I don't feel like she completely does either. But she's very insistent about it.

The show would have suffered if it stayed entirely within its wheelhouse of small town charm and low-stakes storylines. Rory being the perfect daughter is not a sustainable story engine and not remotely true to the character as she's been established. It's fitting that the show shift in tone just as Rory's perspective…

I'm thinking more "I Get a Sidekick Out of You" in Season 6. *cringe*

I think the 8 episode arc of Rory/Dean together is as short as ASP could have made it without shortchanging the story. I think she definitely recognised that no-one was invested in them staying together but it was great to see them leverage Dean as a contrast to Logan. (It seems bizarre to think that the two coexisted…

I wish we had a decent spoiler policy for these reviews (I have a newbie friend who's avoiding them because of the rampant spoilers). The ideal situation would have been if Sims had set up a spoiler policy at the beginning which ended every review but as it is, we've reached a critical mass of rewatchers : watchers…

"You know, if we died right now, and decomposed, it would vacuum us up and no one would ever know."
"…Freaky."

They were right to tell that story, even if it was excruciating to watch. I also liked that ASP recognised that noone was invested in Rory/Dean 3.0 so broke them up after 6 episodes. The event was certainly vital as one of Rory's first big fuckups and certainly set the table for her UnGraduate persona.

I don't know, I feel like Jess is one of the unequivocally good parts of Season 4 because of his Luke scenes. He finally acknowledges the love and support Luke gave him and they show a real camaraderie in those episodes. I also felt like Rory making the choice not to leave with him was a positive moment for her…

That single line validates the existence of Season 7 for me. It just… ughhh crying now.

Emily is not at all confident that Lorelai would *ever* come back for dinners without the debt, especially when Rory goes off to college. So yes, she'd rather have the debt there and a relationship with her daughter (something that only grew over the last three seasons BECAUSE of that obligation) than have their…

Bechdel Test is not a marker of quality blah blah nor is it useful to gauge a specific episode's feminism blah blah only useful in examining broader trends blah blah etc.

Come visit us at the Teen Wolf reviews, where Phil consistently misattributes character actions and it took a month to fix mistitled reviews.

Fellow Bunheads in mourning, Hollywood United Methodist Church is the place that Michelle auditioned at in the *sob* series finale.

I agree with Phil that the show went from more serious to comedy but I disagree that that was a positive transition, specifically in Series 4.

@avclub-13d7df3c17502af69aafccc758195f96:disqus :The character 'totems' are as follows: Annie = cup of tea, George = Star of David, Mitchell = fingerless gloves, Nina = Ultrasound, Eve = bib, Hal = domino, Alex = her number on a piece of paper from the Cafe, Tom = stake.

In a reversal, Derek thinks Cora has left for South America but she turns up inexplicably dead next season and no one will question why.

I may have yelled at the computer screen when I saw that someone decided to inaugurate these reviews with a giant massive spoiler.

Okay, here's a thing you can do to save Cora, but I don't want you to do it! You shouldn't do it because you have to fight Kali on the full moon and you need your Alpha powers! But also neither of you have powers on that full moon because of the eclipse so that makes no sense.

South America.

I think multiple takes involving water + tattoo makeup = bad idea was the reasoning behind Scott.