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Yall we enjoy it and aren’t thinking that deeply it’s not pretending to be anything but fantasy land for white privileged American women lol and we enjoy that

ASP totally crapped on her characters before she sailed out of town at the end of S6 from Luke’s OOC reaction to April to Lorelei’s OOC flight to Christopher’s bed after that fight. So I’m more forgiving of how they tried to clean up in S7.

This was an exceptional review of the first 2 seasons and echos my thoughts on fantastic storytelling. I've watched all 3 seasos 3 times within the last 6 weeks and am still going down rabbitholes about this show.

You're brilliant.....wish you the best

Ngl bitch you had the worst take about having one season wtf is wrong with you

this makes me wanna rewatch himym sooo bad lol

this is such a great video, i subscribed seconds in. this review actually shook my whole perception of the film. i hadn't considered your second reading of paul's character at all-- "revenge paul", you called it-- until now and i find it really compelling and interesting. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts.

Once you went into saying that Americans are embracing fascism or ignoring climate change, it tells the listener that you are not a serious person. It reveals that you are not a person that actually looks into what is going, but rather just goes with what you are told. I did see a lot of Americans embracing fascism during the whole covid scare though. That was a bit scary, seeing how people would just gladly give up anything because the government told them that it was for their own good

Up til season 6 imo. Without Amy the show lost some of its “magic”..but it’s a part of my heart and always will be.

I love your videos, please dont stop making them

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I just have to tell you that this is so well written, well researched, and so thoughtfully put together. Excellent, excellent job.

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This is wonderful. Thank you so much

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I think the biggest strike for me was Imelda Staunton's casting. Out of all 3 versions she probably embodied Elizabeth best in appearance. But, I felt, she could not shake off the shadow of Professor Umbridge. It immediately took me out of the Crown universe every time she was on screen and made her instantly dislikeable, which did not help with connecting with this season unlike the previous 4.

you said it’s weird they know so much about literature and such but it’s really not. they had the best possible education so they are very cultured

Episode 7 where Richie finds his purpose is the greatest episode of television I've EVER WATCHED. Beautiful, heartfelt, powerful, uplifting, and cathartic. And I'll never hear "Love Story" the same way again 😭♥️🙌

Really wonderful analysis.

Barbie isn't a movie it's a product masquerading as a movie. Maestro was boring. The Zone of Interest is at best a 30 minute short. Glad that Oppenheimer won. Would like to see a sequel to The Holdover set 10-15 years later.

Lorelei and Rory were the real villains on the show.

I wouldn't call any of the Roys non-academic; they would've all gone to the most prestigious schools in the world and would've been pressured by Logan to have a good grounding, Roman is the smartest of them all but he's the most limited emotionally and it makes him the worst candidate for the CEO role. Other than that, great insight. 👍

I completely agree. The only issue I had with this whole series was that Claire Bear is just too perfect. She's the absolute to the last molecule perfect therapeutic presence for Carmy and it was just a tad too syrupy for the shows tone.

Non judgemental, a rare thing nowadays 🥰

I’m glad that this is more than a ‘Rory Gilmore an awful person’ essay. It’s more nuanced and insightful than the average TH-camr rant

As good as Brian Cox Sarah Snook Keiran Culkin were Jeremy strong will forever be my number one boy

Because it is comforting watching it. You feel that there is at least one place in this world where people live in peace and harmony, no social or racial unrest, no tension between different groups, nobody demonstrating against police brutality or taking to the streets with burning tires and stones, no rioting or strife. And watch those workplaces, they are Heavens compared to the real ones..! Who wouldn't want to have Lorelai or Luke as a boss...? Mitchum and Emily would present the opposing version but of course they are the baddies, they are outsiders to the general mood. No racial tensions either, Michael can belittle Lorelai and Cesar do the same with Luke and they will just laugh it off. You'd think this is Truman's village where everyone is playing a preassigned role so there is no possible conflict, at times I had the impression that is the place I was seeing. All the conflicts are personal, within families, and limited to the main protagonists while the supporting characters are there only to serve as a background noise and as a foil for the former. See how most if not all of them have no independent lives, they all are visible and important only as they relate in their interaction with the main ones, namely the Gilmores and Luke, and of course the boyfriends, Dean, Max, Jess and so on. So for ex. we come to know absolutely nothing about Taylor, Miss Patty, Babette and her hubby, Kirk (except his story with Lulu), the father, the street musician and the rest. Take for example Taylor, all he does is to serve as cheerleader for Rory and to propose improvements to the city or protest because someone littered the streets. Kirk spends his time doing odd jobs and coming up with weird things projects. All we know about Miss Patty realtes to his dance school and her past as a dancer. Michael is there mostly as comic relief and so the visit by his mother played absolutely no rol in the stoty. In fact the only people who come to know something else in town is the Kim family, Lane and her mom. And of course about Luke and Sooki but for the same reason alreay explained, because of their close relation to the Gilmores. All in all, GGs is just a fantasy, a fairy tale gone somehow sour as the plot unfolds but still the sense of irreality remains. For a lucid eye it is very difficult that any of what we see in the screen happens in real life, at least in the same way. Richard: "You need money...? Let me get my checkbook" Luke: "Need 30.000 bucks...? No problem, just lets go to the bank".

