from Matt on how to proceed. Cue the intervention! Chris drives Sydney to Las Vegas, but instead of strong-arming her (or worse), he sets about seducing her, trying to impress her with lush accommodations and expensive

After being lucky (oof) enough to have found a mother at the hospital who's about to deliver a baby she knows is stillborn, Kimberly tells Jo it's time to set their plan in motion. Jo has concerns right up to the last minute, but since she also kind of has no other options, she goes through with it, and delivers a healthy baby. Kimberly then does her part marking the baby officially dead in the hospital's records and convincing the Carters' lawyer of what happened. From there...things kind of go left. Jane is thrilled to get that fat $500,000 cheque from Chris's company and trusts him to go ahead and deposit it into the account on which he is now a signatory, since she has a new line to design! Except, whoops, the next thing she knows she's getting called down to the bank to talk about the 20 or so cheques she's about to bounce on that account, which is now empty, thanks to Chris. What now?! Alison did not, in fact, kill that cyclist on Thanksgiving, but she blows above the legal limit

Zack encourages Alison to worry less about what her friends are saying about her recent behavior -- and her drinking, in particular -- and think more about what she really wants. Like a new car! How's she going to pay for the convertible she ends up with? She'll figure it out! Should she go with him to Santa Barbara when she has an early meeting the next day and the last time she did that she slept through her obligation? She sure shouldn't! Does she do it anyway? You bet! Does she end up in exactly the same predicament? Oh boy, does she ever. Since she's starting to get so sloppy that she's letting down her colleagues, she pretty much forces them to call her on it, but she is not ready to hear their fearless feedback at all. A shadowy underworld figure shows up at Shooters and starts threatening Jake with physical harm if he doesn't start paying into his protection racket. Jake refuses, but Sydney -- who knows these people don't screw around from her time with Lauren -- is mo

It's finally time for the custody hearing in which Jo will face off against the Carters. Apparently Jo's lawyer has just trusted that the character witnesses she's rounded up from the complex will be forceful and effective as opposed to the bunch of dimwitted tramps we know them to be, and puts them on the stand without, as far as we can tell, any kind of preparation or screening. So things already aren't going tremendously well even before Alison gets way too drunk the night before her testimony and messes up Jo's lawyer's big finish (which...somehow was not Jo herself? Seriously, this guy just may not know what he's doing). The reason Alison's out partying too much and ignoring her responsibilities is that she's picked up a drinking buddy -- Zack Phillips (Brian Bloom!), a cool record company executive. He's such a great distraction from her angst over Susan and Billy that he also distracts her from the power plays Amanda is running at the agency following Bruce's incapacita

Instead of trying to figure out what the post-medical phase of his career is going to be, Michael is determined to return to his residency at Wilshire Memorial. The only problem is that he still hasn't figured out how to manipulate Peter -- but he won't need to, if he can just get Amanda to push Peter's buttons on Michael's behalf. Obviously Amanda isn't interested in helping Michael out of pure altruism, so she makes him an offer: if she can get Peter to rehire him, Michael will give her his share of Jane's company. There's a lot more blah blah business blah about this, but suffice it to say that a quasi-villain like Amanda should be a lot cannier about monologuing her process. Meanwhile, Jake and Sydney aren't aligned on how to proceed after sleeping together: he's really into her, and she's really worried about sucking him into the maelstrom that is her life. Susan and Alison try to start over in a spirit of honesty, with Susan dating Billy out in the open and Alison being okay with

After her assault by Chris, Sydney staggers back to Jake's to tell him what happened. This time he's ready to report the news directly to Jane instead of telling it to Jo and hoping it gets back to her, but he's not going to get the chance: Jane and Chris have gone to Las Vegas for the weekend, and when we rejoin them there, we find out that Chris is proceeding with his plans and proposing marriage, which she joyfully accepts! As soon as she hears where they are, Sydney knows what Chris is doing, and decides her best bet to derail his plans is to throw Michael at them -- officially because of their business association, but really because Michael will never stop trying to control Jane. Back in L.A., love is breaking out all over D&amp;D! When Peter sends Amanda a giant bouquet of roses, she's put off by the gesture, but Alison encourages her to give him a chance. Peter's own attempt not to spook Amanda by asking her on a double date to the Hollywood Bowl leads Amanda to invite Billy an

Sydney is still trying to tell Jane what's been going on between her and Chris and Jane is still steadfastly refusing to hear her. When Jake stops by the studio delivering papers from Amanda and Chris, assuming Jake is a courier, just casually tries to involve him in objectifying Sydney, Jake pushes back. He then reports this to Jo, apparently counting on her to pass it on to Jane, which Jo does...but Jane still doesn't believe it and just takes it back to Chris to spin for her, which he can easily do now that he's had a day and a half to firm up his story. Jane then goes to yell at Jake before kicking Sydney out of her apartment and firing her from the studio. Chris also used his time to get out ahead of his Jake blunder with Sydney's probation officer, who threatens to send Sydney back to the mental institution now that she's unemployed and homeless, which is why it's very handy that Jake has just used the reward money the FBI conveniently gave him for his part in a

While Jo and Amanda fret about where he could have gone, Jake turns up at the door of one Vince Connors (total Hey! It's That Guy! Raymond J. Barry). They've never met, but they know each other: Connors is Jake's biological father. Connors thinks Jake is in town to shake him down, but Jake just wants to spend some time with him, so Connors invites him over for a family dinner under the pretext that Jake is his old frat brother's son. Mrs. Connors's hospitality overrides Jake's promise that he would blow town again as soon as the plates had been cleared. Will biological father and son be able to forge a relationship deeper than mere DNA? The show's writers remember that they seeded a storyline about Chris being horny for Sydney a couple of episode and get around to paying it off: he's making obscene phone calls and groping her when Jane can't see him, knowing that Sydney's credibility is nearly at an all-time low. After Alison's complaints about Elizabeth get her fired, Jo encourages Al

Now that Kimberly and Michael have gotten past the times each of them almost killed the other and are now fully committed to marriage, he's going to need to finalize his divorce from Sydney, as Kimberly reminds him. (Though the second she does, he lets her know that, actually, he doesn't want to leave Los Angeles the way she had planned for them to do before he got his memory back, and also, he expects her to start waiting on him like a good little wifey, so how much she will still want to be the third Mrs. Mancini after a few weeks of this treatment is tbd.) Sydney tries to play hardball but can't think of anything Michael could give her. Chris can: Michael could give her his share of Jane's business, which Sydney could then sell back to Jane. Sydney seems ambivalent of giving Jane a win, and resists Jane's calls not to negotiate with Michael without a lawyer present, but for the second time in two episodes, people trying to represent themselves really do have fools for clien

Amanda is none too pleased to have her fugitive dad couch-surfing with her, particularly given that she was once at risk of catching a charge when he went on the lam in the first place. (Brittany seems to be getting pretty sick of him too, for different reasons.) But when Palmer tells Amanda that he's come back to town to tie up the last few loose ends that might still leave her in extra-legal danger -- and then he's going to turn himself in -- she agrees to aid and abet him for just a couple of days. What could possibly go wrong? Jane, apparently convinced that Sydney's two days in a mental institution cured whatever had ailed her before, is being extremely kind to her now that she's out, but Sydney's not trying to hear her advice that she stay away from Michael for all their sakes. Jane turns out to be right about Michael, though not for the reason she thinks. She also turns out not to have gotten any better at choosing partners, though the only one who knows that so far is Sydney, o

While doing her best, by day, to convince officials at the mental hospital that she isn't insane and that her claims about Kimberly's guilt in Michael's attempted murder should be taken seriously, Sydney uses a brief moment of unattended time at night to call Matt and beg him to look into Kimberly. And he does! While Jane is at the beach house having Michael sign papers for Chris's deal -- and causing him to remember some of their good times, in the process, to Kimberly's chagrin -- Matt's inside looking for evidence that something's up with Kimberly, which he finds in the form of her backup wig in the bathroom. Will it be enough?! Alison gets back from Wisconsin to find out that...the dude she left at the altar is now working one cubicle away from her. Amanda's forcing them to work together seems calculated to ensure that they will be reminded of what kept them from eloping in the first place. And as the contours of Brittany and Palmer's scheme against Jake reveal themselves, Jo gets

With a new detective working on Michael's case, it would probably behoove Sydney to have legal representation other than a public defender, which is why it's a good thing Mr. Andrews (Ken Howard!) has come to town to help the cause. It's less good -- for Sydney, anyway -- that he doesn't really believe her protestations of innocence and is urging her to work with the DA to get her charges reduced. Then he lands on a whole different plan to keep her out of jail that she might like even less. Kimberly seems to have convinced Chambers, the new detective, that she's a completely credible doctor and Sydney is an unstable wacko who tried to use her for an alibi; she's also feeding Michael confusing stories about his past and letting Matt know she would prefer it if he didn't try to stop by and see Michael when she's not there. Alison apparently did convince Meredith -- in another one of those fraught emotional conversations that inconveniently happened offscreen -- to join her in pursuing le

When Meredith goes out to pick up dinner and also take a break from Alison haranguing her to process her abusive childhood the way Alison (who only became fully conscious of her own about three days ago) thinks she should, Mr. Parker sneaks into the house, accosts Alison, and starts trying to talk her into returning to Billy so that she can keep up appearances for the sake of the family, as she's always done in the past. Little does he know that Meredith has a gun! And Billy is also there, suddenly, to help, kind of! In the aftermath, Alison wants to talk about pressing charges against Mr. Parker, but Meredith just wants to cut ties, again, and put this unpleasantness behind them. Once they're back in L.A., Billy eventually tells Alison he thinks Meredith is right. But does Alison? Kimberly rushes to Michael's bedside straight from having spent several hours all alone at the USC library, just in time for him to go in for emergency surgery on his cerebral swelling! Sydney gets home to f

After Sydney gets roughed up by some sex workers for horning in on their turf and ends up in the ER, Kimberly decides that she should also get the chance to take revenge on Michael and enlists her in her planning to, you know, end his life. Sydney may not have quite the stomach for it, but no matter: Kimberly's got enough focus for both of them, even braiding in Jane when the original Mrs. Mancini gets an appealing business offer she needs Michael's sign-off to pursue. It's also Billy and Alison's wedding weekend! Billy's college friend Rob comes to town to serve as Best Man, and when Billy palms him off on Matt for an afternoon, Matt learns just how accurate that title is -- only Billy didn't realize Rob was into guys until before happening to see Matt and Rob kissing in the courtyard. Also coming to town for the nuptials are Alison's parents, but not Meredith, Alison's sister whom we've never heard her mention before, possibly because she left home as soon as she could and b

In our final "lost episode" from A Very Special 90210 Book, David and Donna might be headed for their 500th breakup; Steve, a college senior, finally hears tell of weed; and as Tracy careens toward a gigantic Valentine's Day disappointment courtesy of Brandon, Valerie's mother comes to town to give Val PTSD. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can

Kimberly is basically the perfect fiancée to Michael -- not just reviewing the paperwork from Jane's company and determining that it's sketchy as hell, but also volunteering to go over there and yell at Jane about it; screening an appendectomy patient and getting all the necessary information into his chart before surgery. So then...why in the world would Kimberly conceal that very patient's drug allergy such that it would lead Michael to make a potentially dangerous error in his treatment? Well, probably the same reason that Dr. Levin, who suspects that she did, pretends not to know and proceed with an investigation into Michael's actions that doesn't implicate Kimberly at all: they each have an axe to grind against him. Jo and her pregnancy turn out to be fine after Sarah's boyfriend caused her to fall down the stairs, but other kinds of trouble arise: Amanda is jealous of all the time Jake is spending with Jo (and doesn't care that, as he reminds her, Jo doesn't have anyone else to

After Steve gets caught turning in one of Brandon's old papers, Cory Randall -- of "getting cucked by Brandon and Lucinda" fame -- comes back to take them both to a disciplinary hearing over it. Steve readily accepts the punishment the Chancellor offers, but Brandon insists on fighting his charge, so strap in for Two Angry Men. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full epi

Now that Models Inc. has been un-blackballed at D&amp;D, Jo can work with her all the time! And Sarah really seems to want to befriend Jo, too -- so much so that she makes up a reason to pop by Jo's latest photo shoot just to introduce her boyfriend Hank, newly arrived from Sioux City to protect Sarah from the Gomorrah that is the L.A. fashion world. Jo picks up on a couple more hints that Sarah isn't having a lot of fun with Hank in town before Sarah herself comes pounding on her door, very upset after a fight with him. Jo opens her home for Sarah to stay with her, but her guess that Hank is already on his way back to Iowa proves a little too optimistic. While Kimberly continues running hot and cold in her relationship with Michael, Sydney quickly moves on from trying to reassert her marital claim on him to setting up her escort business at her Melrose Place studio apartment, just in time for Lauren's lawyer finally to spring her from jail! Lauren is ready to settle up, per their arra

Mark and Kelly take a Doing It getaway that ends in food poisoning; Nat hosts Gangsgiving with a (free, but still) raw-looking turkey that, uh, probably also ends in food poisoning; Steve takes yet another academic shortcut, and gets busted yet again; and Dr. Candyman treats David's bi-faux-lar disorder in the most unprofessional and continuity-hostile way possible. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 <a href="https://againwiththispodcast.com/special/a-very-special-90210-book-deleted-entry-s0

After a minimal amount of lurking about just far enough away to make Michael doubt what he's actually seeing, Kimberly enters the beach house and gets close enough to let Michael touch her and know that, yes, she's really there, and really alive; her mother just lied to him to try to get him out of Kimberly's life, but now Kimberly's all better and ready to pick back up like the past five months never happened! When Michael sheepishly confesses that, during that time, he married Sydney (though not specifically why), she orders him to get out of it, and since Kimberly's return means Sydney's blackmail material is worthless, it's pretty easy! Michael gloats about how great it is to put one over on their enemies, and maybe Kimberly would join him if she wasn't still having so many terrible headaches.... Jo's happy to be working with an adorable young model named Sarah, until Amanda shows up at the shoot and fires her on the spot. D&amp;D NEVER works with ANYone from Sarah's agency! Only a

While an Alpha Omega charity casino night is reawakening Brandon's dormant gambling addiction, Donna helps out Rose Queen Lisa by handling her shift at a South Central L.A. store, where she crosses paths with a boy trying to acquire a gift for his brother's birthday. After helping him escape capture for shoplifting it, Donna meets him again later after Joe runs out of gas; Donna learns that the boy looks after his younger siblings while his single mother works and attends nursing school at night, and figures she should just stick around for this woman to come home and lecture her about her choices. St. Donna's halo slips a little bit with this one! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes �

With Sydney settling into her work managing Lauren's call girl business, Michael can't help getting curious about her little black book, and very quickly finds useful information in it: it seems Dr. Levin, his antagonist at the hospital, is a client! Since Michael isn't going to be able to advance on the traditional path of doing reliably good work, he opts for blackmail instead. Everything in his life sure is falling into place! No further drama on the horizon for him, probably! It's starting to be a problem for Alison, and the therapeutic process, that Dr. Miller is exactly her type. Even Billy knows it's worrisome not only that Alison kept her therapy a secret from him, but that (as Amanda reports) Dr. Miller is casual enough to have "sessions" over seafood lunch at the marina. He confronts Dr. Miller about hitting on Alison, which Dr. Miller denies he is doing; then Alison confronts him about not hitting on her? Eep. Both Amanda and Jo notice weird clunking noises at Amand

CU's Black Students Union has invited Roland Turner -- a controversial speaker who is NOT Louis Farrakhan but is definitely supposed to remind you of him -- to come speak at the school. The Jewish students' group enlists Andrea to lobby President Brandon to cancel the booking. Janice from the BSU makes a First Amendment argument in favor of an invitation she didn't even support. Which side will our golden boy come down on?! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 <a href="https://againwiththispod

Jane is pretty much screwed, financially -- so much so that she tries going to Amanda for a loan. Amanda doesn't even pretend to consider it, instead offering to introduce Jane to someone who might be willing to park his money in her company. Then she goes to Michael: if he puts his half of the inheritance into Jane's company, they'll both save on legal fees, he'll probably make money when she's a big success (snort), and while a court case would drive them apart, being in business will inevitably pull them closer together. Jane is horrified to be ambushed by the sight of Michael at lunch with her investor, but has to admit that Amanda's scheme makes sense. Sydney, however, is jealous as hell that Michael's once again entangled with Jane and her talent, so Lauren's arrest for pandering comes along at just the right time: Sydney visits her in jail to arrange to take over her business while Lauren's locked up, and prove to Michael that she has talents of her own. Alison first admits to B

It's the second of seven entries we had to cut from our book (buy it now!), in which Sarah compliments ShanDo's acting but is baffled by the show's version of therapy. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aid

When Jane and Sydney's grandmother dies and Sydney claims not to care because she always loved Jane more, Jane feels appalled. Then Jane finds out their grandmother is leaving her a six-figure bequest and Sydney nothing, and feels guilty. Then Jane hears that, actually, Gram never changed her will after the divorce, so the cash has been willed to Dr. and Mrs. Michael and Jane Mancini, and feels horrified...because she already quit her job with Kay and rented commercial space to start her own design business. Whoops! Billy is hurt when he finds out that Alison is planning to go back to Wisconsin for her father's 50th birthday party without him, and even more hurt when he hears that no one's going to wonder where her fiancé is at this major life event because no one back home actually knows she's engaged. He then buys his own plane ticket behind her back, invites himself along, and ignores her twice-stated wishes that he not upstage her father on his special day by announcing their engag

In the first of seven entries cut from our book (buy it now!), Tara shares her thoughts on figure skater Tricia and a short con Cindy runs on Brenda's jerk boss Deidre. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids<

After Michael's ominous parting line to him at the end of the last episode, Matt is pretty sure Michael is taking Sydney up north to murder her, and as we know, he's not actually wrong. He's just going to have a hard time (a) tracking them down to the resort in the High Sierras that they happen to be staying in, and (b) convincing law enforcement that these newlyweds are out of sight for reasons other than that they're having tons of sex. Michael makes a couple of attempts on Sydney's life before Matt gets to the right cabin with the cavalry, but did he make it in time?! As Jo's pregnancy progresses, she is increasingly haunted by visions of Reed, in both her sleeping and waking hours. (Reed is also on Jake's mind, as he attends the police auction where the Pretty Lady is sold with designs on convincing the winning bidder to let him use the vessel for a charter business, just like Reed told Jake he was planning to do.) Jake convinces Jo that she won't have peace until she gets

After informing Michael that she's going to use her knowledge of his part in Kimberly's death to force him into marrying her, no one is happy about it -- not Jane; not Sydney and Jane's mother, who flies in from Chicago after Jane tells her about the nuptials to try to talk Sydney out of it; and certainly not Michael himself, though he likes the idea of losing his medical license and possibly his freedom (due to incarceration) even less. So: it happens. But then the answer to Michael's problems comes to him in a dream. Jo is woozy and nauseated on the set of a photo shoot, but it's not, as her assistant suggests, the flu that's been going around: she's pregnant with the late Reed's baby. Under duress, she tells Jake what's going on and that she's not interested in remaining pregnant with her dead criminal boyfriend's baby, but the clinic tells her she has to think about it for 24 hours and she's a woman on Fox in the '90s, so...she does. Helping Jo through the crisis gets Jake out of a

