Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham reveals one storyline that she wasn’t a fan of. Graham, of course, played Lorelai Gilmore on the seminal drama and often shared scenes with Alexis Biedel’s Rory Gilmore. Though the mother and daughter had an overall very positive relationship, they did face a few speedbumps along the way later in the show’s run. One of their tiffs even stretched for well over a season, which Graham isn’t looking back on too fondly.
While appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Graham reflected on her time on Gilmore Girls and admitted that she wasn’t a fan of the separation that occurred between Lorelai and Rory in season 5 and continued into season 6. In the quote below, Graham recalls talking to Biedel about the split and hearing from people that they didn’t like it. But series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino believed it was necessary:
“There’s a year when Alexis [Bledel] and I — Rory and Lorelai — are in a fight for a long time and we would talk about it, and Amy [Sherman-Palladino] was like, ‘You know you can’t do a show for this long and not have conflict,’” Graham recalled. “I forget even what the conflict was but it went on for a while, and that’s the one that I would hear from people that they didn’t like.”
What The Lorelai & Rory Separation Meant For Gilmore Girls
It Was A Change Of Pace
The rift that Graham references occurs when Rory tells her mother that she’d be dropping out of Yale University. Rory comes to this decision after her confidence is severely shaken, though the decision leads to a significant disagreement between mother and daughter. In practice, it frees up Rory to stay with her grandparents. It likewise allows Lorelai to deepen her relationship with Luke (Scott Patterson).
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By shifting the focus away from the Lorelai-Rory dynamic, with some drastic measures, it allowed Gilmore Girls to more wholeheartedly explore other pairings. That is an understandable object for a writers’ room tasked with keeping a series fresh. The trouble, however, occurs because of the duration of the mother-daughter conflict that took away the part of the show that many viewers liked best.
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The Early Seasons Were Best
Rory and Lorelai eventually found their way back to one another. Maybe because of the fight, and likely just as one factor among many, it is a common refrain that the early seasons of Gilmore Girls that the later installments lost track of. That’s particularly true as the original creator exited before the show officially wrapped up. Netflix’s revival, A Year in the Life, went some way to address some of the complaints while also creating others. Still, there was perhaps no easy way to tap into the pleasant surprise that Stars Hollow represented when it was first introduced to audiences 25 years ago.
Source: Call Her Daddy
Gilmore Girls
9/10
- Release Date
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2000 – 2007-00-00
- Writers
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Amy Sherman-Palladino