Everything Wrong With Gilmore Girls

It's worse than you remember...

All the problematic, sexist, weird or insulting things in GG! The list goes on... You guys really enjoyed it when I covered this topic for Pretty Little Liars, so it was time for the Gilmore Girls version! This show is amazing but it's also old and therefore some of the events in this show have not aged well, to say the least.

Timestamps-
00:47 the revival
02:30 the relationships
13:16 food, parental negligence and Sookie’s kitchen
17:46 sexism and class issues
19:50 toxic family systems
25:14 other issues
29:41 Christopher

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[marykolell]

Something that really frustrates me about Gilmore Girls is Paris's relationship with Asher Fleming. Everyone in the show kind of brushes it off or treats it like its just some juicy gossip, but really this relationship is super problematic and predatory. There is a huge power dynamic between professors and students. When Rory confronted him about the A she got on her paper, making sure it was something she actually earned, not just something to keep her quiet, Asher told her that he'd "strongly advise her against questioning his grading tactics again." This threat was treated way too lightheartedly, when in reality, this is incredibly scary.

[cream]

Dave was honestly the best guy on the show. He did everything in his power to make Mrs Kim accept him, he even read the whole bible one night. That he eventually left Lane doesn't count for me since his character was written out of the show because the actor started the OC.

[ahumuzamuzoora]

The dismissal of Emily's emotional abuse will always be my biggest gripe with Gilmore Girls. Near the very end of the show they start to acknowledge her toxicity through Rory living with them but even that wasn't great. It's so hard to watch Emily be so horrible to Lorelai yet Lorelai is constantly portrayed as the melodramatic one. When Lorelai is hurt it's brushed off but if Emily is hurt, then it's a big deal and Lorelai has to apologize and beg for forgiveness even when she wasn't in the wrong.

[honeybaby]

I hate the ending Lane had, she deserved so much better. I wish the writers allowed for her to have a career in music, or for her story to develop further in a way that aligned better with her character. It felt like a lot of the negative things her mother suggested came true :(

[loopy]

I'm glad so many of us are looking back critically at the toxic relationships in media we saw in our childhoods.

[Taybbyee]

Christopher almost reminds me of those baby daddies that don’t stick around unless the mother of the child seems to still have feelings for the father or at least wants to be intimate. Throughout most of the show Christopher isn’t present in Rory’s life until lorelai is single, visibly not thriving in her current relationship or shows her subconscious remaining feelings for Christopher. Like he was prepared to marry lorelai at 17 to help raise Rory but when lorelai ran away from her parents and ultimately from the life that involved him he didn’t once try to help reach out or offer support to raise their daughter, but as soon as lorelai allows him back into her life then he suddenly wants to attempt to be a father. I know he was young when everything first happened which explains the immature response to everything but even in the later seasons where lorelai and Christopher begin dating again and even get engaged, all throughout that timeframe Christopher is a decent father and really tries to be there for Rory but again once things are called off with lorelai and he understands there’s no future for them he neglects Rory again and doesn’t reach out for a while. Ultimately I just feel as though Christopher does love rory but (debatably) loves lorelai more which caused for his inconsistent behaviour with his daughter.

[CarolinaRodriguez-mnsx]

I would've loved to see an episode where we see 16yr old Lorelai working as a maid, living in a garden shed with Rory. They would bring it up once on awhile, but it didnt feel like it impacted their lives at all.

[absynthefaerie]

One relationship always overlooked is Paris and Doyle. They were great together. The revival sure did them dirty by divorcing them.

[shhimreading]

yk what got me with sookies kitchen was when her friend came over to see her and the guy just started helping cook😭😭😭like he didn’t even wash his hands, just started chopping stuff

[Nesskh]

The writers also seemed obsessed with making every blonde woman a disliked character, Shane, Sherry, Lindsay, all the moms from Stars Hollow high, Logan’s mom it was very tiring, they could only be either Bimbos or stuck up characters.

[harrihamalainen]

The fact that Rory is a nickname for Lorelai came clear in multiple episodes, how did you miss that!!!!

[angelaholmes]

I really didn't like that jess tried to force himself on rory and he never apologized for it

[SerenaSkybourne]

I forgot to mention- I don’t like some of the characters comments insulting Indian food. Meant to be funny but did not land 🤦‍♀️

[ceepoh]

The real issues I have with the show have to do with the relationship between Lorelai and Rory. Lorelai being so immature is the reason Rory was so hyper focused on academics and being responsible because ONE of them had to be. She grew up fast because her mother never did. That dynamic put so much unfair pressure on young rory and for lorelai always saying "she just turned out that way" no girl YOU did that TO her!!
Another thing I dislike is how Lorelai never let Rory shine or have her own accomplishments it's always WE. "We applied" "we got in". Like Rorys highschool graduation, lorelai had to make rory asking for money about her and also made her announcement about the Inn right in the middle of the ceremony. That couldn't wait till after ?! Or when rory was in the top 3% lorelai chose that moment to accept a proposal. I know no one is going to read all this but I had to let it out lol

[aliiciia]

Healthy relathionships: Lane&Dave, Babett&Maurey, (Sookie&Jackson before the vasectomy)

[angelaholmes]

Oh god I absolutely hate a year in the life rory is definitely repeating her mother's mistakes the only character that really evolved to me was Emily

[pam]

The whole town was ready to burn Rory’s boyfriend at the steak for breaking up without knowing the reasons or if they were troubled like Jess. Like it creepy how the town treated the boys especially when they were 16-17

[MsInescruz]

Just a correction: Fran didn't have any children, so that character that Sookie and Lorelai bothered at the funeral was something like a lawyer or a distant relative who was taking care of the inheritance. I think Fran only had, at most, distant relatives. What they did was still inappropriate, but not that much so.

[ennuiblue]

It wasn't just Lorelei who would seek out things she felt Emily disapproved of. Emily also, due to her rigid conditioning, held to behavior she may not have liked. Like when she had a drink with Lorelai and danced with a man, she was having fun but then bottled up again because 'a mother has to act a certain way'. Or when she was watching a movie in the hotel with them. You can tell she was relieved to 'loosen up' sometimes, but felt that was inappropriate. Kinda sad, they probably all could have had some good memories if they didn't feel they all had to adher to their prospective 'molds'

[pam]

Lindsay really did deserved better with her relationship with Dean and how people in the fandom treated her.