Gabbing Gilmore: A Gilmore Girls Deep Dive

Calling all Gilmore Girls superfans! If Stars Hollow is your favorite place to be, you will enjoy this cozy chat between sisters Jackie and Catherine. We know you love some romance, but sometimes it doesn’t go as planned. From Logan’s weekend away, to Rory’s Christmas gift for Dean, many romantic gestures went awry.  Join us for our top 10 favorites, including the number one moment that was sooooo...

Join us for the Best of Gabbing Gilmore!  Emily Gilmore is a complicated, often controlling woman who doesn’t usually show a warm-and-fuzzy side. (Especially with her daughter.) But throughout the Gilmore Girls series, we get glimpses of her softer vulnerability. Remember when she tried to buy a plane? How about that road trip to Mia's wedding? Here are 10 times Emily broke us. Get out your ti...

Paris Geller isn’t the only student to get involved with a professor on teen dramas. Today, sisters Jackie and Catherine explore the many (many, many) teen shows of the ‘90s and early 2000s that featured teacher-student relationships.  There are almost too many shows to count. In addition to Gilmore Girls, we chat about Dawson’s Creek, Felicity, My So-Called Life, One Tree Hill, The O.C., Gossip G...

Let’s talk about Jess Mariano, the mysterious boy who arrives in Stars Hollow from the big city. His arrival is bumpy to say the least! From stealing garden gnomes to a phony murder outside of Doose’s Market, the presence of Jess really shakes up this small, quaint Connecticut town. Today, sisters, Jackie and Catherine dive into Jess Mariano‘s early days in Stars Hollow, including the reactions of...

Today we're revisiting our very first Gilmore Girls Grab Bag - originally episode 8. Some fun and lighthearted questions about our favorite Stars Hollow comfort show! (Thanks for your support & patience as we navigate through a family medical issue. You can still look forward to one new episode + one new Patreon bonus episode per month for the immediate future.)   Advertising Inquiries: ht...

We’re back with Part 2 of 2 in this bonus episode recap of the 90-minute Winter episode of Gilmore Girls, A Year in The Life. We get into Rory’s career as a 32 year-old: is this the journalist dream she had imagined? Why is she in London so much, and why isn’t Lorelai giving more advice? Plus, does Mitchum know about the “affair”? Pop culture references abound and, of course, we have to dissect th...

We’re back for the best of Luke Danes’ rants!  Luke is known to get fired up, especially about his nephew Jess and even sometimes Lorelai’s antics.  Be sure to go back to last episode to listen to Part 1 first!  Then come back here and count down the second half of our Top 10 favorite rants.  ✨ If you want more Gilmore chats, join our Patreon, where we put out extra bonus episodes every month . ...

No one can rant like Luke Danes!! He’s calm one moment and yelling the next. And when Taylor Doose is around, there’s no controlling Luke. So we just had to rank our favorite Luke rants. Whether it’s about marriage, young parents in the diner, or the Stars Hollow pageantry, Luke always makes us laugh, and sometimes nod in agreement. Today we’re counting down the first half of our Top 10 favorite r...

After nine years without new content, Gilmore Girls fans received a major gift: a revival! A Year in the Life aired in 2016, with four episodes - to go with each season, starting with Winter.  Today’s bonus episode is a recap of the 90-minute Winter episode, Part 1 of 2.  In part 1, we chat about the new running jokes, like Oooober and Paul, the forgotten boyfriend. Plus, we dig into the major plo...

Many fans complain about Rory’s personality after her high school days at Chilton. Did she really become a different person at Yale? Did she suffer from Golden Child Syndrome?  In this episode, sisters Jackie and Catherine dive into Rory’s relationship to criticism. We tackle outward criticism from Mitchum that she doesn’t “have it,” Dean getting mad at Rory after Jess buys her basket, the backlas...

It’s grab bag time! Jackie and Catherine are taking questions from YOU about your burning Gilmore Girls questions. Like…. Where is Stars Hollow?  How old is Luke? Where did Dean go? Why didn’t we get to see Lorelai and Chris’s marriage?  What modern-day trends would our favorite Gilmore girls love (and hate)?  And many more. Plus, Jackie has a really good theory about why Lorelai and Rory have a p...

To access this bonus episode for Gabbing Gilmore exclusive subscribers , join the Patreon community here . Are you ready to do Christmas like a Gilmore Girl? We all know Lorelai and Rory’s holiday traditions: stockings on the stairs, slice and bake cookies that they pretend to decorate.  But what about two of the best Gilmore Girls hostesses?  Emily and Sookie, of course! In this December bonus ep...