After ending up in jail following her arrest on Reed's boat (or was it?), Jo's next challenge is convincing her public defender that she killed Reed in self-defense and had no involvement in his drug business. He (a) doesn't believe her, and (b) is apparently in some degree of cahoots with the DA to get a threatened first-degree murder charge pled down so that Jo's case will just get off his schedule and he can move on to inadequately defending his other clients. Jo uses her one phone call to reach Jake, who rallies the neighbours to her aid, but what she really needs is a decent lawyer; the only one who could find or afford such a person is Amanda, and she's in deep CYA mode given her own entanglement with Reed. Is Jo going to serve hard time?! After sleeping on it and then going to work for half a day, Alison has given Billy's marriage proposal enough thought to accept. Billy tells Amanda that in order for there not to be any secrets between him and his intended, he's going to tell h

Reed understands why Jo is frustrated, having been stuck in the hold of his stupid boat for the better part of a day without food, water, much air, or a toilet. But she's just going to have to stay down there until his drug business is concluded -- and honestly it's her own fault for having looked into said business in the first place. Once he's sprung her, he goes to work convincing her that she'll be happier on the run with him than back in her dull, safe L.A. life, and maybe saved a little of his supply for his own use because she manages to get out of his eyeline a couple of times. Will Reed convince Jo to sign on for (yo ho, yo ho) a pirate's life? Alison, having figured out she was wildly overreacted to the scene at Billy's, remained in New York to talk it out with him. Agreeing that long-distance relationships suck and getting him to bone her apparently convince him that she wants him to surprise her by arranging for all her stuff to be moved to his place in New York. This prove

The merry partners are all ready to get down to some seafaring except, whoops, Reed announces that he had to cancel the one charter they had booked without giving anyone any notice, and he doesn't seem to be that interested in rescheduling it, or lining up any more business. Jake and Amanda's attempt to get him on track just ends in Amanda demanding her money back. Meanwhile, Jo discovers the secret trap door, and though she initially accepts Reed's explanation that it's to save him lugging valuables on and off, it's on her mind when Jake warns her that, according to the state of California, Reed's boat officially does not exist. Will Jo survive her own curiosity? Billy and Alison's attempts to make a long-distance relationship work are hampered by Billy's horny new co-worker, who's apparently determined to set Billy up with someone immediately and won't take "I have a girlfriend" for an answer. Out of his mind recovering in the hospital, a delirious Michael starts babbling some incrim

Remember how Amanda thought Reed was a creep and Jake thought he was a con artist? Apparently they don't, because Jake has no problem fixing the engine of a boat Reed totally does not own, for free, as a favour to Jo, and considering coming in with him 60/40 in a partnership, as his full-time mechanic. To get Jake hooked on the seafaring life, Reed invites him and Amanda out on a harbor cruise, which apparently sparks all of Amanda's happy memories of boating in her youth; no sooner has Jo volunteered to stake Reed the collateral he needs to buy the boat than Amanda is slagging her off and throwing her money at Reed. Between her misgivings about getting into business with Amanda and her suspicions about what might be in a suitcase full of valuables Reed has asked her to store, Jo has a lot on her mind! Michael is living at the beach house again, but all his focus -- such as it is; he's taking a lot of painkillers, so his vision's probably pretty blurry -- is on convin

Things are going so well at Jane's -- and at the hospital, where Michael has returned to work -- that when Sydney shows up to ask him to support her at her upcoming court date, he laughs her off. Michael apparently still hasn't learned that he underestimates Sydney at his peril, because she goes straight to Jane, tells her pretty much the whole story about her work for Lauren, and tearfully confesses that Michael hired her to arrange for one of her ex-colleagues to seduce Robert. The sisters are reunited, and Michael is out on the street! ...Well, back in the beach house, with his pills. On his way out of Jo's to move into the boat, Reed learns that Amanda is rich, and immediately hits her up as a possible investor for the charter business he wants to start if he can just buy the boat he's been hired to work on! Amanda seems like she may actually be receptive to his pitch until he gets into her personal space, but she still lets him take her out for a little ride, which is when Jo show

As teased in the previous episode, Michael has given Sydney cash to arrange for one of Lauren's ladies to go to San Diego and videotape herself seducing her. Sydney's not so sure that Robert -- who's really in love with Jane! -- will be such an easy mark, but then she also sends a young Famke Janssen to play the role of horny married business traveler looking for no-strings-attached fun, so...Sydney. Come on. Jane's viewing of the tape has the expected result: she throws Robert out just hours ahead of the deadline she and Robert had both agreed she'd be turfing Michael. He just may have overplayed his hand with one of the other women he's scorned. When Alison goes over Amanda's head to get the MICROCOMP account back, we meet Amanda's boss, Bruce Teller (Stanley Kamel, the future Tony Marchette on Beverly Hills, 90210). He kindly recommends that Amanda take a couple of personal days to process everything that's going on with her dad, during which time Alison less kindl

Though Palmer has been offscreen since his arrest -- working on his defense, presumably! -- Amanda has continued to attack the person she thinks is to blame for it, and is now trying to evict Jake on the grounds of "spite," which they both know is flagrantly illegal. Thinking she can exploit Jo's anger over the end of her relationship with Jake (despite the fact that, you know, he started dating Amanda herself seconds later), she tries to get Jo to write a letter attesting to the damage Jake did to Jo's apartment in support of his eviction; Jo refuses, though that doesn't stop Amanda from just telling Jake she did to try to squeeze him. Eventually, the feds freeze the funds Palmer paid Jake, permitting Amanda to proceed on the basis of his having bounced a rent cheque to her, but she doesn't get far before Palmer asks her for a meeting to make a very difficult admission. (Oh, and in the midst of all this, she agrees to Billy's request that she not tell Alison they sle

Christmas has come once again to Melrose Place, and with Nikki visiting, and to make sure she she has a magical holiday, everyone is willing to put aside their differences -- at least while she's around. Billy, who instantly regrets sleeping with Amanda, has to hide this scandal from both Alison and Jake. The former is dying to get him alone so she can just tell him that she and Steve never actually boned; the latter is desperate to buttonhole Amanda and convince her to believe him over her sainted father. (Meanwhile, Jo is trying to figure out how to sleep through the holidays, since she and Jake had their first kiss last Christmas Eve and she'd rather not be reminded.) Jane has had enough of Michael's moping, and makes plans to spend the holidays with Robert at his place. Since Michael can't be left alone, she hires no-nonsense Nurse Colleen to stay with him. Does Nurse Colleen's impatience with Michael's self-pity snap him out of his funk, or is his heartfelt apology to Jane and Rob

Now that Alison has been forced to accept that Billy really actually did mean it when he moved out on her and in with Jake, she's free to go ahead and lock down Steve, as she had threatened to do in the last episode. There's just one problem: Steve's on his way to spend six months in Paris setting up MICROCOMP's European operation. But will he still go once he finds out Alison's finally single? Billy and Celia get assigned a joint feature on video dating, and though his reservations about taking on a subject that was passé even in 1992, this is Celia's first break at Escapade and she is determined not to let Billy and his sudden dim view of women screw it up for her. (Remember: she's new.) Just when Jake thinks he's all done informing to the FBI, Agent Hill asks him to wear a wire and record Palmer incriminating himself. Jake thinks he can just decline the request, so Agent Hill has to explain how Palmer hand-picked Jake to be his fall guy, and will pin all his crimes on Jake

Sydney was already wavering in her personal ethics when she decided to blow off Jane's invitation and have Thanksgiving with Lauren and the rest of her escorts. But now the rent is due, so Sydney can't screw around anymore. Or actually...that's all she can do because she needs a fast buck and she knows she can't possibly make it at Shooters or ask Jane for it. Her first client seems to have been chosen by Lauren as an easy on-ramp, and when Lauren follows up that date by handing off her credit card and telling Sydney to go on a shopping spree, Sydney gets a taste for life as one of Lauren's girls. Then her next date busts out some very vanilla bondage implements; Sydney gets spooked and, once again, tests the limits of what this gig economy employment opportunity actually affords. While all this is going on, Michael finds out that (a) Kimberly's mother has called the hospital to say Kimberly has died, and (b) he's well enough to move to a rehab facility to start working on his mobility

An offhand conversation with another mechanic about how much their boss can reasonably charge for his reproduction Avantis leads Jake to do a little snooping in Mr. Woodward's desk, and what do you know: the guy's been fraudulently certifying that they're authentic originals! Jake isn't really sure what to do with this information (other than hint around to Amanda that her dad may be involved in something shady, maybe, possibly), but getting called in to talk to a couple of FBI agents will probably sharpen his focus somewhat. Having caught Steve sending Alison a rather polite email about missing her at the ranch, Billy decides to press his luck and demand that Alison give up the MICROCOMP account. She...obviously does not, but it does nothing to reduce the tension between them when she has to travel to San Francisco, on Thanksgiving Day, to deal with a snafu in the lead-up to a big MICROCOMP press conference. Billy tells her that if she goes, he's not going to be there when she gets ba

Apparently sex with Michael is better than any of us could possibly imagine, because despite EVERYTHING, he convinces Kimberly, over a champagne-soaked dinner, to give him another chance. He's so sure they're completely back on track that he even proposes, and though she's a little grossed out by his pushing his luck so far, she does still definitely want to bone, and they're on their way back to the beach house to do that when he fishes the ring out again and re-proposes and this time she says yes...just in time for his drunk, distracted ass to drive them straight into a guardrail and flip the car off a bridge. In the aftermath, Kimberly never regains consciousness, and requires surgery for massive head injuries. Michael gets off relatively easy with back injuries and possible paralysis...but since he knows he was definitely driving over the legal limit, he guilts Matt into using his access to the database to alter his record -- kind of a lot, actually! Alison has managed to conceal h

After clashing with Amanda over Alison's vision for the MICROCOMP campaign (and, apparently, not really comprehending when she tells him that if it flops, Alison's going to be out on her ass), Steve invites his current girlfriend Jo back out to his ranch that weekend -- and hey, wouldn't it be fun if Alison came? And also Billy, since it would be weird if he were excluded? History repeats itself: Billy correctly assesses that Steve is into Alison and risks life and limb -- this time by riding a horse (sort of) out to spy on them; Alison denies that Steve has feelings for her and whines about Billy's jealousy -- after all, she's not jealous about Billy's new co-worker, Celia, who he can't stop complaining about! (Billy shoots back that he hates Celia and since we've certainly never seen crushes grow out of sparky animosity on TV before, that's exactly where their relationship will remain, surely!) Meanwhile, Jo and Steve are getting down to it, apparently for the first time, when Jo adm

Everything's coming up Sydney! She's got a job! (At Shooters, where else.) She's somehow figured out how to check Kimberly's hospital schedule, so she knows when to go by the beach house and cozy up to Michael! She is, in fact, doing exactly that (because Michael can say he doesn't want to bone her anymore, but confronting her fully naked body in front of him on his deck is a test his resolve cannot pass) when Kimberly comes home and finds them in bed! This touches of a shitstorm: Kimberly tells Jane. Jane disowns Sydney. Kimberly kicks Michael out -- and, when he ignores her, moves out of the beach house herself. Michael tries mooching his way back into Kimberly's heart with a big showy gift of flowers, but when that doesn't work, he takes it out on Jane, embarrassing her at a dinner party with Robert's parents, unintentionally setting Robert up to be Jane's hero some more. Poor Sydney thinks that isolating Michael from his previous two lady friends means he'll have no choice

Alison's running her first solo account with Microcomp! It's a big deal and very exciting, so naturally Billy understands why work is eating up all her time, including weekends. Ha ha, just kidding, he's a petulant baby about -- and maybe he should be, because even though Alison has been very clear with Steve that she's in a relationship, he keeps blurring the lines between them. However, when he decides to start hearing what she's telling him and try to move on, maybe she doesn't really like that either. The Mancinis continue trying to move on from each other, but it's not easy: Jane accepts Robert's invitation to spend the weekend on his friends' sailboat, but when the day comes, a luggage tag with both her and Michael's names on it sends her into a spiral of wistfulness that causes her to renege. Alison suggests that she try dating someone who had NOTHING to do with her divorce, but the D&amp;D guy she sets Jane up with is a dud from whom, fortunately, Robert happens by so that he c

Jane is happy in her new relationship with Robert, but not so happy she declines to make good on her threat to Sydney: now that she knows Sydney's continued spending time with Michael behind Jane's back, Jane is kicking her out. Somehow, the same Amanda who asked Matt where he was going to get his next month's rent from four minutes after he got laid off has no problem renting a unit to an unemployed college dropout, as long as she can find someone to co-sign her lease. It all goes to hell at a reception (we'll get to it) where a drunk Michael tries to attack yet another Jane love interest much taller than himself. Sydney follows him home and delights him with the news about her new place and how much it bugs Jane to have her as a neighbor: he'd just love to co-sign that lease! Sydney then takes advantage of Kimberly's trip out of town to drift into the bedroom and start undressing, and Michael is perfectly content to cheat with her on the woman with whom he formerly cheated on his wif

The Mancinis are finalizing their divorce, and everyone is having a lot of feelings about it: Michael, furious about the alimony he has to pay, decides to try to punish Jane by getting all their friends in the divorce, throwing a party to celebrate the end of the marriage, and ignoring both Kimberly's face and words in reaction to this vulgar idea. Jane isn't thrilled about it, but at least she takes advantage of everyone else looking elsewhere to track down her cute attorney and have some revenge sex with him. Billy and Alison clash over the ethics of attending Michael's party, and of course turn it into a referendum on their own relationship. At least that distracts them from trying to parent-trap Jo and Jake into a reunion -- which was always a long shot given that Jake and Jo are being forced to work together on the Sagebrush Beer campaign and hating every second of it. Not hating it? Amanda, because it gives her time to gaze upon Jake and, sometimes, rip his shirt open. M

Jane barely has time to get mad at Sydney for snitching on her and Sam to Michael before it's time for depositions to start in the case of Mancini v. Mancini! Jane is horrified when Michael starts confidently presenting Jane's relationship with Sam as though it started that time Sam kissed her, months ago, and never stopped; Jane's lawyer (Steven Eckholdt!) isn't thrilled to have the news of Sam's existence sprung on him this way. Michael is confident that his masterful lies will carry the day, but since he requires Kimberly to corroborate them, he might be a little too cocky. (Yes -- Michael!) After a good night's sleep, Jo wakes up and decides Jake probably didn't commit insurance fraud. He's still hurt that she ever doubted him at all, but they get past it, and he proceeds to another interview with the insurance adjuster, during which Jake somehow figures out that, actually, he did leave the blowtorch on a little. Stung by his own fuckup, he comes home to tell Jo, who (agai

Still in denial about the connection between her drinking and her trauma, Alison is continuing to disappoint Amanda in her new position. Amanda is so disgusted by Alison's numerous screw-ups that she takes a number of Alison's new responsibilities off her plate, whereupon Billy decides it's his job to step in, and -- despite having promised Alison they wouldn't talk about Keith anymore to anyone -- tell Amanda the whole sordid story so that she'll give Alison a break. This is not, in fact, what Alison wants, but the important thing is that it gives Billy and Amanda another pretext to get together and talk about her behind her back! Jake and Jo have not been communicating well enough at the shop, so when he goes on a bike shopping spree and cleans out the bank account, he doesn't realize that money is for paying their tax installment, and he's about to bounce a cheque to the IRS. Then an accident causes a catastrophic fire that turns the store into a total write-off, but because of the

When we left Billy last time, he was booking a flight to Seattle, and sure enough, when we rejoin him here, he's...there, with nothing but a return address on a purloined piece of Alison's mail to guide him. He easily breaks into Keith's house to find that he has not exactly been getting revenge on Alison by living well: the place is a barely furnished sty, in which Keith sleeps on a bare mattress in the living room next to so many of Courtney Thorne-Smith's old headshots, which he's had framed. Billy then turns up at the oil refinery where Keith works, to threaten and then punch him. Keith's response? To wait for Billy to leave town, then phone Alison at work so she can hear as he makes an irrevocable decision. Through it all, Alison's been screwing up at work because she's distracted and traumatized; since she refuses to tell Amanda why but is also self-medicating with a lot of vodka, now also during work hours, Amanda can only conclude that Alison's drinking is the cause and not a s

Billy and Alison can't wait for Keith to go back to Seattle and leave them to resume their very happy relationship. Alison's just going to go out with him for one last dinner and drive him to the airport, no big deal. Billy has continued to look into stalking and its tendency to be visited by spurned lovers on their former partners, but Alison isn't trying to hear it, right up until she goes to Keith's hotel room and sees that, actually, he's delayed the flight she thought she was there to drive him to; when she declines the dinner he's ordered them instead, he pushes her onto the bed and threatens to sexually assault her. While Jane tries to excise Michael from her life, Michael can't stop scheming to avoid the consequences of his cheating: he asks her to call off her lawyer; he tries to cultivate a laid-off Matt by getting him an interview for a job at the hospital; and he even butters up Sydney -- who's ostensibly come to town to support Jane -- so that he can play Sydney off her si

Rhonda has exited! Offscreen! Uh, bye! So Amanda has moved in (to Rhonda's old unit, which we know was a studio?) and is busily making friends with her female neighbours. Jo seems to enjoy hanging out until it becomes clear that, with Amanda finally moving on from Billy, she has taken notice of Jake -- and just in time for Jake and Jo to have moved in together, too. Why isn't Billy still on Amanda's menu? Well, Alison's stalker has started getting more aggressive. He's even gone after Keith with a tire iron, just like he did Billy! Surprisingly, Billy starts to get suspicious of this report since no one ever told him he was struck by a tire iron (and, of course, we know Keith just hit himself on the corner of his hotel room TV, so how he passed that off as a tire iron injury to anyone who examined him, we are sure we don't know). Billy digs into this new crime, "stalking," and finds out that the people who do it have usually experienced a romantic rejection. But will

Where to begin with this actually pretty plot-filled two-part season finale? Well: the mysterious Mr. K. is selling the complex. Also: let's just say Amanda's pregnancy's not going to be a problem for Billy and Alison anymore. That's not to say that Amanda isn't going to be a problem for them anymore, because she is still very into Billy and openly pursuing him, basically daring Alison to try to compete with her. What Alison doesn't realize is that she has another suitor she could fall back on because, yes, Keith has improbably come back to town. He's all ready to propose to his "girlfriend," as he apparently still thinks Alison is, until he spots her canoodling with Billy and decides to start stalking her instead. Michael continues his campaign to make Jane forgive him, taking her out of town to seduce her...but then comes back to the hospital to let Kimberly know he's still totally down to clown if she is. Jo decides she'd better not try to take any photos of unhomed persons

Now that they've MADE LOVE, everything is going so great for Billy and Alison -- other than her need to talk their relationship to death, that is. It's just terrible, awful timing that the couple has barely had time to shower each other's stink off when Amanda informs Billy that she's missed her period and, according to a home test, she's pregnant. Instead of waiting for a doctor's confirmation, Billy blurts this news at Alison, who immediately starts spinning out. Billy doesn't have very much more chill, and basically forces a disgusted Amanda to tell him she doesn't expect anything from him, possibly because she doesn't trust his ability to so much as hold a baby without dropping it. Jane having kicked him out, Michael is full of regret and desperate for her to forgive him, even telling Kimberly he wants to break things off with her so that he and Jane can reconcile, and then begging Alison to broker a meeting between him and Jane. Reluctantly, Jane agrees to counseling, and to letti

Alison and Billy may have both felt extremely awkward after their first kiss, but after each suffers a night of restless sleep, they agree that what they're mostly feeling now is horny. Billy's attempt at romance -- a jazz concert in the park (never the play, guys) -- is ruined by Alison's ongoing guilt over keeping the secret of Michael's affair from Jane; when Billy suggests that she's using said secret as a pretext to delay sex with Billy, she delays sex with Billy. But she's willing to try another date the following night, which is why it's too bad that Lucy extends to her a last-minute invitation to an executive retreat in Palm Springs, so that she and Amanda can try to work on their relationship outside the office. On her way out of town, she runs into Jane -- returning early from her second-anniversary dinner with Michael, because he contrived to have Kimberly beep him during dessert so he could leave and spend the night fucking her instead -- and finally spills what she knows.

