Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Digipack)
by Amy Sherman, Daniel Palladino, Eric Laneuville, Jackson Douglas, Jamie Babbit
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Actor: Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, Yanic TruesdaleDirector: Amy Sherman, Daniel Palladino, Eric Laneuville, Jackson Douglas, Jamie Babbit
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 957 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Digipack)
Movie Review: Luke and Lorelai finally get to the devoutly wished consummation
Summary: 5 Stars
The fourth season of "Gilmore Girls" was my least favorite to date because essentially Lorelia and Rory spent the year treading water. The finale of the third season, "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio," was when Luke had the dream about Lorelia asking him not to go on the cruise with Nicole, which created a nice bookend with the third season premier, "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days," when Lorelia had the dream about Luke. Clearly something was being set up for the fourth season, but the payoff was deterred all the way until the final episode, at which point Luke finally kissed Lorelia, Lorelia kissed him back, and then Rory went and lost her virginity to Dean, who happened to be married to Lindsay. Obviously the series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is well aware of all those romantic comedies that died as soon as the bickering couples consummated their love ("Moonlighting" being the paradigmatic example of such a fate). Still, waiting until the end of the fourth season to have Luke and Lorelai finally kiss was sheer agony.
Between the first kisses and the consummation devoutly to be wished, the impediments came from other Gilmores. "Goodbye to Daisy Miller" has Lorelai worried about Rory and Dean, and then learning that her parents are separated. Fortunately Emily takes Rory to Europe and this actually gives Lorelai and Luke the necessary alone time. Ultimately "Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season" is about cementing the ties that bind between Luke and Lorelai. By the end of this season they have become one in every way that matters short of cohabitation and marriage, and are clearly moving in those directions. All of the best moments in this season have to do with those two, while Rory gets thrown off track by falling into the orbit of Logan Huntsburger and his family.
The fifth season has several of my all-time favorite moments in the series to date and two moments when I was a-feared the show was jumping the shark. My first favorite moment comes in "Written in the Stars" when Luke and Lorelai go on their first date, he recalls the first time they met, and shows her what is in his wallet. Of course he is all in. Then there is the moment at the end of "Wedding Bell Blues," when Lorelai has learned from Christopher that Emily was encouraging him to rekindle their romance. As Lorelai was being dragged over for the wedding photography I was yelling at my television for Lorelia to "nuke" her mother, by which I meant to pull out the biggest nuclear device in her possession and drop it on Emily, which, I believe is exactly what she does. There was a close call for another great moment off of this plot line when Rory blows up at her grandmother in "So...Good Talk," but it fell short of my requirements (I want Rory to say to Emily, just once, "Grandmother, I love you a whole lot, but no matter what you do or what happens I will never love you more than I love my mom"). My second favorite moment is the end of "A House is Not a Home," and I am talking not only of Lorelia's final question of the season but the whole range of thoughts and emotions that Lorelai goes through right before she pops the question. Why Lauren Graham does not at least get nominated for an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series is beyond comprehension (but neither did Sarah Michelle Gellar or any other actress from the WB).
My first fears of shark jumping proved to be a false alarm, but in the wake of the wedding debacle I did not buy it when Luke tells Lorelai in "Say Something" that they could not be together. As the town elder points out in "Blame Booze and Melville," Luke has been waiting for Lorelai for a long time and he should be able to weather the perpetual hurricane that is Emily Gilmore. Fortunately Lorelia's phone call at the end of the episode changes the dynamic (Look at Luke's face: I swear he is ready to take her back right then). I should point out that my third favorite moment of the season is what accompanies Judy Garland singing "The Man Who Got Away" from "A Star is Born" at the end of "So... Good Talk."
