It takes a while, but, eventually, it evolves into a New York-version of Gilmore Girls, which is not a bad thing. All the same tropes are there, but it's funnier because it's not CT/CA, but NY in the late 1950s. The show romanticizes NY more and better than a Woody Allen film. It's Sherman-Palladino at her best. The cast is superb; the settings, wonderful; and, by now, the Palladini—her husband Daniel collaborates frequently—have the formula down to a T.