What a good movie! I think Tom’s quote above is the only dialog in the whole thing.
I’m sorry, Tim. I know that means little at this point. But I am.
-xtien
Are you quoting the voice over? I’m going to need a ruling from someone with a badge (or a striped shirt). Since when is voice over considered dialog?
hepcat
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When it’s done by a guy in a jump suit accompanied by two robot puppets?
barstein
3446
When it’s thoughts overheard by angels or telepaths?
Gilmore Girls coming to Netflix on October 1. All seven seasons. The final four are solid and good.
The first three seasons, however, are pretty much as amazing as television gets. Magical. Had they ended the series with Rory’s high school graduation, it would be perhaps even more legendary for its ephemeral greatness than it already is.
It’s a lovely show that kind of runs out of steam once Rory gets to Yale, it’s true. I don’t think I even watched must past the first couple of episode of Season Six. It had become a pale shadow of its first few seasons.
It only works if you can stand the chirpiness of the two leads, but the screwball-ish writing sparkles.
Razgon
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I’ve seen this show while looking at my laptop from time to time, in linear television and kinda like the lead mom and her daughter. They are pretty fun.
Warning
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I love the show and really love the interaction between the two. As a rule I hated everyone in the town and wished they would all go away .
Counterpoint: the last season is worse than Hitler.
Seriously though, I’d probably put the break at the beginning of season 5. Aside from the standard quality arc, the whole family dynamic collapses when Rory goes to college. I hadn’t realized that Sherman-Palladino wrote episodes through the end of Season 6. It just feels they lost track of who the characters were by that point, and Luke-Lorelai-Christopher start into the soap-opera musical chairs relationships rather than acting like real people.
It’s easy to forget how soap-y it can be because as you said, when Gilmore Girls worked, it was one of the best shows on TV. The family dynamics, while heightened, get to an essential truth about family relationships. It’s by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. It’s also eminently watchable. It’s one of my wife’s comfort-food background shows, so I’ve seen pretty much every episode several times (well, except for Season 7). And it still holds together, mostly.
The secondary characters are a little hit or miss. Paris is one of the all-time great characters in the history of television though. It also features Sean Gunn, who you may recognize as nameless pirate from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Coincidentally, my daughter is named Lorelai.
“All I’m saying is, a lap is an illusion!”
Gil102
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About 18 months after the Series Finale of Gilmore Girls, I got a call from my Aunt who was living in Australia at the time. She asked when more episodes of GG would be out since they came out in the States first. I asked her to describe the last episode she had seen and it was the Series Finale. That is the worst news I’ve ever had to give someone. :(
As for Bojack Horseman…er…I didn’t like it but forced myself to finish the season. Admittedly, I didn’t go into it expecting a “South Park”-ish type comedy and probably would have liked it more if I knew it was about depression. My main issue with it was that I felt like I had already seen it. Like Californication condensed. It also felt like another “oh-so-sad Hollywood story” that I really didn’t care about. I swear that the last time I tried watching a series with similar animation, it was essentially the same story with different characters. There were a few funny parts and eventually, a few scenes that were very dramatic…but I will admit I couldn’t stop thinking, “ANOTHER show about a washed-up actor in Hollywood? Really?” It was not what I hoped and hopefully, that’s the only reason I felt it wasn’t good.
This is a factually incorrect statement. ;)
The residents of Stars Hollow are amazing. Kirk, Miss Patti, The Troubadour, etc. etc.
Warning
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Hehe. Ok I’ll give you The Troubador. Everyone else? Bleh. Especially the Asian Mother Dragon Lady Walking Stereotype.
What? No, Mrs. Kim is great.
I say that as somebody who grew up in a small New England town with an Asian immigrant mother.
While she is a bit central casting at first, she eventually gets enough specificity that she isn’t simply a stereotype. And she has a well defined relationship with Lorelai, for instance. She just doesn’t interact much with the rest of the cast, Lane’s stories tend to be off on their own.
"Reading the entire Bible in one day is very impressive. I myself have only done it three times. "
Sookie and Jackson are adorable. Michel cracks me up too.
I love Gilmore Girls, but the only people I’m normally able to talk to about it IRL are women, so the conversations normally devolve to Dean vs Jess vs Logan. Jess being the obviously correct answer, of course.
I also fall solidly into the camp of “I own it on DVD already but I’m still going to watch the crap out of it on Netflix.”
Same. I could pull the discs off the top shelf and figure out which season I feel like watching and then have to put the disc back in the box and back on the shelf…
…or just Netflix. Too easy.
rrmorton
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All right, all right, I’ll finally give Gilmore Girls a proper shot and try n’ see what all y’all are fussin’ about. (Is that how they talk in Stars Hollow?)
Dude, it’s set in New England. Imagine the crazy locals you run into when you take the fam up there on long weekends and vacations.
