Those are some mighty fine lapels.
8.7
"Great"
The fifth season of the gloriously return to form "Gilmore Girls" is quickly heading to it's inclusion. The last few episodes have basically been set ups for what the season will eventually conclude with. No exception here. Things are changing the girls' lives. And for the most part, they all seem to be for the better. Lorelei may not share the enthusiasm that everyone has for Rory and Logan, but mostly, it's positive changes. Richard and Emily are back into the thick of things as they have been absent from the previous two episodes. There is foreshadowing in this episode of some dire things that will happen very, very soon between Lorelei, Emily, Richard, and Rory. The friday night dinner, anyone?. I titled this episode "nerve-wracking" basically because, well, it is. The treatment towards Lorelei by Emily at dinner, the dinner itself and Lorelei's feelings, and Rory's first few days at her new job. When there is tension in the air with the Gilmore clan, it's real tension. The fifth season is winding down, and these last few episodes of the season are really bringing a smashing season to an equally great end. All season long, the show has been great, and we can only hope that season six keeps up the momentum that season five gained back. So, what were our friendly residents of Stars Hollow up to this week?. Read on...
Where should we start first?. Friday night dinner. Richard and Emily are back, and even if you hate them, you feel their abscence when they are gone, and appreciate it when they are back. Their return has Lorelei, pretty much because of Emily, unnerved. Rory goes to dinner by herself as Emily and Lorelei are still not on speaking terms. Rory informs her interested grandparents about Logan, and then lets out about her new position from Mitchum Huntzberger, and that she had dinner at his mansion. Richard and Emily are horrified when they realize that they have not done the same back and invited Logan over to their place for dinner. Even worse, it's already been a week!. Rory warns Logan, who is up for it. Lorelei calls and tells Emily that she would like to come to dinner this Friday. The same night that Logan is coming. Emily knows what she is doing, and entraps Lorelei again. When the dinner rolls around, Richard and Emily practically throw themselves at Logan, while Emily treats Lorelei as if she's not there or has ever even been there before. Lorelei cannot stand the way that her parents are practically "marrying" the two off already. Her thoughts on Logan don't improve when she sees him stealing Emily's sewing box and replacing it with something he stole from the last rich house he went too. It's a thing he does. Oh, how cute!. Emily notices and freaks, and Lorelei gets it back. The evening ends with an angry Lorelei confronting her parents on their treatment of the two, and lets them know what the Huntzberger family really thought of Rory, and that this job she got from Mitchum is just hush money. Naturally, the two don't believe her and won't even think of such a thing. It's times like these where you wonder how Lorelei managed to be so smart and level headed when growing up in that household. Did she really come from these two people?. She knows what is happening, and she is looking out for Rory's best interests. Logan's family treated her like dirt, and Logan steals things from rich peoples' houses. Anyone else see the warning signs?. Has Rory been completely blinded by love?. I never liked Logan right from the start. He was too rich and smarmy with that wide Joker grin. He changed my mind a little when he stood up to his family and for Rory during his family's dinner, but now I am back in the "I don't know about him" category. Even though Emily and Richard can drive you insane, they are great. Emily's respone to the new maid with "you're insane" when asked about the floral arrangement on the dining room table was classic Emily. Moments like that really are great. Only Emily can do that. This was a tense, funny, angry, and well written storyline.
Equally big here is Rory starting as an intern at Mitchum Huntzberger's paper. Starting a new job anywhere where you are the new kid is hard and scary. But imagine this place. Rory finds her way after being greeted by a receptionist who sounds like she smokes eight packs of cigarettes a day for the last thirty years. The place is all pointed out to Rory with help from fellow employee Harry. Huntzberger himself shows up and Rory follows him like all his other lap dogs. It's scary. She doesn't know exactly what to do, what to say, or even if she is supposed to follow him in everywhere he goes. She has boned up on her research of the man and has found out more about him in a day than Logan in his whole life. Worried that she might not be fitting in, she desperatley calls Logan to find out anything more about Mitchum that she could use to make an impression. You have to admit that Rory's first day on the job was fun. Come on, how cute was she in her business suit with her hair back bobbing around when she walks into the break room?. Very. You can tell Rory is stressing, but it comes with the territory. Things look brighter(for the time being, anyway)in the end. But that brightness won't last for long.
Two smaller storylines were also here throughout this episode. Taylor's museum of the Twickum house is not going very well. Attendance is down due to "no one coming", and he finally decides that it could be time to close shop and sell the house to Luke. Elsewhere, Lorelei gets a surprising call from her father. A business associate that he knows is interested in her Inn and in Lorelei. Apparently, the article she pulled is still being published!. This new guy wants to meet with Lorelei. Richard says he is even proud of Lorelei. It's a nice moment. But what is Lorelei to do?. She has a job, and she finally got the inn open and running. Would she just sell it to someone and travel for them as an employee?. Luke seems dead set against it, but then tells Lorelei that maybe she should take the meeting just for the sake of it. Network. In the end, Lorelei tells Sookie that this business investor said that he is interested in anything. Buying the inn, or just investing in it. All the talk of traveling has Lorelei and Sookie thinking of big dreams, but Sookie realizes that she has Davey and little ' No Name ' on the way, and she probably isn't going anywhere. Same with Lorelei. Could Dean of been right when he told Luke that Lorelei wants more than this?. Could everything he said actually be true?. It seems that he might be when Lorelei showed some disappointment as both she and Sookie admitted than their traveling dreams may not come to fruition after all. I guess we will have to see where this goes.
"How Many Kroppogs To Cape Cod" was a strong, important, and well written episode. The end is getting closer and closer, and everything coming before it is leading up to something pretty big and powerful. This was another great episode in a fantastic season full of them.
