Couch Opening!

Gilmore Girls.  Um, having a hard time coming up with comments about this.  Did anything happen?  I usually like Gilmore Girls -- all shows, really, except Lost -- when nothing much is doing, but  this episode seemed to move past nothing doing to some other, less amusing place.  Let's see . . . some housekeeping on the Lane-Zack-twins front, a lot of name-dropping of indie rock venues and bands, per usual.  Black Cat!  9:30 Club!  First Unitarian!  I know those places!  Magic Stick?  In, um, Detroit?  Also, apparently, important in that annoying way where sometimes Lane or Zack has to explain.  Were any of the bands they mentioned real?  Grizzly Bear was one of them, I think, but I hadn't heard of the others.  The Miss Patty-Babette revue was a bit of a let-down, but the Lorelai karaoke was good, just because did we know that Lauren Graham could sing like that?  I wish drunken "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly version, not Whitney) had not been sung in the key of Lorelai-and-Luke-work-their-way-back-to-each-other, because I'm a little embarrassed by my investment in that story.  I don't really have anything to say about Rory and her apparently dimming post-Yale prospects or the prospect of a proposal from Little Lord Patronizing.

Veronica Mars.  Quite the little civics lesson.  Shall we review?  Underage drinking = wrong.  Graffiti = wrong, but = OK if someone in your family was injured in Iraq.  Muslims = not terrorists, but possibly = mildly chauvinistic, but definitely love freedom + America, and therefore = manageable.  Aside from all that, there was some good stuff -- I think it was almost worth the tedious, overwrought fake I.D. agitprop to see Keith cleaning house at the Sheriff's Department and using Wallace and Piz to do it.  Plenty of screen time for Percy Daggs, Tina Majorino and Chris Lowell, some of it very funny.  Good music this week . . . So, to sum up, kids, don't drink and cross the street and, if you're going to have sex with someone who comes from a different religious background than your own, draw the blinds so your illegal alien fiance can't take photos.  Good night!  -- Peter   

Comments

[rachel]

Black Cat! 9:30 Club! are DC Clubs!

[peter]

I know but I can't express myself -- I meant to say, "these are music venues Zack name-checked and these are bands I don't know." Fixing . . .