Gilmore Girls: Season 1

I’ve watched this show on repeat for years so it was time I had my own copy rather than relying on streaming services. It never gets old 💯

I am sure every one has their own reference point for viewing "Gilmore Girls," especially if they really like the show. Since I am neither a mother nor a daughter my frame of reference is not in the real world but in the ghost of a television show past, namely "Moonlighting." This might strike some of your as odd, but on "Gilmore Girls" the average script for an episode is usually 75-80 pages versus the 45-50 for a normal hour-long television program, which was pretty much the math I remember from Glenn Gordon Caron's hit series (1985-89) which reminded America who Cybil Shepherd was and introduced the world to Bruce Willis. The nice thing about "Gilmore Girls" is that unlike Dave and Maddie we do not need to fear that Lorelai and Rory will do the same thing to mess up their chemistry (they will have to find some other way).Set in the storybook Connecticut town of Stars Hollow, which is populated by an eccentric mix of folks, the Gilmore girls are 32-year-old Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and 16-year-old Rory (Alexis Bledel). When Lorelai was Rory's age she became an unwed mother, to the disappointment of her parents (Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann), not to mention generations of Gilmore ancestors probably going back to the "Mayflower." But Lorelai has carved out her own life, managing an inn, and having a relationship with Rory which is more like best friends than mother and daughter. The only problem is that Rory has her heart set on going to Harvard and being able to attend Chilton, a private school in Hartford, would be a big help. That means Lorelai has to ask her parents for help and the price is steep: every Friday Lorelai and Rory have to go to dinner at the Gilmore mansion. Good thing Lorelai really loves her daughter a whole bunch.I can explain why I like "Gilmore Girls" simply by pointing out that on Disc 6 of "The Complete First Season" where we have the episode "Rory's Dance" enhanced by pop ups explaining all the pop culture, historical, and other references, I did not need any of them. In fact, I caught a couple of lines where I thought they could have added some pop ups. I am a bit weak on current musical groups, but fortunately Rory has eclectic tastes in such regards, so there are still more hits than misses. Absolutely true that people do not talk like this in the real world, but they should, even if that means you have to put up with a lot of eye rolling and sighs being heaved your way.The supporting cast is wonderful. Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James may well be the Willow of the thirtysomething generation and if Lorelai and Luke (Scott Patterson) are the last too people in town to know they are meant for each other they will have to catch on eventually, 1000 yellow daisies not withstanding. Keiko Agena as Lane Kim and Liza Weil as Paris Geller provide the polar opposites of Rory's divided teenage existence for the female gender with Jared Padalecki as Dean Forester and Chad Michael Murray as Tristan DuGrey doing the duty for the other side.But the heart of this series is indeed the Gilmore girls, all three of them. Graham is like a standup comedienne who does not mind if no one gets her cracks because she knows how good they are even if others are waiting for the pop ups. Bledel, whose only previous credit was as an extra in "Rushmore," is simply someone that the camera loves and who has a way of speaking that is even more endearing. Then there is Bishop as Lorelai's mother, a picture of being prim and proper but desperate to maintain contact with her daughter, even though she is loathe admitting it. Lorelai and her mother have a reputation that has been deeply damaged, perhaps irrevocably; but that is why we have to stay tune. Meanwhile Rory is building a relationship with her grandparents at those Friday night dinners separate from the existing hostility.The series is unique it that it is the first series to make it to the air supported by the Family Friendly Forum's Script Development Fund, an initiative between some of the nation's top advertisers and the WB network. The show was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, who previously worked on the situation comedies "Roseanne" and "Veronica's Closet." I was told my several people that I should watch "Gilmore Girls" when it started on the WB in the 2000-2001 series, but it aired on Thursday nights opposite other shows I was already watching and as mentioned above my sense of gender identification with the lead characters is rather limited. Fortunately shows like "Gilmore Girls," "Roswell," and other series I should have been watching but missed are available on DVD. The problem is that the show just finished its fourth season and how am I supposed to catch up so I can get on track?

Highly recommend this is a great show series. Entertaining and enjoyable.

