Spoiler Alert: This post contains some references to 'how the show finished up'.
The Gilmore Girls seems to be on everyone’s lips of late. A few people I know were already revisiting the show (which first screened between in 2000 and 2007) when it reappeared on Australian TV screens a couple of months ago—encouraging me to take a casual look now and again. (Which soon became every day!)
Thankfully our local TV station isn’t breaking the show between series, so in just a few months we’re already up to season four. And even though I watched it a decade ago and know what happens, I’m loving the time I spend each day with Lorelai and Rory.
For those who’ve lived under a rock, The Gilmore Girls is a show about a 32 year old woman, Lorelai Gilmore, who (as a 16yr old from a wealthy family) found herself pregnant. She left home, had her child—who she named after herself ( and known as Rory) and has worked her way from maid to manager of an inn while getting her college degree at night school. Her ultimate aim is to open her own inn, which she eventually does.
Fortunately for Lorelai, she’s independent and chock-full of attitude… not to mention friggin’ gorgeous; and Rory, who we first meet at 15-16yrs, is smart and sassy like her mum. The Gilmore Girls are kinda renowned for their fast-talking, witty (and sometimes nonsensical) banter. Indeed, when they first appeared on our TV screens theirs was the relationship mothers and daughters envied.
Because anything and everything is being re-made or made into a movie there’s been talk about a Gilmore Girls movie. So far it’s just talk but recently most of the cast came together for the 2015 ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas.
I’m kinda happy talk of a reunion show or movie was pushed aside cos those things never fail to disappoint. Instead I’ve been pondering what I would have done with our GG gang in my own reunion show — The Gilmore Girls: 10 years on.
Lorelai Gilmore
Lorelai and Luke are still married (or not, whatevs) and have a 9 year old boy (Luke Jnr) who’s v.much like his father and into sports, fishing and rough stuff and constantly pulls Lorelai WAY outside of her comfort zone.
The Dragonfly Inn is doing well and being managed by Michel while Lorelai’s in a hands-off role. But now that Luke Jnr’s in school she’s feeling old and redundant and has taken hanging around the diner, annoying Luke and trying to change stuff. In an attempt to sidetrack her Luke suggest she runs against Taylor for the position of Town Mayor.
Her relationship with her mother hasn’t changed. #onagain #offagain
Luke Danes
He’s still running the diner and as grumbly as ever. The annoying daughter who appeared in season six has again disappeared and Luke takes great delight in offering Luke Jnr incredibly inappropriate life-advice.
Rory Gilmore
Rory had back-to-back boyfriends for much of the series, so I’d like to think that 10 years later she’s had a few romances but is still single.
She’s a TV journalist and is on the cusp of great success when something terrible and embarrassing happens. (Nude photos, story stuff-up. I haven’t decided.) But it means she comes running back to Stars Hollow to hide; despite having not visited for some time. Obviously the story arc will involve Rory rediscovering her confidence and being reminded about what’s important in life. Yadda yadda yadda.
Rory’s boyfriends
Dean’s got a chain of hardware stores or plumbing businesses or similar. He’s wealthy and divorced with two kids.
Jess is an impoverished but respected indie author who’s finally keen to settle down.
Logan married some well-bred type while on the rebound from Rory but has since separated.
All three are trying to win Rory back. #natch
Sookie St James
Sookie, hubby Jackson and kids still live in town but Sukie now has her own cable cooking show. It’s a bit like Tim Taylor’s Tool Time. The show is a comedy of errors but works cos Sookie’s got talent and her clumsiness is kinda cute.
Of there were a myriad of other peeps but… well, meh, I cared little for them. (Though as an aside—and I know this is often hotly debated on forums—I would have been happy for Lorelai to end up with Max or Christopher or Alex or Luke. They were all pretty great characters and all fit well with the two Lorelais.)
I apologise if you’re not a fan of the show or if you’ve never seen it as this will all mean nothing to you. 🙂
Were you a Gilmore Girls fan?
What do you think they’d be doing now?*
I’m flogging my blog With Some Grace today.
* And yes, I know… once we’ve discussed this important issue we’ll get back to resolving the crisis in the Middle East.
June 18, 2015
But where is Emily in this scenario, Deb? We have to have a plot thread for her as well?
Love love love Gilmore Girls and really want to sit down with all the DVD’s and my now 17 yo daughter and just glom them! Oh the banter!
And you say you’re not a romance reader?? After this I just do not believe it 🙂
June 18, 2015
Ack! Sorry, that was me…
June 19, 2015
Ah yes… gathered that!