Since Amanda still hasn't figured out that Billy is not worth the effort she's putting into acquiring him, she's fighting a battle on two fronts: continuing to contact him via phone, and shoehorning him into conversations at work. When both Amanda and Alison are invited to Lucy's engagement party, Alison doesn't consider that she's in a primetime soap and bring Matt as her platonic date, instead bringing Billy along, so when Amanda gets Billy first onto the dance floor and then into a gazebo, where Alison walks up on them kissing, Alison really has no one to blame but herself. All of this is happening at a time when Alison's faith in men's good judgment, sex-wise, is low anyway, since she happens to have just spotted Michael and Kimberly kissing at the hospital. Is it true that, as Billy claims, he's a better-quality dude than Michael? Or when Amanda calls him and leaves a (possibly) tearful message asking him over, will he be able to resist her seductive moves and satin robes? Elsewhe

Amanda, against all reason, has continued trying to reach out to Billy and, rightly suspecting the reason he's not answering her messages is because Alison isn't giving them to him, forces the issue with a little light stalking. Thus Alison, who's already eating Amanda's shit at work as she tries to regain the stature she enjoyed pre-Seattle, also has to eat shit for interfering in Billy and Amanda's friendship. But Billy has more pressing matters to deal with -- specifically, his boss Nancy pressing herself up against him. Instead of firing Billy after Cameron narcs on him for not having gone to Columbia at all, Nancy gives Billy a "second chance" in the form of a promotion to staff writer, and is so hot for Billy that she comes on to him in a glass-walled conference room where Alison sees the whole thing. Billy doesn't want to believe that his rise is due to his butt, until Nancy makes her intentions impossible to ignore. Speaking of people crossing lines: Kimberly confesses her feel

Things are going great for Jake and Jo, which means it's time for his past to come back to haunt them again. Specifically, Jake's ex Perry -- the cocaine user who, when we last saw her, was scamming rich art collectors -- is out of rehab for heroin addiction. She lets Jake know that she now has AIDS, and that as her former partner, he should get tested. Jake resists the notion that a man who only sleeps with women -- even one who doesn't use condoms 100% of the time -- might be at risk for an STI. But eventually he does see reason (thanks to a sensible conversation with Matt), tells Jo what's going on, and arranges for them both to get tested. Alison slinks back to D&amp;D to try to get her job back. Lucy is gracious enough not to remind her that she'd told Alison that the job would be gone as soon as Alison took off for Seattle, but does say that the hiring decision is now Amanda's. Lucy gets Amanda to agree to put Alison in the mix, and gives Alison her old receptionist job back, and

Billy is just starting to get used to the idea of life without Alison -- and even entertaining the idea of renting her old room out to Kimberly, particularly if it means she'll move all her furniture in with her -- when he gets the news that his father has suffered a massive heart attack; alas, Mr. Campbell never regains consciousness, and passes away. Billy, for some reason, decides the best way to honour his father's memory is to start running the furniture store (as he never wanted to do when his father was alive); he also rebuffs attempts by everyone in his life to help him grieve...that is, until Alison comes back from Seattle to comfort him. Meanwhile, Kimberly decides she doesn't want to room with Billy, but that she would like Michael to come over and fix her kitchen sink. That's not a euphemism, though when he's done, she makes it pretty clear that she wouldn't mind him taking a closer look at her plumbing. Elsewhere, Carrie is still trying to make moves on Terrance (

While Billy settles into life with Amanda -- which, since she's doing his laundry and boning him all the time, is pretty easy -- an unsettled Alison makes an impetuous decision: she WILL move to Seattle with Keith. Everyone in Alison's life thinks this is a terrible idea, though everyone is too scared to say so to Alison's face except Lucy, who fought to get Alison her promotion and doesn't appreciate receiving Alison's notice via answering machine message. As Alison tries to talk herself into her big move, Billy starts to notice that he and Amanda actually may not be that compatible after all. (Her impatience with finding his towels on the floor all the time and saying something about it may have something to do with it.) But will Billy's epiphany coincide with one from Alison? Michael and Jane's old college friend Sam (Rob Estes!) comes to town, but can only meet for dinner on a night when Michael's on call. When Jane sees him alone, Sam kisses her, which she quickly ends. She decide

Billy blows off a play with Alison to have dinner with Amanda and her father on such short notice that Alison can't find anyone else to take the ticket, and since Betsy's in the shop again, Keith lends her his vintage Mustang. Walking alone to a desirable car naturally ends with Alison getting robbed at gunpoint. Billy is full of self-recrimination for not having been there for Alison after her terrifying experience; Amanda would probably be irritated by his preoccupation even if her father hadn't just told her that Billy isn't the right man for her. While Alison continues having flashbacks to the robbery, Keith is there, and before long has toppled all the boundaries Alison had set up. Jo thinks Alison doesn't need the presence of a man to make her feel safe so much as she needs a handgun -- like the one Jo herself acquired after Charles came to town -- but Alison is grossed out by her visit to the gun range, and Jake is also disturbed to learn that he's unknowingly been sleeping in t

Since Billy and Amanda are refusing to ignore their own happiness and quit dating so that Alison won't be uncomfortable around them, Alison is challenged to search her feelings about the matter and determine the real reason it bugs her so much that Billy is seeing Amanda. When Alison requests a formal meeting to discuss their relationship and then gets a dozen red roses at work with an unsigned card from an admirer who wants to meet her at Shooters, of course she assumes that it's Billy, finally ready to make a big declaration. But no! It's Keith. Now that he's fully divorced (or...so he says) (again), he's ready to pick back up where he and Alison left off, but is also content to start at the beginning again to rebuild trust. At least he's not going to have to do much double dating with Billy and Amanda, since they both can't stand him, and would rather spend time alone at Amanda's bachelorette pad anyway. Jake is so happy with the current state of his life that he f

Amanda asks Alison to join her for a weekend away at her parents' vacation home, which in our day would be the prelude to Alison's sexual awakening as at least a bisexual (particularly given that the sleeping arrangements require Amanda and Alison to share a bed), but in ours has to be followed by Alison getting stupid Billy invited along, too. Of course, Alison regrets it almost immediately: Amanda and Billy are obviously attracted to each other, and as soon as Alison has turned in for the night, Billy kisses Amanda, who enthusiastically reciprocates. Without knowing for sure that this has occurred, Alison can't ignore their flirting, and forbids Billy from pursuing Amanda for the sake of Alison and Amanda's working relationship -- something Billy then reports to Amanda in the course of ignoring Alison's request. Amanda, however, insist that they remain transparent, and tells Amanda about their relationship, certain that they can all be adults about it, because Amanda doesn't know how

When one of Alison's never-seen co-workers gets bounced for dating a client (and losing the agency the business when the relationship went sour), Alison gets a promotion to assistant account executive! She's going to be working with an art director named Amanda Woodward on Maximum Advantage, a men's underwear brand. None of the agency's usual photographers is available, so Alison takes a flyer on Jo, who decides to go in a bold direction with her artistic concept and hang out with the tennis-star model afterward -- at Shooters, so why she is then astonished to piss off Jake in the process is a real mystery because obviously he is also there. Billy agrees to let Michael fix him up on a blind date with Lydia, a nurse at the hospital. He's not into her, and she's not into him either, but they're both so WASPy that somehow they end up on a crappy second date together. And Rhonda is, once again, doubting that she's ready to commit to Terrence -- but this time, she might no

Jake finally tells Jo that he ran into Charles, her ex, and while he think he's solved her problems by telling him that Jo doesn't live at Melrose Place, Jo knows better, and goes to see him. Charles is proud to show her that he's not drinking anymore, and is generally on his best behaviour, apologizing for not having taken her photography seriously, and for trying to turn her into a good little socialite wife. Jake bristles while following everyone's advice -- including Jo's -- that he keep his distance while Jo and Charles sort things out, which gets even harder when it seems like Charles is starting to win Jo back over. Sydney is still up Jane's ass at work, at home, and even with her friends. When a desperate Michael accepts Sydney's help in planning Jane's surprise birthday party, Sydney soon gives him cause to regret it. Meanwhile, when Rhonda's not in conference with Jane about the gown she's going to need for her wedding in three weeks (what?), she's trying to figure out why Ma

Jane thinks nothing of it when she's awakened by a phone call from her sister Sydney, who's come to L.A. without letting anybody know. She just needed a break from college -- no big deal! But it doesn't take long for Sydney's story to crumble: actually, she was getting terrible grades in all her classes, so she dropped out. What's she going to do with her life instead? Maybe squat on Jane and Michael's fold-out couch and loiter around the Kay Beacon Design Studio making Jane crazy. Jake thinks he's come up with a great surprise for Jo: since he's getting a great deal on a new Harley, he's going to let her have his old one...on very favorable terms? (This guy could possibly stand to take another run at the definition of the word "gift" in the dictionary.) Jo turns him down, and Jake is so preoccupied by his own wounded pride that he can't see what's bothering her: it appears as though the husband she fled has managed to track her down. Alison is granted an invitation to a work-related f

It's Christmas! But for a lot of people, that can be awkward! Like, for instance, for Matt, who has decided to cook a traditional Christmas dinner for the orphans at the complex instead of spending the holidays with his parents, since he's still hurt about the way they responded when he told them about losing his job for being gay. It's also not great for Michael, who feels extra-guilty about failing to save the life of a little boy accidentally shot at a playground because it happened on Christmas Eve, and now the boy's mother will spend every holiday mourning her son. Jane's not around to comfort him (she's at her parents' in Chicago, where...apparently they don't have phones?), so Michael has to get his emotional needs met by the next nearest woman: good old Dr. Kimberly Shaw, his colleague and completely platonic friend. Jake wants to blow out his Christmas celebration to make up for all the ones his mother was too poor or drunk to give him when he was a child, but Jo lacks festive

Alison hasn't been feeling quite right lately, lady parts-wise: turns out she has a benign fibroid tumor, which will require surgery. This is inconvenient because despite the fact that she works full-time at D&amp;D, she doesn't have health insurance. Billy leaps into action, certain that any hospital administrator who looks her in the eye won't be able to deny her care; unfortunately, they live in the United States of America, so he is mistaken. Can Billy get over his brand-new awareness of the issues with this country's for-profit health care system long enough to let Michael, who works within it, try to help Billy's BEST FRIEND? Jake's "one who got away," Colleen, comes back to town. He apparently thinks she might want to start something up again, but no: she informs him that her son David is also Jake's biological progeny, but she'd like him to sign away his parental rights so that her husband can adopt David. Jake flips out and starts making irrational plans. (Bro, you think you'r

Kelly returns from Matt's brother's funeral to the shocking news that David has proposed marriage to Donna, and that Donna's not sure what to do. Don't worry: her reticence is short-lived, and the couple forges ahead with a wedding that may just be the one Kelly's been planning since it all comes together in a matter of days. Why isn't Kelly using it? Well, now that Matt's biological child is about to grow up without a father, Matt thinks he should step in to perform this function, which provides Kelly with a good reason to let him go. Will Matt agree to withdraw from their engagement without a fight? Janet's career continues to rise as Charles names her the new Editor-in-Chief of Nouveau, though she's not so sure she wants the job. And Noah and Ellen have their 500th discussion about where their relationship is going, right before Noah leaves us forever. We take you through the two-part series finale -- "The Penultimate"/"Ode To Joy" in our latest podcast! JOIN

All the Melrose Place dudes who aren't currently involved in legal proceedings are still verrrrrrry interested in Jo. Michael wants to know why she's changing her lock if it wasn't broken, and when she's going to get around to giving him, her building manager, a copy of the new one. Billy's trying to conceal from Alison the fact that he's dropping by with impromptu unchilled Champagne. But Jake is the most curious of all. Why would Jo claim to be going on a job interview only to hit up a jewellery store instead? Why doesn't she have any photo ID to facilitate the sale of a diamond bracelet engraved with the name 'Beth'? And who is this Beth, anyway? (Billy, meanwhile, gives up his attempts to hit on Jo, and when he gets very high on painkillers following a dental procedure, his subconscious serves up a dream about the woman he'd actually like to nurse him back to health.) Jane finds out the store where she works has been sold to Kay Beacon, a designer whose work she knows, and

After Dylan's declaration of love (or codependence, or obsession, or whatever) in the last episode, Kelly is trying to pretend nothing is wrong even as he openly gives her the silent treatment. To prove she doesn't take it seriously, she even tells Matt about it, which somehow isn't much comfort to him. They're on their way to yet another wedding-related appointment when she hears a news report on the radio about a surfer getting killed at Point Dume -- the very beach where Donna had told her Dylan was going to surf that day! Kelly desperately tries to determine whether the surfer is Dylan, and the utterly whipped Matt drives her all over the county to yell at various functionaries until Dylan himself calls; he decided to ride the rails (yes, like a hobo) to Salinas instead. Thinking Dylan was dead brings Kelly's feelings for him into focus, and it seems like she may have actually made a decision when Matt comes home to tell her something so shocking that anything she may have to sa

When Michael volunteers Jane to the decorating committee for an upcoming mixer for the hospital interns, she's relieved to meet and make friends with fellow doctor's wife Liz. And what do you know -- Michael is also getting pally with Liz's husband Scott, a star pediatrician. Jane finds nothing amiss in the elaborate story Liz offers for how she got a shiner on her right eye, but is less able to explain away finger-shaped bruises on both of Liz's arms. Michael, however, refuses to entertain the idea that his new buddy is a domestic abuser, particularly since Michael is less popular than he is and unwilling to slow his own ascent at the hospital by making accusations he thinks are unfounded. The complex gets a new resident -- Jo Reynolds, an aspiring photographer who's just arrived from New York. While she's slightly vague about what has brought her to town, depending on who asks, Jo and Alison bond over a temperamental dryer in the laundry room, and Jo and Jake have an instant attracti

Matt is excited about a job opportunity in Seattle and Kelly is trying to be excited for him, and for the possibility of moving there with him if he gets it, but of course she's still mostly focused on Dylan, particularly after he gives Matt and Kelly their wedding gift a bit early: plane tickets for a trip around the world. Kelly is disgusted that he's trying this gambit again, and refuses to accept them, but that's not enough for Matt: even though he totally did not get the job (because, duh, of course he didn't, he almost got permanently disbarred THIS SEASON), he still thinks they should move away -- and if Kelly doesn't agree to do it, he's going to assume it's because she's still in love with Dylan. An apparently successful publishing mogul improbably wants to buy the Beat, but if the deal goes through, it will mean Janet remains to run the publication for a year while Steve is relieved of...whatever his duties currently are. Will Janet like being the family's sole breadwinner

Alison is so sure Keith is the right man for her -- that a love she never dared to hope for is actually real -- that she's fighting with her friends and neighbors about the advisability of being with him. Her defiance starts to crumble, however, when he admits that Lily, his wife, has come to town from San Diego to implore him not to end their marriage; when Alison sneaks a look at his wallet and sees a photo of Keith and Lily in happier days (and in leis), her resolve to stay with him grows weaker still. But will Keith's magic penis overcome her doubts again? Matt finds a lawyer willing to take his wrongful-termination case, but struggles to come up with the $5000 retainer she requires. No one he knows has that kind of money except his pretty homophobic dad, who might prefer that Matt just endure whatever indignities come with the "lifestyle" Matt has "chosen." Rhonda finds someone to rent Sandy's old room -- Carrie, played by Rae Dawn Chong! -- only to discover that sharing a househo

Apparently what everyone was toasting in the last episode was Donna agreeing to let Dylan pay Mitch to build her an online store, because now it's actually getting close to launching, and everyone is mad about it. Janet's mad that Steve went behind her back to invest $10,000 from an inheritance she didn't know he had, and worried about what it means for their relationship that he's hiding money from her. David is mad that, when a model flakes on the website photo shoot, Camille agrees to model the clothes herself and...looks hot in them? And Donna is mad that, when she dumps Mitch for being too clingy, he holds the website hostage until she agrees to go out with him again. Meanwhile, the plots involving series latecomers continue spinning their wheels: Matt is still determined to lie to Kelly about his desert cheating, and Noah is still pushing Ellen into embracing sobriety rather than let her figure it out at her own pace. However, once she has more than one day, she risks changing

Having decided at the end of the last episode that she is fine fooling around with a married man, Alison figures there's no reason she shouldn't let her friends, neighbors, and boss all about Keith's situation, and is unpleasantly surprised when they don't all agree with her that he's great and so is their relationship. Affected by their judgment, she decides to ask Keith exactly what it means when he says his marriage is "dead," and isn't comforted when (a) he doesn't really have an answer, and (b) the other person in that dead marriage phones in the middle of their argument. Alison has a lot to think about!!! Getting gay-bashed after bigots catch him in an extremely chaste hug is only the start of Matt's ordeal: the uniformed cops at the hospital are brusque; the detective from the hate crimes unit makes him tell the whole story again; and when his boss hears what makes Matt's assault a hate crime, he suddenly questions Matt's therapeutic practices and whether Matt is the ri

Donna is saving tons of money on sales tax by buying fabric and other materials online, but has she ever thought about opening her own website to sell her designs online?! She's hesitant about the financial outlay not just to promote the store with banners on search engines, but also to...actually manufacture and stock the items they'd be trying to sell. Camille brightly says that's why Donna shouldn't even consider spending her own money on any of this stuff, and instead should solicit seed money! It's a hard no from Donna, which is of course why Camille ignores her and goes straight to Dylan to pitch him on investing in the venture. Donna lets Dylan talk her into pitching her that night, and she does come around (not just to the idea of a website, but also to dating David's designer friend, Mitch). Meanwhile, David picks a fight with Camille about having gone behind Donna's back, but is that even what he's actually mad about? Speaking of mad, Kelly notices that Matt's been in a cr

A chance encounter with Keith, a guy tabling on Melrose about marine ecology, leads Alison to an environmental lecture...then drinks.....then dinner.........and then some pretty polished seduction for someone who says he just got out of a very long-term relationship and has probably slept with fewer people than Alison has. Billy suspects Keith is too good to be true, but could Billy possibly be right? He's certainly wrong about personal finance, as we learn when he investigates his many failed credit card applications and finds out he has bad credit. But what could a recent college graduate who, until recently, lived with his parents have possibly done to make himself such a bad risk? Prepare to learn all about what passed for "crippling student debt" back in 1992. Jane decides it's time for her to lose the last five pounds she put on during her pregnancy, because surely that will remedy whatever lingering feelings of dissatisfaction or vague sadness are continuing to plague her -- you

Lonely Donna is increasingly frustrated by how much sex everyone around her is having: not only must she listen to Kelly's sex squeals, but when she tries to drown them out with the radio, she hears Camille calling in to David's dumb radio show to tell him all about her fantasy about having sex in public. She thinks she's successfully box-blocked her by loading her up with after-hours work at the store, only to come back in later and discover that the public sex location these two boobs have chosen is her store. Donna is more upset than ever to have David's relationship with someone other than her shoved in her face; Camille points out to David that the reason Donna's having such an outsized reaction to this is that Donna herself is into David. Will either David OR Donna accept reality and stop this pantsing around (as it were)? Speaking of Donna's exes: Noah shocks us all not only by going to an AA meeting but remembering a lot of information about Ellen, one of his fellow Friends

Can it possibly be time again for another roommate spat between Alison and Billy? Already?! It is. This time, Alison gets snippy about Billy violating her privacy, and given that she catches him capering around the laundry room modeling one of her bras for Jake (and...not in a sexy way), we kind of have to take her side. But Billy is convinced that there's something more under her rage beyond the obvious. The Mancinis are getting ready for Jane's first ultrasound, but Michael's mean doctor boss won't take him off the roster for a surgery that conflicts with her appointment, leaving Jane alone when her OB/GYN gives her some terrible news. Afterward, no one can get Michael to talk about his feelings -- not Jane, but not even Michael's best platonic pal at the hospital, a certain Dr. Shaw. HMMMMM. We discuss "A Promise Broken" in our latest podcast! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bo

Dylan doesn't kick Jack out of the hotel before finding out that he's there because Kelly got in touch with him; he's in Los Angeles to try to see what kind of relationship he and Dylan can have. Dylan's still pouty, and resists, but can't really stay that angry, which leads Jack to hatch a brilliant plan: what if Dylan entered Witness Protection with "Eddie"? Or, better yet, what if Jack left the program, hired a full-time private security team, and tried his luck with the various underworld reasons whose desire to kill him are the reason he went into the program in the first place? MUCH TO CONSIDER. David has, very improbably, been recruited for a radio job in New York. Camille is pretty sure their month-long relationship won't survive the distance, and Donna isn't ready to say goodbye to her very platonic friend and nothing more. Ryan's still trifling around Los Angeles, but with Noah's help he hatches a new plan for the rest of his life: he's going to become a bar back!

