The Gilmore Girls’ Inclusivity Problem
It’s okay to love a thing. It’s better to love it when you see all its flaws.
(You can listen to me read this post to you here.)
(Here’s the much-shorter TikTok version of this post. )
In the early 2000s, Lorelai Gilmore came roaring onto the small screen in a jeep, and comedy was never quite the same for me. A lot on the show I didn’t find funny, because it was just too close to my real life for me to appreciate the absurdism, and then someone I knew fairly well told me I talked a lot like the characters on the show, and then I was simultaneously horrified that my inner thought processes were just out there like that and annoyed that I wasn’t writing for TV, since I apparently was already writing TV script.
Back then, I only watched three or four episodes.
I’ve been thinking a lot about mothers and daughters lately, so I thought I’d give this another go.
I am at the beginning of season 7 now, and there’s a lot I like about the show — and I’m looking forward to Netflix’s reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, so I can see how all those characters turned out.
