I have finally finished season 4 and moved onto season 5. There is a much darker style apparent from the very first scene. It's like someone told Spelling that he had to stop that flat lighting. It's strange, lots of shadows and the hotel rooms are filmed dimly for a séance scene. The season 5 opener also features Gary and Jack Ewing. Ted Shakleford as a man that has murdered his wife, or so he thinks. And Dack Rambo as a date/love interest for Christine... Oh Yea, I forgot to tell you.
See towards the end of season 4 Christine's long lost love returned from Nam, even though Nam finished in 1979, and this must have been like 1987 or later. Just go with it. This long lost love, Gary, is a naval officer. So he wears his white naval uniform all the time. Even on dates, which is weird. Anyways he really starts putting the moves on Christine, which makes Peter question what he wants from her. He realises after a time that he wants her bad, bad enough to propose. Which he does.... And inexplicably Christine turns him down. I mean he bought a gorgeous huge ring and everything. So she turns him down, and for no real understandable reason. And then all of a sudden they aren't dating each other and she's back at her apartment. In the season 5 opener we have two Hotel employees we have never seen before discussing all of this in case you forgot.
So now Peter and Christine are back to torturous square one, where they aren't dating but instead look longingly at each other and do nothing while they date other people. Truly horrible.
However the best, most exciting thing that has happened so far is that Alexis Colby's penthouse apartment has just shown up on Hotel, as a restaurant. Not unlike the one that was on The Colbys. It's definitely the same set. There is a band playing in the little alcove where her dinning table was. With that slopped window above. Christine and her date have dinner at a table right in front of Alexis' bar which has been redressed. And Gary Ewing has dinner with a psychic medium on the little balcony that overlooked Alexis' living room, right in front of her spiral staircase.
I'm so chuffed to find this set has had so much life. Even more so if we are to believe that it is indeed a redo of the Art studio. I wonder what it initially started out as?
I will try and figure out a way to do a screen grab from my crappy laptop.