I'm not alone! I also liked the musical, but I think it would have worked better without the advisory committee framing.
(a) The town puts on a musical ->
(b) Lorelai goes to see it with Luke ->
(c) Lorelai thinks it's as charming as everyone else ->
(d) Luke's incredulous that no one else notices the play is terrible.

Listen, I love Kate Bush and don't particularly care what her politics are as long as the answer isn't "white supremacist" I guess, but "failed to give a shrieking denunciation," is a bit misleading. She said, "I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful…I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a…

If you've only listened to her Wuthering Heights-era stuff, I'd recommend checking out her (slightly) later work (Hounds of Love, Sensual World, and Aerial in particular). She's one of my favorite artists of all time, but her early stuff is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I, too, have read Joaquin Phoenix's wikipedia page and thought this during the episode.

I guess…but once they couldn't get the actor back, it really wouldn't be that hard to think of another reason for her to have a breakdown. Francie alone could have sufficed!

He was always there! He was just right off screen.

I really don't think Tristan needed to be the catalyst of that meltdown.

I 100% thought Claudia the therapist was Mae Whitman until actual Mae Whitman showed up and gave me vertigo.

Rory's reluctance to consider grad school both (a) felt out-of-character, and (b) made me realize, "hey, that would have been a good way to fill up some of that 9 years…"

"They couldn’t get Chad Michael Murray to come back for a few minutes as Tristan?"

No, I'm pretty sure you have to graduate from somewhere to be an alum. Otherwise you're just a matriculate.

I don't mean Rory; I mean the show itself.

Can't speak for the penis-possessing among you but that sure as fuck is NOT true at the good ole fish factory.

I appreciated drunk Sophie at Comic Con finally just saying, "Look, it made for a dramatic moment."

It's weird because I remember the first few seasons as being decidedly anti-old money. Rory went to Yale and suddenly everything they'd mocked at Chilton was celebrated.

Bledel's performance dramatically improved from episode to episode. I spent this one wondering whether she'd always been that bad but by the third ep I wondered whether she'd ever been this good.

Oh she certainly mentioned having a couple other articles, but they seemed to imply it was an article here or there over the years and only at major outlets. She should be copy writing and writing for minor publications in the meantime (at least based on the experiences of my friend who's in a very similar position).…

I'm actually happy that Rory's professional life is a mess (entitlement coming home to roost), but I wish they'd put more thought into how she could end up in this position 9 years later. Someone who hasn't been working consistently in those 9 years wouldn't be getting New Yorker pieces. Either she needs to be getting…

Note the bottle of champagne sitting next to her as she announces her pregnancy

You joke, but my mother's school is off next week, and one of her (6th grade) students burst into tears today when the class started joking that they'd all be deported before they could get back (a lot of her students are illegal immigrants or the spawn thereof). Her kids genuinely aren't sure whether they'll be able…