Author: Angela Christina Archer

Season Two Episode Forty-Three: "I Can't Get Started" Original Airdate: May 21, 2002 The happiest day of Sookie's life (even if her groom is wearing a kilt) brings romantic turmoil for Lorelai and Rory. Also, Paris runs for student body president, but she can't win without a VP who adds likability to the ticket. It's [...]

Season Two Episode Forty-Two: "Lorelai's Graduation Day" Original Airdate: May 14, 2002 Lorelai's graduating from community college so Rory organizes a cheering section for the event. Everyone shows up except for Rory, who takes an impulsive trip to New York to see Jess and doesn't make it back in time. There is one moment in [...]

Season Two Episode Forty-One: "Help Wanted" Original Airdate: May 7, 2002 No Post-Its, no paper clips. At Richards new consulting business, volunteer office manager Lorelai needs to hire a replacement---fast. When a music store opens, Lane hears the siren call of a shiny red drum set. I actually like this episode, well, at least the [...]

Season Two Episode Forty: "Teach Me Tonight" Original Airdate: April 30, 2002 Every parent's nightmare: a call from the emergency room. That's what Lorelai gets when Rory fractures her wrist in a car crash. When Luke finds out the driver was Jess, he sends his nephew packing. Yay! Jess is gone. Finally that sarcastic big [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Nine: "Back in the Saddle Again" Original Airdate: April 23, 2002 Richard helps Rory with her business-fair project and gets the entrepreneurial itch. Michl's mother Giselle, a French Auntie Made comes to visit. C'est magnifique! I actually really enjoy this episode because of how involved Richard gets with Rory's school project. And [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Eight: "Dead Uncles and Vegetables" Original Airdate: April 16, 2002 Bride and Doom. While Emily meddles in Sookie's wedding plans, Luke has to arrange a different kind of ceremony. His disagreeable Uncle Louie died, and no one in Stars Hollow wants to come to the funeral. Two parts I loved about this [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Seven: "There's the Rub" Original Airdate: April 9, 2002 A trip to a posh spa is just what Lorelai needs, complete with Emily along along as gal pal. More uncomfortable company: with Lorelai gone, Rory plans an evening alone, until Paris, Jess, and Dean barge in. This episode has always been one [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Six: "Lost and Found" Original Airdate: February 26, 2002 Lorelai wants to give Jess the benefit of the doubt, but doubts some flooding back when Rory's special bracelet, the one Dean gave her, goes missing. Luke apartment hunts with surprising results. Taylor is systematically buying up the town! And we know he [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Five: "It Should've Been Lorelai" Original Airdate: February 12, 2002 A new mom for Rory? When Christopher's gorgeous new girlfriend Sherry meets the Gilmore Girls, it's plain she wants to insta-bond with Rory. Lorelai feels a but uncomfortable, but Emily is furious. I never not liked Sherry, but I wasn't her biggest [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Four: "A-Tisket, A-Tisket" Original Airdate: February 5, 2002 Spring is here and so is the annual Stars Hollow picnic basket auction. The budding results in some interesting pairings like Sookie and Kirk, Land and her cousin . . . and Rory and . . . Jess? Jackson and Sookie are getting married!!! [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Three: "Richard in Stars Hollow" Original Airdate: January 29, 2002 Newly retired Richard is driving Emily crazy, so Lorelai agrees to fathersit for one day. Paris yearns to expose the corruption she's sure is seething beneath Star's Hollow's sunny exterior. There are several times in this show where even though Lorelai left [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Two: "Secrets and Loans" Original Airdate: January 22, 2002 Stop bugging me. Lorelai's house has termites---and the girls have no money for repairs. Emily offers a loan, but Lorelai balks at becoming even more indebted to her. Lane starts shaking her pom-poms. Ugh. Having been through the turmoil of termites this year, [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-One: "The Bracebridge Dinner" Original Airdate: December 11, 2001 Let it snow, let it snow! At the last moment, a Chicago snowstorm strands guests who paid for a fabulous dinner at the inn, so Lorelai invites most of Stars Hollow to the feast. This episode made me wonder what exactly is a Bracebridge [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty: "Run Away, Little Boy" Original Airdate: November 27, 2001 Young love, Gilmore Girl style. In the school play, Rory is Juliet, Tristen is Romeo---and Dean is peeved. Meanwhile, Lorelai dates a much younger business school classmate, much to Luke's amusement. Praise the Gilmore Gods! Tristen is gone. And that's about all [...]

Season Two Episode Twenty-Nine: "The Ins & Outs of Inns" Original Airdate: November 20, 2001 The first rule of partnership: no yelling. Lorelai and Sookie cheerfully make plans for opening their own inn. But when they learn the Independence might be sold, Lorelai has a super-size meltdown. I still, even after all these years, can't [...]