Were Rory and Tristan “end game”? Sisters and co-hosts Jackie and Catherine are joined by a special guest to discuss.  Why do people love Tristan so much? We explore whether this character, played by Chad Michael Murray, had any character growth over the series. And whether he was a good match for Rory Gilmore.  Today, we’re diving into Romeo & Juliet, the dance, the kiss, Tristin’s date with...

Every Gilmore Girls fan loves to chat about Lorelai, Rory, Emily, Luke, Lane, and Sookie. And Rory’s guys, of course.  But what about the bit characters we only see once or twice?  The smaller characters of Gilmore Girls add to the charm of Stars Hollow, the Hartford society scene, and even Yale.  And sometimes they impact the storylines in big ways!  Today, sisters (and GG diehard fans) Jackie an...

Along with being quirky, caffeinated, and fast-talking, the other common adjective some critics use to describe Lorelai Gilmore is “selfish.” Including the way she mothers Rory. Today, sisters and Gilmore experts Jackie and Catherine explore: What IS a selfish mom? What’s the difference between being selfish and self-centered? What are society’s expectations for mothers today, and why aren’t dads...

What is the best scene of all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls? Today, sisters and GG experts Jackie and Catherine are declaring which one should win the Emmy for Best TV scene ever - if there was such a category! We’ll give you a hint - not only does this epic scene involve Lorelai and Rory, but we see Emily and Richard, plus a bit of Mozart and mind games.  Are you getting closer to the answer?  C...

This month, Jackie and Catherine experienced an immersive Stars Hollow weekend like no other, this year's Fan Fest Firelight Event in Guilford, CT! This episode is a bonus so we could bring you all the Gab. What cast members did we meet? Did we, in fact, dress alike all weekend? And how many times did Jackie "pull a Lorelai" and buy coffee from the same coffee shop in one day?  It was...

Today Jackie and Catherine cover a bittersweet topic. Although death sounds extremely serious (and it is!)... on Gilmore Girls it is often infused with compassion, friendship, sweetness, and humor. Nothing stays too heavy for too long on our favorite Stars Hollow show.  We explore: * How did some of the townspeople’s deaths shape important plot points for Lorelai, Rory, Emily, Luke, and others? *...

Okay, Team Logan, you’re up! Today, sisters and Gilmore Girls aficionados Jackie and Catherine dive into the very early days of Rory and Logan’s romance.  From the Life and Death Brigade to the Male Yale Party, and all the flirtations in between, we’re discussing why this romance was so different from Rory’s earlier boyfriends.  Do we like Logan in the beginning?  Why does Rory end up liking a guy...

This is a bonus episode for Gabbing Gilmore subscribers. To access it, join the Patreon community here . In our very first episode for Patreon members, we chat about the most critical elections on Gilmore Girls - Jackson, Paris, Rory, and yes… we’ll even talk about Kirk’s polling.  Jackie and Catherine dig into how Chilton, Yale, and Stars Hollow elections relate to real life elections, including...

Music plays a key role in Gilmore Girls, especially in the romances! We’re counting down the top 10 most romantic musical moments in Stars Hollow. Which, yes, include a lot of Luke and Lorelai, but some other surprises, too.  We’re forever grateful for the musical contributions of Sam Phillips (famously known for her “la-las”) and Grant Lee Phillips (the town troubadour) to Gilmore Girls. You’ll f...

Emily Gilmore is one of the most complicated women in television history. And we just loooooove to analyze her!  This week’s episode explores all the times that Emily shows up in Stars Hollow - including all her surprise visits. When was she the most Emily-ish? When did she actually let down her guard?  What do these visits say about her mothering, and her identity? Join sisters & Gilmore Girl...

Disney’s Inside Out 2 was a huge hit this summer. Today, Jackie and Catherine dig into the new characters - FEELINGS! - and how they relate to our beloved Gilmore Girls main characters.  Who has “Fear” running the show? How about “Anxiety”? Who could use a bit more “Joy”?  If you haven’t seen the movie yet, don’t worry, no Inside Out spoilers. (Just Gilmore spoilers).  🎙Produced with support from...

Rory and Dean have one of the mostly hotly debated romances on Gilmore Girls. It started as sweet, young, and romantic, and then…. well, got complicated. In the first episode of Gabbing Gilmore’s Season 3, sisters Jackie and Catherine chat about the early days of Rory Gilmore and Dean Forrester. The bracelet, their cute-meet, movie night, and more.  And of course, their first kiss.  Who was Dean w...

Ready for a walk down the aisle?  Today, sisters Jackie and Catherine discuss the many weddings of Gilmore Girls and which ones take the cake - the wedding cake, that is.  We chat about what the weddings have in common and how they were surprisingly important to fuel some major Gilmore plot points. From costumes and music to the sweetest moments - we’re going all in.  Plus, did Sookie choose the r...