7 Reasons the Gilmore Girls Are Actually Overrated: The Honest Truth

1. Richard and Emily

Photo Credit: TheWB.com

I like Richard and Emily. Emily, especially, is just a wonderful old New England dowager queen. She is such a society matron and her sharp, cutting wit just reeks of high breeding and honey roasted money. Yes, they did some really horrid things sometimes, but they played the scapegoat far too often. However, naming a building after your granddaughter is a little too much, even for the best TV shows of that era.

2. Rory is Brilliant

Photo Credit: TheWB.com

And good for her, I have no problem with that. However, from ages 8 to 18, I wanted to go to Harvard more than anything. (Then I met trigonometry, and my dream floated away. Their loss though, seriously.) During the first episodes I saw, I was all pro-Rory; I felt a kinship with her Crimson obsession. And then she went to Yale, and I became bitter to the point that I express my bitterness from her first day at Yale through her graduation from it. For some, this shift is exactly why gilmore girls overrated becomes a common sentiment.

3. Paris

Photo Credit: TheWB.com

Paris scares me. I find her overrated because I went to high school with several of her scary sisters. My problem is that I don’t think she was able to develop properly. I envision Paris all grown up as a smaller, possibly slightly more tyrannical version of Emily Gilmore, only not quite so content to be the consummate hostess. Reunion, please! If you want to see more of her intense moments, check out the official IMDb page for the show.

4. Sookie & Lorelai

I’m sorry, am I the only one that thought this relationship was sort of a trainwreck some of the time? Yes, they had plenty of warm fuzzy moments, but I watch the episode where Lorelai reams new mother Sookie about inn business, or episodes where Sookie does or says something likewise selfish, and I just want to smack them both. Yes, even BFFs have fights, but theirs were just heightened by the fact that, at their worst, the two of them have all the maturity of a sixteen year old mean girl—between the both of them.

5. Rory’s Relationships

Photo Credit: TheWB.com

Tristan and Dean and Jess and Logan, oh my! Impossibly pretty boys with impossibly pretty names, oh my! For me, it is never going to be about Team Edward or Team Jacob (FYI, I’m Team Jasper; yeah, I said it). It’s always going to be Team Jesse versus Team Logan versus Team Dean, and I will always be a devout member of Team Jess. I think Alexis Bledel is absolutely adorable, but her character was just clueless when it came to her taste in men. Learn more about her brooding artistic rebel boyfriend below.

6. Jess

Photo Credit: TheWB.com

Also why there needs to be a reunion. Lorelai (spoiler alert!) gets her happy ending by the last episode, but Rory finally makes the intelligent decision of dumping Logan and doesn’t immediately make the likewise brilliant decision of calling Jess before she leaves. Why would that be brilliant? Because he’s always been there, he’s the brooding artistic rebel, he would think nothing of either going on her press jag with her or waiting until she finished with it, and it is just so obvious they are destined for some sophisticated, artsy, bohemian future together. Fix it, please. You can catch these classic episodes on Netflix.

7. Lorelai

Photo Credit: TheWB.com

I’ll be honest. This woman gets on my last nerve sometimes. Her tendency to hold grudges, to whine, to expect a little too much, to express her immaturity in various, original ways—the list goes on. The one thing that bothers me most (which proves why the writers and assorted crew knew exactly what they were doing to reel in an audience) was how and why she and Luke broke up. That wedding fiasco was a debacle. However, in the end, letting Rory go and finally, presumably, getting her act together with Luke does soothe my ire quite a bit. She's definitely one of the most annoying TV characters when she's at her worst.

And so I keep watching and snarking and getting so involved with these characters, I often want to take a drive from Boston to Stars Hollow. Do these things or any others bug you, or am I just totally off base?