Can Rory pleaase finally break up with Dean? imagine his heart when he founds out she didn't love him for months and months of their relationship. He's not a saint but he doesn't deserve this
Are we ever going to genuinely find out why Lorelai doesn’t like Emily? Lorelai grew up with parents who actually parented her instead of being best friends with her. She “rebelled” from her rich family because she didn’t want to dress up for events big whoop. Now every time her parents are brought up she puts all her mistakes on to them instead of owning up to the fact that she’s miserable.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-10-02T04:49:13Z
[6.1/10] This one was a bit rough. I have little-to-no interest in the saga of Rory having to play peacemaker between Paris and the Puffs on student council. While there were a few good lines here and there (“I’ll make sure she’s so ineffective that she makes Jimmy Carter look like Martin Sheen” was a particularly good one), it the sort of wacky sitcom storyline that comes off more like filler on the side than anything compelling in its own right.
The business with Lorelai, Rory, Emily, and Chris isn’t great either. While I appreciate the show taking some (mostly silent) time to explore the awkwardness between Lorelai and her mom, and I also like the idea that Rory feels put out in some way by her dad starting another family, the whole confrontation is just too big and too loud for my tastes.
It’s churlish to criticize a show, partiulalry one like Gilmore Girls that thrives on its patter, with rejoinders like “nobody talks like that.” The other side of the coin is that the big dramatic shouting matches in the elder Gilmores’ foyer is too overwrought to land. It feels like a stage play, not real people dealing with a serious issue, and normally the show can thread the needle better than that.
I do appreciate the notion that Lorelai acknowledges nothing about the situation between her and Christopher can be changed so it’s not worth the headache of dealing with him right now, and that despite her hard feelings she tries to keep Rory open to the idea of cutting Christopher some slack, but the faux-intensity of the scenes robs it of much, if any power, beyond Emily saving the day despite partially causing the issue.
Oddly enough, my favorite storyline in the episode may be Kirk asking out Lorelai. He’s just so awkward and sweet about it, and takes it so well, to where even if you’re not exactly rooting for him and Lorelai to get together, you’re rooting for him to land on his feet. Plus, Luke ribbing Lorelai about it is great.
And hey, I was even sympathetic to Jess here, so that’s something! The fact that Rory is miffed at him for dating someone else when, as he rightly points out, she told him not to tell anyone about their kiss and then didn’t say anything to him the whole summer, is pretty unfair. I doubt he’s moved on with his life for very long, but it’s still another nice rejection of Rory trying to have her cake and eat it too.
Overall, the episode is dominated by two bad storylines. In Paris’s case, it’s just goofy ab ovo, but in Lorelai’s, it’s a meaningful situation just done in too overwrought of a manner. But there’s enjoyable stuff on the margins like Kirk and, god help me, Jess.