Really, you can have a talented veteran crew working on all aspects of a show, and it can still suck. LOVE Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lauren Ambrose, and Parker Posey, but all of them disappoint in this show. The plot-line is good, but one of the wonderful things about Gilmore Girls was how intelligent the dialogue was, but unlike Gilmore Girls, I feel they aimed at a lower common denominator, especially in terms of humor. I agree with the earlier laugh track comments, not a fan, the laughs sound forced, if not canned, and they are especially bad when they remind one that they are not laughing. Parker and Ambrose go a bit too far into wacky comic sterotypes, felt if they stopped trying to make people laugh, and just were real people, living in this crazy situation, the show would be funnier, darker, but funnier