Gilmore Girls is an
Emmy Award-winning,
Golden Globe-nominated;
American comedy-drama series created by
Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring
Lauren Graham and
Alexis Bledel. The series made its debut on
The WB on
October 5,
2000, and it ended on
May 15,
2007 in its seventh season, which aired on
The CW. Time Magazine named it one of the top 100 television series of all time.
The show follows single mother
Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (Graham) and her daughter
Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore (Bledel) in the fictional town of
Stars Hollow,
Connecticut, a close-knit small town with many quirky characters, located roughly thirty minutes from
Hartford. The series explores family, friendship, generational divides, and
social class.
Gilmore Girls features intricate, extremely fast-paced dialogue, with frequent
popular-culture references and allusions to
politics. It also features social commentary, which is manifest most clearly in Lorelai's difficult relationship with her wealthy
upper class parents.
