Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

Season one was interesting

Season one was pretty good with some interesting characters. The lead Alexis Bledel who plays Rory is absolutely stunning and also a great actress considering her youth. The rest of the cast including Lauren Graham who plays Lorelai is great as well and copes with the wisecracks she's called on to deliver. The rest of the cast is also great. On the negative side Scott Patterson was wildly miscast as the diner owner Luke. I haven't seen this actor in any other roles so I don't know what he would be good at playing. The Lion King or something? Sorry but huge miscasting.

Anyway, I really enjoyed season one of this, but by season two it started to grate. The thing which was by far the most annoying was the way they kept changing Lorelai's mother Emily's personality from episode to episode, apparently just to act as a foil for Lorelai, so one episode they would be arguing about one thing and the next they would be arguing about something else.

Pet peeve: the scenes of cooking with Melissa McCarthy were completely ridiculous, for crying out loud don't store your produce in pretty little arrangements, or keep lots of bottles on shelves in direct sunlight, put them into proper storage, and don't stick your fingers into the food. The practices in that kitchen are truly unprofessional.

Why is there a shelf of books in the kitchen? The whole kitchen scenes were completely absurd. Also I would like to see this woman actually cope with a day's work in a kitchen.

Realistically the running jokes about Lorelai drinking too much coffee and Lorelai and Rory only eating takeaway food should be accompanied by a running joke about her chronic constipation/diarrhea.

Something which is quite weird for me since I'm not from the USA is that almost all of the characters behave like passive aggressively and endlessly do things like saying that it's fine or everything is OK when it clearly isn't. Is this what Americans are like? I can't believe it, it would be great if there was just one non-passive-aggressive character.

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