yeasmin02 I started watching this show over half a year ago, and I'm still not done. Why? Because it's simply just not a show you can cling on to. I get it, this isn't a crazy show with wild stories, but it can still drive you mad if you watch too much at a time. Personally I find Rory dull and not a very exciting character, considering she's the lead role, but I do love the rest of the characters, especially Lorelai and Luke. I just think more could've been done with this show. I especially think Rory could've had a little more personality and I wish she'd act like an actual teenager so that she's relatable, but she's not in any way. She has boys running after her and got accepted into Yale, Princeton and Harvard. No way is that realistic in any way for any teenage girl. The writers made her life too easy, and that makes it immediately boring. I wouldn't really recommend this show to anyone who has too big of a personality.

James Graham I am a 30 something male so probably not who this show was aimed at. I decided to watch it from the beginning and at first it was really great and I was hooked. As it went on though, I lost interest to the point I stopped watch a few episodes from the end of Season 1. The problem is that it shows a sugar filled perfect world. The Mother and Daughter only seem to eat pizza, sweets, burgers and drink coffee but have perfect figures and perfect skin. No bad things or bad people live in their perfect town. There is no homeless or drug problems. There is a light sprinkle of non white people. There is no money problems or worry. There appears to be no crime and possibly no police. I am probably not the right target for this show. Although my wife was a teenage girl when this was first show and doesn't like it either. It is well acted. The script and fast one liners is clever. But it is very slow, nothing much happens (a cat dying takes up a whole episode) and you just end up feeling "Why am I Watching This?"

Kirpianuscus it is a seductive series. because it is a smart one. because it is almost wise in the manner to use the old fashion art of subtle humor, crisis of middle age, relation between parents and children, the illustration of friendship between mother and daughter, the comfort of eccentricity, the virtues of freedom, the way to answer to the responsibility, the ordinaries forms of magic, the familiar things in new light, the love affairs and the romanticism who has not chance to be too sweet, too pink, exhausted, bizarre, horrible. a series about small things. this is all. and this does Gilmore Girls special. real special. because it is so simple - the beautiful relationship between a woman and her daughter, a relationship who escapes from definitions to be honest way to define yourself and win.

mrdjx Thats what I have to say about the Gilmore Girls, having just watched the series melancholic finale -'Bon Voyage' last night on Netflix. For the next half hour I couldn't help but cry. My journey with Gilmore Girls began on July 2nd 2016, the day after its global release on Netflix, and for the most part, I could not stop watching. The primary plot of the show is centered around Lorelai Gilmore (a wise cracking Lauren Graham) and her daughter Rory (an angelic Alexis Bledel). In the shows early episodes many characters mistake Lorelai for an older sister. These aren't lost on Lorelai or Rory- Lorelai was 16 when Rory was born. SPOILERS AHEAD Lorelai herself is something of a wonderkind among the ever growing list of standby-your-man TV mums. An only child to her wealthy parents, the placid Richard (a pleasant turn by the great now late Edward Hermann) and the self-absorbed Emily Gilmore (played with fantastic snark by Kelly Bishop). Lorelai has rejected their ideas as to how Rory should be brought up and has since relocated from their Hartford home. This is the primary source of conflict in the series. The Gilmores -being socialites- expected Lorelai to follow the family tradition of being an Ivy League student. Lorelai -a fierce independent- isn't cut for their world of order. Thus her pregnancy with Rory and Rory's birth provide an escape. In the shows present time, Lorelai and Rory are living in Stars Hollow- A storybook town in Connecticut populated by a wide range of lovable eccentrics who treat Rory as the towns daughter. There Lorelai has found a job working at the independence inn, starting as a maid and working her way up to executive manager. She also starts a sometimes or maybe relationship with Luke, the quiet but always dependable owner of the town diner.At the start of the show, Rory is a well-read academic now approaching the age of sixteen. This in Lorelai's eyes is truly a lifetime, one that Lorelai hopes won't be ridden with the same mistakes that she made. Lorelai manages to file a successful application for Rory at the Chilton Academy- a school that will definitely take Rory to the Ivy Leagues. The price though is steep and Lorelai reluctantly returns to her estranged parents for financial support. An agreement is reached, Richard and Emily will fund Rory's education on the basis that all four will share a family dinner on Friday night.END OF SPOILERSThere is a lot to like about the Gilmore Girls- especially the dialogue (written in Seasons 1-6 by Amy Sherman-Palladino) between the two lead characters. The two lead characters -both cult fim junkies- can reference obscure films with the best of them. In Season 2, Lorelai warns Rory that someone might whack them with a cannoli. "Whack you with a cannoli?" asks Rory, then immediately realising she has been had, "Oh, because he left the gun and took the cannoli". Exchanges like this supply the shows humor.Even with the humor coming left right and centre. The show still carries an undercurrent of sadness and pain. On a trip to Harvard, Lorelai sees a picture of a graduate, and quietly regrets not taking that path. There is a moment in Season one where Rory takes Emily to the garden shed where Lorelai had raised her- only for Emily to find herself questioning how her daughter forfeited a life of comfort and opportunity for one of poverty and hardship. I'm writing this now the world eagerly anticipates the release of the followup series Gilmore Girls:A Year in the Life in approximately two days. Lets hope that the new series is every bit as good as the original.