Production on the pilot is over, so now the cast must wait to see if the network is going to pick it up. A lot goes on during their forced idleness: Shay tells Brian that, thanks to the DNA testing she had done on the sly, she knows Zach is not related to him biologically. Jennie finds out that Wyatt is maybe waaaaaaaaay too into her. And Shannen rescues a possum! Will our gang get to keep working together, or will Fox put its support behind a revival of The O.C. instead? We discuss "The Long Wait," the season finale (which...may also be the series finale), in our latest podcast! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers ge

The sets burned down! No company will insure the production! Fox has opened an HR investigation and LAPD is looking into who might have a vendetta against the cast! When she's not accusing one of her former love interests of various felonies, Tori's freaking out about shooting a love scene, Brian's messing up his relationship with Zach, Gabby's still not sure where she falls on the sexual spectrum, and Shannen can't stop rescuing strays who...turn out to belong to Tori, actually. Will this pilot ever get off the ground, and is Jason in the right frame of mind to give it the attention it requires?! We discuss all of this in our podcast on "Picture's Up"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀

Anna's pilot script lands with a wet thud at the table read, even though she's watched every episode of the original series twice! (Amateur.) The members of her cast disrespectfully announce that they're going to scrap the whole thing and rewrite it themselves -- despite the fact that none of them is even kind of a writer -- but since Ian has made it his project to win Anna over, he figures out a way to bring her into the process, secretly, and understand where they're all coming from. Meanwhile, Shay hires a PI to find out who leaked her unfinished song, and ends up finding out the extent of Zach's shadiness. But is he also the stalker who is continuing to menace the cast? We discuss it all in our podcast on "The Table Read"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord

Tori's wish to pay homage to the iconic "cuddle puddle" promo pic from the original show's second season runs into problems -- like a feud between Jason and the show's head writer, and a literal fire on the set. With Christine riding her to keep Fox's billion-dollar franchise on track, Tori must face her fear of confrontation, rise above Nate's doubts, and trek to Peru to retrieve the show's last holdout, Shannen. We discuss all this and more in our podcast on "The Photo Shoot"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES</b

Following her brilliant idea at the end of "The Pitch," Tori brings Jennie to pitch Fox on a Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot. They're ready to buy it in the room on the assumption that everyone in the cast wants to do it...so Tori has to convince everyone that they want to do it. Everyone has both demands and messy personal issues, so will Tori be able to channel her late father's producing talent and pull it off? Find out with our podcast on "The Pitch"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES <

All your (extant) old friends from the original cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 are back...to play heightened, "comic" versions of themselves. In some cases, the comedy derives from real issues they're facing, like financial difficulties (Tori), a shiftless husband (Tori again), and a widely reported fall into a hibachi (guess who). Others have made up fake problems, like being outshone by a famous wife who's a pop star (Brian) or getting cuckolded by a fitness model wife (Ian). Is it actually funny? Is it, if not funny, at least interesting??? We'll break it down in our podcast on "The Reunion"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ H

Billy has the bad luck to take a wrong turn in south central Los Angeles, get blocked in a dead end by a Cadillac full of toughs, and gets his cab beaten with baseball bats. He refuses to accept the cheery view of the situation as presented by the detective on his case, Alison, and all his neighbors, which is that he wasn't physically harmed; instead, he's focused on the part where the detective declines to give him false hope about the likelihood that the perps will be apprehended, and starts making sweeping racist statements about the neighbourhood where the incident occurred; challenged by Rhonda not to, you know, spew hate speech all over the courtyard, he refuses to back down and lies to Alison -- for the second time in two episodes -- to get her to lend him her car so that he and Jake can go vigilanting in hopes of bringing the cops a plate number. Since the episode is airing just a few months after the 1992 L.A. uprising, Rhonda is also moved to confront her own privile

Dylan and Steve haven't gotten anywhere trying to get information about "Eddie Waitkus" from his fellow airline passengers, so Dylan, unemployed Kelly, and client-cold-calling wash-out Matt all go to the airport to try to interrogate "Eddie's flight crew. One decides to ignore confidentiality and give Dylan a tip on the town in Arizona she's heard Eddie mention; Kelly poses as Eddie's wife to get a copy of the family's cable bill with their address on it; and Kelly and Dylan both go to stake out the house. But when Dylan sees Eddie/Jack come home to his loving wife and son, will he lose his nerve to confront his father about...totally being alive? Noah is slightly injured from his leap through the beach apartment window, and now sober enough to be embarrassed about it. While Donna continues monitoring his mental state, David monitors hers, and Camille gets increasingly irritated by the fact that this arrangement leaves no one to care for her. Steve's shitty brother Randy comes back for

Billy is drawn to the butt of a woman trying to fix her busted car. Her name is Dawn, and has more to recommend her than just her butt; Billy likes her even more when he finds out she's a standup comic, and drags his friends along to her bringer show. He's hinting around that he'd like her to invite him in when...the door opens and he sees why she's not: Dawn has a son. Billy gets way too serious way too fast, lying to Alison to get her to loan him money so that he can pass it on to Dawn to fix her car. Alison keeps trying to get Billy to understand there's more to parenting than taking the kid to Magic Mountain, but it takes him walking into the middle of a vicious fight between Dawn and her ex to make him understand she might be right. Elsewhere, when Jake expresses jealousy of Michael's marriage and imminent baby, Michael advises him about how to take it slow with a romantic partner. Jake thinks Sandy might be a good prospect...but is he right? Find out with our discussion of "Respo

A news report Dylan might never have even registered if he wasn't kicking Steve's ass at Rock And Roll Jeopardy so bad that Steve had to start flipping channels reveals something shocking: Dylan's dead dad Jack has an exact double, whose plane just had an emergency landing! No one wants to believe Dylan's suspicions that Jack might actually be alive -- not his friends, and certainly not FBI agent/Jack's former fiancée, Christine -- but Dylan can't let it go. David gets into a STUFFy situation with Camille due to a misinterpreted conversation about fur (really), leading him to panic about his sexual prowess (probably justified) in which he involves all his friends (not something Camille signed on for). At the same time, Donna is tanking her possible relationship with Beat printer Irv because she feels obligated to serve as Noah's one and only source of emotional support. And with just three days to work on the strategy to ensure that gay students' civil rights are violated in California

Sandy and Rhonda are goofing around trying on hats when Jackie Harris's boyfriend Fisher (where my Roseanne-heads at) happens by and finds her instantly irresistible. He doesn't seem to notice that they're not clicking and insists on following her back to the complex, where he continues being totally unable to pick up on social cues like what it actually means when someone declines further dates because her life is "really complicated right now." Then he shows up at the pool the next day and starts ingratiating himself to all of Sandy's roommates, who basically order her to give him a chance, up to and including when he starts leaving creepy messages on her answering machine. Jake, of course, decides that the solution is for him to insert himself (and his fists). While everyone else is refusing to pick up on warning signs that a dude is a straight-up stalker, Alison is in denial about whether she needs to get rid of her beloved old car, Betsy. (Yes, that's what passes for a B-plot at t

When we last saw Dr. Martin, he was lying on the floor at his house...and he never got up, because he was dead. Everyone is upset about it, though only Kelly and David manage to fight through their grief and concern for Donna to suggest that Gina killed Dr. Martin by making him exercise as though he, a CARDIAC SURGEON, wasn't sure how much exertion was safe for him. Between their shitty speculation and Kelly's accusation that Dylan took unnecessary risks during Noah's kidnapping because he was chasing an adrenaline rush, Dylan and Gina both decide they have no further need to remain in Los Angeles after Dr. Martin's funeral, and start saying their goodbyes. Matt's suspension having apparently lost him every last one of his clients, Kelly is more motivated than ever to sign on with the big PR firm our old friend Pia has been recruiting her to join -- and what luck, her first assignment is to work on a ballot initiative regarding gay clubs in public high schools, because surely any compa

Sandy does her mentor Charles Nelson Reilly proud by nailing her audition for a horror movie and booking the part. Naturally, her friends and neighbours are thrilled for her, but when she has to blow off their surprise party for a networking bash in the Hollywood Hills, everyone starts being a little less thrilled for her. Sandy's own excitement starts to ebb when she gets to the set and finds out the director wants to shoot her topless. Billy realizes he can't blow off his father's birthday party, largely because his sisters already decided to, so he tries to minimize the hassle his dad is going to give him about his career by bringing Alison (though he's also kind of forced to given that he's told his parents she's his girlfriend). Instead of standing firm with his father about pursuing his writing, Billy decides to honour the deal they'd made, and spend a year working in the family furniture store, though maybe his father wouldn't have pushed it if he'd known Billy planned to bitch

Since no one would have noticed otherwise, Josie has to come tell Dylan that Shane kidnapped Noah. And since Dylan is an idiot, he decides not to involve the police at all in delivering the full $1 million ransom Shane is demanding and co-operates with Josie in arranging for the handoff, because who could be more trustworthy than the drug dealer whose debt is the reason Shane needs the money in the first place? Donna lingers around the edges as Dr. Martin, freed by Felice's trip out of town, reaches out to Gina for the first time since Christmas. A dinner date gets awkward, but Gina and Dr. Martin keep trying; she's even calling him "Dad"! Surely their relationship can only keep getting better for the rest of one of their lives! Donna's much more involved as Matt signs himself and Kelly up for Lovers' Lane, a Newlywed Game ripoff with a cash prize of $25,000. Ill-timed food poisoning for Kelly requires a willing second to play her on TV, and STUFF ensues. David has th

When Alison literally ends a poker party by boring everyone with tales of her college cramming techniques, Jake is the only one intrigued...because it turns out he's about to take the GED exam and would like her help studying; he'd also like her to keep this whole project a secret from the rest of the nitwits in the complex, which of course means that when a bunch of them catch Alison coming out of Jake's apartment at 7 AM on a Saturday having fallen asleep amongst the books, they all jump to the wrong conclusion and Alison is too scrupulous to correct them. Billy and Sandy are united in not even caring if Jake and Alison are hooking up! They don't care at all!!! Rhonda is strangely ambivalent about attending a performance by a dance company featuring her old friend, Theresa. Matt gets the whole story over dinner with both of them: Rhonda and Theresa were both up for a spot in the company, but Rhonda broke her foot and missed the audition, and now she teaches Cardio Funk while Theresa

A visit from Matt's brother Patrick and sister-in-law Juliane couldn't come at a better time, what with both him and Kelly suddenly having so much time on their hands. But Matt's not exactly excited for their arrival, since Patrick's a big finance bro who's always been critical of Matt. Patrick might be easier to get along with now, though, since he needs to ask a big favour: he's sterile, and would like Matt to donate sperm so that Patrick and Juliane may have a baby. Do we even need to say Kelly is a bitch about it? Donna might not go so far as to say Kelly is being a bitch about backing out of the new lease on the store, but she's terrified about having to network on her own. Turns out she should be, since her instincts suck, and she ends up dating a nerdy buyer so that he'll order some of her new sweaters. David's having much better luck, connecting with a fashion journalist (improbably) profiling Donna. Meanwhile, Noah's still embroiled with Josie and her aggro brother Shane, who

Remember that super-hot chili dog seduction (https://www.againwiththis90210.com/mp103) Michael pulled off a couple of episodes ago? Well, it turns out that hot dog really made Jane lose control, because now she's accidentally pregnant. Attempts to warm Michael up on the idea of parenthood this early in his hospital internship fail, as he convinces her that they owe it to themselves to spend a few years fulfilling their own professional aspirations before adding a child to the mix, and she decides to find out what's involved in getting an abortion without ever telling him she was pregnant at all. In the process, she makes the mistake of telling Rhonda, who can't help opening her big mouth to Michael. Billy has, improbably, landed a column at a free weekly magazine (at $25 a pop: still seems high). Realizing he doesn't actually have any interesting life experiences to fill inches with, he decides to try bungee-jumping, forci

Donna and David, sick of being single, decide to try their luck at getting set up with people in Matt's Rolodex -- though Donna ends up passing when a random guy wanders into the store and asks her out. Have her romantic instincts sharpened during her journey of celibacy and self-improvement? Meanwhile, David's date, a lawyer named Chrissy, is everything he could possibly want in a woman, and he's so eager to open up to her that he tells her all about Matt's new client and the worker's comp settlement Matt is pursuing on his behalf. But whoops, Chrissy knows Matt is under suspension, and reminds him that she's on the bar association's ethics committee. Will Matt heed this warning, or is he guided by the same terrible judgment that got him suspended in the first place? Kelly is also in the middle of a career crisis -- the same one she's been in for months, not knowing if running a store is actually her passion, or if she just wants to hang around because she's not ready to start losing

Alison is getting into a flirtation with Rick (Gremlins's Zach Galligan!), the kid from the mailroom with the excellent taste in breakfast carbs. Except, he's not just the kid from the mailroom; he's also the son of a big D&amp;D sunscreen client. When Alison shares one of her campaign concepts over dinner, he can't resist passing it off as his own and defensively claiming to have had it before she mentioned it to him. Alison complains to a higher-up, who gives Alison a chance to present ideas with Rick -- and since Rick apparently doesn't have any ideas of his own, it's a perfect opportunity for her to shiv him. But will she? Jake, still (always) hard up for money, drops in on a fancy Italian café; while failing to learn how to use the espresso machine, he's accosted by Perry, a flame from his past. The two of them used to run short cons together, and it turns out she still is: she's passing herself off as an art dealer, and could use Jake as the face of her newest d

Matt and Kelly are joyously affianced for about five minutes before a crisis strikes: Matt's rich client, Mr. Behr, decides to settle his lawsuit, meaning he'll no longer need Matt on retainer. Unfortunately, Matt immediately turned around and spent that retainer on Kelly's ring. Gina, hired back on as Matt's assistant, goes to the only rich person she's still talking to and who'll give her $15,000, no questions asked. However, Matt's smart enough to figure out where she got it, and Dylan's smart enough to figure out whom it's for, and the dick-measuring contest has to go into triple overtime. What will Kelly do when Matt comes clean? And will Dylan get his shit together in time for Maddy's christening?! Noah and Donna are embarking on single life in rather different ways: Noah has made a whole new party posse and is drinking himself into oblivion nightly, while Donna decides to take David's advice and give Java Hut manager Mark a chance to take her out. Does their date end bitterly, w

After weeks of vacillation between pushing Kelly away and letting her hook him again with her youthful feminine wiles, Jake finally decides to cut things off with her definitively. Because it's a soap, this happens not with an honest conversation and/or appeal to the criminal code, but through moderate subterfuge Kelly might just be too inexperienced to see through. When Michael has to punk out on his plans to celebrate his and Jane's three-month anniversary (no) of moving to L.A. (why?), she lets her female neighbours talk her into enjoying a night out on her own. Alas, this soon escalates to a screwball plan to pass herself off as a single woman and prove she can still pick up dudes, in the course of which she loses her heirloom wedding ring. Billy has read about seven-figure screenplay sales and therefore abandoned his plans to be a novelist and written a script instead. Has he ever done so before? No. Is he still confident enough to drop it off with prospective agents the day after

Dr. and Mrs. Martin are, under some pressure from Donna, trying to integrate Gina into their lives -- which, in the immediate future, means their Christmas festivities. Of course she's invited to the family celebration on Christmas Day, but though Donna is hot for Gina to come to the Martins' big Christmas Eve party, her parents are still worried about how they'd introduce Gina to all their boring old judgmental friends. When Gina lets them off the hook by saying she doesn't want to attend, Felice finds her at the hotel to bust out the old checkbook and buy Gina a better attitude. At the same time, Donna is trying to forgive not just her parents' lies but Noah's, because it turns out his constant assertions that he's "over" causing the death of his fiancée aren't getting Donna there any faster. Despite her attempts to get herself out of it, Kelly is still in a love triangle with Matt, the steady lawyer who will apparently put up with all her crap, and Dylan, the hothead who'll punch a

We're so early in the run of Melrose Place that the Mancinis are having the kind of banal problems that any married couple might have: are they past the romance phase of their relationship? Can they survive the challenges of Michael's busy schedule as a doctor and an apartment building manager? Can he really have forgotten the moment he knew he was in love with Jane? As a counterpoint to how things are between partners who are settled, we have Billy, who takes a gig as a cab driver, where his very first fare is a woman named Marcy who has nothing better to do than hang out with Billy marveling at how much they have in common and imposing herself on his increasingly testy roommate. Billy very quickly moves from defending whatever he and Marcy have against Alison's judgmental glares to realizing that Marcy is way too into him way too fast. Jake is still unemployed, and taking his frustrations out on everyone within yelling distance, from Michael (who hasn't fixed Jake's hot water despite

Donna has managed to avoid telling Gina the truth about her biological parentage for days -- weeks longer than any dumb baby should be expected to -- and finally finds a quiet moment to get Gina alone and spill it. Gina is, of course, horrified; she tells Donna she hates her; tells David she wants to be alone; then tells Dylan she doesn't want to be alone. Dylan is in her room when David comes by, and when he stomps off in such a huff that both Gina and Dylan follow him to try to explain, David gets a little too physical than he probably should while he's anywhere near the valet stand. But David and Gina aren't the only ones Dylan's busting up: he also buys Kelly a painting she likes, sending Matt into more paroxysms of insecurity when he does a little investigating, finds out that it cost $16,000, and gives Kelly the 5000th ultimatum of their relationship. When Donna can't shut up about how important it is to be honest and not to keep shameful secrets, Noah finally admits that the rea

