Consensus shared amongst many fans of media from the early to mid-aughts and certainly ones who color themselves as fanatics of a certain fast-paced quick-witted pop culture-laced dialogue found in the cozy small town of Stars Hollow Connecticut dictates that Gilmore Girls just hits different and for some better in the fall.
Indeed fall is Gilmore Girls season as many Instagram pages of 00s nostalgia like to exclaim. But for those of us who need a bit of that type of warm-hug comfort in the form of a favorite television series year-round (read me) Ive always wondered what exactly it is that makes Gilmore Girls resonate more with passionate fans and viewers in the fall. The series has been a nighttime comfort to me for many years and I dont know if I would have made it through my college and university years without it.
Stars Hollow Seems to Exist in a Perpetual Autumn
Of course I understand the obvious rudimentary reasons why fans associate Gilmore Girls with fall like Dawsons Creek before it and One Tree Hill after it the series falls within a specific brand of early aughts programming on The WB following teenagers in quaint American towns where it always seems to be autumn. Stars Hollow I would argue is the quintessential blueprint for this television trope one that has gone largely out of style in present-day television thanks to the rise of streaming platforms and the decline of network television.
So deciding to give it some more thought and contemplation I sought out to truly understand what makes the series resonate more at this particular time of year. There has to be more beneath the surface beyond Stars Hollow always feels like fall so the show always feels warm and cozy yay! And there were many things about the series that I either discounted or never fully realized.
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