Gilmore Girls (TV Series) Those Are Strings, Pinocchio (2003) User Reviews

Chef's Kiss

[schirbab · 10/10 · 6 September 2022]

One of the perfect episodes. I've been rewatching this series to follow along with podcast. I originally watched when I was growing up & watched it all the way through once it was on ABC Family. I think season 3 is my favorite & this one made me laugh and cry. I specifically remember how this episode made me feel years later. You really feel the love & feel rewarded. There will never be another Loralei & Rory. Plus sets up future plots. Perfect with a bow on it. Pun intended.

There are very few shows that hold up after rewatches and time goes by but this is definitely one of them. The casting for this show was spot on and up to this point I wouldn't change a thing.

Season three: A Full Review

[estathena2 · 9/10 · 7 April 2024]

This season is all about growth and how each step taken leads towards change, and there's a dash of "Daddy Issues" thrown in to keep things spicy.

It's Rory's final year at Chilton and with it comes, tests, college applications, and saying goodbye to Jess - which viewers saw coming a mile away.

Lorelai is dating, but it's not Luke so we're not getting attached to this one, and frankly neither is Lorelai. Luke is too busy trying to keep Jess on the straight-and-narrow to even notice women, let alone Lorelai.

This season is very Paris - full of stress but pointed in the right direction, and the competitive nature of her friendship with Rory propels them both toward the future, that is of course very much intertwined.

It's another great season in Stars Hallow leaving us anxious to return to visit and see what's changed and what stayed the same.

Get tissues ready

[ISmellSnow · 7/10 · 11 January 2021]

Rory graduates from Chilton as valedictorian and her speech will make you cry or should I say, blubber. She ends up "officially" breaking up with Jess over the phone. She asks Emily and Richard to pay for Yale and starts doing Friday night dinners again. Lorelai and Sookie buy The Dragonfly Inn!

Potential 'jump the shark' moment

[studioAT · 7/10 · 5 June 2020]

For me this is the last wholly good episode of this show. It seemed to have reached a nice piece of symmetry, with Rory making her own agreement with Richard and Emily regarding Friday night dinners and her leaving her school.

Unfortunately in some ways this show had become a massive hit, and under pressure to continue, but for me after this point the characters became more OTT and unlikable versions of themselves, and plots started to stretch credibility.

For 3 seasons though it as very good.

Closing on a good note...

[m-47826 · 6/10 · 6 July 2023]

I hesitate to leave it there, for the time being. Because the rest of the series is pretty awful, in general. I would even go as far as saying, that this season finale was not great either. I liked the game changer moments, like Rory making a new deal with her grandparents, so her mother can buy the inn. And her finally breaking up with Jess, whose scenes in LA in the « backdoor pilot », were just as bad as I remembered. How could WB think these characters would make good leads, for the spin-off series? At the end of the day, and to conclude on the topic in hand, this third season finale was kind of a letdown, compared to the previous ones. Rory's speech was weird and very self absorbed. It was cute in the show's context, but making her whole graduation speech about her mom, probably made her look crazy amongst Chilton's staff and students. I loved the closing scene, it's the end of a chapter for the girls, and the use of « how to dream » was a nice callback to that era of the series.