Beverly Hills, 90210's back door opens onto Melrose Place, a hip apartment complex occupied by a demographically diverse group of cool twentysomethings with gritty problems of the sort the West Beverly High gang could scarcely imagine. Jake tries his best to get rid of Kelly by telling her not that "dating" her would be a literal crime, but that he's stressed about where his next job is coming from. This doesn't actually work, as she continues stalking him until Donna, David, and Steve are all moved to follow her on her date (at Shooters, oy) to try to embarrass her into getting a grip. Alison, whose old roommate has fled in the night and stuck her with the whole month's rent, scrambles to replace her; circumstances (a bunch of terrible applicants) force her to accept her first ever male roommate -- aspiring writer Billy. Managing his guy-ness while also navigating the "mentorship" of a D&amp;D exec make this a very stressful few days for the pride of the University of Wisconsin. Round

Jackie and Mel's relationship seems to be over for realsies this time, and even though our main cast are all well into their twenties, almost all of them are affected. Matt is representing Jackie in the separation and custody proceedings, so he has Kelly in his ear trying to make sure Erin is shielded, as much as possible, from the fallout. Her general bad mood also has her bristling against her new roommate Noah and overreacting to his intrusions. Jackie also reveals that Gina was the one who told her about Mel's strip party attendance after he quit paying her hush money, which puts her on the outs with most members of the gang -- particularly David, who believes her denials until Mel confirms it. Dylan continues inserting himself into Andrew's career crisis, braying at community center co-director Patsy and trying to get Andrew reinstated by threatening to withdraw his financial support. Surprise! This makes things worse. Steve and Janet go on a STUFF-stuffed honeymoon, which (no

Everyone's in...kind of a bad mood. Kelly's pissed off that Mel's interest in exotic dancers has broken up his relationship with her mother, again, and blames Noah for putting strange breasts in Mel's eyeline. Dylan's annoyed that Andrew from the community center keeps bugging him to volunteer no matter how much money Dylan throws at him to shut him up; his attitude doesn't really improve when he and Andrew are beaten up by homophobes and Andrew won't let Dylan browbeat him into participating in the investigation because Andrew actually is gay, and isn't out at work And Janet's increasingly anxious about how far behind she is both in setting up the baby's nursery and planning her wedding. Steve comes up with an idea: he and Janet send all their friends on what they keep calling a scavenger hunt but is actually more of a treasure hunt; there's a party at the end that will roll up all the showers and bachelor/ette events they'd have to stage separately otherwise. Friction between partici

Faith has been part of Janet's upbringing, and she wants to continue the tradition with her own future child. A laudable notion, except that she and Steve have decided their child's godparents should be Dylan and Kelly, and don't withdraw the offer even after Kelly and Dylan pretty much openly act like they think the whole idea is dumb. Still, they do agree to go to Ojai to see Steve and Janet's future wedding site with them, meet Janet's pastor, and flirt with each other like we haven't seen them do in a while. At the same time, David's back in Los Angeles negotiating the sale of Steve's Corvette (so that he can start his new life behind the wheel of a minivan), and doing some flirting of his own with the buyer: a performance artist named Marta. Gina's also in L.A., accepting extortion payments from Mel in the form of vastly overpriced training sessions, until she overhears a phone call between Kelly and Matt in which Kelly announces that she's going to spend the night in Ojai with Dy

A convicted murderer is on his last appeal -- and apparently his legal fund is down to its last dollar, because he's hired Matt to represent him and get his death sentence overturned. Kelly is very supportive of Matt's efforts of behalf of his client until she finds out the man also raped his victim before killing her, whereupon she starts taking it personally, which she was already primed to do both because she is her and because her dead rapist's parents have recently visited her to forgive her, and to ask her to forgive them for raising a criminal who assaulted her. What are Kelly's principles? It's a fair question! (For which we don't have an answer.) Gina and Noah are still making tons of money with the Peach Pit After Dark After Darker, but at least one of their neighbours has determined that they're staying open two hours longer than is permitted, and before long, they're getting raided by the cops -- and on a night when Mel Silver is enjoying a lap dance, no less! Gina helps hi

Now that Janet's finally accepted Steve's proposal, it's time for them to tackle the matter they've been putting off: telling their parents all their news. The Sosnas are even less thrilled about Steve than they were before he knocked up their daughter; Rush is only marginally happier about it, though his acceptance comes with a lot of casual racism. Things come to a head at the couple's engagement party, where Steve's attempt to conceal his (absent) mother's sexuality by passing off her (present) girlfriend as his sister somehow backfires disastrously! Meanwhile, Matt and Noah agree that the generous play would be for one of them to move out of the Walsh house so that Steve and Janet can turn the emptied room into a nursery, but neither of their girlfriends is quite ready to commit to shacking up with them. David can't stop failing in his attempts to prove to Robyn that he isn't a trifling jerk -- that's just the guy he plays on the radio! A chance encounter with a strip club manager

Janet's "no" on Steve's shotgun marriage proposal apparently was not the last word on the matter. The guys (minus Matt) rally around Steve to try to workshop a proposal Janet will accept, while the ladies (minus Gina) urge Janet to change her mind. In the process, though, Matt reveals that he is kind of dubious about the whole institution these days, and Kelly is a bitch about it in multiple conversations and locations, including on the dance floor. Will Janet decide she can put aside her fear of Steve's special brand of messiness? Will Matt let Kelly beat him into submission on yet another issue? Matt and Kelly aren't the only ones fighting at the club: Donna runs afoul of Noah when she suggests he book a band without disclosing her personal connection to one of its members, while David's latest romantic prospect Robyn gets turned into radio content without her consent. Dylan decides his capacious hotel suite is too small for both himself and Gina, but the solution he comes up with to

Since Now Wear This has been closed ever since that homicide Kelly inconsiderately committed in it, the time has come for a big, splashy grand reopening -- which, due to reasons we never learn, Donna and Kelly have not decided to peg to the launch of Donna's menswear line. But never mind: "the buyers" from "New York" are coming four days early, so Donna's going to have to sew like she's never sewn before. Meanwhile, Gina is still holding a grudge against Princess Kelly, messing with her and Matt by "forgetting" to pass on Kelly's messages. Matt makes them agree to be civil for his sake, but Kelly makes that difficult by not learning her lesson and leaving a message on Matt's office answering machine about her growing doubts that running Now Wear This is where her career passions really lie. Obviously, Gina hears this before Matt does, and just as obviously, she "innocently" relays the news of Kelly's itchy feet to Donna to mess with their personal and professional relationship. Donna a

Steve has noticed that Janet's busting out of her bodices while also spending less time with him, and jumps to the conclusion that she's acquired some breast implants in anticipation of dumping his ass. Eventually she gets sufficiently annoyed with his hostility to admit that she's pregnant...whereupon Steve disappoints both Kelly's expectations and ours by acting like a real dick about it. It's also David's birthday, and for obvious reasons, Donna's left Gina off the guest list for the surprise party she's planning for him. (One suspects that Donna's come up with the idea of a surprise party at the club in order to force Noah to talk to her about logistics, if nothing else, but he's as sick of her shit, and her apologies, as we are.) When Gina finds out about the party, she assumes Dylan will also be sitting it out, and is stunned to learn that while the gang is punishing for boning him, they're not punishing HIM for boning HER. She develops a scheme to derail the party plans, which w

Time for the payoff of the Season 9 finale cliffhanger: yes, some of the bullets Kelly shot actually ended up in Joe, and he is dead. Everyone springs into action: Matt starts defending Kelly against possible homicide charges; Dylan starts getting defensive, somehow, about his choice to give Kelly an unlicensed, unregistered firearm that went on to be used to kill someone; and Steve and Janet start bickering about whether Kelly's rapist really deserved incarceration or death. The drama surrounding Kelly's arrest hasn't distracted David from his anger at Dylan, which leads him to kick Dylan out of their house and back into the Beverly Royale Hotel -- you know, where we all remember Dylan living in high school? When everyone sees Gina on a TV news report referring to Kelly as her roommate who killed someone (which is...literally what Kelly is), Donna adds that to her resentment of Gina for sleeping with Dylan again -- way to tattle, David -- and kicks her out of the beach apartment. Does

Kelly continues pushing down her anger and fear following her sexual assault, though it apparently helps her cope to keep the gun Dylan gave her in her purse. (And let's face it: if a mishap took out a Peach Pit After Dark patron, would it really be the worst thing?) At least Dylan and Matt are managing not to hold their pissing contests about which of them is better qualified to help her through this ordeal in her presence. Dylan's efforts at helping track down Kelly's assailant are interrupted by his conflicted feelings about the closeness growing between Gina and David, which he handles as expected, which is to say, poorly and immaturely. She doesn't exactly cover herself with glory either, but she does cover herself with...something! Noah finally figures out that Donna's hiding something from him and dumps her ass. While she's ignoring his calls, Wayne makes himself available, and one lobster dinner later, Donna's putting a third notch on her bedpost. The next morning, she's barely

A remarkable photo in the Beat draws the attention of the Chronicle's art critic. And since Steve is the photographer in question, he leans into his new status as an artist to impress Janet, ending up with more grass in his teeth than good shots on his film. Donna continues dithering between her lingering feelings of love (or obligation, depending on your perspective) for Noah and her burning lust for Wayne. But can she actually allow herself to try to separate sex from feelings? This is a question she keeps bringing to Kelly, despite the very obvious signals Kelly is sending that she is going through some serious shit right now. After taking herself to Cedars, talking to a detective, and going through a rape exam, Kelly tries to keep her assault a secret, but eventually cracks under questioning by Dylan. His efforts to support her only arouse suspicion from Gina, for obvious reasons, but also from David, who's now considering taking a run at Gina himself. The latest round of Dylan/Kel

As the Beverly Beat's mandate strays further and further from journalism, it seems Steve has stumbled upon a lucrative revenue stream: The Love Fisher, a computer program that matches singles with ruthless efficiency. First Janet gets curious about how much better the Love Fisher is at picking dudes for her than she is at picking them for herself; then it's Steve's turn to find out what kind of lady the computer thinks he should be with. Will Janet decide she's settled for a good enough guy, and will Steve cling to her for dear life? Noah has apparently transitioned into defending his dead father's reputation on a full-time basis, and is still being very snitty about it to Matt. Then Matt produces a fat environmental impact report which, when Noah reads it (lol, sure he does), convinces him that his father was a big scumbag after all. Speaking of scumbags: Donna is growing ever less certain that shacking up with Noah is the right move, so it's probably just as well that he has the laws

It's April 1999, so Steve has finally gotten around to knowing what the Y2K bug and spectacularly overreacting with his doomsday prepping. Is this a healthy response to a possible technological meltdown or, as Janet suspects, a pretext for putting off planning for their future together? Recovering sex addict Katie decides she wants to take her relationship with David to the next level after fourteen months of celibacy; David is so horny that he goes with it instead of considering the implications of what she's asking of him. An ex-colleague of Matt's dumps a toxic waste cancer cluster case on him, which Matt is able to pursue thanks to Dylan's generous backing -- even after Matt tells him one of the defendants is Hunter Oil &amp; Chemical. Noah's pissed. Then a series of farcical events leads to Dylan and Gina watching a nannycam video of an oblivious Matt and Kelly getting it on. Dylan's pissed. Dylan's attempts to get over his jealousy by staging an over-the-top date for Gina leads h

One of the most convoluted plotlines of the season encompasses the following: a legitimate chance encounter between Dylan and Kelly; the idiotic decision by Kelly, on the phone with Matt when Dylan rolls up, not just to say, "Oh hey, I just ran into Dylan!" and instead to say she's on her way to run errands; a tweaker trying to rob a pregnant woman in broad daylight at fucking Bristol Farms by taking her son hostage; Dylan's foiling of said robbery; Steve's decision to try to infiltrate a sex addicts' meeting to mine content for the Beat; Kelly's even more idiotic decision to tell a real reporter that when the mugger showed up, she was having coffee in her car with STEVE, who went on to save this stranger's life; Gina's need for Matt to represent her in contract negotiations over a commentator job at the Skating Channel. Plus: Noah has a half sister. We'll try to untangle the million knots in these plotlines in our podcast on "Local Hero"! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a h

A routine visit to her parents' house leaves Donna on the receiving end of a shocking announcement that, now that she's firmly in her mid-twenties, they feel certain she is strong enough to hear: they're getting a divorce. Like the rest of us, Donna is pretty sure it's Felice's fault, since she's been a nasty rag the entire time we've known her. But when Donna's attempts to pull a holy Parent Trap on them -- seriously, a priest is involved -- Noah journeys to the golf course to find out what's really behind Dr. Martin's restlessness. The complications of the Gina/Dylan/Kelly/Matt love quadrangle continues to metastasize such that this week it entails pool hustling, Olympic gold medalist housesitting, a chimney sweep, a hypnotist, and a mugger. (One of those is fake; try to guess which!) With Claudia returned to Venezuela, David has more time to spend on rehabilitating the career of a has-been DJ whose name is Sonny Sharp but who looks a lot like Shadoe Stevens. And when the Beat's late

Last time, Noah's inability to fill the club was pushing him toward financial ruination, but now everything's fine, and he and Dylan are working together amicably to promote an upcoming show by fictional artist Cole Younger with a raffle to win a date with him -- in his hotel room, creepily? Anyway, Dylan's first act as manager of the Peach Pit After Dark is to fix the raffle and award the date to Kelly, only to be outmaneuvered by Gina, who just poses as Kelly to claim it for herself. This causes a variety of issues: Kelly is pissed to have to give up her prize (which she knows is ill-gotten); Matt is pissed that she keeps talking to Dylan about it (and also that her attempts to change his image for an ambulance-chasing TV ad are secretly about her wanting to change him into her ex); Dylan is pissed that Gina spends the night in Cole's hotel room; and Gina is pissed that Dylan's uninvited trip to said hotel room ends in a physical assault. Are emotions running so high to ratchet up th

Since Kelly's extremely awkward relationship with Matt isn't taking up much of her time, she can seek fulfillment in other areas of her life -- like the store! Suddenly remembering that she's supposed to be in charge of business affairs, she gets the idea of hiring a publicist. Donna gets upset at the idea, nervous that taking any steps to push the business past "good" or fine" will lead to a level of success they can't rely on? It's confusing. But Kelly overrules her to throw a (re-)launch party to get press coverage and they both put on their dumbest outfits to co-hostess. Matt, for his part, still isn't sure he's ready to take back up with Kelly post-Lauren; will a couple seeking his help with a prenup make him more or less likely to believe in true love? Noah gets an offer from a restaurateur who wants to move into the Peach Pit's location. Though he wants to remain loyal to Nat if for no other reason than that he'd have to hear about it from Donna otherwise, he's also in the middl

Gina having learned that Felice is legally responsible for the theft of all her trust fund money, she takes the completely reasonable next step of pursuing legal action to recover the lost principal -- and Donna, who absolutely thought Gina should sue her trustee back when she thought the trustee was her bank, now takes it personally. (Present yet silent through all of this is Bobbi, the one who actually used all that stolen money for her own benefit, which is weird?) Donna doesn't love being in the middle of these warring family factions, which may be why she decides to get support through her ordeal from Noah and act like there was any ambiguity about the end of their relationship despite her having told him "It's over" in precisely those words. David is pissed that Donna's throwing him over again, but decides to get over it by following her advice and using his radio show to solicit applicants for the job of his girlfriend. Matt returns from New York to a fraught emotional situation

The Durnings having decided they'd prefer Lauren to be schizophrenia symptom-free in the short term than alive in the long term, they're going to ill-conceived lengths to try to track down clozapine without a prescription. Kelly, veteran of the Clinic Clinic, thinks she can help solve their problem with an illicit trip south of the border, and who better to bankroll the scheme and act as her bodyguard than Dylan? That Dylan's relationship with Gina is undefined at the moment makes him extra-flirty, and Kelly's confusion about where she stands with Matt (and his wife?) makes her guilty after she gives into her throbbing biological urges. Gina's got big plans to open her own gym, and while she's still too young to crack into the trust full of the money she earned figure skating as a minor, she wants to know how much there is so she can use it as collateral for a business loan. Unfortunately, her estimate is way higher than the reality. Has her unethical mother Bobbi been embezzling, or i

You may thing that "Beheading St. Valentine" will save you from any further angst in your relationship. Not in the zip! All the established couples start out cozy with a brunch at the Walsh house at which the reunited Durnings are holding forth about their marriage -- until Kelly shows up with a sleeping bag for Steve and makes everyone feel awkward because, you know, she obviously wasn't invited. Kelly continues whining about Matt to anyone who will listen, which ends up being Dylan and no one else, though she manages to listen to Dylan long enough to hear his yearning for purpose in his life and tries to buy it for him in the form of a vintage T-Bird like the one he used to work on as a kid with the uncle we've never heard of before. This makes Gina jealous for rightly assuming Dylan and Kelly are sniffing around each other again, even as she manipulates Noah into telling Donna what happened on the infamous Night Of The Photo Booth -- which, after a false start in which he suggests m

Steve's latest brilliant idea for the Beverly Beat is less about attracting readers and more about attracting gawkers, with "attracting" being the operative word: he wants to copy British tabloids by having cheesecake photos on Page 3 -- though at least he's not prepared for the Beat's models to be topless; bikinis will be just fine! To prepare for a publicity stunt announcing the initiative, he parks it in front of a sun lamp -- in the office, because why not -- which is when Janet notices an irregular mole on his shoulder. Facing the possibility that it could be melanoma leads Steve to re-evaluate his life and ponder what his legacy will be...for a while. Not long. When Donna finds the photo strip from "You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello," Gina leads her to believe that she and Noah did more that night than mug for the camera, and since Noah was wasted, he's not a credible witness in his own defense. Donna's anger leads her to accept David's request that she beard for him at his boss's par

A scandalous round of strip poker touches off a prank war among three of the gang's least clever members: Noah, Steve, and Donna. (David also gets swept up in it, briefly, but only incidentally; mainly, he's occupied chasing after a D-girl Peach Pit patron who may be trying to blow him off.) When the battle takes down a health inspector, Donna and Steve are forced to figure out at what point STUFF must give way to taking legal responsibility like adults. Dylan embarks upon his community service, where he makes a friend of a hardworking fellow parolee and a foe of their racist jerk boss. He's also on bad terms with Gina, who decides to make a stink about Dylan's attractive Narcotics Anonymous sponsor because how dare he seek advice or counsel from any woman but Gina? Matt departs Los Angeles for New York, where he spends time with Lauren, the mystery woman who called him "sweetheart" at the end of the last episode. Turns out she's his ex, recently sprung from a mental institution, and e

Having -- through sheer luck -- not killed Donna, Dylan decides he is ready to accept his friends' help in getting help for his heroin addiction. Unfortunately, he's not actually on Intervention and has to spend a night waiting for his bed in a treatment facility to be ready, which gives him just enough time to wake up in the middle of the night, pretend to take a shower, and actually slides out the bathroom window instead. During the manhunt, Kelly fights with Matt about whether she's actually in love with Dylan, and also with Gina about how much Gina is to blame for enabling his drug use; in both cases, Kelly is a bitch about it. Will Dylan survive to give his sobriety his best efforts?! Noah makes a match between up-and-coming pop star Clara and Donna, in the hopes that Clara will let Donna dress her for the BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS. Will Donna ignore her screaming self-doubts and come up with a gown that will get her good press?! Janet reveals not only that she has a dog, b

