Whenever I’m in the mood to watch a show that I know will make me laugh, give me warm feelings in my heart, and have a catchy theme song I can sing along to, I turn on Gilmore Girls. I got through high school watching this show, and now that I’m a few months short of finishing college, I thought it would only be right to start the series again. Besides the poor screen quality and the cringey outfits, it’s almost impossible to tell that this show came out 20 years ago. Here’s a list of some of the things that make this show still relevant today.
- There is a strong sense of girl power that follows the characters throughout the series.
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The show is called Gilmore Girls for a reason. Whether it’s Rory’s ability to get into three Ivy League schools, Lorelei’s superhero single mom skills over the years, or Emily’s strong-willed personality, the female characters on this show are phenomenal and show that females can get through anything by sticking together.
- The characters not only fall in love, but they fall out of love as well.
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One thing I really love about this show is that Rory isn’t just the average teenage character from the early 2000s who finds a guy in high school and ends up with him at the end of the series. We grow up with Rory as she experiments with different relationships. Both Rory and Lorelai had their fair share of heartbreaks, and that’s okay.
- The characters lose their way and change their life plans.
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I remember watching this show all the way through for the first time and getting upset with some of the characters for their reckless choices. Now that I watch the show again as an adult, I understand why the writers had some of the characters do the things they did. People change, lives change. Just like we can’t expect ourselves to stay the same every year, characters in the shows we watch need to change as well.
- The show accurately depicts what it’s like to grow up in a small town.
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Miss Patty’s School of Ballet, Doose’s Market, Luke’s Diner. If you’re anything like me and have seen Gilmore Girls in its entirety at least once, you’re very familiar with these places. As someone who grew up in a small, historic town, Stars Hollow is something that stuck out to me so much. It was very accurate to my own experiences growing up, but also mystical enough for me to wish that I had grown up there as Rory did.
If there’s anything I encourage you to do right now, it’s to start watching Gilmore Girls from the beginning like I did! While knowing I’ll never be a part of the Gilmore family makes me sad, I have comfort in knowing that I can one day watch this show with my future daughter, and it’ll still be relevant.