"Gilmore" Gone
Posted May 3rd, 2007 by Rich Heldenfels
The CW confirms that the May 15 episode of "Gilmore Girls" will be the last. While I recognize the flaws in the show the last couple of years, I am still bummed. More later.
OK, here's a little more. I've been thinking that, now that it's done, the Emmys can finally show some love for this show, which has been unjustly overlooked for years. Give it one of those career-achievement-ish awards that are really for the body of work even though it's assigned to this year.
Or just give Lauren Graham an Emmy because she has deserved it for so long and because she so tore it up in the karaoke scene in Tuesday's telecast.
My all-time favorite Lauren Graham moment has been in "Bad Santa," and that notion was briefly shaken as I watched the karaoke scene. But my love for "Bad Santa" is less about Graham's acting as it the thought that Oh my gosh, I can't believe Lorelai Gilmore is saying that stuff.
Karaoke gets marks as the top Lauren "Gilmore" moment, although even then I want to be clear that it's a summation of how often she has been very, very good on the show. (For some reason, the scene where Lorelai goes tough-maternal on Rory's friends always comes to mind, because it was a departure from Lorelai's usual behavior but completely consistent with her as a character.) It said to viewers, and it should say to awards voters, that this woman can run through a sequence of challenging emotions and hit every one of them just right — make you smile and laugh and ache and cry.
Yeah, I choked up. Maybe because I know that the show's going away and there won't be more scenes like karaoke. But also because it was oh so good.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
I don't know how I feel about GG going off air. After Amy S-P and Dan P left, the show wasn't the same. That's part of the danger of having a show with a small creative team - you notice it when they're gone. I tried, but I couldn't connect with the new Lorelai and Rory and even though I was ticked off when they made Rory so dependent on Logan and created April out of thin air, happy tv is boring tv and this year has just been about trying to get Rory out of college and Lor back to Luke. And, yes, that karaoke scene was brilliantly heartbreaking, but all I want is for Luke and Lorelai to kiss and ride off into the sunset.
May 7th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I'll miss Sebastian Bach, but that's about it. This show, like many nowadays, was ruined by the compulsion to "develop" characters rather than come up with good stories for them.