Dylan's junkie logic leads him to decide his roommate's order that he get his illegally purchased gun out of the home they share just means he can wait until dark, put it in his pants, drive it over to the Marchette manse, and threaten its occupant. Unfortunately, Tony doesn't live there anymore -- nor, spoiler, does he live anywhere -- and the freaked-out victims of his home invasion call his motorcycle license plate in to the cops, who quickly pick him up. Do they find his drugs on him? Of course they do. Kelly and Matt are already having tension around Kelly's very obvious ongoing lust for Dylan, and Gina's demand that Matt represent him doesn't help. Meanwhile, Gina's lust for Dylan makes her a likely mark for Dylan to manipulate her into sneaking him drugs. Dr. Steve's Art Of The Pick-Up students may not be able to get their shit together when it comes to hitting on women, but they are very organized with regard to the law: they all take Steve to small claims court to get their mo

We may not have previously understood how committed Gina is to the project of messing with Donna until this episode, in which she reinvents herself as a personal trainer and starts working out with...Felice. She easily parlays their new intimacy into an invitation to a George luncheon hosted by a not-yet-dead (but still completely offscreen) John F. Kennedy Jr., which she makes sure to tell Donna about so that Donna feels good and slighted. It's a good thing Gina has something else to focus on, because she's also just found out that Dylan is using hard drugs and is sort of trying to enforce healthy boundaries with him, but also, not really. Dylan isn't that interested in Gina because he's still focused on his dead wife -- even more so when he tries to go leave a bouquet on her grave, only to find it's not there anymore. The reasonable next step is, of course, to buy a gun through a random drug dealer and make plans to take it to Tony Marchette's house to encourage him to tell Dylan whe

The approaching yuletide holidays haven't given Dylan any more concern for either her busy schedule as the co-proprietress of a retail clothing store, nor for her relationship with a dude who isn't him. So with that in mind, of course he has no compunction about getting her on a private plane and flying her to Mexico for huevos rancheros, authentic sombreros, and a Mayan fertility statue into which he can stuff an extremely tiny amount of heroin. Gina takes a break from her suspicions about Sonia -- now working off her debt to Donna at the store (when she's not using the space to bone a dude after hours) -- to be jealous of the attention Dylan's paying Kelly and hang around close enough to swoop in as soon as Kelly tells Dylan she's not interested in taking him back. Gina's so willing to take Kelly's sloppy seconds that she even agrees to take exactly the same trip to Mexico Dylan took Kelly on and receive the gift of exactly the same Mayan sculpture, filled with exactly the same smugg

Kelly spent all of "I'm Back Because" -- well, all except when she was making eyes at Dylan -- getting between her mother and her grandfather, to make sure her grandfather's legally documented wishes with regard to the end of his life were being followed. So naturally, in this episode, all Jackie has to do is call and ask Kelly to put her failing grandfather on a ventilator for Kelly to utterly disregard her legal responsibility. It seems to be mostly so that she has something to do this week -- specifically, feel real bad. And also guilt Matt about his smoking. Gina decides there's no point continuing to try to break up Donna's relationship so she can snatch Noah up for herself as long as Dylan's around, kissing up to him with pizza and beer and trying to get details on why things between him and Kelly fell apart. Dylan barely has time to bother negging her given his busy schedule of mooning over the car his late wife was killed in. Steve continues struggling with the challenge of beh

Since Gina doesn't have a job -- or an agent, even, despite what she's told Donna -- she's got nothing but time to devote to the new project she's pursuing post-Cabaret On Ice: Donna And Noah On The Rocks. When she's alone with Donna, she diligently shit-talks Noah (not that hard, given his many failings) to try to change Donna's mind about making their relationship work. And when she's alone with Noah, she suggests reasons it's not worth his trying to get back into Donna's good graces, what with how demanding and spoiled Donna is. The antique tech known as an answering machine plays a supporting role in Gina's scheming, but will Donna and Noah's beautiful love story survive Gina's assaults?! Speaking of assault, David's still facing charges for statutory rape, though Matt can't quite devote all his attention to it while also dealing with his shaky finances. Stepping into the breach is Dylan, freelance investigator, who feels free to cast aspersions on Denise's sincerity and the elder

With Noah continuing his downward spiral of regret and self-recrimination following his father's suicide, it turns out not to have been a great idea for him to buy a bar: he's drinking a lot, and driving drunk, and maybe hitting someone? Donna's distracted from her usual fussing by the arrival of her cousin Gina -- former Olympic figure skater, current Ice Capade star, and [touches earpiece] I'm being told she impulsively quits the Capades in the cold open and sets to her task of running game on the gangsters. Yes, you'd think that Sophie's departure (http://previously.tv/beverly-hills-90210/beverly-hills-90210-lets-kelly-plot-to-steal-another-baby/) would mean that's Val's fault, but Val seems to be cycling nice: she's even planning to throw this year's Thanksgiving dinner at the Walsh house! Then Kelly finds a letter from Val, among Brandon's things, in which she counsels

It's time for Leah to have her day in court, and a custody settlement allowing Lenny basically unfettered access to their baby -- and, therefore, to Leah herself -- is obviously not the result she had hoped for. Enter Kelly, who's ready and willing to help Leah get out of the county on an assumed identity. Unfortunately for Leah, Kelly has no idea how to do any of that. On top of that, Noah's ongoing grief-induced self-destruction has Donna looking for comfort elsewhere, and since Matt is the guy she has her eye on, it's really cramping her style to have to cover for Kelly and Leah's shady plans with, you know, Lenny's lawyer. Speaking of Noah: he's still drunk and ridiculous, and now involving Val in his ill-conceived efforts at self-medication, including...illegal street racing? And despite all the time he spends with her, Noah fails to notice that Val's going through her own shit -- specifically, that she's determined to get closure about her father's death by turning herself in to

Sophie's multifarious strategy to take over the entertainment industry leads her to consider working in adult films, despite all the great advice David's giving her about being patient and waiting her turn and paying her dues -- you know, like he did, which is why he's currently having such a successful career scoring movies LOL. Noah continues grieving his father in extremely drunken ways, and continues rebuffing all Donna's efforts to get him to talk to her about it, instead opening up to the only person in his orbit who might understand how he feels: Val, whose father also killed himself...as far as Noah knows. About that: Abby still hasn't decided whether she really is going to follow through on her threat to turn Valerie in for her father's murder, and when Val asks Matt about it, his advice is pretty much "Hope she doesn't, idk." Matt is also dealing with a lot of judgment from Kelly for continuing to represent Lenny in his custody battle with Leah -- but never mind all that: Bra

We kind of respected Sophie for having some skill as a con artist, but she really loses a lot of her prestige with her latest scheme: getting Steve to let her write for the Beat. Over Janet's objections (which: that'll teach her not to require that Brandon designate her editor when he's out of town/on his way out the show's door), Steve not only gives Sophie a column in which she can apparently write whatever she wants; he also thinks said column should be adorned by her head shot, and that its début should be announced on the cover? David has a hard time being excited for her because he thinks she's just using Steve to get ahead (in the world of shitty weekly newspapers?), but he gets over it to have an even harder time boning her on the Beat's brand-new almost-live webcam. Noah has a typically healthy response to his father's suicide: driving not only drunk but whilst drinking. It's lucky for him that Donna's just happened to meet an attorney who's sufficiently broke to take on Noah

Noah's father having killed himself, a significant portion of the episode is focused on Noah's grief. This is bad news for Vincent Young, who can't act, and worse news for us, who have to watch him as he gets morbidly obsessed with his late father's weapon, drinks to excess, and pushes away the help of the only person who cares about him. (The only person who cares about him -- Donna -- at least gets to break up her worrying with some work drama from an assistant who's All About Eve-ing her.) Val may have reached some kind of peace with Abby, but that doesn't mean she's on board with Abby's plans to marry Carl: she accepts the gig as Maid of Honour and journeys with them to Las Vegas for the ceremony -- Kelly goes too, for extremely contrived reasons -- with the intention of entrapping Carl into proving he's the wrong man for her mother. Sophie continues checking items off the fame and fortune to-do list in her diary, though it would probably be a lot harder if Steve would actually hee

What's worse than surviving childhood sexual abuse from a parent who goes on to kill himself? When the primetime soap you're on is running out of ideas in its ninth season and makes you keep reliving it over and over and over again. Now, Val wants to tell Abby about the last days of Mr. Malone's life, but her attempts to get Abby alone for this rather serious conversation are immediately foiled when it turns out that Abby's brought her new boyfriend Carl to town with her -- and, it turns out, has told him a whole bunch of bullshit about exactly how she became a widow. Val remains focused on bringing Abby her radical honesty, though why she bothers at this point is anyone's guess. Some old bag on the Wyatt Foundation board has decided she cares more about literacy than she does about poor kids getting vaccinated or whatever, and the Clinic Clinic is at risk of losing its funding. Kelly enlists Brandon to write a laudatory piece about the Clinic Clinic for the Beat, and the rest of their

Brandon and Kelly mutually and amicably agreed to leave one another at the altar, and you know what that means. ...Oh, you do? Please tell them, because they're not sure. Kelly decides to invest a round of ex sex with meaning: she forgets all the reasons she and Brandon broke up, gets maudlin and regretful, and suggests to Brandon that they go ahead and take their honeymoon to Corsica together after all, leaving him to decide whether to go along with this to avoid confrontation -- you know, kind of like what motivated him to propose to her in the first place. When Val's HIV diagnosis leads her to attempt to live more honestly, David follows her lead, and discovers that the director who's been throwing him so much jingle work doesn't actually want to hear how David truly feels about doing work he thinks is beneath him. At the other end of the honesty spectrum is Sophie, who meets Steve while running a short con at Restoration Hardware, as one does, and parlays that into a place to live

It's the week of Brandon and Kelly's wedding, and preparations are underway: Steve is getting excited for Sarah to meet all his friends at the reception, but she might not be ready to keep seeing him because some other friend of hers is breaking up with her boyfriend and splitting up all their books and furniture seems like a big hassle, or something? Donna has somehow landed the job of wedding planner, putting her in constant contact with Jacob the caterer. He's way into her, and it's coming at exactly the wrong time for her, since it turns out Noah is one of those very interesting iconoclastswho thinks a marriage license is just a piece of paper and that people who are really in love don't need it. As all this is going on, it's becoming increasingly clear that Brandon and Kelly may not even want a piece of paper: are their nagging doubts about their imminent wedding just standard jitters, or are the starting to figure out, as we all did a long time ago, that actually they

Since Kelly and Brandon have decided they really are definitely going through with their engagement and will absolutely get married, for sure, they've divided up the list of tasks required to plan their wedding. However, questions about the guest list and wedding registry are interspersed with their interactions with Alex, who meets Kelly when he brings to the clinic the woman whose baby he just delivered in his cab. Before seeking refugee status in the U.S., Alex was a doctor in Sarajevo. He hasn't pursued certification in the U.S. because he's still grieving the loss of his wife, Katya, in the war -- but Brandon, Kelly, and eventually Janet ignore his stated desires and go hard in their investigation of proving to him that Katya is alive and reuniting them. Gwyneth's determination to pry Noah and Donna apart gets a boost when Noah informs Donna that she's going to put on a fashion show in two days, and Gwyneth somehow knows instinctively that she should seek Val's advice on

It's been a while since the show gave David something he could really be stressed out, so: time for him to get robbed at (possible) gunpoint while taking money out at an ATM. Noah's got the perfect solution: he should get a gun, like Noah did: he's got one behind the bar and one on his stupid boat! David starts the process, but he has to wait eleven days to take possession of his confidence and self-worth. Meanwhile, we don't have to wait long for evidence that Noah does need protection on his stupid boat, when he brings Donna back there to find a woman waiting to ambush them: it's his childhood friend Gwyneth, who arranged to visit as soon as she saw Noah in a magazine. Turns out it wasn't so that they could catch up: the article said Noah was single, and Gwyneth has designs on him. But Noah quickly cuts off her attempted kiss...and Gwyneth's night only gets worse from there, with an assist from drunk David. Val is contacted by a representative from the Red Cross, who tells h

Kelly's notions of feminism have, over the years, perplexed us in their inconsistency; "Skin Deep" compresses all her worst instincts and muddiest thinking in a single episode. Brandon has decided to write about the grand opening (heh) of Beverly Hills's first sex shop, which has already attracted protesters even before its manager has opened the doors. Among those protesters is Kelly, who is suddenly a sex-negative scold: she confronts Brandon in front of Steve and Muntz over the Playpenmagazine she found in their room; she tars all porn with the same misogynist brush; and she blames the unrealistic expectations it sets for women for her mother's decision to get a face lift and for Erin's choice of frozen yogurt over ice cream to avoid consuming empty calories. (Telling Erin she doesn't need to worry about that because she's thin is just one of many moments suggesting that Kelly hasn't totally refined her ideas about the male gaze.) The sex shop also comes (heh heh)

It's been five years since the gang graduated from West Beverly High, and since someone at the network presumably had the sense to predict that this crew wasn't going to make it to their ten-year reunion, we're made to suffer through their stupid, pointless five-year reunion. No, that doesn't mean we get appearances from Brenda, Dylan, or DeadScott's restless ghost; only Gabrielle Carteris had nothing better to do, so Andrea returns to let us all know she's desperately unhappy and that her marriage is on the verge of collapse. Brandon -- currently dating a woman who's already dumped him twice -- decides he's an expert on relationships (as well as everything else), and that it should therefore fall to him to bray her into making things work with Jesse. Among the many West Beverly alumni we've never seen before is Ross Webber, Kelly's rapist -- someone she identifies to Val but not to her "partner," Brandon. Donna accepts that Noah doesn't want to be her date right up until the

Somehow, a real journalist (named Peter Raitt) has become aware of Brandon's work in the Beverly Beat, and somehow, it's convinced him to partner with Brandon on a story about a proposed football stadium. Brandon is so busy sucking up, he doesn't notice that Kelly is in the midst of a crisis regarding Chris, an intellectually disabled man who works the night shift at the clinic but may have to give up his job now that his mother's work schedule has changed and she can no longer drive him. Kelly gets way too involved, ignoring Chris's mother's warnings about his capacity and the stress the busy day shift will cause him and basically ruins everyone's life, again. Val has nothing but bad news to dish out this week: first, that David the idiot hasn't set aside enough money to pay his taxes; and second, that the bracelet Noah gave Donna is paste. (One of these is, of course, actually fun.) And Jill and Steve are, against all reason, still happening. We can't believe it either, as y

We all know that Brandon considers his job at the Beverly Beat a waste of his prodigious talents -- so much so that even after publicly reaffirming his commitment to it in the last episode, he's already prepared to edit the Beat on the side while joining the Los Angeles Chronicle as a reporter on the Metro desk. Somehow, despite being a journalist ostensibly focused on local news, it has entirely escaped his notice that the Chronicle's reporters are striking, and that Brandon is only being offered this job because the paper needs scabs. Certainly we've always thought of Brandon as a scab in the sense that he's the unsightly result of a wound, but is he the other kind too? Val and Kelly are horrified to discover that their unattached parents are actually serious about dating, and briefly join forces in order to try to reverse-Parent Trap them into breaking up. Though Noah might have had cause to believe his plot to buy Donna success as a fash

So Kelly was all about getting that confused teen mother, Leanne, to take back the baby she abandoned at the clinic. But when that teen mother, Leanne, let Kelly know that, actually, leaving the baby was the right call, Kelly decided that, actually, Kelly should foster the baby...which is why, when Pam tells her that, actually, her agency has found a pair of qualified foster parents to take the baby, suddenly Kelly is a homophobe who doesn't think a baby should be raised in a household without a mother. Brandon doesn't necessarily agree, and lets her know in the form of a cover story in the Beat, which alerts Leanne to the baby's fate because Brandon doesn't have the sense to use a goddamn pseudonym. So then Leanne wants Kelly's help to recover the baby so that he isn't raised by "queers," and Kelly has to face her own bigotry when it's looking back at her out of Jessica Alba's face. Also Kelly's father's out of prison and dating Val's mom. Brandon a

Brandon already took a giant dump all over journalistic ethics the last time the Beverly Beatchronicled David's music career, but that was when it was on the rise: perhaps Brandon's now trying to balance the scales by exploring the fallout from David's decision to pursue Jasper's Law's record deal minus...you know, Jasper. It seems as though Jasper knows what's behind The Rise And Rise Of David Silver, though, so Brandon must pursue the allegation that David's stupid song got so much radio play because of Frank's payola on his behalf. There's more going on at the paper that doesn'tinvolve publishing stories about current events: Steve's also convinced himself he's in love with a woman named Jill after reading her half of her correspondence with some guy named Ted who gave Terri the wrong forwarding address. Kelly's latest professional overreach involves her trying to reunite an abandoned newborn with the teen mom -- Jessica Alba! -- who left him at the clinic

In show time, Noah raped Valerie less than a week ago, so of course, now they're in court as Val pursues her civil case against him. Val's lawyer is confident that the facts make Noah a poor defendant -- the poor little rich boy who got drunk and had sex with a woman who wasn't his girlfriend (anymore) -- but Noah's lawyer knows some things about Val, like that she faked a pregnancy before Noah even knew her, and got arrested for bookmaking in the extremely recent past. Reputations are tarnished on both sides, but all the character witnesses on Noah's side may not be able to counter-balance the damning testimony Val's counsel gets out of Josh. Donna is also very interested in getting in touch with Josh, because she's got cascading deadlines at work, she's already hoovered all the pills her dad prescribed, and she's jonesing real bad. David takes a break from failing in his career to fail his newest friend Jasper: the record label is only interested in David, but is David interested in

When Val makes a charge of rape against Noah, how do her friends react? Well, inasmuch as they are generally terrible friends to her, they're pretty much all awful. Kelly is sure Val's only in it for the payday. Steve ties the incident back to her fake-pregnancy extortion scheme. Brandon's not sure what to think, but believing a woman isn't exactly his default position. Donna actually manages to give Valerie the benefit of the doubt, though it's hard to know whether that's because every boyfriend she's ever had has cheated on her, or because of the pills -- which Josh is now helpfully supplementing with uppers. Brandon and Steve find time away from Valerie's legal issues to seek out some of their own -- specifically, by asking Steve's cop friend Tammy and her partner Glen to take them on a ride-along so they can do an extremely biased story about it for the Beat. The experience teaches them the shocking fact that sometimes police officers use excessive force, but not

It's Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: romance-related STUFF! Everyone wants to throw their single friends at Steve and Brandon! In fact, Steve ends up with too many bebs! Brandon's not interested, though, because he's still hung up on Kelly, despite the fact that things are progressing between her and Dr. Jeff -- progressing right into a hotel room! But will Kelly be interested in spending the night in it with him after he informs her that he's received a job offer in San Francisco and basically tells her to tell him whether he should take it and go, or turn it down and stay with her? As bad as some of these Valentine's Days are, though, the ones in the A-plot are worse. Donna gets David to help her pick out a stereo for Noah as a Valentine's Day gift as though he can't afford to buy a thousand of them for himself, but her plan to hide from Noah the fact that she and David spent an afternoon together is scuttled when the two of them get in a minor car accident. Noah's alr

