good, giving and gilmore

I love TV, Alisa. I love how it's all put together and how it's obvious and "quirky" and easy to get through. I love Gilmore Girls. Have you seen it? It's adorable and pretty dorky. Like, teen parents arguing over who's better, Metallica or Offspring? It's hard to believe they couldn't come up with a better pair. Radiohead v Oasis? Nirvana v Pearl Jam? Like, who cares about M and O and who's better and I'm not even sure they can count as actual rivals? That really bugged me. There is an adorable Korean teen neighbor who skanks to Rancid in the opening credits. Cutes! So there are nice nods to 90s culture. It's just another experience of missing the 90s just like with Buffy. People make snide comments about books and cutesy cultural references that sometimes don't make sense and I wish I had an example of that but I'm coming off of a migraine so maybe I should just start getting specific since maybe generalities aren't my specialty.

so the story is, there's a 16yo girl and her 32yo mom living in a quaint NE town called star's hollow. The mom runs an inn and the daughter goes to high school and the mom is flakey and silly and the daughter is silly but a little more serious. The mom ran away after getting pregnant at 16 cos her parents were rich and controlling and F THAT. she did it her own way. the dad, who shows up eventually, seems to have floated out of her life but sometimes shows back up. now her and her daughter are bfs and everyone in the town loves in each other. there's a dance teacher named miss patty who has lots of steamy dancer stories from whatever era she wouldve been young and beautiful in, there's a diner runner named luke who is gruff but obvs in loves with the mom. there's also the thing about the daughter going to a super exclusive expensive rich b/tch school and how they have to have dinner every friday with the rich controlling parents because they ahve to ask the grandparents to pay for the school. eventually with snags they become cool with each other. there's a dance where the girl's bf starts a fight with a mean rich kid, there's some teen kissing in a grocery store, there's some datey stuff with the mom and a teacher, there's some town stuff here and there. I like it. Usually I don't love the word "quirky" but it fits like a glove, you know?

I'm almost done with the first season. the mom's name is lorelai and the daughter's name is lorelai too but they call her rory for short. pretty cute.

have you seen this show? do you hate it?