I feel like I’m being trolled.
Over a decade ago, everyone I knew was obsessed with Gilmore Girls. Being the young, insecure person I was, I assumed I was missing something. Maybe I didn’t ‘get’ the humour. Maybe I hadn’t watched enough to really ‘appreciate’ the relationship between Rory and Lorelai. Maybe it was one of those shows where you need to watch seasons and seasons to build a rapport with the characters.
But now I’m in my mid twenties, I have a university degree, and I’ve fallen in love with countless other TV shows. I’m not missing something. The show is missing something; namely, everything.
Gilmore Girls is a really, really, very, very bad TV show. And given the recent hype over the new Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life revival on Netflix, I feel like there’s some conspiracy around the show and I’m the only one not in on it.

...Are people serious? Do they actually find this show funny/entertaining/clever? I feel like maybe I'm watching another show entirely - one very different from the one Wikipedia categorises as a 'comedy.'
As an aside, I completely understand people watching a show in spite of its badness. I've watched entire seasons of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, knowing full well that it's potentially the worst television of our generation. I'm not against people watching bad television - but I am against people refusing to acknowledge that it's bad.
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I started to watch this show now (2019) because i heard so many people talking about it this year, i needed a long show and so this one seemed good. I loved "brothers&sisters" and "Men in trees" so I thought id give this one a go.
I watch it and i hate it. I keep watching it though, because of the world it is set in. I love the small town american show, so cute. But I find it so annoying how badly all characters are built. There is such a great everything to have a great show, but the characters always behave in the most extreme left field way; I will never get (im on season 4) why lorelei hates her parents so much, why are they so manipulative and all the things she says about them, when she lived with them only 16 years and had barely a relationship afterwards. Also how is lorelei both a super parent, that went to work in the inn and worked her butt off, but also talks about the rock n roll life? its seems awkward when she talks about the part of her life when she was so hardworking and had to be protected by the lady of the inn and then she gives this rock n roll life lessons. This happens with loads of parents, but doesnt fit with lorelei's timeline. they built this character trying to portray the best of both worlds, but turns out so fake...
Also, Jesse. What?! how? why...? how did this happen? I dont get it... so much drama happens with the almost always absent onscreen Dean to then end up w Jesse barely showing up as Rory's bf and then moving away out of nowhere. what?!
So much potential for this show..
And those dialogues... who says these things?? slow down ladies! and less puns, you are not pretending to be in a 50s show (*cue in the canned laughter*). they talk so fast, get so aggravated, that sometimes i just fast-forward, as it annoys me so much. Also, could Lorelei ever make a point?? she always has this 16 yr old remarks and thinks she is so funny...but its just so boring..
everything about the writing bothers me, because this is ruining all the potential this show had with the setting, the premise and the actors.. its such a shame.. and its my love hate show... love the coziness and world (am continuing to watch it), cannot stand the writing....