As if there weren't already enough reasons to be appalled by both the American health care system and the American carceral state: "Crimes And Misdemeanors" introduces us to Andrew, a recently released convict (as a teenager, he killed his mother's abusive boyfriend, only for her to testify against him) who can only be treated at the Clinic Clinic and thus has no choice but to have Kelly Taylor inviting herself into his personal affairs. Specifically: when Dr. Jeff tells her Andrew's back story -- literally; the reason he's come to the Clinic Clinic is back pain from a beating he took from fellow inmates -- Kelly decides to involve Brandon, recommending that he write a piece about Andrew for the Beat so that someone will understand his plight and offer him a job. Will Brandon impress Andrew with his journalistic activism or piss him off with his ineptitude? (You can probably make an educated guess.) Brandon also gets embroiled in Steve's efforts to hook them up with a cute Pea

The premise of our latest A-plot seems to be that Kelly, Brandon, and Steve are having trouble getting through their current romantic woes because they just can't get any perspective on them. Never-before-seen characters to the rescue! At the clinic, Jeff -- and, for some reason, Kelly -- treat Ellen, a teenager who's gotten chlamydia whilst cheating on her boyfriend. Hearing Jeff lecture Ellen about how important trust is in the course of telling her why she needs to tell her boyfriend about her STI convinces Kelly that she should trust Jeff enough to tell him how Brandon broke her trust. (And honestly, if things progress between Jeff and Kelly at all, Val really deserves a thank-you muffin basket for pushing them together with all her self-interested meddling.) Steve's been bumming everyone out at the Beat office to such an extent that Brandon decides Steve should be the Beat's newest unqualified writer: he urges Steve to use his KEG conne

The spirit of the Minis will live on in the main episodes but, alas, will no longer be released as individual episodes. Here are the last two Minis followed by an archive of all past Mini episodes. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com

Kelly having FINALLY been forced to confront the extremely obvious truth about Brandon and Emma's "affair" and dumped him hard, the parting of Mr. and Mrs. The Gang has ripple effects on their friends (and poor Janet, who probably thought she'd accepted a job at a professional workplace where people keep their personal shit at home instead of screaming at photocopiers). Val, improbably assigned to atone for her bookmaking by doing community service at the Clinic Clinic, immediately starts seizing every available opportunity to keep Brandon and Kelly apart -- and with a new, young doctor having just started his rotation, opportunities are all around her. Donna, reeling from this latest evidence that love isn't real, vents to Noah and discovers his attitude toward Brandon's infidelity is that she should just get over it. But Steve doesn't have much time to devote to the breakup of his best friend and his first love because he's got his own problems -- or, rather, Carly does: her dad has

After Emma lets it be known that she has tape-recorded evidence implicating Brandon in...her pants, Brandon finds himself in a quandary about how to proceed. Will he follow his own counsel and confess everything to Kelly in a sincere and searching WordPerfect doc? Will he heed Steve's advice not to say anything? Will he fail to correct Kelly's misapprehension of a phone call she overhears between Steve and Emma that convinces her the philanderer is actually Steve? If your answer to all of the above is "Brandon will definitely do the shittiest thing he can," you have obviously been watching along with us for lo these seven and a half seasons. David quickly learns that there's a downside to the life of a critic: answering for your challenging opinions to the artists whose careers you might hurt. But since David is actually the frustrated artist, maybe he and stage-frightened Jamie will be able to make beautiful music together -- at least until Val gets the club shut down for using it as

After the Christmas party massacre, Kelly continues dealing with Dr. Monahan's retaliation against her -- which is lucky for Brandon, because now that he's finally had sex with Emma, she's decided it's her turn to get up his ass, constantly dropping obvious references to their illicit coitus which Brandon makes all the more obvious by tensing up about them. How far is Emma willing to go to get Brandon away from Kelly? Further than anyone else who's ever boned him could possibly imagine. The Val/David/Donna/Noah love quadrangle continues to irritate everyone in it (plus the rest of us), and relations between Noah and Val aren't likely to get any friendlier once Nat's old frenemy Duke returns with a new face and a new plan to make money off the After Dark's Sports Night. Finally, production costs have apparently required downsizing to the tune of Carly's house, so Carly and Zack move into the good old beach apartment, where Zack gets right to work improving upon Donna's fashion

Marvel at the fidelity of Brandon Walsh: it's taken him two and a half episodes of flirting with Emma to lower his defenses...and pants: yes, Emma finally succeeds in seducing Brandon -- although, really, is "succeed" the right word here? Brandon is consumed with guilt, but Kelly still has no idea, perhaps because Kelly's still dealing with Dr. Monahan and his roving Monahands. With Kelly's time at the Clinic Clinic winding down and her attempt to address Dr. Monahan directly regarding his harassment, she tries to raise the matter with a superior at the Foundation Foundation; will right win out over rape culture? The answer won't surprise you. David continues intervening with his work colleague Ben, trying to reunite him with his estranged parents for the holidays and even listening well enough to Ben to figure out when he's making shit up to try to be noble (and escape David's attempts to fix his life). Donna -- truly Santa's brightest and orangest little elf -- does her best to get N

Kelly has so much going on, you guys! She's still 50% of the workforce at the Clinic Clinic, still fending off advances and innuendoes from Dr. Creep -- and now, on top of all that, she's also coming out of retirement to model for Donna! She's just so busy that she doesn't notice how much Brandon and Emma are flirting with each other, and how little they're bothering to hide it! Oh well. One of Val's new initiatives for the club turns out to be a comedy night, and apparently the venue has such a bad reputation that even in one of the country's comedy capitals, the talent is so thin that Noah and Val have to recruit Steve to perform. Speaking of performing: Val's putting in a bravura turn as someone who wants to bone David, achieving the desired result of making Donna and Noah jealous. When not helping Val slam her bed frame into the wall, David starts his shameful car wash job, simultaneously starting his career as a homeless gay kid's guardian angel. We discuss it all in the

David having stomped out of the club in a fit of pique and left Noah to deal with it, Noah gives himself a one-night trial run and decides that he sucks and hates it and that despite his differences with Val, he should take her up on her offer to return as manager. This complicates things for him and Donna, since Donna's not trying to get into another relationship with someone Val will be constantly needling her about -- though she's also sick of David's trifling ass freeloading all over her apartment eating her food and screwing up his new job at Khaki Nation. Brandon and Kelly are busy working on their relationships with new people: Kelly with Dr. Monahan at the Clinic Clinic, who's maybe not quite the saint she thought when he first met him; and Brandon with Emma Bennett, a hot new freelancer he's trying to recruit for the Beat. With Steve's paternity drama behind him, he can resume trying to have sex with Carly, though the demands on Carly's time are about to increase, mea

David's mood dramatically improves as soon as he decides that his mysterious loan shark angel must be Donna...and predictably darkens when Val returns from her low-cut sweater-clad recon mission to tell David that the person he actually owes his fingers to is Noah. Then he tosses one of his hobo rags onto a space heater in his office and starts a fire, so things are bound to get better from there. Somewhere in the midst of his ongoing crisis, he finds time to try to drive a wedge between Noah and Donna by telling her that he's actually loaded, because you know how much people hate it when they're starting a relationship with someone and then find out they have a lot of money. ADA Mills continues putting pressure on Brandon to reveal the source of his article on Riggs, and Erica's finally warmed up to him enough to suggest a cunning plan. Steve continues impatiently enduring the wait for the results of his paternity test, with Rush eventually joining Carly in promising Steve that parent

Donna having kicked his ass out of the beach apartment over his cheque fraud, David decides he might as well also confess his financial idiocy to his father. Or, rather, to confess most of it: while Mel swiftly recommends filing bankruptcy for the sake of David's creditors and even gives David the money to replace what he stole from Donna, there's no line item in Mel's plan for paying back David's loan shark. And yet David is extremely blasé about keeping all his fingers intact, finding time to pack up his shit when his repayment is already a day late, and taking a morning off to go down to Donna's job and pick a fight over Val's report that she spotted Donna and Noah on the Martins' boat, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Brandon and Kelly resume looking for Erica now that she's stolen everything of value from the Walsh house and fled back to the streets, but things get more complicated when (a) they meet her roommate and fellow sex worker Julie, who may have problems so big even they can't sol

The show that not only can't get back the opening-credits cast members for very occasional cameos but can barely even remember the characters they played ever existed is, in its eighth season, reallyimposing on the viewer's patience by bringing back Dylan............'s sister Eric for the first time since Season 5. And she's gone through some changes! Like, she's changed into a completely different actor! Also she's a streetwalker now. (Did Noley "Original Erica" Thornton quit the biz? Did her parents refuse to let her play a sex worker? Did the show just fail to meet her quote? We don't know; if you do, please tell us.) After Brandon and Kelly have a chance encounter with her at her corner, they embark upon a mission to rescue her from the life, whether or not she's actually ready or willing to go along with their plans. David still can't work money: literally at the moment Donna's opening her bank statement and discovering that her boyfriend embezzled from her, said boyfrien

You know how David's been having money issues all season? Well, it turns out solutions like closing down the club for a week and trying to make a racist band happen haven't actually helped, and now shit's really dire: he's at immediate risk of eviction, which somehow doesn't induce a bank to give him the loan he's applied for! Noticing the corner he's painted himself into, David gets really desperate, and makes a decision that's really dumb. He also skips a big fundraising ball Kelly's Foundation Foundation has thrown, but it's probably just as well: no one there has much fun -- particularly not Val, when both her beaux show up, and this time she can't wriggle out of their finding out about each other. Donna manages to line up a new client who's less interested in having Donna shop for her and instead sets her to organizing a séance. Also, Kelly and Brandon can't stop boning in public and we are furious about it. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href="http

As Kelly heads out to start her job at the Foundation Foundation instead of taking several more weeks off to think about how she betrayed Brandon by failing to corroborate his pick at the police lineup, Brandon continues riding Detective Woods about the single biggest crime in Los Angeles for which justice has yet to be served: the case of no one making Brandon feel better. And when he's not on the phone, he's having more flashbacks about his failure to prevent Kelly from getting shot. He's a lot of fun! Speaking of fun: Donna still hasn't backed down on her judgment of David's bigoted clients, including when they attract the interest of a record label A&amp;R guy who's ready to sign them to a five-figure contract. What better time for the band to escalate from conversational racism to songs that advocate full-on race war? Donna can't focus entirely on David's problems, though, since she has to deal with the fact that she's lost all her clients...or is it that Val's stolen them? Donna

When Brandon, the august editor of the Beverly Beat, finds out that his developing story on sweatshop labour at a local apparel company implicates the former owner of his publication and its current publisher's father, he reaches out to a colleague at another publication to cover it without being accused of a conflict of interest. Just kidding! He sends Steve, not a journalist, to get the truth out of Rush. Fortunately for everyone, Donna's source is able to stop by the office to speak to someone about her experience, and crying women are Steve's Kryptonite. Elsewhere, David is having a harder and harder time ignoring how racist the band he's managing is; Val and Noah are still being extremely annoying in whatever passes for a relationship between them; and when Kelly fails to identify Brandon's shooter at a police lineup, Brandon is extremely understanding about it, jk lol he's a bitch about it. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 <a href="https://againwiththispodcast.c

Donna's publicist David will be the first to tell you that Donna graduated at the top of her class at CU with a degree in Fashion Marketing. And yet at no point in her four years of college did it ever come up, in any of her classes, that the fashion industry is built on unethical -- indeed, immoral -- labour practices...or so we must surmise based on her naïve reactions to everything going on at Soho Mix &amp; Match. Did the non-native English speaker protecting her boss from accusations about its apparently underage employees know she's entitled to earn a minimum wage in this country??!!?!? Since Donna doesn't get very far, it's up to the Beverly Beat to break this story -- something everyone who works there is extremely qualified to do. Elsewhere, Val gets possessive about Noah while blowing off a guy she knows to be a millionaire, and Kelly tries to force herself to love Brandon the way everyone keeps telling her she should. We discuss it all! JOIN THE AWT CLUB<

As Kelly starts the slow and agonizing process of trying to recover her memory after suddenly developing amnesia, Brandon does his part by being extremely territorial about a woman who remembers zero things about him. Helpful! Elsewhere, Steve seems to think his ill-conceived plan to become a sports agent is going to impress Carly so much she drops her objections and starts dating him; and when Donna starts her job as a fashion executive's personal assistant, said executive's pooch Goliath has no choice but to run away from all her STUFF. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest o

Kelly got shot, which you think would consume all her very best friends' time, energy, and focus, and yet: when he's not picking Kelly's shooter out of a lineup with extreme (misplaced?) confidence, Brandon's fielding calls about job opportunities; Donna's taking interviews; Val's still hitting on Noah (but then again, it's hardly as if Val cares whether Kelly lives or dies). Don't worry, though: Kelly may say she's sick of talking about herself, but before the episode's done she'll have come up with another way of turning everyone's attention back where it belongs. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With

Our remaining characters have all graduated CU. Now what? Well: everyone needs a job except for David (running the Peach Pit After Dark into the ground) and Kelly (somehow: she's going to be working at a Foundation that, let's hope, isn't actually a cult). Naturally, therefore, they all decide to join Donna for her first assignment as a fashion stylist...in Waikiki! Where they run into Brandon's ex-girlfriend Tracy, and have a marine meet-cute with fifteenth-generation Dylan photocopy Noah. Along the way, some models almost drown, Steve gets a terrible sunburn, and David slides into a lagoon and a near-death experience. Will Steve even make it home to continue witlessly hitting on single mom Carly? We discuss it all on the podcast! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord <p

It's time for the gang to graduate from CU, but of course the path out of post-secondary education can't be smooth -- and the fact that half their parents aren't even bothering to attend (we wish we'd thought of that) is just the start. Steve attacks his trust fund-free future by...planning a senior prank and fighting with Clare; Donna once again questions whether she actually should just bone David and this time might actually mean it; and while Val panics about the loss of her life's savings, Kelly spitefully decides to make her life even worse by insisting that Brandon kick her out of his parents' house, like immediately. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ <a href="https://ag

In Season 7's penultimate episode, Donna finally sits her exam for the dreaded Prof. Langely, promptly chokes, and then does a piss-poor job of asking for another chance; Steve is shocked to learn that Rush has no intention of giving him a sweetheart job as a junior partner (of/in what?) since they've never actually discussed it at any point, ever, and learning that Clare's considering moving to Paris with her dad doesn't improve his mood; and while Val continues working Parker Lewis for access to Bill Taylor -- who's now actually touched down in Los Angeles -- Kelly is shocked to learn that her dreams of biological motherhood might never come true, and barren crones Sarah and Tara try their best to empathize with her situation. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord �

Clare has the dead mom blues when Mother's Day rolls around; Val, David, and Donna love-triangulate again -- this time at the direction of Val's new financial advisor who is definitely totally not trying to steal all her money; and Kelly and Brandon agonize over a pregnancy scare, which is understandable given that one of them already talks like a baby. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this

When Samantha and the Chancellor run into relationship trouble, Clare blames Steve, because that's reasonable; Val and Kelly get the Hawaiian flu, a side effect of which is apparently explosive retcon; and when David brings Donna for a whirlwind night in New Orleans, he finds out the hard way that he didn't need to pack condoms. (Hee hee. "The hard way.") JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on

While Kelly tries to mend fences with her re-boyfriend's roommate, said roommate Val is at the beach reading her journal, and there's also something about a kids' entertainer with a magic wand, and an accidentally stolen electric car, and if this all sounds like a confused mess, that's because it is. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.c

A KEG/Alpha talent show (yes, really) is the location both for Clare's triumph over stage fright, and for Felice to set herself up for more of Donna's disapproval; and Brandon dumps Tracy to reunite with Kelly -- though it's not going to work out if Val's schemes and an antique form of communication technology have anything to do with it. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's

David plays on his history of mental illness to manipulate Donna throw Donna a memorable date on a heretofore nonexistent anniversary; Rob's movie is so bad he's prepared to move to another time zone to get away from it; and Mariah comes to town to push Brandon toward Kelly and then peaces out before she has to face the consequences of her meddling. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this

Alan and Val's Cold War escalates when the former hires a starlet to replace the latter as Rob's date for an industry party; Donna battles her mother over the location of Dr. Martin's post-stroke rehab; and Brandon brings Tracy to Hong Kong to see what it's like to be vaguely disappointed by her on a different continent. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWith

As Val gets closer to Rob, his agent Alan gets territorial; Brandon and Steve both suffer through the hassle of their girlfriends expecting their respect; and while Kelly continues trying to reunite Joey with his family, Donna responds to the crisis of her father's sudden stroke by turning on David and telling him he caused it. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on Agai

Steve half-asses a school assignment that at least has the sole benefit of making Tracy horny; Kelly meets and almost immediately betrays a runaway; Val has a meet-VERY-cute with an up-and-coming actor; and Donna hears the tale of her grandparents' brief and tragic marriage, giving both Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green the chance to play WWII dress-up. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found

Kelly and Clare try on bad Slavic accents to mess with a couple of Chads; Donna continues juggling two dudes, to both dudes' controlling dismay; and Dick gets thrown off his Horse...permanently. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Ryan tests all our patience with a sex story; David and Donna's love quadrangle gets ever pointier; the wrangling over Kelly's engagement ring leads into unexpectedly putty-faced, badly-accented places; and Val and her mother finally clear the air about Val's father's suicide. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <

David and Donna might be headed for their 500th breakup; Steve, a college senior, finally hears tell of weed; and as Tracy careens toward a gigantic Valentine's Day disappointment courtesy of Brandon, Valerie's mother comes to town to give Val PTSD. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https://imgur.com/a/sznpS

Whatever Val and Tom are doing, Tom's not interested in doing it anymore; Clare goes to childish lengths to keep Steve's mom from stealing the Chancellor from her; and Garrett Slan is finally vindicated when a totally other guy takes the CUTV newsroom hostage. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https:/

Steve and Clare ponder cohabitation; Donna tries taking legal action against Garrett Slan, which David undermines with his ineffectual macho bullshit; and when Kelly takes up with Tom to spite Val, Brandon also gets annoyed, which also stresses out Tracy. (Remember her? Brandon may not.) JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a hr

Tom and David bro out over the Peach Pit After Dark's Super Bowl party while Steve and Dick develop a football-based fundraising scheme because 1997 was the first year Fox ever got to air the BIG GAME; Brandon and Tracy take a drive out of town and try out being boring on a ranch for a change; and Donna gets increasingly anxious about who her stalker might be while no one takes her seriously, and hey, it's probably nothing. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 <a href="https://againwiththispodcast.com

Tom tries to prove himself by bringing #1 artist Donna Lewis to the Peach Pit After Dark, though David has his doubts; Donna Martin embarks upon a new career as a fashion-focused meteorologist, immediately attracting unwanted attention from a mysterious creep; and Steve's stint on the maintenance crew puts him on a collision course with a homeless student who somehow has the leisure to engage in pointless mischief. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 <a href="https://againwiththispodcast.com/beverlyh

Steve and Donna both learn the pitfalls of entering the workforce, from sexual harassment to preventing some old bag's death; Val's 'first' arrives from Buffalo and revives some of her worst memories of her late father; and when Mark and Brandon both apply for the same scholarship, Kelly is a bitch about it. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com

