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...Tree Hill) because it has a sense of humor-from the oddball townsfolk of Stars Hollow to the snappy, never sappy dialogue. Girls may look like a drama, but it plays like a romantic comedy. And yet the most central love story is neither the entanglements of single mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) nor of her brainy offspring Rory (Alexis Bledel). It's the one between the two of them: sharp, witty and highly caffeinated, they're Tracy and Hepburn as mother and daughter. -By James Poniewozik
...each of these shows, like Roseanne, recognizes Philip Larkin's dictum: "They f___ you up, your mum and dad." They show families whose parents and kids make real, lasting mistakes that can't be resolved in 22 minutes. (That's not to say they're wholly realistic. Gilmore's Lorelai, unlike most teen moms, has a safety net of wealthy parents...
When Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote Gilmore Girls, on the other hand, she "never set out to create an 'alternative' family"; she envisioned "a mother-daughter relationship where they were more pals than mother and daughter." In this sweet, clever hour-long comedy, 32-year-old single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raises 16-year-old daughter--you do the math--Rory (Alexis Bledel), who's more reserved and adult than Mom; Lorelai wears Daisy Duke cutoffs to Rory's first day in private school and jokes that she offered "to do the principal" to get her daughter accepted...
...family-friendly" sounds like a recipe for harmless pabulum (it calls, vaguely, for "uplifting" shows that won't embarrass or offend an "average" viewer). But it worked: "Gilmore" turns out to be neither crass nor cloying. On the one hand, it's unapologetic about its untraditional family unit - Lorelai made a mistake, but isn't condemned to a life of torture. On the other, it's practically radical to see a WB comedy about a smart teenage girl whose life doesn't revolve around...
...better or worse, each, like "Roseanne," recognizes Philip Larkin's dictum: "They f___ you up, your mum and dad." They show families whose parents and kids make real, lasting mistakes that can't be resolved in 22 minutes. That's not to say they're wholly realistic. "Gilmore"'s Lorelai, unlike most teen moms, has a safety net of wealthy parents, while even the hard-edged "Titus" tends to play dad's psychological cruelty as farce. (As for "Normal," suffice it to say, John Goodman sings "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart...