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Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Repackage)(DVD)
In season five of the Emmy®-winning series, Lorelai and Rory face
major life changes. Lorelai is happy owning and operating an inn
with best friend Sookie, but quickly learns the demands of being
the boss. A bigger surprise is that her longtime friendship with
Luke has become a romance. Lorelai and Luke try to hide their
relationship, but the town soon knows they are dating. The
reappearance of Rory's her, Christopher, adds to the drama.
Rory's romantic life is also complicated; at the forefront is her
relationship with Dean (recurring guest star Jared Padalecki,
Supernatural) — who's now married. In her second year at Yale,
Rory is more involved in the college newspaper, and meets Logan,
who comes from the same old-money world as her grandparents. Rory
could be on the path of her dreams — or is she? Notable guest
stars this season include Norman Mailer, Michael DeLuise and
Carole King.
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Perennially 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: ing
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