Gilmore Girls (TV Series) Teach Me Tonight (2002) User Reviews

Lauren Graham deserves an award

[ISmellSnow · 6/10 · 8 September 2020]

Firstly let me say that this is some of Lauren Graham's best acting. She's soooo good! Anyways, Jess is not doing well in school due to being lazy. Luke asks Rory to tutor him although Lorelai isn't keen on the idea. During their study session, they decide to take a drive in Rorys car and they get into an accident. Rory has a fractured wrist and Lorelai has to pick her up at the hospital. Lorelai is furious that Jess was the one driving and takes her anger out on Luke who is searching for Jess. Lorelai calls Christopher to tell him about Rorys accident and he comes to Stars Hollow to be with them. By the end of the episode we learn that Jess leaves town.

The B storyline is that Lorelai is in charge of picking the movie for the town to watch. She ends up choosing The Yearling which has been played multiple years prior. The best part about this storyline is that we get to see A Film By Kirk.

Two families, a town, in need of adults

[Lt_Zogg · 6/10 · 18 August 2022]

Episodes 19-21 were excruciating for me to watch. Jess's problems at school are obviously too difficult to be solved by peer-tutoring, but Luke insists on asking Rory, Lorelai objects but she misses the mark, and Rory, an innocent who tries to see good in everyone, seems truly fascinated by Jess, and hasn't learned all the applications for saying No, agrees to take him on. So he fobs off on doing any work until they break for ice cream, she lets him drive her car, and he smashes it. No doubt this is going to hurt Dean, who put a lot of himself into fixing up that car and giving it to Rory. Train wreck ahead!

The town and Lorelai fawn over Rory's ordeal and injury, Rory declares her independence by insisting the fault was hers, not Jess's, Jess disappears, and Dean just seems to fade out of the picture, hurt, angry, solicitous, and maybe stoic.

Clearly, Jess has done nothing to to dispell the impression that he's a sociopath. His interest in other people is limited to being entertained when he manipulates them into screwing up their best intentions. Lorelai knows Jess is trouble but can't find the right warnings, Rory, who can usually be counted on for her intelligence and mature judgement, is oblivious to the glaring warning signs, and Dean, who is admittedly clingy but sincerely devoted, never has a chance to begin expressing the conflicting feelings he must have. I guess that's what being a teenager is all about, but where are the adults? I guess I'll have to watch Season 3 to find out.