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SpoilerFor the love of Stars Hollow, will someone please cancel 'Gilmore Girls'?
‘Gilmore Girls” (7 p.m., WGN-Ch. 9) is a repeat Tuesday night, but there’s a new episode next week. Let’s hope it’s among the show’s last.
There’s talk that the CW wants to extend the long-running show for an eighth season. Rumor has it that Lauren Graham, who plays Lorelai Gilmore, may be amenable to the idea, but the same rumor mill says she won’t do it without her co-star, Alexis Bledel, who plays Rory and is allegedly not as keen on continuing.
As desperate as the CW network might be for content that does not involve booty-shaking Pussycat Dolls, an eighth season of “Gilmore Girls” would be a mistake. Speaking as a viewer who’s stuck by the show through thick and thin, I think the comedy-drama should end its run in May. It’s already gone on for one season too long.
Not that I would have ended things with the scene that closed the previous season. Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino drove the show straight into a ditch last May, when she ended the season with Lorelai in bed with Christopher (David Sutcliffe), Rory’s dad and the guy that Lorelai always ends up with when she runs out of other options.
It was a particularly mean-spirited move, considering that Sherman-Palladino already had announced that she was exiting the program. Fans had waited for years for Luke and Lorelai to get together, but breaking them up and putting Lorelai back with the callow Christopher — yet again — was going too far. We had already been there and done that, and I was thoroughly sick of those two as a couple.
I had to see where new executive producer David Rosenthal, who took over from Sherman-Palladino this season, would do with the mess that the show’s creator left behind. Suffice to say my worst fears were more than realized.
[url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/08/gg713_d011rs.jpg][/url] That’s not to say there haven’t been a few stellar lines or the occasionally satisfying scene (especially anything featuring Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann as Emily and Richard Gilmore, Lorelai’s parents), but other than that, the season has been a train wreck.
The lowest point had to be when Lorelai, who was nearly bullied into marrying Christopher, abjectly begged him to forgive her for still being friends with Luke.
Seeing her in the Jan. 30 episode, “To Whom It May Concern,” practically chasing Christopher around the kitchen, pleading that she didn’t love Luke and that she loved Christopher — well, it was pathetic. No, appalling. Lorelai Gilmore, groveling for the love of an immature, controlling twerp? Give me a break.
Not that “Gilmore Girls” hasn’t hit creative low points in the past (much of Season Six wasn’t exactly a high point either, it must be noted). But this year has been in another category of badness altogether.
There wasn’t just the Christopher debacle: Rory repeatedly put up with caddish, rude behavior from her wealthy boyfriend, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry). Sure, she stood up to him eventually, and he did have his decent moments, but none of his frequent jerkiness was pleasant to watch.
Between Lorelai and Rory, we’ve been treated all season to the sight of two women putting up with petulant, selfish, unacceptable behavior from the rich, spoiled men in their lives. Wow, what a great turn of events for a show that was originally supposed to be about two spunky, independent women making their way in the world with love and support from each other and their extended network of quirky friends.
This season of “Gilmore Girls” has just trashed that legacy. The sad fact is, I no longer care if Luke and Lorelai get back together. I just want this whole thing to be over.
The last couple of episodes before the show went on a break weren’t as painful as what had gone before. They were actually almost good, and featured some welcome moments of tenderness between Lorelai and her own mother, Emily.
While I can still summon a few molecules of affection for a show I’ve devotedly watched and often enjoyed for seven seasons, I want “Gilmore Girls” to ride off into the sunset. I’ll thank the fast-talking, pop-culture obsessed Gilmore women for the good times, but the truth is, this show long ago passed its sell-by date. It’s time to move out of Stars Hollow.