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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 3002
Released: December 13, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Gilmore rising: Lorelai. The Dragonfly Inn is a huge success. And Lorelai's romance with Luke (the just-gotta-be relationship fans have waited for!) steams up Stars Hollow. Gilmore going down: Rory. College, boys and career plans crash and burn, leaving the once-confident golden girl reeling. Fasten your seat belt for a fabulously funny and heartbreakingly dramatic Season 5. The wit, charm and eccentricity that have created legions of Gilmore Girls devotees are on glorious display in all 22 episodes of the hit series' fifth year. Adding more sparkle is the brilliant array of totally off-kilter, totally engaging supporting characters: Sookie, Paris, Lane, Kirk, Michel, the imperious Gilmore pere et mere and a townful more. See you in Stars Hollow!
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:By Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino on Wedding Bell Blues Episode.
Documentaries:The Gilmore Girls Turn 100 - a in-depth look at the making of the 100th episode.
Easter Eggs
Featurette:Behind the Scenes of the 10tth Episode.
Other:Who Wants To Talk Gilmore - montage of Season 5's best dialogue exchanges.
Theatrical Trailer
Description of Gilmore Girls - The Complete Fifth Season:
Perennially one of the WB's highest-rated series, Gilmore Girls hit its creative high point to date with its stellar fifth season, which started out with young Rory (Alexis Bledel) feeling the fallout of doing something terribly non-Rory-like: sleeping with Dean (Jared Padalecki), her married ex-boyfriend. Rory's indulgence in adultery put, for the first time, a serious, sharp wedge in her relationship with her mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham), who was both shocked by her daughter's behavior and worried Rory would repeat the mistakes Lorelai made at her age. But while Rory jetted off to Europe with her grandmother (Kelly Bishop) for the summer, Lorelai finally got her relationship with diner owner Luke (Scott Patterson) into a serious groove, starting with an official (and incredibly sweet) first date and others that involved, if you can believe it, a Swedish Pippi Longstocking movie. And as Lorelai navigated romantic terrain in Stars Hollow (terrain that of course did not run smooth), Rory found life more complex in her second year at Yale, as her relationship with Dean became increasingly strained. Not only that, she found her attention turned towards preppy Logan (Matt Czurchy), a spoiled rich kid who represented everything Rory couldn't stand--and was of course immediately attracted to. Little did Rory know that Logan's entrance into her life, and her interaction with his family, would be the catalyst for one of the most momentous decisions she would ever make.
With this season of Gilmore Girls, creative forces Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino finally found a way to make the Stars Hollow-Yale dichotomy work perfectly, as each location still stood alone but had decided repercussions on the other. Gone were freshman-year anxieties for Rory and in their place were more adult romantic concerns as well as a class consciousness that, for the first serious time, found Rory on the side of the haves and not the have-nots. While the Rory-Dean drama played itself out nicely and succinctly, it was the devilish Logan who lit a fire underneath this Gilmore girl; the episode "You Jump, I Jump, Jack" was a lovely twist on the '30s romantic comedies that found rich folk at play with words and deeds. Bledel started to fully blossom as Rory grew from ingénue to leading lady, and she was matched peerlessly by Graham, whose passion, anger, stubbornness, and ravishing beauty all came to a head in "Wedding Bell Blues," which featured her two greatest nemeses: her mother and Rory's dad, Christopher (David Sutcliffe). The show's trademark eccentricities were all in place--including a Pulp Fiction party and an elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof, among other things--but it mined the best drama of its run with the season's last four episodes, which found Rory's confidence shaken to the core. To give any of the proceedings away would spoil the drama, but suffice it to say you will be glued to the TV for this season's final four hours; it's Gilmore Girls at its phenomenal best. --Mark Englehart
Gilmore Girls - The Complete Fifth Season Reviews:
very happy 
2009-11-01 - the disks were in good working order and it arrived on time! good job guys.
Same lovable girls 
2009-10-01 - I have all the seasons preceding this, and while Rory and Lorelei have changed a lot, they still have the fast talking, coffee crazed humor that's so appealing. It's gotten more dramatic and a little darker, but that's expected because Rory isn't 16 anymore, she's a sophmore in college now, and that makes things a little crazy.
dvd set
2009-09-24 - love the gilmore girls and the price was half off of the store price so great buy too
Wither the youthful rebellion? 
2009-06-03 - Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of Rory's college sojourn is her refusal to sample the delights of college, indeed adult life. She does not drink (or only does so in the most disgusting moderation; really, it would be better if she had more regard for the feelings of others) or experiment with drugs (no one expected Rory to go the Trainspotting route, but how about a joint? Such abstention is bad for the soul) nor does she really fool around with young men. The show started to go wrong when Rory decided to go to Yale instead of Harvard; the result? NOTHING CHANGED. Rory was home every other episode, it was Chilton+. Nothing new. The episode where the Independence Inn burned down was the episode where GG jumped the shark; to whit, when it reached its high point and began its decline. Said decline is nowhere more evident that this, season 5, the second weakest season.
More of my good friends the Gilmores
2009-05-24 - This continues to be a source of enjoyment to me with witty lines, fun situations, superb acting. I'm so glad you were able to keep the actors, just a shame you lost the best writers. Keep producing the best of longtime story lines.