June 19, 2015
Nah, Emily only gets a mention in Lorelai’s bit (that they’re still fighting off and on). I thought about making her change completely following the death of her husband… but figured that’d be a bit cliched… if she was suddenly some alternative-lifestyle hippie living in a commune and cavorting with nature. 🙂
June 19, 2015
Ah see, I loved the character of Emily more and more and more as the series went on. She’s got a hard crust but her heart is in the wrong place and I can totally see where Lorelai gets her strength from.
June 19, 2015
I’ve got far more sympathy for her now that I’m watching it a second time. Plus I hadn’t realised they didn’t throw Lorelai out but she ran away after Rory was born.
June 19, 2015
I just started watching this show last weekend because everyone acts like I’m a freak for not having seen it. So far, I really like it and will watch it through to the end. I will now be recalling your predictions when I do reach the end. 🙂
June 19, 2015
There’s something addictive about it. The characters are great. (Even the ones I didn’t bother focussing on!)
June 19, 2015
I used to love that show and banned people from talking while it was on so I didn’t miss any of the banter. I always thought it was weird, though, that Lorelai named her daughter after herself. Who does that?!
June 19, 2015
I guess she was 16, so…
It’s on GEM at 8am and 5.30pm each weekday (the 8am is a repeat of the previous day’s 5.30pm). I record it and watch it while I’m cooking dinner each night. And because I know what happens I’m really glad ‘9’ isn’t drawing it out. It’s a bit like semi-binge-watching. I don’t think I’d hang in there if it was just on weekly.
June 19, 2015
I’ve never watched The Gilmore Girls, but I do love Alexis Bledel, who plays Rory. Is that Melissa McCarthy I spy in the cast photo? Never knew she was in it!
Di from Max The Unicorn
June 19, 2015
Yes Di, Melissa McCarthy played Sookie – a chef and Lorelai’s best friend (and eventual business partner). She was great in the show. She wasn’t at the reunion I noted but I recall seeing her promoting her latest film elsewhere at the time.
June 19, 2015
OK, if you could do this, I would be a fanatical viewer, Deb!
Both John and I watched this without fail, because the characters are some of the best ever put together in one TV show.
I tried to get Bell into watching, when it started again, but I think at 12 it’s just a bit too much quick banter just yet. I fully intend watching it with her when she’s a bit older. x
June 19, 2015
They’re great characters aren’t they?! I didn’t necessarily like every series of the show and I think a lot of forums think that season 6 went off the rails a bit but it got back on track by the end. (A bit like so many shows I loved – Buffy, West Wing – there was a dodgy season before things finally improved!)
June 19, 2015
That was totally weird – here now….
June 19, 2015
Who knows… My FB feed is doing strange things. I’ve been monitoring a friend who’s in hospital about to give birth and only just saw a msg from 19hrs ago that ‘tomorrow’ was the day. I’m now counting backwards to work out if she wrote that last night or this morning!
June 19, 2015
I didn’t watch it but it’s funny how attached you get to long running shows and then ‘poof’ they’re gone….
June 19, 2015
At least this one was able to tie up loose ends. I hate when shows are unexpectedly cancelled after an end of season cliffhanger! That’s a killer!!!
June 19, 2015
I wasn’t allowed to watch TV as a child and when I moved out I gorged myself on Melrose Place for starters. It didn’t last long though and for years now, I’ve hardly watched any TV. It’s the only reason, I fit so much in. So I completely missed this series and well most others. It’s posts like these though that make me wonder what I’ve missed out on.
June 19, 2015
I’ve always loved TV. As a child in the 1970s I loved Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie’s Angels, Starsky & Hutch etc… Nowadays I mostly love TV on DVD but I don’t currently belong to a video library (in my hometown) to borrow many. I can’t afford to buy them at the moment but also refuse to buy anything I won’t watch again and again. Mostly I tape stuff now and rarely watching anything live as I hate ads and like to also fast-forward shows when I get impatient.
I love shows which are well written – Buffy, West Wing, Deadwood, Pushing Daisies (to name a few) as well as those which are just entertaining (Person of Interest, Miss Fisher, Criminal Minds, Orphan Black – come to mind).
I think if I had my life over I’d want to be a screen writer when I grow (grew) up.
June 19, 2015
Love The Gilmore Girls – have seen it several times & it gets better each time. Would love to live in Stars Hollow!
June 19, 2015
I know what a quant and quirky town!
June 19, 2015
Okay, I am a freak for not having watch the Gilmore Girls. It sounds absolutely fabulous so I might as well start from scratch, the very beginning…Is it on Netflix?
June 19, 2015
Oh I don’t know Grace. I’d be surprised if it’s not…
June 19, 2015
I did NOT know Melissa McCarthy was in the Gilmore Girls. I love her. I did watch it a bit but clearly I’m not as big a fan as you. I did think they were a gorgeous Mum and daughter though.
