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Anchor series of The WB, airing from 2000 to 2007. Roughly equal parts Teen Drama and Romantic Comedy.

The titular Gilmore girls are, more or less, two sides of the same coin. Mother Lorelai (Lauren Graham) was born to privilege, but saw her education cut short by a Teen Pregnancy. Despite pressure from her parents Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Edward Herrmann), and a proposal from the father Christopher (David Sutcliffe), the 16-year-old Lorelai chose to strike out on her own, moving to Stars Hollow, Connecticut as a single mother. Daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel), despite having been born in comparative poverty, is a gifted student. Both women are intelligent, witty, cynical, cute, and comically dysfunctional when it comes to men.

The show starts when 16-year-old Rory is admitted into the prestigious Chilton Academy for her sophomore year of high school. Lorelai, who now runs the Independence Inn with the help of her best friend, chef Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), can't afford it... so she does the worst thing a fiercely independent woman could do, and asks her parents. Emily and Richard agree to finance their granddaughter's education, but only at the cost of Friday-night family dinners. The result is a mother-daughter drama, contrasting the Different as Night and Day relationship between Lorelai and Emily with the Heterosexual Life Partnership of Lorelai and Rory.

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The main characters are complemented by a strong ensemble in the townsfolk of Stars Hollow, including an assortment of quirky Nosy Neighbors: town selectman Taylor, who rules with an iron fist; Kirk, the village idiot who has dabbled in hundreds of professions; and, of course, the Love Interests. Both Gilmore girls play the "All Girls Want Bad Boys" trope quite straight; Rory's father, Christopher Hayden, is of the Idle Rich, and Lorelai's other major romance, Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), owns the town diner and struggles with anger and communication issues. Rory, meanwhile, shuffles between Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki), Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia) and Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), each with their issues and instabilities.

What really sets Gilmore Girls apart from other shows of its type is the heavy use of clever, fast-paced wordplay. Really fast. Think Aaron Sorkin on crystal meth and Seinfeldian Conversations. The show also seems to take a particular interest in music. In addition to a number of music-obsessed characters, numerous musicians—including Sebastian Bach and Carole King—have held recurring guest roles. Others, like Paul Anka and Sparks, have had cameos or guest spots. (King also provided the theme tune, "Where You Lead," re-recording it with—of course—her own daughter Louise Goffin.)

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The show, like many popular properties, suffered its share of Executive Meddling. After the sixth season, contract disputes resulted in the departure of the creators and showrunners, Creator Couple Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. (They had begged for a larger writing staff—something the studio was obliged to hire after they were let go.) After the seventh, the show was canceled, without a real ending. On October 19, 2015, Netflix announced that it has closed a deal with Warner Brothers to release a limited series revival, titled Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life. This six-hour, four-episode mini-series was released on November 25, 2016. Basically every actor who was or had ever been important to the show expressed an interest in returning, though many (particularly Milo Ventimiglia, Jared Padalecki, Liza Weil, Melissa McCarthy and Vanessa Marano) had very limited screentime due to the compressed narrative and their own commitments to other projects. All episodes were written and directed by the Palladinos, and included the specific four words which Amy had intended to close the original show with.

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2016 Revival: A Year in the Life