Just A Little Red

This includes the second Super Thriller of the series, which was also the first Sweet Valley High I ever read. Ever! The beginning of my very guilty pleasure all because of that book… (Episode 53) 😉

Season 3: The Perfect Size 6 (Continued)

Episode 52 – “Family Secrets”: The twins’ cousin, Kelly, is moving in with the Wakefields for awhile. Kelly’s mother is getting remarried and Kelly is having a difficult time adjusting to her soon-to-be stepfather and stepbrothers. Deep down Kelly blames her mother for leaving her father and keeping them apart. Kelly can’t remember anything about her childhood in Sweet Valley, but she and the twins enjoy her time back and they dress the same as a gag on Kelly’s first day at Sweet Valley High because Kelly looks a lot like the twins. The twins introduce Kelly to Nicholas Morrow, who takes a liking to her and invites her to a costume party and Kelly accepts. Kelly’s mother keeps calling, but Kelly refuses to speak with her and puts her down in front of the twins. She says that she wants to stay in Sweet Valley permanently. Kelly’s mother has never told her daughter why she left Kelly’s father. Kelly’s father is irresponsible and a jackass. Everyone knows this, even the twins, but Kelly’s mother was determined never to say a negative thing about her ex-husband and this backfired big time. Kelly keeps telling everyone all of these stories about how terrific her father is. Then Kirk Anderson (the jerk who played that trick on Penny earlier this season – Episode 45) asks Kelly out, because of Elizabeth getting back at him for having her fake cousin stand him up at a dance. Kelly thinks Kirk is the greatest and blows off Nicholas Morrow’s invitation to the costume party to go with Kirk instead. Kelly gets a letter from her father, saying he will be in town for her birthday and she is ecstatic. Kirk keeps seeing other girls, telling Kelly they’re just friends and showing up late or standing her up completely. On her birthday, her father is an hour and a half late and only stays a few minutes before taking off again. At the costume party the next night, Kirk convinces Kelly to leave with him to talk, and he takes her to make-out spot Miller’s Point. Kelly tells Kirk to slow down and he gets pissed and throws a beer bottle. Suddenly, Kelly remembers the night her mother left her father, and how her father was violently throwing dishes in the kitchen. Kelly runs away, and Jean West and Tom McKay see her on the side of the road and take her back to the twins’ house. Kelly tells Elizabeth everything when she gets back, and Elizabeth tells Jessica and her parents. Mrs. Wakefield calls Kelly’s mother who takes the first flight in, and she and Kelly have a long talk. Kelly decides to go back home with her mother. Continue reading →

The aftermath of Regina’s death and the very first Super Thriller of Sweet Valley High are in this installment of episode recaps. Check them out! 🙂

Season 3: The Perfect Size 6 (Continued)

Episode 47 – “Outcast”: Everyone blames Molly Hecht for Regina Morrow’s death. After all it was her house that hosted the fatal drug party. Even Justin Belson won’t have anything to do with her. Molly tries to apologize to Elizabeth, but Elizabeth gives her the cold shoulder. Molly goes to the cemetery to apologize to Regina instead and Regina’s brother Nicholas is there and screams at her to leave. Molly feels depressed and alone (even her parents say she deserves being treated like this after what happened) until Buzz, the drug dealer from the party, calls her. Molly meets Buzz and he convinces her to run away to Mexico with him, when really Buzz just needs the cash to make his escape. Molly agrees. Elizabeth tries to get Justin to talk to Molly and he finally relents, but can’t find her. She is at the bank emptying her savings account. Elizabeth tries to talk to Molly, but Molly refuses to listen. Justin and Elizabeth decide to go to Molly’s house that evening, but see her sneaking out with a bag and follow her. They watch her get into Buzz’s car and Elizabeth gets out to call the police while Justin follows them. Justin cuts them off and Buzz gets out of the car and attacks Justin with a knife, but Buzz is no match for Justin and his big stick (hey that was his weapon, and I couldn’t help myself). Police arrive and take Buzz into custody. Justin and Molly are friends again and Molly promises to change for the better. Meanwhile, Jessica has a great idea (it was bound to happen sometime) and sets up an annual scholarship in Regina’s name and memory, to be awarded to a student who has overcome a disability.

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Welcome to the season of Super Thrillers, or at least the season that started them! 😉 This season was the most outrageous yet, and I hope you take the time to use this post as your cheat sheet for what you may have missed in the world of Sweet Valley High.

Since Sweet Valley High is pretty much a soap opera, I have broken up the books into seasons and in this special five-part post treat it like a TV show. In this post you will find “The Skinny (highlights from season 3), “The Perfect Size 6” (each book/episode broken down into a single paragraph), and in the very last post everything Sweet Valley High did this year including monumental firsts, personality transplants and time travel. Enjoy! 🙂

The Skinny

This season of Sweet Valley High was the most dramatic yet! There was: a secret father who turned out to be a big Hollywood director; Elizabeth almost leaving for a Swiss boarding school; the high school paper’s personal/dating ads; and one of Sweet Valley High’s golden couples – Regina Morrow and Bruce Patman – broke up because Bruce is a bastard again. Then one of Sweet Valley High’s most beloved characters died tragically (a main character – this was a first for the series). Then there was the fugitive and the girl who almost skipped town with him; a near-fatal boating accident and lots or racism to go around. Jessica witnessed a murder, and the killer who was mentally ill tried to knock off both her and Elizabeth because he isn’t sure who is who. The twins’ cousin Kelly comes to live with them for awhile where she discovers repressed memories and that her dad was an abusive and violent jerk. Liz falls for another boy, even though she is with Jeffrey, only to find out the mob is after him because his father testified against some guy, and they’re in the witness protection program. Then there was a girl named Barbara who was in terrible trouble. She was an unwilling pawn in a plot to make a mayoral candidate think he was crazy enough to drop out of the election. He was being set up because he committed a horrible murder, years ago, and Barbara looked just like the girl he killed. Nicholas Morrow and the twins try to help her and someone goes off a cliff, another person accosted by a gun, more abduction and struggles before it’s all over. Speaking of abductions there were quite a few in this season, it happened on average every four or five episodes! And let’s not forget a little gambling problem and being in debt to your bookie so badly you‘re getting roughed up and threatened unless you rig a big game… And heart attacks – there were a few this season. Besides all the big stuff, this season saw a whole lot more personality transplants, cases of mistaken identity, many “golden” couples falling from grace and even more potential gold couples getting together. And of course no season would be complete without all the lying, scheming and high school drama that is the very foundation of Sweet Valley High! 😛

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