Aleena Anas '24 brings you her take on the hit show Gilmore Girls as this week's featured student blogger. 

Gilmore Girls is the early-2000s hit series starring mother-daughter duo Lorelai and Rory Gilmore played by Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel respectively. This seven-season show goes through their daily drama and life in the small town of Stars Hollow, CT. We see Rory going through high school and college and Lorelai open a hotel by the name of The Dragonfly Inn. In the show, Rory is a studious person whose hobbies included reading, watching television, and listening to music. Lorelai is an outgoing ball of energy whose hobbies included listening to music, watching television, and drinking coffee. 

I think that Alexis Bledel performs her character as Rory very well. As a teenage girl in 2020, I think that some of the characteristics Rory has made her relatable, such as her love for music and TV. From seasons 1 through 4, Rory is a mild-mannered, innocent teenage girl, who is someone that teenage girls can look up to. She great character with great aspirations and potential; she is a good person. She has two boyfriends throughout her high school life; they were Dean Forester played by Jared Padalecki and Jess Mariano played by Milo Ventimiglia. According to Lorelai, Dean was “the perfect first boyfriend,” a good person, and Jess was the exact opposite according to Lorelai, not being a good boyfriend. Throughout the entirety of the series, they were mentioned and made regular appearances.

After season 4, Rory starts to attend Yale for college. In my personal opinion, this is the start of her decline. After her break up with Jess, Rory starts Yale, and with that, a whole group of new guys. At Yale, she starts casual dating. As Rory is casually dating, she helps her ex-boyfriend, Dean, cheat on his wife Lindsay. This causes an argument between her and Lorelai. They eventually made up after Rory went to Europe. After her trip, Rory meets Logan Huntzberger played by Matt Czuchry, who becomes her long-term boyfriend. During this time period, Rory drops out of Yale because of a comment by journalist Mitchum Huntzberger saying that Rory would not be a good journalist. This causes another argument between Lorelai and Rory because Lorelai feels that they have both worked so hard together to get Rory to Yale. Rory moves into her grandparent’s pool house and works for her grandmother at the DAR. She eventually goes back to Yale and finishes school as one of the top students at Yale. 

In my opinion, Rory becomes boy obsessed and forgets about her original goals in life, her dream to become a journalist. She stops working as hard to become the independent woman she wanted to be, instead becoming the homemaker others saw her to be. She started to give the illusion of being a trophy wife. I feel that Rory committing infidelity started her decline, and an act like that is unforgivable in my opinion. Though she did many wrong things, she was a good influence from seasons 1through 4, so it is a glass-half-full situation. I believe that this is a show people should watch but take into consideration the fact that Rory’s character development goes downhill after season 4. 

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