Shusmky, I hate you. I'll never admit it... but this is a damn good show. Shit, I just did.
Here are the premises of some of today's most popular primetime teen soaps: 1) Bad-boy from wrong side of the tracks lives with the rich and beautiful in Orange County, fistfights ensue; 2) Bad-boy from wrong side of the tracks joins basketball team and fights with estranged brother, fistfights ensue;
3) Chip-on-his-shoulder-boy moves to Colorado to get over his mother's death, fistfights ensue; 4) Girl gets pregnant at 16, raises smart daughter who goes to private school and doesn't have sex until she's 19... wait, what the fuck? That last one is the plot of a show called Gilmore Girls, which was, until my good friend Shumsky suggested I watch it, the subject of many of my rants. There are many things I could say about the show. But very few of them are disparaging. The show's dialogue is smart and funny, characters are just that, instead of being charicatures, relationships are touching and believable... there are black people, for the love of God! This is the WB, we're talking about!!! To add insult to my injury, the two girls are remarkably endearing. Lorelai, (Lauren Graham, who, I'm sure she would hate me for telling you, also starred in Bad Santa) is a smart and sassy and... yeah... gorgeous single mother who finally has embarked on a long-awai
ted relationship with Luke (i don't know who plays him. but he's gruff.) Rory (Alexis something, who was just in that movie... the one that sounds like porn. something about pants? hang on, lemme check imdb.com... Bledel! Alexis Bledel.) is a smart, funny, equally beautiful Yale student. Neither of them need boyfriends. They often don't have them. So... good for them. Also, lets hear it for a show which references High Fidelity, The Kinks, The Great Santini, Nick Drake, Ice Castles, The Communist Manifesto and The Way We Were in one episode. And Shumsky... burn in hell. It's a good show. Fuck. I'm gonna go watch Rambo: First Blood Part Two.
3) Chip-on-his-shoulder-boy moves to Colorado to get over his mother's death, fistfights ensue; 4) Girl gets pregnant at 16, raises smart daughter who goes to private school and doesn't have sex until she's 19... wait, what the fuck? That last one is the plot of a show called Gilmore Girls, which was, until my good friend Shumsky suggested I watch it, the subject of many of my rants. There are many things I could say about the show. But very few of them are disparaging. The show's dialogue is smart and funny, characters are just that, instead of being charicatures, relationships are touching and believable... there are black people, for the love of God! This is the WB, we're talking about!!! To add insult to my injury, the two girls are remarkably endearing. Lorelai, (Lauren Graham, who, I'm sure she would hate me for telling you, also starred in Bad Santa) is a smart and sassy and... yeah... gorgeous single mother who finally has embarked on a long-awai
ted relationship with Luke (i don't know who plays him. but he's gruff.) Rory (Alexis something, who was just in that movie... the one that sounds like porn. something about pants? hang on, lemme check imdb.com... Bledel! Alexis Bledel.) is a smart, funny, equally beautiful Yale student. Neither of them need boyfriends. They often don't have them. So... good for them. Also, lets hear it for a show which references High Fidelity, The Kinks, The Great Santini, Nick Drake, Ice Castles, The Communist Manifesto and The Way We Were in one episode. And Shumsky... burn in hell. It's a good show. Fuck. I'm gonna go watch Rambo: First Blood Part Two.
posted by Frank at 2:18 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home