Donne Tempo - Gift Guide - Gilmore Girls
The Gilmore Girls: The Complete Series Collection
(Warner Home Video, $258.82 to $190.99; series run
October 5, 2000 – May 15, 2007)
by Jacquie Kubin
The rock has been lifted. The rock I have been living under that is. The Gilmore Girls, all eight seasons, have been released in one box set packaging hours of this single- mother/daughter saga of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) Gilmore.
This should be a “must be under the tree Christmas morning” item.
The Gilmore Girls has everything I need and want for some reality escaping diversion. And that reality comes to a screeching halt as we learn about Stars Hollow, a fictional Connecticut town outside of Hartford, and the folks that live there. A zanier cast of characters that are still believable would be hard to find.
It is a cross between Mayberry, for its down home simplicity, and Pee Wee’s Playhouse for the absolute absurdity of it all.
But the true story is the Gilmore Girls, Lorelai, Rory and mom/grandmother Emily. We see three generations of woman who are each incredibly intelligent, quick-witted, outspoken and ruled by the strict guidelines that each has developed for their lives.
There strength is in there differences - waspish, really wealthy parents; the rebellious daughter who gets pregnant at 16; and the perfect granddaughter. This trio, for all their differences, is so very much alike.
Rounding out the cast are Lorelai’s peers, Luke (Scott Patterson), the best friend who is really in love with Lorelai and Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy) the chef and Michel Gerard (Yanic Truesdale) the front deskman at the Independence Inn where Lorelai is manager.
Then there are Rory’s counterparts, boyfriend Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki) with his Superman good looks and Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia) the intelligent, deep thinking, bad boy that works to steal Rory’s heart. School bully and Rory’s personal antagonist Paris who starts off hating Rory, but then who could ever really hate Rory?
Sookie is a delight and as crazy as an artist can be. If only this part of Stars Hollow was really real. I would need to eat there. Often. Michel is a displaced Frenchman that makes you wonder how he really ended up in Stars Hollow, what with his love of French suits and Italian leather loafers, along with a charming acerbic manner that is just barely tolerant of all other inhabitants on his world.
And then there are the rest of the inmates of Stars Hollow.
This show is brilliant. Lorelai is delightfully full of zany quips and non-sequitors that while I get them, someone ten years older or younger, may not. It is brilliant. Really. Gilmore Girls hovers just on the line of being a believable scenario as Lorealai, at 32, and Rory, at 16, are met with plenty of everyday type challenges set against the slight surreal background of a small town in Connecticut where the hands of the proverbial clock don’t always tick quite properly.
And the best part… the set contains forty-two disks of episodes. The whole enchilada. You could literally start watching on Christmas Day, eating only take-out, right through New Years.
by Jacquie Kubin
The rock has been lifted. The rock I have been living under that is. The Gilmore Girls, all eight seasons, have been released in one box set packaging hours of this single- mother/daughter saga of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) Gilmore.
This should be a “must be under the tree Christmas morning” item.
The Gilmore Girls has everything I need and want for some reality escaping diversion. And that reality comes to a screeching halt as we learn about Stars Hollow, a fictional Connecticut town outside of Hartford, and the folks that live there. A zanier cast of characters that are still believable would be hard to find.
It is a cross between Mayberry, for its down home simplicity, and Pee Wee’s Playhouse for the absolute absurdity of it all.
But the true story is the Gilmore Girls, Lorelai, Rory and mom/grandmother Emily. We see three generations of woman who are each incredibly intelligent, quick-witted, outspoken and ruled by the strict guidelines that each has developed for their lives.
There strength is in there differences - waspish, really wealthy parents; the rebellious daughter who gets pregnant at 16; and the perfect granddaughter. This trio, for all their differences, is so very much alike.
Rounding out the cast are Lorelai’s peers, Luke (Scott Patterson), the best friend who is really in love with Lorelai and Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy) the chef and Michel Gerard (Yanic Truesdale) the front deskman at the Independence Inn where Lorelai is manager.
Then there are Rory’s counterparts, boyfriend Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki) with his Superman good looks and Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia) the intelligent, deep thinking, bad boy that works to steal Rory’s heart. School bully and Rory’s personal antagonist Paris who starts off hating Rory, but then who could ever really hate Rory?
Sookie is a delight and as crazy as an artist can be. If only this part of Stars Hollow was really real. I would need to eat there. Often. Michel is a displaced Frenchman that makes you wonder how he really ended up in Stars Hollow, what with his love of French suits and Italian leather loafers, along with a charming acerbic manner that is just barely tolerant of all other inhabitants on his world.
And then there are the rest of the inmates of Stars Hollow.
This show is brilliant. Lorelai is delightfully full of zany quips and non-sequitors that while I get them, someone ten years older or younger, may not. It is brilliant. Really. Gilmore Girls hovers just on the line of being a believable scenario as Lorealai, at 32, and Rory, at 16, are met with plenty of everyday type challenges set against the slight surreal background of a small town in Connecticut where the hands of the proverbial clock don’t always tick quite properly.
And the best part… the set contains forty-two disks of episodes. The whole enchilada. You could literally start watching on Christmas Day, eating only take-out, right through New Years.