Loved it. Been waiting to get for awhile. Thanks.

Gilmore Girls is one of the best written shows on TV. The loveable characters will draw you in and provide a great viewing experience for the whole family. Watching this show is like eating a big of your favorite potato chips with dip (except that Mrs. Kim would approve of the show.)The packaging, episode guide booklet and navigational menus pay tribute to the character oriented nature of the show by featuring largely unseen publicity shots of the characters.Upon insertion, the DVDs bring up to the main menu quickly and none of them include mandatory commercials. Menu navigation is clean and simple. The main menu has the typical repetitious music which, no matter how charming it is the first time, quickly becomes irksome. The rest of the menus are mercifully mute.The menu easily allows all episodes on the disk to be played straight through as well as allowing individual episode and chapter selection. Unlike DVD sets from some other shows, the only chapter points are at commercial breaks. This is a shame because it's the little moments that really make Gilmore Girls special. Adding more chapters to make individual scenes more accessible would have been a simple way to add value to this set. Another omission is the ability to skip the "previously on Gilmore Girls" recaps which are common, especially in later seasons. Hopefully these things will be corrected in future sets.The set doesn't include any audio commentaries. Future sets probably won't either since WB won't pay anyone to do them and the actors involved are to high a caliber to donate their time to making someone else rich.The "making-of" special includes interviews with the actors, producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, and the director of the pilot. It is nice if for no other reason than to put faces with the names that appear in the writing credits for so many episodes."Gilmore goodies and gossip" is basically the episode "Rory's Dance" with pop-up video type background on the actors and explanations of the various references."Gilmore-isms" is a collage of some of the shows crazy references."Deleted scenes" consists of scenes cut from 3 different episodes. They are poorly prefaced and give the impression that they were added just so that the studio could advertise the set as having deleted scenes.In summery: the price is steep and the extras are few but, as with all good shows, the episodes themselves are the selling point that really matters. I recommend this show to everyone.

Gilmore girls is my all time favourite show. Ive watched it 8 times ( Yes..the entire series 8 times). So I had to start collecting the dvds, in case netflix decides to stop airing it!!

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Prendete il titolo italiano, appallottolatelo e cestinatelo senza neppure un solo istante di incertezza. Questa serie non è "Una mamma per amica" ma "Gilmore Girls"... la storia delle ragazze Gilmore.Chiarito questo assunto, "Gilmore Girls" sta al primo decennio del 2000 così come "Happy Days" stava agli anni '80 e "Friends" agli anni '90. Perché non è soltanto la storia di una madre e di una figlia legate da un particolare rapporto di amicizia (come sottolinea l'adattamento italiano del titolo), ma è un affresco collettivo di tante piccole storie, di tanti piccoli grandi personaggi, con le loro manie, con le loro follie, con i quali non si può evitare di stabilire un rapporto di amicizia e di affetto, non soltanto ridendo quando c'è necessità di ridere, ma anche ritrovandosi con un nodo in gola quando è il momento giusto per trattenere qualche lacrimuccia.Ineguagliabile, al centro di tutto questo, è Lorelai Gilmore, una straordinaria Lauren Graham, doppiata meravigliosamente da Giuppy Izzo nella versione nostrana, capace di sorprendere continuamente, stravolgendo ogni punto fisso con la propria eccentricità, con il proprio carisma, con la propria energia e con la propria parlantina, e offrendosi del tutto impossibile da non amare perdutamente. Ottima anche Alexis Bledel, nel ruolo di Rory Gilmore, che, tuttavia, non può che risultare inevitabilmente coadiuvante, anziché coprotagonista, nel ritrovarsi offuscata dal raggiunte turbinio della "madre". Un premio come migliore personaggio non protagonista, poi, non può che spettare a Luke Danes, Scott Patterson, che dietro a un modo di fare grottescamente burbero non riesce a nascondere i propri sentimenti, trasparenti a tutti tranne che, come tristemente accade anche nella realtà quotidiana, proprio all'unica persona che se ne dovrebbe rendere conto.Da vedere, rivedere e stravedere.

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