Gilmore Girls Marathon w Sudsy Commercial Overload

Kelly Bishop is delightfully rigid as matriarch Emily Gilmore.
She hates sugar on her breakfast grapefruit, 
always looks impeccable, even when gardening, and treats her maids horribly.

Another sparkling star turn: Kelly Bishop as Baby's mother
in "Dirty Dancing," 1987. The role wasn't huge,
but her performance dazzled like a fine-cut emerald.

Soap operas were so named because of the laundry detergent and Palmolive commercials sandwiched between every dramatic segment. 

I have NEVER watched so much continuous TV as I did tonite, but am catching up on excellent "Gilmore Girls" seasons on Netflix and came upon a marathon on a TV channel called UP, #238 in my area. 

Had the living room to myself and slightly embarrassed to say I have watched SIX episodes from 5 to 11 p.m. The show is compelling, with small-town life in fictional Stars Hollow, Connecticut, romance, parenthood, conflicts, wacky townspeople, excessive wealth, great acting and incredible wardrobes on Lorelai and her mother, Emily Gilmore--and Rory Gilmore sometimes, too.

It's so well written and funny and I find myself laughing out loud a lot. 

But the ads are packed in. My brain is sudsed up with:

• Walgreens for beauty products/makeup [a hundred times*]
• Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches [a hundred times] I'm tired of hearing how their hot magic inspires umbrella-sharing on a rainy day, which, in a chain reaction, cheers a whole busload of people. 
• Domino's Pizza [a hundred times]
• TIAA Investing/Banking [a hundred times]
• Differin acne gel [a hundred tines]
• Entivya [for Crohn's disease; a hundred times]
• Sprint 
• Chuck E. Cheese [aimed at moms, telling them not to "slave over a stove making mac and cheese"]
• "Growing up McGhee" [apparently another big show on UP]
• Michaels craft stores 
• Universal Parks & Resorts
• Breyers Gelato Indulgences 
• Summer's Eve
• Cosentyx psoriasis drug
• Paper Mate Ink Joy Gel Pens [a hundred times]
• DiGiorno Pizza 
• Dove Foaming Body Wash
• Doggy tick medicine and dental bones
• Sparkle cleaning spray 
• Tide laundry pods 
• Lowe's

At 11, I must click off and take a bath. So hard to turn away. Rory, always the perfect daughter to her single mom, took a joy ride--illegally--on someone else's yacht w her boyfriend, went to jail, dropped out of Yale, is doing 300 hours of community service.

But all those ads: super suds overkill. My brain feels bubbly. But I guess we can see what kind of products get the show's mostly female viewers to open their wallets.....

Good night.

*Slight exaggeration but feels like 100 times. I think I like Netflix better. No commercials. But I don't have it hooked up to TV; have to balance my laptop on my knees/belly while lounging on couch..

P.S. on Saturday: OMG, I was just reading that Kelly Bishop lives in South Orange, which is just minutes from my town! I wonder if I might ever run into her in the produce aisle at the big Whole Foods in West Orange!!!!