grew up the only boy in a family with three sisters. i am unironically in love with the show loreli and rory genuinely helped get me through the worst break up of my life. and to this day i go back and watch random episodes

I've read a lot of comments ftom people who were labeled as "gifted" and "the smart one" as kids, the ones to whom much was given, but much was also expected, and the pressure of that. And they say that Rory's arc is very realistic.

I really love how the show was never really telling us how to live but was simply allowing the viewer to be apart of the characters lives. I don't really understand when persons complain about the flaws and errors made by the characters, like they were supposed to be exemplary ppl. The characters were written to be flawed and that was impart what made them relatable. None of the characters were villains (for the most part) or heros.

Perfection!!! I agree on everything you've said!!! ❤

The book was fantastic

I think that season 5 was not as well received as previous seasons was because most of people of a certain age remember the events as they happened. Not many people are still alive who saw Queen Elizabeth II accede to the throne, but many of us remember the wedding of Charles and Diana and the disaster that followed. We remember Diana's Panorama interview and we saw how she tried to destroy Charles. To me, this was the most fascinating season of all.

I always thought GG was devoid of real conflict. It's all very glazed and surface level. I started liking it more once Rory became more problematic. She was more realistic.

I thought the show was more of a warning like their charector growth was learning that the people around them are affected by their selfish choices. That Rory wasn’t their for her best friend when she got pregnant, she just left her behind. Lorelai never thought about how her leaving with her baby affected her parents. That Rory learned that there isn’t always safety in money and her mom was right, that Lorelai learned parenting isn’t easy when the child isn’t perfect anymore and that life isn’t easy on your own. And yeah they aren’t great friends and people are meant to be independent. Raising a child is supposed to be a partnership and growing up should entail learning that not everything is about you. I’ve watched Gilmore Girls 3-4 times all the way through and started it many other times. It’s a good show but definetly flawed since most people think Suki and Lyn are losers for becoming moms, but (marital assualt aside) they have safety and partnership and fulfilling lives. It’s more realistic than Lyn being a rockstar. Maybe doing online school and getting a degree in music theory and teaching at the highschool or something but For many people watching teen pregnancy is a real thing and the duffes guy usually grows up to be a pretty committed hard working man and a good dad.

Logans my favorite character :(

Subscribed on the spot. Love this so much!!

I will say I moved to a small town for the better education for my son I do work in that small town I used to commute 30 minutes to it and when this town has two big factories in it one is an appliance factory and the other one is a paper factory when these factories come out of work every single gas station is crowded the grocery store is crowded most people commute from another county into this town but when the factories get out of work there are more people that I work in these two factories then live in the small town it is like that in a small town it is really not in common to be standing in a line waiting to get a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread have six people behind you and somebody is showing the cashier their grandkids pictures when I watch the show as a teenager my mother hated this show so i would get the liveroom to myself another thing that I learned after re-watching the show as an adult that I must have missed as a child Laura got to trust fund when she was 25 that's how she was able to afford the house because there was no way that a woman making about maybe 30 40,000 in the 2000s as a single woman with a child could afford a house like that

Shut up about your fascist fear mongering...

This was awesome. Great insight.. when’s the Season 3 review?!?

came here just to say that not a single episode has made me comfortable

you kind of knailed this one !!!!!! just gorgeous thank u :)

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Why did you delete your video on season 2? It was a great video.

What a wonderful retrospective, so beautifully analysed. The one thing I guess we disagree on though is the revival X'D For me, the fact that it chose to forego the traditional whimsy in the face of a real world-changing tragedy made sense. I watched the show as a high-achieving Rory-coded teenager (minus the privilege) but by the time the revival came around, I was the older Rory, flailing and struggling, dealing with death and grief, with my previous sense of whimsy depleted, and I related to it so much. I grew up with the show and, with the revival, the show grew up with me.

My only gripe about the entire show is the sibs always said things like “I mean you know, c’mon let’s get in there and uh, you know, like, Leopold von Ranke this shit.” Like WHAT, no one in that room got that reference 😂

Rewatching this in my 30s all I can think is black coffee with a poptart for breakfast is a recipe for some kind of digestive problem