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

i like it mostly! but rory's condenastathon is so dumb... it reminds me of a story I wrote in sixth grade about being a model at a modelling agency

i'm halfway through and (pretending season 7 doesn't exist) i think the show has slightly lost its grip on the uh "wacky" dialogue but the drama is all super good i.e. i'm crying a lot

also kirk is perfect

also like, motherfucking kelly bishop and liza weil

Bad? Do you actually like this show? This was note perfect for pretty much the entire six hours. Considering it's a revival nine years on, it's even more impressive. Go look at the x files return to see bad.

tbf the x files was always bad

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I'm currently battling my completionist impulses, which are reminding me that I never finished the seventh season and, oh hey, its also been a while since I watched the rest of the series, who knows what I've forgotten, maybe I should spend a hundred hours refreshing my memory first. But I can probably just jump right into this new thing, yes?

well, you'll miss the controversial episode where lorelai and rory set up their bounty hunting agency, stars hollow skip tracers, with help from special guest star dog the bounty hunter, and you won't know exactly how kirk came to have bionic legs, but you should be able to pick up the thread of the story if you pay close attention

I'm still hoping for Lorelei and Dog to end up together

yes all the things i loved about gilmores like... 20 minute musical theater sequences, or lorelai self-actualizing via chick lit bestseller. i appreciate how it embraced history's judgment of rory-as-monster but even that was drowned out by kirk chasing a pig in circles for half an hour like a family guy outtake.

the musical is just the worst possible expanded version of the town-oriented setpieces in the show. i'd prob like it more if we didn't see like....all of it

sutton foster tho!!! <3

and Tom from Smash!!

Special appearance by Ted Nugent in an instructive episode entitled Kill More Squirrels with the Gilmore Girls

there was a lot of Palladino fan service; sutton foster and the girl from bunheads...also the Ritter guy and Lauren Graham's brother but actual boyfriend from Parenthood / Six Feet Under. I liked all of that; it wasn't overbearing, it was clearly all there for fans, and it worked. The long musical? I thught it was funny at the town itself was always the third main character of the show so it makes sense to give the town a showcase like that. The pig? loved it. I don't know, I'd be hard pressed to think of any way these could have been better; less Logan and more Sookie I guess.

(sutton and tom from smash were married for a long time; I gather they're still close friends)

huh i didnt know that

that unbreakable song sutton foster sings made me cry all my tears

i am on ep 12 of s1

it is very watchable in the sense of "i can read and post to the internet while watching and still feel i am enjoying it" (which i am) despite lots of elements i feel i shd be annoyed abt (like rory's horrible school) plus some characters are kind of needlessly cartoony

i'm almost finished ep4

this was pretty much everything i wanted. it wasn't perfect & corny in places but it made me laugh and cry and crylaugh and laughcry & that's all I wanted

I never watched GG but picked up enough for the first two eps to be coherent, thinking maybe I should try the originals.

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waiting to watch this with the kids. i think this was the first show i put on with the kids and i kinda thought they would only last one episode and we ended up watching the entire series together and they loved it and i loved that they loved it. they were really young! they even got carole king's autograph on one of our DVD sets when she was in town for a political fundraiser.

i don't really have any expectations so i'm good with whatever. i'm not a big fan of reunions/revamps/reboots/revisionism in general. when i saw the band swans on their swans are dead tour i really believed them and was fine with their decision!

but i do love the characters so what the hell. i made do with parenthood. which i liked a lot.

you'll like the swans cameo in this then

j/k. this has three parenthood nods! ritter, krause, and mae whitman all have little cameos

yeah it's kinda nice!

i appreciated the BUNHEADS cameos

otm

not holding out hope for 4 bunhead minimovies from netflix since vegemitegrrl, maura, and myself were probably the only people who ever watched that show, but it would be cool anyway

okay, i like this a lot. forget what i said about being a reunion hater. i love seeing everyone and its funny and i loved this show and i still love them.

i couldn't watch bunhead cuz i didn't have cable and it was never on hulu/netflix. i totally would have watched it though.

we are gonna watch one episode a night.

i missed paris so much. why oh why did they not have a paris spin-off.

I totes watched Bunheads, would totes watch more Bunheads but the Bunheads have to be pushing like twenty now so prolly not gonna happen.

Bunheads was great but it's time has passed. In this era of neverending scripted shows, it feels like the last genuine sudden cancellation loss.

This revival was fantastic. I needed it. Hit the tone perfectly. I hadn't thought much about GG in the years since it left, and never really bothered with trying to rewatch it all, but it made me feel warm, which is not what I get out of a lot of TV these days.

rediscovered one high point of S7

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lorelai self-actualizing via chick lit bestseller

i groaned at this at first and then it ended up being a pretty effective gag. also i think characterizing wild as chick-lit is uh....wildly off the mark

how does everyone feel about the last four words. i boo'd at the screen but also like the ending in a perverse way

emily's character arc over the last episode is the most satisfying thing that i've ever seen happen to a character i love

emily's storyline was great & very satisfying

those last words... my eyes could not roll back far enough in my head. all i could think was "when book research goes too far"

i rewatched the last episode last night. I feel fine about the last 4 words. I'm hoping it's the wookie's kid.

part of me likes thinking how it might play out ... brad def otm re liking it in a perverse way.

but still. ugh.

xp no way, wookie is in the spring episode

how badass was Liza Weil? and those looks omg

the way she was wearing her scarf when she visited the diner sort of blew my mind

Honestly this is about as good a reboot as i've seen, and if it doesn't quite match the show's peaks, it definitely stands shoulder-to-shoulder with seasons 5 and 6, I'd say. Emotional arcs were super-satisfying, banter was still strong, and it successfully combined its narrative with all the obligatory character check-ins.

Yeah, the Star's Hollow musical was too drawn out, and I groaned when Logan's goon crew showed up. But otherwise really good!

oh yeah, life and death brigade scene was probably the stupidest part. like, these guys are in their 30's at this point. they're still doing this? Idle rich i guess.

also, this didn't really touch on what a shit Logan really is.

that was drowned out by kirk chasing a pig in circles for half an hour like a family guy outtake.

I don't know, if you thought the Kirk stuff was qualitatively different than all the shit his character did during the series' regular run, I don't know what to tell you. And they smartly front-loaded that stuff so it wouldn't interfere as the drama revved up.

how badass was Liza Weil? and those looks omg

super-otm, the paris stuff was everything i hoped for. Even a nice bit of physical comedy as she blocked the bathroom door with her foot

The stuff with Lorelai and Michel was really good, it felt like a great examination of the respect they have for each other even as most of their interactions are trading gripes at the Dragonfly