"Gilmore Girls"
Posted February 1st, 2006 by RD Heldenfels
Between typing I am still wiping away the tears of laughter and delight from watching last night's "Gilmore Girls." Specifically, the finale sequence of dinner at the Gilmores, a virtuoso piece of television if there ever was one. Character, humor, anger, pace — and completely involving, even when watched on Wednesday morning as a warm-up before going to work.
Even before that piece, it was a good episode, although a painful one. "Gilmore" has often been about heartbreak, and there's a lot of it in the air at the moment for Lorelai — the perfect wedding postponed, her isolation from Luke's daughter. Yes, there is humor as well, notably in the scene of the town watching the tableau of Luke and daughter, but when Luke rattles on obliviously about his child to Lorelai, you know it's a thousand little paper cuts to Our Heroine.
The newspaper stuff was also OK, although we've seen the Rory-takes-command moment coming almost as long as we've been waiting for Paris to complete her transformation in Captain Queeg. Still, Logan's finally proving capable was well done. And anyone who has watched "Gilmore" for long had to feel at least a twinge of pain for Paris when she tried to share the credit for the paper's coming out; her controlling ways, after all, are her attempt not only at success but at being loved — tough love, on her terms, but still loved.
And then the dinner sequence. Incredible. I need to watch it again.
