She's pregnant, right? Seems like an obvious set-up.

oh sweet mercy.

I was under the impression the first time they had sex was during the party, so pregnancy seems a little unlikely to me, but who knows?

In general I would go with the pregnancy storyline, but... here I think not. It's one of the advantages of a woman showrunner, I wager.

in "real life" if such a situation occurred, the new bride would bolt from the town like her hair was on fire. Nothing really is keeping her here except the view from the master bedroom.

So the next ep really needs to sell why she would stay in that town now. I don't need a hard sell, just a reasonable attempt.

It's not like he would have had time to write weird conditions into his will, either, like, "You'll be taken care of for life, but you have to stay here and teach dance with dear old mom."

I'm going to keep watching for a little while because DANCERS! I hope the show finds its own identity, though, instead of just borrowing from the Gilmores.

let me play devil's advocate for a sec. Mo Ryan responded to the critiques of it being too similar to GG the following: "so what if it is too similar? I'm enjoying it" and there are some key differences in overall plot.

I didn't get past the 1st or 2nd season of GG, so I don't find it to be similar of GG, but it is probably my bad memory.

There are key differences, but the feel/tone of it is really similar (to me). And the dynamics! Wild child younger woman with uptight older woman, and the magical small town are the most obvious, I think. Also, Michelle reminds me so much of Lorelei -- tall, brunette, fast-talking, irreverent -- that when I *don't* see Lauren Graham there, I'm a little disappointed. Someone else said that upthread, I think.

I intend to keep watching for a while, though. I didn't actually love Gilmore Girls at the beginning, but then I watched it in syndication and got hooked. I watched the last two (three?) seasons in first run.

I feel like West Wing and Sports night were basically the same show, it is just that one was a "comedy" half hour and one was a"drama" hour, and it grew so that the show was more about the president than Sports Night was about the station director person (Robert Guilliame). But the tone and the fast-talking are the same. I feel like every show Sorkin writes is the same, but still good.

Also, Michelle reminds me so much of Lorelei -- tall, brunette, fast-talking, irreverent -- that when I *don't* see Lauren Graham there, I'm a little disappointed. Someone else said that upthread, I think.

Yeah, that was me. I don't think this actress is as cute as Lauren Graham (her chin looks weak to me), but I'm willing to give her a shot.

Wild child younger woman with uptight older woman, and the magical small town are the most obvious, I think.

Except I think the older woman clearly has more wildness in her, and the younger woman is someone who explicitly was trapped by her circumstances: she clearly felt her life was kind of dreary, despite the party context.

That said, Paradise is very Stars Hollow. And I thought it was interesting the way they hung a lampshade on the fast-paced dialogue.

I'll give it a couple more episodes.