I’m still pondering how I feel about the imminent Gilmore Girls series finale this upcoming Tuesday, but I just came across a really lovely eulogy that addressed many of my thoughts:
Here was a show that we’ll probably rarely see again. It had heart and smart. It was full of fizzy joy: a ’30s screwball comedy reinvented for the new millenium, with Lauren Graham’s Lorelai Gilmore as a descendent of those savvy, fast-talking dames brought to gleeful life by Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard. Lorelai’s love life was a mess, but she worked on the relationship that counted the most. And a mother-daughter relationship has never been explored with such depth and warmth and sweet, zingy humor than the one between Lorelai and Rory, played expertly by Alexis Biedel. But the show also dared to show Lorelai as a single parent (and a young one, who had Rory at 16), struggling to do the right thing by her child, while trying to find her own sense of self, her independence as a businesswoman and hopefully the right man to share it all with. Lorelai also faced an ongoing battle with her chilly, emotionally distant mother Emily (the deft perfection of Kelly Bishop). Lorelai Gilmore is one of the great characters in TV history, an important one, perhaps the best female character since Mary Richards…
Do go read, and in case you missed it — here’s our interview with Keiko Agena (Lane Kim)
