It's impossible for me not to have crazy high expectations for any new show from "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. And that's probably not all that fair.

"Bunheads," debuting Monday night at 9 on ABC Family, is an "okay" ballet drama starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as a rejected Las Vegas showgirl who in a weak moment marries an adoring/stalkerish fan (Hubbell Flowers, played by Alan Ruck of "Spin City" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") and runs away to live with him in his sleepy -- and of course, totally quirky -- beach town.

Okay yes, the show is built around a premise that sounds equal parts creepy and skanky, but Ruck somehow manages to pull off the stalker-fan-turned-husband role in a way that makes him seem sweet and good, and you even start to see why Sutton's despairing character, Michelle Simms, might take a chance on him.