As "Gilmore Girls" turns 20, devotion to the series is still going strong.Oct. 5, 2020, 3:44 PM UTCIn 2020, we all need comfort TV more than ever. But “Gilmore Girls” has been that for fans since it premiered two decades ago.
However,"Gilmore Girls" defied the odds, moving to a new Tuesday time for its sophomore season and, as Graham writes,"the ratings began ticking up." Whitaker’s annual festival, which for the past four years has featured a weekend of “Gilmore”-centric events amid a setting reminiscent of the show’s fictional New England town, was supposed to celebrate the series’ 20th anniversary in Kent, Connecticut, the third week of October, but will now be held as a virtual event.
“Stars Hollow was a place people could escape to,” Emily Gipson, who co-founded the ATX festival with Caitlin McFarland, told TODAY via email. “This was a place where the characters cared about each other and their town. People want a place to belong, and in Stars Hollow, everyone does. At the center of that you have Lorelai and Rory: two people who are so different but have this idealistic relationship of what we all want — not just out of mother-daughter relationship but out of a friendship.
"Gilmore Girls" actor Kelly Bishop, who played matriarch Emily Gilmore, told TODAY,"There's really an innate sweetness about it, which sounds kind of icky, but it's not that. There's a decency about it." Porter also attributes his podcast’s popularity to the fact that social media as we know it didn’t exist during the show’s original run in the early 2000s.
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