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Lorelai The Queen of Television
I love this show. The first season is so sweet, funny and original. The plot and characters are well though. I laughed in every single episode and when it ended all I could do was ask for more. The couple Lorelai\Max is cool, but better than that is Rory\Dean. I think the show rocks.

Gilmore Girls: The Early Years
This is just the beginning of possibly one of the best tv dramedy's (drama/comedy) out there. Even in the 1st season, it showed that it had potential to become a great show. When I first saw an ad for Gilmore Girls one day when I was watching tv, I thought to myself, "Oh great. Another feel good show. I'm not going to waste my time with that." I am so glad that I eventually changed my mind and started to watch it. I think that I started watching when there were reruns on ABC Family since I started on the 1st season. I immediately became hooked. It's amazing how the actors can talk as fast as they do. Most of the references made go right by me. That's why the Gilmorisms guide that comes with almost all of the DVDs except season 5 comes in handy. I feel that it's better to review the 1st season of Gilmore Girls to start out with at least since that is where it all began. So if you're looking for a good dramedy (if you didn't look at the top, a dramedy is a drama/comedy), I highly recommend Gilmore Girls.

Lots of Firsts in the First Season
I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan of the Gilmore Girls, I wouldn't have thought I was the kind of guy who'd be drawn to this kind of show. Still, my girlfriend got the first series on DVD and we'd been watching it in mini-mararathons now and then, and it's a pretty decent show.

The series is all about Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother and daughter who live in a small, sleepy American town, where everyone knows everyone, as well as everyone's business. Rory was the result of a fling Lorelai had with a boy when she was 16, a fling that has alienated her from her well-to-do parents, who live half an hour away. Rory thinks they're nice enough, but Lorelai tries to keep out of their way. This year, however, she won't be able to do that. You see, this year, young Rory is off to a very exclusive school, to make the most of her academic talents. This all costs money, and Lorelai is forced to ask her distanced parents for a loan. Her parents agree, on the condition that Lorelai and Rory come to see them once a week for dinner. Being the first series, there are many others firsts. First kisses, first loves, etc. I'm sure all these firsts will leave others out there wanting seconds!

It's strange, but it doesn't feel like a TV series, I don't think. Like I've mentioned, I watched these episodes in bursts, and it all flowed like a really long movie (in a good way). Characters interacted, grew and developed, the people's feelings turned into ideas, and those ideas into actions across the episodes. It was quite interesting, very, very well planned and put together. The characters aren't perfect (I find Lorelai to be a bit of a control freak, for instance), but I think the writers know that, and these faults are explored nicely.

There's quite a lot of cultural references in the show. Rory being as intellegent as she is, she reads a lot of classic literature, and her friend Lane Kim seems to have an encyclopedia-like knowledge of popular music. It was nice to hear these references, and I knew what most of them were, but at the age these teens are supposed to be, I found a little unbelievable. It was a bit of a stretch that they knew so much, but ah well.

Worth a look for fans of drama-comedies. Good value set, I reckon.

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