Season 7, Episode 11

I’m still sticking with Gilmore Girls as it’s the last season, ever – meaning there are only a handful of episodes left. I might as well stick this one out as at the very least, the show finale should be decent. Luckily, that the Christmas episode that aired this week, Santa’s Secret Stuff, was funnier than ones in the recent past, although nothing earth-shattering occurred.

Christopher, Lorelai, Rory, and Gigi are spending Christmas together in Stars Hollow, and obviously doing a decent job of integrating the whole family together, doing festive stuff like decorating, sewing up cranberry and popcorn garlands, and shopping at the mall.

Meanwhile, Luke is about to fight April’s mom over custody and visitation rights, so he shows up at the inn and asks Lorelai if she’d write a character recommendation letter for him. Lorelai is happy to do so, but for whatever reason she feels the need to hide this task from Christopher.

It’s a no brainier that Lorelai is feeling a bit of regret regarding the missed opportunity to have married Luke. She’s still keeping things from Christopher, and who can blame her, based on the way he flies off the handle. But it kind of goes both ways. It doesn’t seem like either Christopher or Luke really advertised their dust-up. Was it just too embarrassing for the manly-men? Anyhow, Lorelai, once again is hiding things from the ones she loves. I’m thinking the season finale ought to have her not with anybody and traipsing off to Thailand, alone.

Anyway, enough of the love stuff. I really started chuckling during the antics of the very pregnant Lane, Zack, and Mrs. Kim, now living with the expecting couple in preparation for the birth of the twins. I just found the whole situation bizarre, and the manner in which everyone was way too into the prospect of children except Lane was done in a good Gilmore fashion. Extra nod to Zack’s litany of bands where he name-drops the Decemberists (I only recently heard of them).

Another point given for some new Sam Phillips music during Lorelai’s wordless writer’s block sequence.

So this was a fine episode. It didn’t completely restore my faith that the program’s producers know what they’re doing with these quirky characters, but it was a step in the right direction.

TV Shows: Gilmore Girls

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