June 19, 2015
Must confess I wasn’t a huge fan back in the day – particularly when I realised I wasn’t going to emulate Lorelai and Rory’s relationship given that I was already in my mid 30s so being a young and stunning mother was not an option. I enjoyed it now and loving it now as I’m watching with a different level of understanding. I have (for example) way more sympathy to Lorelai’s parents than I had back then…
June 19, 2015
Deb did you watch Parenthood? The fact that Lauren Graham (and the dude from Six Feet Under who is in a real life relationship with Lauren Graham) was in it was what drew me to it and then I just loved it. Directed by Ron Howard and similar to Brothers and Sisters which I also adored.
June 19, 2015
I saw the first few seasons of Parenthood but then drifted away. THere were some great pics of her daughter from that show and Alexis Bledel at the ATX festival.
June 20, 2015
I must have been living under a rock because I’ve never watched The Gilmore Girls, but after your up sell, I’m starting to think I should!
June 20, 2015
Ah yes… but you need to start at the beginning! 🙂
June 20, 2015
I was crazy for the GG. I even drove 2 hours to see Lauren Graham on stage in a summer production. She was on a talk show the other day talking about a movie she has coming out. Don’t remember what it’s called, something independent. I have to say that I didn’t love the book she wrote though.
Love your fan fiction!
June 20, 2015
I didn’t know she’d written a book. I’m happy to just watch her on screen and tell myself I must hate her because she’s so gorgeous and doesn’t seem to be ageing.
June 20, 2015
I’ve only watched maybe 2-3 episodes of it. When it first came out, I was a young mother going to college myself, so I didn’t have much time for TV. I’ve been wanting to watch it though, even before the reunion rumor popped up. After I’m caught up on Supernatural, I’ll probably go into this. Can never have too much Jared time! 😀
June 20, 2015
Ah of course cos Jared P is in the few 3 seasons of GG! I think he pops up from time to time later but is front and centre in seasons 1 & 2! He looks SO young though (and I guess it started 15 years ago and he was playing a high school student, so that was to be expected!)
June 20, 2015
I adored this show, can quote it and my oldest and I will watch re-runs whenever we can. I am loving that it is on Netflix.
June 20, 2015
A few people I knew had started watching it Kimberley (probably in the US) and suddenly it reappeared here so it was great timing.
June 21, 2015
Ok, I’m about to say something embarrassing…are you ready? Promise you won’t tell anyone? Here goes….I’ve never seen an episode. Yep, true story.
June 21, 2015
Oh my God. And you’ve got a teenage daughter and everything!!!! You’ll have to check it out so you can at least say you have…. 🙂
June 21, 2015
I loved this show and watched it back in its original days while I was at uni.
June 21, 2015
I only just realised yesterday (when responding to a comment) that it started 15 years ago. Oh my god!
June 21, 2015
I use to love watching this show, and I still get a kick out of watching the re-runs when I can. There is something about the shows of the 90’s and early 000’s isn’t there. xx
June 22, 2015
I have actually never seen the show, but my sister adores it. She is so obsessed she was desperate to have a baby girl and call her Lorelai. She so far has 2 boys. I have joked with each pregnancy I am naming the girl Lorlelai, which she hates haha. Love your story line!
June 22, 2015
Thanks Jess. You’ll have to watch it… suspect it would be very dated by the time your girls are old enough to watch it with you.
June 23, 2015
I loved Gilmore Girls! I just finished rewatching all of the episodes on Netflix and it was awesome. Lol. I want to move to Stars Hollow. Or Bluebell on Hart of Dixie which I am convinced is the Stars Hollow set.
June 23, 2015
Isn’t the town just gorgeous. Had it been made 10 years later, we’d probably have interactive maps on the show website!
June 28, 2015
I LOVED Gilmore Girls but for some reason didn’t get to watch the end seasons (it’s possible my parents gave away our television). I think I will find myself some DVDs and watch them as they’re never on at a practical time for me to watch. Thanks for sharing.
June 29, 2015
A friend of mine has them all so the DVDs are definitely out there. I actually just have my TiVo set each day so I can watch it as I’m cooking dinner etc. I hope you enjoy the last few seasons. From memory, the second last season’s a bit #meh but it eventually sorts itself out!
November 26, 2016
I watched all the first couple of seasons episodes and then it stopped and I never got back into it (probably because my husband wasn’t a fan and he hogs the remote). But I loved the show. I’ll have to see if I can start watching it again.
November 27, 2016
If you have Netflix you can watch it all, but GEM has been playing it for a year or two – season after season and then restarting!