Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season
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Actor: Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena, Lauren Graham, Melissa Mccarthy, Scott PattersonBrand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Amy Sherman-palladino
Writer: Amy Sherman-palladino
Producer: Daniel Palladino
Producer: David S. Rosenthal
Producer: Gavin Polone
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 945 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 76247
Studio: WB Television Network, The
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Full Screen; Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season
Movie Review: Despite some controversial plot developments, still a brilliant show
Summary: 5 Stars
First, I have to begin this review with what is simultaneously an expression of appreciation and concern. Very late in Season Six it was announced that THE GILMORE GIRLS creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino had not reached an agreement concerning their contract and rather than accept a one-year contract rather than the two-year contract they were demanding, they decided to leave the show. The contribution of these two individuals over the past six years has been immense. Their fingerprints are all over the show. Anyone who has seen or heard Amy Sherman-Palladino interviewed knows that Lorelei Gilmore is essentially an extension of Amy. She and her husband created a wonderful show and as we head into Season Seven any fan cannot help but be a little nervous about things. Amy and Daniel wrote by far the bulk of all the episodes and also directed many. There is a sense in which Amy Sherman-Palladino WAS the show. So even as I express a tremendous debt of gratitude for one of the finest quality TV shows of the past few years, I'll admit I'm scared about Season Seven. Season Seven will almost definitely be the final year of the show. The contracts of both Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel end at the end of next year and Lauren Graham, at least, has indicated that she doesn't see the show going past next year, though she hasn't absolutely ruled out accepting a new contract.
By any standard, Season Six was the oddest in the show's run. One thing that especially perplexed me was the way that many of the show's opening credits characters barely appeared in the show for long stretches at a time. In fact, except for Lorelei, Rory, and Luke, all of the characters on the show disappeared for significant periods of time. More than that, for significant periods of time some characters didn't interact at all. Until fairly late in the year, Lorelei barely talked to her parents. I especially missed the dinners that Lorelei and Rory would have at the Gilmore mansion and all of the wonderfully bitchy interchanges between the women.
Season Five ended with Rory moving into the coach house at her grandparents, completely severing things with her mother. This led to an odd period in Season Six in which Rory did community service (to atone for her legal misdeeds at the end of Season Five) and did some work with her grandmother's DAR chapter. Meanwhile, Luke accepted Lorelei's proposal. Things went smoothly until Luke discovered that he had a daughter he knew nothing about (April, played winningly by Vanessa Marano, who manages to do a convincing job of being a complete nerd and a very attractive teen at the same time). Now, this is where the show lost me in Season Six, along with several friends I have who like the show. Luke becomes inexplicably protective and secretive about his daughter April, not even revealing to Lorelei her existence for several weeks. This rightfully bugs Lorelei but she reacts by assuming the worst that this portends somehow the end of their relationship. Things go from bad to worse, eventually causing Lorelei to avoid Luke in the final couple of episodes, when she suddenly pops up at the diner and delivers the ultimatum that they go elope or end the relationship. Luke quite reasonably declines such a suggestion from a woman who was acting somewhat hysterical, and the episode and season ends with Lorelei rushing into the arms of Chris, Rory's father. So, Season Seven will end with Lorelei distraught (given the bleakness of her expression as she lay in Chris's bed in the final episode) and Luke perhaps thinking that their relationship had hit a rocky place but not knowing that she had cheated on him. Most fans were left feeling that while Luke should have been less secretive about April and certainly shouldn't have kept them apart, Lorelei overreacted in a way that made her character somewhat unbelievable. Lauren Graham has stated her own disagreements with the course the story in Season Six, so it is good to know that Lorelei herself agrees with the fans.
Oh, and some things happen between Rory and her boyfriend, but I can't be bothered to remember what. Seriously, does anyone still care about Rory's boyfriends? I really feel that the show missed multiple opportunities with Rory's love life. Like most fans, I liked Jared Parecki's character Dean, but I have detested both Milo Ventimiglia's Dean (I don't care if they are a real life couple, they lacked chemistry onscreen) and Matt Czuchry's Logan. More and more, this is a part of the show I tolerate more than enjoy.
Nonetheless, despite some strains in the plot lines this remained a first rate show. There is a fictional work mentioned in some novel I once read (it may have been in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE) entitled THE TRANSFIGURATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE. In many ways, that describes the real subject matter of this show. A whole universe of small, recognizable, familiar moments are transgured through their fictional representation. The dialogue, perhaps not as razor sharp as on earlier seasons, is still about the best on TV. And after six years, the characters are like a bunch of dear friends for whom we continue to pull. I'll be honest: I miss the old formula. I miss the days when most episodes centered on Stars Hollow and Kirk and Taylor and Miss Patty and Sookie and Michel. But I respect the way that they have striven to keep the show fresh and new. That has meant taking the story to some places that might not have been my own first choice.
Let me close by saying that the seventh season will also be the first on the new CW network. The early rumors are that THE GILMORE GIRLS is most likely to be paired on its usual Tuesday night with VERONICA MARS. This is going to be a great night of TV. As much as I love THE GILMORE GIRLS, I absolutely adore VERONICA MARS, which I think along with LOST the best show on TV. For my money, this will be the best back-to-back hours of the week on TV. Hopefully they will manage to give a very fine show a proper final season. The rumor all along has been that they hoped to go seven seasons, ending the show with the graduation of Rory from Yale and the marriage of Lorelei and Luke. Whether that happens or not, it has been a remarkable run for a very fine show.
Note: each year Salon.com gives an award named after BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, the Buffy. It is so named because although in the opinion of many TV critics and scholars BUFFY was one of the greatest television shows of the past ten or so years, and yet was almost completely ignored by the Emmys. So each year The Buffy is given to the best show on TV neglected by the Emmys. Last year the Buffy was given to VERONICA MARS. I assume a show cannot receive the award twice. If so, I hope that this year the award will go to one of the runners up from last year: THE GILMORE GIRLS. It is tragic the way that the rather conservative Emmys persistently ignores many of the best shows on TV to promote lesser shows that appear on the Big Four and HBO.
Summary of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season
A drama about a thirty-ish single mother and her teenaged daughter living in a small town in New England.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 09/19/06
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
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