Tell me what's happening on "Gilmore Girls" a.k.a. The "Gilmore Girls" thread.

I hopped on board sometime after the whole thing w/ Lorelei & Rory's teacher fell apart (I think), or was that w/ Lorelei & Rory's father? Anyway, what I know of (up until the BIG party):

- Rory & Dean broke up @ a dance marathon, & the Rory / Jess rollercoaster started uphill. Jess starts working @ WalMart to make extra moolah (going so far as to skip high school to pick up extra shifts), shows up one day w/ a bruise that he lies to everyone about, and acts rather diffident & distant around Rory. Meanwhile, Dean hooks up w/ some quaint lass & shows up every so often to remind Rory of his goodguyness. Oh - because of Jess' WalMarting (& the absences accrued from this), he'll have to repeat 12th grade & can't go to the prom.
- Lane began clandestinely dating this guitar playing guy (Dave) & is now drumming in a cover band w/ Dave; no one knows about Lane & Dave except (of course) the Gilmores. To see more of each other w/out clueing Lane's mom to what's going down, Dave & his bandmates end up playing hymns @ religious type functions put on by Lane's mom. Hijinks involving the word "bulwark" ensue. Lane's mom, meanwhile, tries to set Lane up w/ this nice Korean lad who's ALSO seeing someone on the sly, but who (of course) ends up falling for Lane, much to Dave's dismay.
- Lorelei starts sorta seeing this guy that's friends of an old friend of Sookie's (some coffee shop entrepeneur), while also dealing w/ some issues stemming from the return of Max Medina (Rory's ex-teacher; she had some thing w/ him; turned down marriage proposal; yadda yadda). Also, Rory's father's new wife gives birth, & she's there for that. MEANWHILE, Luke starts dating a lawyer (whose working w/ Taylor on some ice cream store shenanigans), & the tension is so thick when Lorelei's in the room with either of them that you could insulate a tarpaper shack w/ it & not worry about your heating bills for, oh, 50 years.
- Also on the Lorelei front - she gets an oodle of money from her dad (some real estate investment he made when she was born), which she then uses to pay off the long-standing debt between her & her parents (involving Rory's private school tuition). Lorelei's mom sees this as a way for L. to get out of spending time w/ the 'rents (since their relations are strained ever so slightly), & a big ol' tiff ensues. Also, L.'s dad is "starting a business" & is acting quite shady (the scare quotes are my thing; I'm such a Doubting Thomas).
- As far as Rory & college - she was accepted into Harvard (conveniently located near her dad & Madchen Amick - such coincidence did not strike Lorelei as, how you say, a good thing) AND Yale (thanks to some finagling by L.'s dad, a Yale alum - such finagling was not taken to kindly by Lorelei). I BELIEVE Rory has chosen to go to Yale; Jess might've been a deciding factor in this decision. Bad move, Rory.
- Most importantly, Paris got some from a Princeton man & didn't get into Harvard. The two events are mutually exclusive. OR ARE THEY?

THank you and good night.

(Jess is a big butthole, no doubt, but in a cute "aww lookie the little butthole he thinks he's so tough and brooding awwww" kind of way.)

I think Bledel would look good as an electroclash fashionplate. Ms. Sherman-Palladino please get on that.

That was to show Jess still has trust issues.

from a dramatic perspective:
Dean & Rory happily together = boring
Jess undermining that relationship = good
Jess & Rory happily together = boring
Jess being a dick and ditching her = good
estimated time Jess's spin-off lasts = 1/2 season

Gilmore Girls has ruined me for boys though. I keep imagining that there are boys in the world that talk like that in real life, like actually initiating conversations and discussing things of no importance in lots of sentences. I like that. And I drive my boyfriend crazy because he doesn't talk much.

Okay, I labored over that one. Be glad I didn't use the phrase "barely legal."

(BTW, I should introduce myself since I've never posted here. I'm Scott Seward's wife. We're both at home looking at this thread on separate computers in different rooms of the apartment. I think I'll go talk about GG with him now in "meetspace" (the kitchen).)

Welcome Maria D;) -- Scott, loved your article on Baltimore house. Is it a real phenom or are you just having a go?

I liked the finale. It had me smiling a lot.

Keiko Agena and Sean Gunn also star. Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote and directed the episode. "

high-concept black humor is a rare taste.

i am glad I'm finally catching up on it

god, even when i was mad at them those new episodes put me in such a good mood and now i'm back in the terrible real world and i wanna go baaaaack

otm

i had this feeling today like i had this v exciting weekend that i wanted to tell ppl about but then I remembered it was just watching GG

god, even when i was mad at them those new episodes put me in such a good mood and now i'm back in the terrible real world and i wanna go baaaaack

Yeah, I saw some people complaining about the slightly fantastical nature of the end (and of the rampage of the rich losers), but the whole thing is a fantasy, why not embrace it? (Course, that didn't stop me wondering how Rory is flying back and forth to London all the time when she doesn't have any money.)

As someone who has watched the whole thing through several times, I did have a few issues. Stars Hollow does not have a pool. And Emily never mentioned Nantucket before in her life - they were a Martha's Vineyard family through and through.

I was v happy with Shonen Knife

Stars Hollow also doesn't have police? Or black people for that matter.

or crime or roadworks or leafblowers ... the list goes on

i'm guessing in the intervening nine years taylor lobbied for a pool and luke fought him on it for some reason and we just missed those wacky shenanigans

i'm down with that notion

taylor: "we need a pool in this town, pools convey a sense of class and make for a fine summer attraction."

luke: "pools convey a sense of urine. also i'm scared of pools. my father was a pool."

loooool

http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2016/12/06/on-the-entrepreneurial-feminism-of-stars-hollow/

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” hails from the “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and it shares some of that show’s rhythms and mannerisms. Quick and clever dialogue, yes, and also a main character who’s quite taken by her own impish brassiness. Rachel Brosnahan (“House of Cards”) stars as Miriam Maisel, a.k.a. Midge, living her nice-Jewish-girl Upper West Side dream in 1958. After her aspiring-stand-up husband turns out to be a dud both onstage and off, Midge discovers she’s actually the one with the comedy chops. The show operates at maximum archness, and while the period setting never feels truly real, the moments of emotional authenticity that do break through shine beautifully and brightly.

i guess they're showing the pilot on Amazon. but who knows if it will get picked up or not.

I just discovered that the Bracebridge Dinner is a real thing.

The beginning of season 7 is dark as fuk.

ASP's new show on Amazon (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is excellent.