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Like bunheads alot ! LOVE ALL THE FORMER GILMORE GIRLS character actors! So good to see them ! Bunheads is fun to watch!

Unfortunately I agree with you. My daughter and I have the same feelings as you. It’s a little annoying at times, plus the rehashing of bits of dialogue from GG kinda bugs me. Even though I adore seeing all the GG alum, that takes me out of Paradise, and drops me back into Stars Hollow. I am hoping ASP gets the memo that a little retooling needs to be done for season #2. It would be a terrible shame if it didn’t get a renewal. It’s a quality show and has the potential to be just as beloved as GG.

I totally agree. You took the words out of my mouth. There are flashes of brilliance in the show but over all it’s a rocky freshman year for it. It needs a more cohesive story arc and better balance from the dialogue. It felt like the whole show was in shock from Hubble’s death. I re-watched season one of GG and it’s literally a perfect set up for the series. You know from the first episode who these people are, why we are watching them and why we care about them. Bunheads still hasn’t done that. They need to decide what kind of show is it. Is about Michelle being single, alone and finding herself ? Is it about Fanny coping with her son’s death and trying to inspire the talents of her dancers. Is it about four young ballerinas who see the pain and loss that the adults in their life are going through and try to make the right decisions for their own lives while avoiding the mistakes of the grown ups? Right now the show is trying to be all of them and it’s not working. They need a bigger connection for Michelle to the town. A baby of Hubble’s would have been perfect but anything will do now. She needs to have an epiphany and realize she loves the town and stop mocking it or decide that she really loves teaching or choreographing or something. We need an in depth back ground on the girls. If we’re going to watch stories about them we need to know why we care. I feel like the only one we really know is Boo. Thus far Boo is the only one whose sympathetic, Sasha is a jerk and they really haven’t done anything to get the audience on her side, Ginny is either and idiot or a flake and I can barely remember Melanie’s name that’s how little I know about her. Fanny is fabulous only because she’s played by Kelly Bishop. ASP really hasn’t given her much to do other than over the top freak outs about Hubble’s death. Which are great and all but why not delve deeper into the real trauma of a parent losing a child. It doesn’t matter if they are grown up it’s still your child. GG was never afraid to show real pain and anger and loss which is what made the characters so real. Bunheads has been showing the four camera sitcom version of Fanny’s grief and it’s not helping the show. At all. I think there is a ton of potential in the series and I hope it gets a renewal so that ASP can clean it up and flesh it out. It deserves the chance.
Also, will someone please shoot ASP a memo that the guest stars from GG are cute but the music has got to stop. It doesn’t match the vibe of this show at all and it instantly throws people back to a show that is better than this one in every respect. Let people love Paradise on it’s own and stop making us think of Stars Hollow all the time.

My thoughts exactly when they cancelled “Make It Or Break It” back in April. I could only get through two seasons of Secret Life. Blech! I’m hoping that in the near future, Secret Life is cancelled and Bunheads gets a season two. I’m already happy that it gets a back 8