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DVD Gilmore Girls - The Complete Sixth Season
The rapid-paced banter between the mother-daughter team of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) is the calling card for Gilmore Girls. The show's sixth year--which aired during the 2005-2006 TV season--remains witty, charming, and touching. The previous season left Yale undergrad Rory in trouble with the law after a night of very un-Gilmore-like behavior with her rich, handsome boyfriend Logan (Matt Czuchry). This season opens with Rory potentially facing jail time, undecided about returning to college, and--most disturbingly of all--fighting with her mother. This isn't a fight over who gets to eat the last egg roll, but rather a battle of wills. It will take a few episodes before the two are talking to each other again and the viewer can breathe a sigh of relief that all is well in Stars Hollow. In the meantime, Rory moves into her busybody grandparents' pool house. One evening, they invite their minister over to dinner. His job? To encourage Rory to remain chaste. Not one to be told how to live her life, Rory is nonplussed. After telling him he's a little too late to offer that advice, she asks, "Have you seen The 40 Year Old Virgin"?
After many years of playing verbal footsy, Lorelai and Luke (Scott Patterson) finally get serious and engaged. But just when things are going smoothly, Luke learns of a daughter he never knew he had. The introduction of the little girl doesn't do much for the plot--other than to slow it down and cause more fights between Luke and Lorelai. When Luke warns Lorelai, "I don't like ultimatums," she snaps back, "I don't like Mondays, but unfortunately they come around eventually." This 5-disc 22-episode set includes an eclectic and impressive range of guest stars (Skid Row's Sebastian Bach, Paul Anka, Sonic Youth, and Madeline Albright, who appears in a dream sequence as Rory's mom). But it's cast regular Kelly Bishop as Lorelai's mother Emily who is one of the show's true gems. Prim, proper, and judgmental, she's also fiercely protective of her brood. When she learns that Logan's mother said unfavorable things about Rory, Emily confronts the woman and puts her in her place. Politely, of course. By the end of the season, one of the main characters will get married, another will have an affair, and a third will have a dalliance with an ex-boyfriend. But the relationship between Lorelai and Rory remains strong. And that's what keeps viewers watching. --Jae-Ha Kim
Review(s): DVD Gilmore Girls - The Complete Sixth Season
Always a pleasure...
I like Gilmore Girls- there it is in black and white and once again, I have purchased the complete set. The only draw back (hence the 4 stars) is the it is missing the Gilmore-ism booklet which explains Amy and Dave's obsure references. Since they left, I guess they didn't feel the need to fill us in- I do miss that, but otherwise, what you see on the show is what you are getting. Can't be disappointed, now can you?
love it
i love this season so much. seeing jess again is so great. they need to make more parts for him. he looks even good on his new show on 10. this is a must get season.
Fall from Gilmore Grace
Whether because of Sherman-Pallandino's imminent departure or the ennui that can kill any long-term artistic endeavor, this season took an abrupt left turn... into a brick wall. Dialogue that, while parodied on Mad TV, etc., was still stimulating, scintallating and just plain fun, became overworked and irritating. As in: here's a joke for you, and another, and another... I felt I was continually poked in the ribs for laughs I couldn't muster. Pulling Sonic Youth, etc., into the street musician episode felt like an act of desperation, like, "We're still one of the coolest shows on TV, right?" Things got worse as the season progressed and a bloated Lorelai in suddenly dowdy dresses staggers from one failure to another. Yes, a normal woman would probably have this reaction, and a normal woman might start dressing more age-appropriately. But this is entertainment, this is the GGs, and why didn't Lorelai's sense of style morph into slighly longer pencil skirts and less goofy Ts? Just as bad was the "artistic" camera work in the episode that included a disjointed dinner conversation/argument at the grandparents', close-ups of Lorelai's miserable face... it seems to me that whoever has been taking the show over thought it an opportunity to make something good (change) out of something bad (the loss of Pallandino, the probable boredom of the writers, etc.). Consistency, however dull it might be to create, would have been a better choice. At this point (Season 7) I tune in out of boredom/mild curiosity that's close to being overweighed by sadness - didn't this used to be a brilliant, heartwarming show? I should probably add that I don't care for the ongoing transformation of Rory from a thoughtful, caring, relatively unmaterialistic intellectual into a supermodel too busy for her mother, running with the jet set, or for Logan, or for the new character, Luke's daughter. I did enjoy seeing reliably good acting from the actress playing Luke's former girlfriend - but am too lazy to look up her name. In any case, one can only hope a new show will fill the non-cable TV void left by what used to be the GGs.
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Perennially one of the WB's highest-rated series, Gilmore Girls hit its creative high point to date with its stellar fifth season, which started out with young Rory (Alexis Bledel) feeling the fallout of doing something terribly non-Rory-like: sleeping with Dean (Jared Padalecki), her married ex-boyfriend. Rory's indulgence in adultery put, for the first time, a serious, sharp wedge in her relationship with her mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham), who was both shocked by her daughter's behavior and worried Rory would repeat the mistakes Lorelai made at her age. But while Rory jetted off to Europe with her grandmother (Kelly Bishop) for the summer, Lorelai finally got her relationship with diner owner Luke (Scott Patterson) into a serious groove, starting with an official (and... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 December 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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