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Last night was the season premiere of the Gilmore Girls. This has been a contentious off season for them. Many fans of the show hated the later part of last season because of the fracturing of the Luke and Lorelai relationship. The show introduced Luke’s 12 year old daughter, a daughter Luke and the audience knew nothing about. The daughter became a wedge between Luke and Lorelai, with Luke shutting Lorelai out of his life, and Lorelai uncharacteristically accepting it. Finally Lorelai had enough and made Luke an ultimatum of marrying her now. Luke said no, so Lorelai sought comfort in her baby daddy’s bed. Needless to say Gilmore Girls’ fans had a fit. Adding to their fears, the creator of the show left because of a contract dispute, so a new Executive Producer had to take over the show. The two questions confronting him have been could he maintain the unique voice of the show’s creator and could he and his staff get out of the quandary the show’s creator left. The answer too both questions were kind of. I know many people complained the pace felt slower and a lot of the pop references the show had weren’t there. I didn’t notice it that much. They might not have the rhythm of the show down exactly as it was, but it wasn’t jolting. The show’s sense of humor was there, and the characters actions made more sense than they did last year. They allowed the characters to actually discuss what they are feeling instead of making us guess. Last year Luke and Lorelai acted so out of character that it could have been a new show. At least now the new TPTB is trying to give them some plausible explanations for their actions. As for getting them out of the quandary the show’s creator put them in, that’s going to take some time. The episode was good but I’m going to have to give it sometime before I can decide if the show is back.

I was anticipating the Gilmore Girls, but the show I enjoyed was Nip/Tuck. It’s rebounded from its disastrous season last year, and is back to the goodness of Season 1 and 2. Instead of having the crazy and unfortunately boring Carver storyline, we’ve gone back to what made the show great. Outrageous storylines that have at their center, the emotional weight of Christian, Sean and Julia, three of the most messed up people in the world. Last night got an A for outrageous. In one storyline Laura Ingall Wilder aka Melissa Gilbert had her nipple chewed off by her dog. The story she gave Christian was innocent enough. I didn’t believe it because something about her story felt off. Well it was because she left out the little point about spreading peanut butter on her nipple so her dog would lick it off. What would Pa and Ma Ingalls think? Liz, the lesbian anesthesiologist picked up a hot girl at a lesbian bar with the help of Christian. It looked liked Liz was finally going to get some loving; instead she got her kidney stolen. Meanwhile we find out that Michelle, the young hot wife of Larry Hagman’s character is being blackmailed by guest star Jacqueline Bisset because Michelle use to work for her as an escort. We also learned that Jacqueline isn’t one of those nice civilized madams but one who’ll mess you up as bad as one of your more vicious pimps. That doesn’t even cover Christian blackmailing Michelle for sex, Sean hallucinating about seeing the evil Escobar and his dead lover Megan after ingesting hash baked brownies while on a booty call at the could have been nanny’s house, and Julia not wanting to feed her lobster handed baby, whoa, that’s too much too cover. Needless to say it was stupid and exhilarating. Just like I like it.