Gilmore Girls is a Creative Arts Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-nominated, American comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The series made its debut on The WB on October 5, 2000, and ended on May 15, 2007, in its seventh season, which aired on The CW. Time magazine named it one of the top 100 television series of all time.

The show follows single mother Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (Graham) and her daughter Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore (Bledel) in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, a close-knit small town with many quirky characters, located roughly thirty minutes from Hartford. The series explores family, friendship, generational divides, and social class.

Gilmore Girls features affected, fast-paced dialogue, with frequent popular culture and political references and social commentary, manifest most clearly in Lorelai's difficult relationship with her wealthy upper class parents

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