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Gilmore Girls
Alison Taylor
12/01/2005
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Produced by: Warner Brothers Television
Network: WB
Scheduled: Tuesday, 8 p.m.
Reviewed on: KTLA Los Angeles, CA
Channel: 5.1 (31 digital)
 If you’re into mother and daughter small-town drama with unnaturally
quick-witted characters and more than a healthy heap of saccharine, then Gilmore
Girls may just be your show. One of WB’s longer-running series, the hour-long
dramedy centers around Lorelei (Lauren Graham) as a single mother trying to
improve her daughter’s life prospects.
The show is admittedly cute, often
funny, and the video is splendid. It’s not the sharpest looking program in HD,
but it’s good and exceptionally clean and colorful. Street scenes are
ridiculously idyllic—with elegantly clothed patrons and constantly blooming
flowers or fruit in nearly every scene—but that plays well in HDTV, even if it’s
painfully obvious that the edges of the widescreen image are just window
dressing on the standard broadcast’s 4:3 aspect ratio.
Like most
non-action-oriented television shows, Gilmore Girls makes little use of the 5.1
soundtrack, proving that sound engineers have universally failed to recognize
that even simple interiors have different acoustical signatures.
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