Gilmore Girls Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Gilmore Girls is an hour-long Americann television drama/comedy that has aired since 2000. It airs on The WB network in the United States and on Global Television and W in Canada. It was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino.The show follows single, thirty-something Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her teenaged daughter, Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore (Alexis Bledel), in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Rory was fifteen when the show began (although Lorelai said she was sixteen in the pilot, she celebrated her birthday several episodes later).
Regular elements of the series include:
- Lorelai's conflicts with her wealthy parents, particularly her headstrong mother. Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Edward Herrmann) had their societal hopes for Lorelai dashed by her becoming an unwed mother at the age of 16. Lorelai repaid her parents for their disapproval by keeping their contact with their granddaughter Rory to a minimum; by the time the series begins, financial necessities require Lorelai to approach her parents for help and have regular contact with them.
- Lorelai's relationship with Luke (Scott Patterson), which, at the end of the fourth season, finally developed from a friendship into a romantic relationship.
- Rory's coming of age, complicated by:
- Her close relationship with her mother. At the time the series begins, Lorelai and Rory regard each other more as best friends than as mother-and-daughter; Rory's burgeoning adulthood and occasional need to pull away begin to complicate this relationship, although the closeness between them remains a constant on the show.
- Rory's academic aspirations. Rory wants to attend the elite Harvard University; to achieve this she is enrolled in the elite (fictional) Chilton Academy, an unfamiliar world to Rory filled with the rich and the high-strung. Rory ultimately decides to go to Yale after visiting the campus with her mother and alumnus grandfather.
- Her romantic attractions variously to new-in-town Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki) and bad-boy Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Luke's nephew.
- Rory's relationships with longtime best friend Lane Kim (Keiko Agena)—a second-generation Korean-American from a strict background—and Paris Geller (Liza Weil), a friend/rival at both Chilton and Yale.
- Lorelai's career as the manager of an inn, with aspirations to open one of her own. After years of planning, she and best friend Sookie (Melissa McCarthy) have opened their own inn, the Dragonfly.
The first season was released on DVD May 4, 2004. The second will be out in November of 2004.
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Episode List
Season 1 (2000-2001)
Season 2 (2001-2002)
Season 3 (2002-2003)
Season 4 (2003-2004)
Season 5 (2004-2005)
External links
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