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Seeing as the Third Season, Vol. 2 DVD installment of Dynasty involved a character getting nothing less than a face transplant (!), there was really no way for both the Fourth Season, Vol. 1 and this Fourth Season, Vol. 2 sets to be anything but at least a little bit of a letdown. Yes, the cattiness of the show is (somewhat) intact, and there are enough love triangles to start up an entire new branch of Euclidian geometry (I'm not sure how I feel about a math joke in a Dynasty review, but let's go with it...), but this writer felt less giddy camp-induced glee this time around than last.

Don't get me wrong - Joan Collins, John Forsythe, and Linda Evans remain an unholy triptych of smarmy, night-time soap opera terror on the show, but this writer found himself constantly waiting for Dynasty to outdo itself. I mean, come on: After you write a face transplant into the narrative fabric of your series, it is incumbent on you to keep the ball rolling, right? But where does one go after a face transplant? Teleportation? ESP? Alien invasion? The mind reels...

In any case, when we last left Dynasty, Steven (Jack Coleman), a gay heir doing what he can to keep face with his big secret trailing him, was preparing to marry the lovely Claudia (Pamela Bellwood). Well, turns out that while the lovely couple are back living in the family mansion, Claudia is a little batshit crazy, which makes things that much more difficult for poor Steven. Joan Collins' delicious Alexis character continues to plot the ruin of everyone she doesn't like, as well as taking on new gentlemen callers quite frequently (she hits the sheets with both a beefcake bodyguard and a neighboring oil baron on these episodes). And of course there are other divorces and affairs and lovers' pacts that end up breaking - this is, after all, Dynasty. And even if it doesn't fire on all cylinders on this new DVD box set, a little loveplay and secret hanky-panky never hurt anybody.

This Fourth Season, Vol. 2 set is nowhere near as wonderfully outrageous as seasons past, to be sure, but the truism remains: Once

Dynasty

hooks you, you're unlikely to completely break away - and this is what has happened to me.

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