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Thirtysomething Lorelai Gilmore (Graham) has made her share of
mistakes in life, and she's doing her best to see that her
teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel, Tuck Everlasting) doesn't
follow in her every footstep. Because of their extraordinary
friendship and some pretty good genes, the two are often
mistaken for sisters. From the beginning, this unique
mother-daughter team has been growing up together. Lorelai was
just Rory's age when she became pregnant and made the tough
decision to raise her baby alone. This defiant move and
Lorelai's fierce need to be independent caused a rift between
her and her own old-fashioned, old-money parents, Emily (Kelly
Bishop, Dirty Dancing) and Richard (Edward Herrmann, Reds).
Set in a
storybook Connecticut town populated with an eclectic mix of
dreamers, artists and everyday folk, Gilmore Girls is a
humorous, heartfelt, multi-generational drama about friendship,
family and the ties that bind. In its first season, Gilmore
Girls was honored with a Viewers for Quality Television Award
and was named Outstanding New Series by the Television Critics
Association. Series star Lauren Graham received a Best Actress
nomination from the Screen Actors Guild.
As season two unfolds, Lorelai will wrestle with a life-changing
romantic decision, while Rory comes face-to-face with her own
long-hidden wild side when an irresistible and dangerous new boy
arrives in town. This surprising turn of events will give
Lorelai a frightening new perspective on how her own wild
teenage years affected her parents.
Rory was a straight 'A' student at the local public high school,
but everything changed when she was accepted into the
prestigious Chilton Prep in nearby Hartford. Though she was
elated at this life-changing opportunity for her daughter, the
steep tuition forced Lorelai to swallow her pride and ask her
parents for financial help. Their condition for financing Rory's
education was that they once again become part of the lives of
their estranged daughter and granddaughter. The ensuing year of
Friday night dinners at Emily and Richard's home may have
brought the generations physically closer together, even though
at any given meal the conversation can quickly shift from funny
to furious, or serious to sweet.
Headstrong Lorelai has managed to create a loving home
environment for her daughter, but romantic complications and a
surprise marriage proposal at the end of last season have left
her a bit rattled as just about everyone in Stars Hollow
anxiously awaits Lorelai's answer... including Lorelai herself.
At the same time, her friendship with Luke Danes (Scott
Patterson, Little Big League) the handsome owner of the local
diner who never fails to charm Lorelai with his smile and great
coffee, seems to be simmering with the promise of something
more.
With her best friend, the hopelessly clumsy culinary genius
Sookie (Melissa McCarthy, Charlie's Angels), Lorelai is saving
up to one day open her own bed-and-breakfast. In the meantime,
she'll have to pay her dues as the manager of the quaint and
historic Independence Inn and weather the acerbic attitude of
the inn's haughty concierge, Michel Gerard (Yanic Truesdale).
Adding her own unique style to the town is Miss Patty (Liz
Torres, The John Larroquette Show) the local dance instructor
and social commentator.
At the conclusion of the first season, the lives of the Gilmore
girls were more complicated than ever before. Rory has adjusted
to her new life at Chilton and classes without her best friend
Lane Kim (Keiko Agena, Felicity), despite a tense rivalry with
the brainy and popular Paris Geller (Liza Weil). Rory became
smitten with the handsome new boy in town, Dean (Jared Padalecki),
quickly experienced her first kiss and her first breakup, then
forced aside her fear of commitment to win Dean back.
Gilmore Girls was the first series to make it to air supported
by the Family Friendly Forum's script development fund. An
initiative between some of the nation's top advertisers and The
WB, the program is intended to offer a greater array of
compelling family programming on network television. The strong
and loving mother-daughter relationship portrayed in Gilmore
Girls reflects the growing reality of this new type of American
family.
This heartfelt one-hour drama was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino
(Roseanne) who serves as executive producer with Gavin Polone
(Stir of Echoes, Drop Dead Gorgeous) for Dorothy Parker Drank
Here Productions and Hofflund/Polone in association with Warner
Bros. Television.