As Christmas comes again to Beverly Hills, Tracy and Brandon are still boring; Steve and Clare introduce his mom to her dad and almost instantly regret it; the Martins and the Silvers get together for holiday cheer and world-class passive-aggression from Felice; and Kelly meets Joy, the sister Bill kept secret from her for...sport? JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on Ag

Kelly tries to make her friends (and us) care about Mark's birthday; Donna and David's reunion keeps running into obstacles; and Brandon is One Angry Man at the CU honour tribunal. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Mark and Kelly's attempt at a sexy getaway is ruined by a lot of diarrhea; Steve confesses to Brandon that he got him in trouble with Professor Randall...again; and David's butterfingers at the Good Old Student Union earn him a psych hold. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check o

Brandon picks up a stray redhead, who makes him realize he's still not over his old blonde; and the rest of the gang heads to Vegas to ignore the plentiful signs that David is in a mental health crisis. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Kelly fails to drive Mark away by telling him about her past; Steve is still pulling (get it) for Clare to ditch Dick; and while Kelly dimes out Val to Brandon, David's impulsiveness continues to worry both his father and the hapless ex said father guilts into babysitting him. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="h

Steve stalks Clare, but like, romantically?; Brandon resists Tracy's come-ons because he plans to take his pants off for the whole newsroom; Mel is concerned that his recovered drug addict son may not be responsible with a six-figure inheritance, and David is a bitch about it; and when Steve very innocently asks Kelly to look out for Val during her abortion ordeal, he just sets her up to find holes in Val's story. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 <a href="https://againwiththispodcast.com/beverlyhi

Val continues trying to get Kenny to participate in her extremely real, definitely not fake pregnancy, while the rest of the gang get up to their old tricks at and around the After Dark's Hallowe'en party. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

While Val is busy using the nuclear option on Kenny, the rest of the gang are at Mark and David's housewarming party, trying not to get burned alive and/or save wildlife from getting roasted. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

David shows up to facilitate an Olympian's cameo; Kenny continues jerking Val around -- or, if you believe him, continues joking "Mom" around; Kelly tries reconnecting Jimmy with his faith, because who wouldn't like to spend his last moments on Earth in shul; and Donna and Steve engage in very different kinds of Greek baloney. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on Aga

Poor Val continues getting jerked around by Kenny and his 'strings'; David's loserdom gets leaked to his dad (good job, Donna -- seriously!); Brandon meets an aspiring female TV anchor and immediately gets her drunk; and Kelly learns a tough lesson about being careful around blood. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a

Amazingly, getting dropped by MZA doesn't improve David's attitude toward Donna; Val discovers Kenny may not be as 'separated' as he gave her to believe; Kelly gives a person with AIDS the gift of her friendship; and while Joan and Nat lumber toward the altar, Brandon figures out that her daughter is the kind of dancer who's never done Swan Lake. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this ep

While Val and Kenny get close enough to share confidences -- and for him to give her a personal cheque -- everyone's getting bummed out at the Beach Club reunion for a serious injury Steve committed against Kelly that has somehow never once come up before. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https://imgur.com/a/

Steve and Clare are consigned to a nonsense plot about airport STUFF; Val starts working with a finance guy to get the Peach Pit After Dark Bar Rescued; Donna and David's collaborations ALL start to fall apart; and Brandon brings his enlightened attitudes toward race to Hadley City, Texas. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com

Erik the management company dude sleazes around all the gang girls; Susan dares to have more sense about her career than Brandon, and gets brayed in the face by guess who; and Prince Carl takes advantage of the good time he's showing Steve for his birthday to go on his way to steal his girl. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.c

While Steve continues convalescing with his broken jaw, Prince Carl continues putting the moves on Clare; Colin proves he's the world's worst fugitive; and Ray comes back to town to put strain on Donna's relationship with Joe...who's keeping a pigskinned secret of his own. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https://

Brandon and Susan get involved in lottery STUFF (and don't worry: she ends up apologizing); Prince Carl continues hanging around Los Angeles and sniffing around Clare; Joe wonders what more there is to him than his rapidly ebbing football skillz, but Donna's too busy with her career as a video producer to be much help; and Colin decides to reward Val's faith in him by going on the lam. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Ful

Steve is thirsty for the attention of a literal prince Clare knew as a kid; Colin finds out he can't actually take his lawyer's plea deal STRAIGHT to the bank; PowerMan 5000 ruins yet another relationship; and Tara decides if Kelly won't be her friend, she won't be anyone's friend ever again. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com

Steve and Clare's plot gulag forces them both to get exercised about a scarf; Brandon gets his most improbable job offer yet; and while Donna and David strike a match, Tara's crazy gets a makeover! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

The gang couples' SPRING BREAK camping trip finds the guys tempted by a trio of trampy Canadians; Colin's dad comes to town to terrorize him, while Colin's dad's guide dog Heidi is just there to be a very helpful, VERY GOOD girl; and Tara starts ratcheting up the crazy by expertly driving a wedge between Kelly and Greg. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on Ag

Steve's terrible decision to throw a KEG party at the Walsh house has Kelly flirting with two exes and a future prospect; Tara creepily spying; Colin spending a few of his remaining precious hours of freedom with a bunch of idiots he hates and who hate him; and Austin getting waaaaaaaay too drunk. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com

Joe actually has his heart surgery, not that anyone cares anymore (including Joe himself?); Clare and (mostly) Susan unleash an unbearably twee plan to rekindle Joan and Nat's love affair; Kelly gets sprung from rehab and Tara is NOT happy about it, while Colin whines a lot about jail as if there's any universe in which this isn't ALL HIS OWN STUPID FAULT. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode no

Steve's latest STUFF involves a motorcycle for some reason; Joe's heart now involves his brother Hank; Kelly finds out that Colin and Val are an item (though Colin's about to moot that, spoiler alert); and Susan brings Brandon home to disappoint her mother. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https://imgur.com/a/

Joe's heart has Donna seeking cures she saw on television; a ski slope tries to kill Brandon (and Susan is, unfortunately, also along for the ride); and after Kelly goes to rehab and dumps him, Colin waits approximately ten minutes before trying to replace her with Val. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="h

Joe's heart gets him some special attention from his coach; Steve and Clare make a game of Sex Out 1996; Val has to come clean to David about Ginger's short con; and Kelly breaks in a new coke dealer...or maybe the other way around. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this e

Ginger returns to the zip to run a new scam on Val; Joe's heart continues failing; and Kelly's erratic behaviour and reckless stash storage draw more attention to her drug mania. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Elle returns to be problematic AND hit on Chancellor Arnold; Colin and Kelly try sobriety; and Susan has mixed feelings about an award nomination for a very personal essay about abortion. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Steve and Clare join the other bozos in comedy traffic school; Joe's heart is the cause of a fight between Susan, Brandon, and journalistic ethics; and Val figures out before anyone else that Kelly has joined Colin in his illicit snowdrift. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this

Joe finds out there might be more wrong with him than an old ankle injury; Steve (and Roger Corman) play Cupid for Nat; Brandon is still a bad boyfriend; and Kelly's dad is still a bad dad. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Having fled the gang for San Diego, Clare 'gets' the pleasure of hearing exactly how her friends' New Year's Eves all got ruined -- and so do we! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Colin gives himself a white, powdery Christmas gift; Steve's relationship with Rush undergoes a major evolution; and Cindy questions whether she wants to stay married through the 1990s. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Steve tries working for a living after Rush gets him a job working for a hard-charging lady talent agent; a charity casino night reignites Brandon's issues with gambling; and Donna, after meeting a black kid, decides she knows how to run his life better than his mother does. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="http

Everyone puts on their most serious outfits to watch Joe and Ray (but really mostly Donna) battle it out in court, while Val's gossipmongering causes trouble for Brandon, Kelly, and...Erin?! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

The gang's latest Thanksgiving involves a stultifying cocktail party at Chancellor Arnold's, some depositions in Joe's assault case, and a willful misreading of Kelly and Brandon's...mostly platonic interactions. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Vis

Brandon tries to work through his heartache over Dylan's departure through writing, because Susan isn't right about everything; Steve and Val engage in parallel capers, but only one involves a wardrobe from Frederick's Of Hollywood; and as Donna advances to the Rose Court, Felice finally confesses her darkest yet Rose-iest secret. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's p

Dylan and Toni make it to the altar, and their wedding night, and their first brunch as a couple. After that, things get a little less rote? JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

While Donna tries to help Ray by joining him at therapy and learning more about his own abusive childhood, an earthquake shakes disaster fears out of Colin and Val, a baby out of some lady in a hotel elevator, and a proposal out of Dylan. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check o

It's Hallowe'en again, which means that Toni and Dylan are discussing her father's possible murder of his and Ray is a creep, except now there are also costumes and creepy decorations. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Steve and Clare's First Time goes awry; Donna quontinues her quest to be Rose Queen; Claudia and Kelly face off for access to Colin's wang; and Val struggles to stick up for herself with a sexual professor. Sorry -- sexual harasser. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this

Dylan works Toni enough to get a sit-down with Tony; Steve finds a new sideline for Brandon to make some fast, filthy cash; and a road trip that was already bad thanks to Val's inviting herself along gets worse thanks to Clare's bad shortcut, leading to some divine intervention. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="htt

Toni tries getting closer by having all his friends she barely knows over for a weird dinner party, while David and Val deal with their feelings about Sheila's attempted suicide -- or, really, kind of don't. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

While Dylan continues romancing Toni Marchette away from the rest of the gang (good move), everyone else gets swept up in the flurry of excitement surrounding the Tournament Of Roses, from tryouts for the Royal Court to the ball that gets David out of playing cards with his mom. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com <p

Steve and Clare's relationship reaches a new level -- pupil and tutor; Dylan finds out Tony Marchette's child is actually a GIRL with exceptionally good skin; Brandon meets a [gasp] feminist and immediately pisses her off; and Kelly strains to prove she's not jealous that Val met Colin years before she ever did. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPo

Dylan takes a big step forward in his campaign to take down Tony Marchette while everyone else worries about making sure Queen Kelly has the Dave Koz-iest birthday any twenty-one-year-old ever had! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Dylan enlists Kelly into his crusade to avenge Jack, which is complicated by the fact that she's got a new boyfriend; elsewhere, everyone's throwing parties that get very badly fouled. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Season 5 ends with the gang in Palm Springs, where Steve dabbles in transphobia, Kelly and Brandon don't really settle anything, Brandon ponders boning Val, and Ray's abusive tendencies...escalate. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Andrea and Jesse prepare to head east and out of our lives forever; Donna starts to wonder whether her relationship with Ray is healthy; and both Kelly's dudes start giving her the hard sell, forcing her into a momentous decision we all remember so well. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https:

Clare and David refuse to let Val forget they know Her Secret, while Brandon gets cocky about his CU re-election campaign, and Dylan takes a journey to his past life as an Old West outlaw, yes really. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Andrea and Jesse ponder an actual job offer in Idaho; Charlie fails to arrange a devil's threesome with Dylan and Val; Ray returns to L.A., where LuAnn gets drunk and WAY too chatty; and when Kelly's Seventeen cover finally comes out with her pre-burned neck, she remembers Alison exists. (Too bad for Alison.) JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast

Dylan ventures further into his past (lives); Brandon gets faced by a teen genius; and the Peach Pit After Dark tries to come back from the brink of failure by throwing a hip hop night, and bringing Ray back from the road (...and into Val's pants?). JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check

Val ventures way outside the mainstream by contemplating a tattoo; Dylan takes his first tentative steps into past life regression via hypnotherapy; and David finds out that he really should have kept in better touch with his mother. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out

As his father gets back together with Kelly's mother, David dreams that he has a chance of reuniting with Donna; Andrea's love life ends up back in the ditch; and every nerd's favourite game show is sullied by Brandon's attempt to get on it. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check o

Before Andrea can make any big confessions to Jesse, he hits her with one of his own; Dylan learns more about Charley's screenplay project and tries to resist the appeal of Val in her business suits; and Clare and David enlist the rest of the gang to make like The Real World for a school project that accidentally finds them...getting real. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's pa

Jackie and Mel may be up for a reunion tour; Andrea GRAVELY misreads the progress she and Peter are making as a couple; and CU's campus rapist is revealed! It's...not who you didn't think it was. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Andrea flirts hard with Peter, and even harder with getting caught; Val's pursuit of Ray takes her into Amanda Woodward territory; and when someone starts stealing bikes and raping women on the CU campus, Brandon is very...irritated by the unfair demands this makes on his precious time. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼

Andrea steps up her adultery by getting a job at Peter's hospital (though what choice did she have; it's the only one in town); Val embarrasses herself and the rest of us by clinging to Ray of all people; and Dylan dangles his newly recovered millions in front of Finley in a short con to extract Kelly from the New Evolution. Finley'll never trust externs now! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be foun

Steve goes on a Stuff-y pursuit of long-forgotten musical trio Jade (?); Andrea and Peter nearly touch fingertips right in front of their spouses; Val uses her recent windfall to move out of the Walsh house and into a hotel, the better to seduce Ray in; and Brandon starts to figure out that Finley might not actually be a regular teacher at all! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this

Andrea inches ever closer to playing doctor with Peter; Ariel returns to court a musician Donna likes; Val talks her way into a post-Punta Brava payday; and Kelly ponders closing her circle to Brandon. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

While Kelly grows ever more suspicious of her extern boyfriend, Dylan reunites with Jonesy for the last phase of Operation Get Back McKay Cash. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Tensions run high as the Peach Pit After Dark prepares for its grand opening, while Kelly is the easiest mark ever to stumble into a cult meeting, and Dylan and Brandon face consequences for careless peeing. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids<

Andrea reunites with her laundromat lothario; Donna keeps trying to make Ray's music career happen; Dylan has his offscreen day in court; Kelly ends up in Valerie's debt; and Steve...meets an old person. It ends badly. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Vis

Christmas comes to Beverly Hills, and it's a grim one: shady international treasure hunting plans are hatched, a bribe is attempted, Kelly still can't shut up about her four square inches of slightly pink skin, and even Hannah can't be cool with Santa. God bless us, everyone! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com

Donna gets exposed again to Ray's scary Rayges, and Jesse represents an impoverished client on child endangerment charges, but does anyone have it worse off than negligent party promoter Steve or very slightly burned Kelly?! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode

Brandon skips Steve's latest rave for a reunion with Emily, which is probably just as well since everyone there is about to catch fire. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Dylan makes a salty new frenemy in rehab, while the ongoing challenge to Brandon's presidency might actually keep him from attending a Rolling Stones show!!! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

While Dylan continues drying out at the hospital, everyone on campus makes sure you know exactly where they stand on controversial African-American speaker Roland Turner -- except Brandon, who only has convictions when the Chancellor tells him to. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https://imgur.

Spending time inside the mind of a comatose Dylan is so tedious, you'll welcome the interruptions of Steve's flag football tournament. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Dylan submits to an intervention from all his closest friends except the ones who weren't invited, after which Donna takes Ray to the Martin manse to meet the parents, and Kelly embarks upon her career as a teen model. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual A

It's Hallowe'en! Donna's forced to choose between Plane Boy and Pumpkin Boy; Clare and David chase aliens; and Brandon tries to help Dylan out of his downward spiral -- though not especially hard. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aid

Donna continues juggling her two goons; David breaks Clare's bed (and in a very unsexy way); Kelly clashes with Jackie over Erin's modeling career, believe it or not; and Val puts Dylan's financial issues on blast to his very worst enemy. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out

While Andrea has a laundromat meet-barf with Howdy Derpy, Donna starts to have misgivings about Ray and his giant knife (not a euphemism), and Brandon has to decide who's right about a controversial Asian leader or possibly dictator -- a nonpartisan human rights group, or the guy's best friend: Chancellor Arnold. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.co

Steve gets the idea of throwing raves after hours at the Peach Pit (yes, really), while his quasi-girlfriend really needs to watch her pot smoke and shoe choices around Kelly; Andrea gets a hemorrhoid about Jesse flirting at work; and Donna meets a construction worker whose grim family poverty has even deprived him of the full complement of letters his surname should contain. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes c

As Brandon mopes around following the death of his former nemesis, David and Donna work on replacing one another, and Val sinks her talons a little deeper into Dylan (and his hard-boiled eggs) (not a euphemism). JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Brandon is a pisspot in a run for student government he seems to think he's doing under duress; Val hooks Dylan by showing off how good she is at both pool and sex; and Clare...snores. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Felice's fancy fundraiser is ground zero for Dylan learning about Kelly and Brandon's new couplehood, while Val continues figuring out which guy to pursue and Donna messes with Texas. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Brenda's replacement arrives from upstate New York while Brandon and Kelly slowly start telling everyone about their relationship, Dylan mopes around Mexico, and Andrea bores everyone with her now-born baby. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check

Andrea gives birth to a babylet; Ariel gets a mouthful of David's hot dog; Kelly and Brandon get together; Dylan and his money are wrenched apart; and BRENDA LEAVES US ALL FOREVER NOOOOOOO IT'S TOO SOON!!! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode'

Andrea's baby-related agita is no competition for the drama on stage at the CU auditorium, or between Dylan and Kelly. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Andrea gets some bad news about the last three months of her pregnancy, tee hee hee, but the worse news is for Brenda: the whole school thinks she boned Roy Randolph to get the lead in the play. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

While Clare embroils Brandon in her teenaged shenanigans, Brenda gets bitchier than usual in pursuit of the role she thinks is hers. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

CU's production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof has catfights breaking out all over, while Clare tries to take down Brandon (sexually) with every weapon in her (sexual) arsenal. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Steve happens to wander into a gay coffee house just in time to spot KEG president Mike Ryan. Steve then...proceeds to do everything wrong. Speaking of doing everything wrong: David, getting a talent crush on his new plano teacher. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode

The chance discovery of an old diary in her window seat sends Brenda into an extremely detailed fantasy about the late '60s residents of what we now know as Casa Walsh for an episode that's hard to (Summer Of) Love. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's

Brenda deals with the legal consequences of her impetuous decisions; Brandon and Josh continue battling over the longest-gestating student newspaper profile of a total nobody the world has ever known, and Steve's dad cheats at golf, IF YOU CAN EVEN. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="https://imgur.com/a/PK12Q5z"

While the Kelly/Dylan/Brandon/Lucinda situation resolves itself -- though not before people come to blows (and not the fun kind) -- Brenda becomes a voice for animals, with disastrous results. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Two couples turn into a love quadrangle -- thanks a lot, TASK FORCE -- while Donna and Brenda are exposed to the animal rights movement through a lovable mutt with a really dumb name. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

Steve takes over Andrea's dorm room; David keeps his drug-addict hands busy with a rented piano; Stuart and Brenda realize it was maybe okay that they spent three months apart; and Brandon finds someone willing to pretend to be his Task Force date so that Dean Trimble doesn't think he's gay or something in one of the show's weirdest storylines ever. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on thi

Things progress between Brandon and Lucinda; Andrea gets a whole new Grandma Rose just in time for her wedding; David's drug life goes down the toilet; and for no reason STUART'S BACK?! JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids

David's need for drugs leads him to creativity we've never seen in his music; Andrea struggles with what to do with her giant baby; and Brandon tries to convince everyone he's totally find with Dylan saving the Peach Pit instead of Brandon himself. JOIN THE AWT CLUB 🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes 💬 Access to the AWT Discord 🚫 Ad free episodes 👯‍♀️ High rollers get access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on AgainWithThisPodcast.com 🖼️ <a href="htt