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Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fourth Season (Repackage)(DVD)
Season four marks a year of transitions for the Gilmores. Lorelai
quits her job as manager of the Independence Inn, realizing her
ambition of opening an inn of her own, The Dragonfly, with her
best friend, Sookie. But various setbacks make renovating the new
inn harder than Lorelai could have imagined. Lorelai & Sookie
start a catering business to help pay for the expenses, made all
the more difficult because Sookie is pregnant. Meanwhile, Rory is
adjusting to her new life at Yale University, coping with the
trials & tribulations that come with living at college. The
stress of academia is bundled with having to handle her eccentric
fellow students, especially her roommates, and the pressure of
achieving her dream of becoming a journalist. All the while, the
Gilmore girls still have to deal with Lorelai's parents every
Friday night, the men of love lives past and the relationships of
those who come in and out of Stars Hollow.
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The sum of its parts was definitely greater than the season
whole as Gilmore Girls kicked off its fourth year by separating
its high-powered mother-daughter duo. After years of toil at
snooty private school Chilton, Rory (Alexis Bledel) was finally
off to the greener pastures of college as she began her first
year at Yale. The not-so-long distance put a crimp in her
relationship with her mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham), as the two
were forced to continue their chatty conversations via phone--not
exactly the same as trading barbs face-to-face. While Rory
adjusted to college life with cranky roommate Paris (Liza Weil)
in tow, Lorelai found herself without a daughter, but gained a
boyfriend in the form of Jason "Digger" Stiles (Chris Eigeman), a
childhood friend and now her her's business partner. But the
lure of Stars Hollow, the Gilmores' cherished country town, would
prove too hard to resist, as Lorelai finally made plans to open
her own inn, and the two ladies found themselves attracted to
town residents--for Lorelai, an intensifying of her friendship
with diner owner Luke (Scott Patterson), and for Rory, a return
to old boyfriend Dean (Jared Padalecki), which put a decided
tension into a show that sorely needed it. Nevermind that both
men were married to other women!
The first half of the fourth season definitely foundered, as the
show's usually topnotch creative team struggled to find a way to
keep the Gilmore chemistry afloat despite separating their main
characters. There wasn't much drama to be found for Rory in
starting college, and though it got off to a great start,
Lorelai's relationship with Jason never fully gelled. However,
once the show got its girls into the arms of their Stars Hollow
men, it turned around almost immediately, surging towards a
creative revival that put its ratings higher than they'd ever
been before. Along the way to its surprising and complex season
finale, there were great episodes to be had: "Girls in Bikinis,
Boys Doin' the Twist," which found Rory and Paris on spring
break; "The Reigning Lorelai," centering on an unexpected
funeral; "The Festival of Living Art," which had Stars Hollow
resident re-creating classic works; and "Luke Can See Her Face,"
which finally brought the Luke-Lorelai romance to the forefront.
The season may have started out rough, but this fourth year ended
with a bang, and the promise of more fireworks to come. --Mark
Englehart