However, I had much greater concerns over what happens in "Blame Booze and Melville" when Mitchum Huntzberger lowers the boom on Rory and she decides to drop out of Yale. I personally think that a gopher/intern should keep their mouth shut in meetings of the senior staff at a newspaper. In the sixth season in "We've Got Magic to Do" it is suggested that Mitchum actually believes what he is saying, but I still find it hard to believe. But the resulting split between Lorelai and Rory is really the province of the sixth season, and while I agree that the dramatic consequences of such a rift was worth pursuing at this point in the series, I simply think that dropping out of Yale and moving in with grandma and grandpa was not the way to go (I waited in vain for Paris to really read Rory the riot act). But as the nadir of the series plays out against Claudin Longet singing "I Think It's Going To Rain" when Rory turns away from her mother, it also serves to set up the beauty of the cliffhanger that was never a cliffhanger.
"Wedding Bell Blues" was the show's 100th episode so it gets special treatment with the DVD extras here. However, the main thing is that we are now caught up with all five seasons out on DVD during the sixth season of "Gilmore Girls." Let joy be undiminished on theis new year's day.
Summary of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Digipack)
Gilmore rising: Lorelai. The Dragonfly Inn is a huge success. And Lorelai's romance with Luke (the just-gotta-be relationship fans have waited for!) steams up Stars Hollow. Gilmore going down: Rory. College boys and career plans crash and burn leaving the once-confident golden girl reeling. Fasten your seat belt for a fabulously funny and heartbreakingly dramatic Season 5. The wit charm and eccentricity that have created legions of Gilmore Girls devotees are on glorious display in all 22 episodes of the hit series' fifth year. Adding more sparkle is the brilliant array of totally off-kilter totally engaging supporting characters: Sookie Paris Lane Kirk Michel the imperious Gilmore pere et mere and a townful more. See you in Stars Hollow!Running Time: 957 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 012569706866Perennially one of the WB's highest-rated series, Gilmore Girls hit its creative high point to date with its stellar fifth season, which started out with young Rory (Alexis Bledel) feeling the fallout of doing something terribly non-Rory-like: sleeping with Dean (Jared Padalecki), her married ex-boyfriend. Rory's indulgence in adultery put, for the first time, a serious, sharp wedge in her relationship with her mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham), who was both shocked by her daughter's behavior and worried Rory would repeat the mistakes Lorelai made at her age. But while Rory jetted off to Europe with her grandmother (Kelly Bishop) for the summer, Lorelai finally got her relationship with diner owner Luke (Scott Patterson) into a serious groove, starting with an official (and incredibly sweet) first date and others that involved, if you can believe it, a Swedish Pippi Longstocking movie. And as Lorelai navigated romantic terrain in Stars Hollow (terrain that of course did not run smooth), Rory found life more complex in her second year at Yale, as her relationship with Dean became increasingly strained. Not only that, she found her attention turned towards preppy Logan (Matt Czurchy), a spoiled rich kid who represented everything Rory couldn't stand--and was of course immediately attracted to. Little did Rory know that Logan's entrance into her life, and her interaction with his family, would be the catalyst for one of the most momentous decisions she would ever make.
With this season of Gilmore Girls, creative forces Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino finally found a way to make the Stars Hollow-Yale dichotomy work perfectly, as each location still stood alone but had decided repercussions on the other. Gone were freshman-year anxieties for Rory and in their place were more adult romantic concerns as well as a class consciousness that, for the first serious time, found Rory on the side of the haves and not the have-nots. While the Rory-Dean drama played itself out nicely and succinctly, it was the devilish Logan who lit a fire underneath this Gilmore girl; the episode "You Jump, I Jump, Jack" was a lovely twist on the '30s romantic comedies that found rich folk at play with words and deeds. Bledel started to fully blossom as Rory grew from ingénue to leading lady, and she was matched peerlessly by Graham, whose passion, anger, stubbornness, and ravishing beauty all came to a head in "Wedding Bell Blues," which featured her two greatest nemeses: her mother and Rory's dad, Christopher (David Sutcliffe). The show's trademark eccentricities were all in place--including a Pulp Fiction party and an elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof, among other things--but it mined the best drama of its run with the season's last four episodes, which found Rory's confidence shaken to the core. To give any of the proceedings away would spoil the drama, but suffice it to say you will be glued to the TV for this season's final four hours; it's Gilmore Girls at its phenomenal best. --Mark Englehart
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