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| | Finale wrap-up: "Gilmore Girls" | Salon Arts & Entertainment |
 | | In response, I'd mount an impassioned defense of the series' many charms, among them its, well, charm; its witty, brainiac female characters and their emotionally complex relationships; hypercaffeinated repartee worthy of Hepburn and Tracy; and a pop-culture literacy that revealed itself in tiny, often hilarious (if you got the joke) ways. |
 | | The long-simmering flirtation between single mom Lorelai and her cantankerous best friend, Luke, had always served as the show's binding tension, and the consummation of their endlessly deferred ardor signaled disaster, harking back to classic TV series (most famously "Cheers" and "Frasier") sunk by the release of sexual tension between key characters. |
 | | Finally, the whole project was shot to hell when Sherman-Palladino and her husband/co-writer, Daniel Palladino, left the show. |
| www.salon.com /ent/tv/review/2007/05/16/gilmore_girls (961 words) |
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