THE fast-talking, coffee-guzzling Gilmores are back for a fifth season after what seemed like an eternity since Season Four ended (it has been almost two years, people!). 

The wait was particularly painful because of last season’s sensational cliff-hanger – sweet Rory (Alexis Bledel) finally breaks out of her angelic image and commits the unthinkable: she sleeps with her married ex-beau Dean (Jared Padalecki); Luke (Scott Patterson) and Lorelai (Lauren Graham) finally kiss and express romantic feelings for each other; and Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard Gilmore (Edward Herrmann) seem on the brink of separation!