‘Gilmore Girls’ Survey: 62 Percent Of Mothers And Daughters Say Sharing TV Shows Helps Build A Stronger Relationship

In a recent survey about the classic TV series Gilmore Girls and its new revival series, Netflix discovered that 53 percent of women polled say that they wish they spoke more often to their moms. For the mothers and daughters who shared watch TV together, 59 percent of them stated that post-show discussions were the best part of watching TV together. Additionally, 41 percent think watching shows like Gilmore Girls together has brought them closer. The survey also found that over a third of those women live 30 minutes or longer away from their loved one and will go out of their way to watch the show.

The Netflix Mother-Daughter Survey was conducted from October 28 to November 29 and included views from 10,143 women from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany. Other insights found in the survey include the following.

• Sixty-two percent of mothers and daughters say sharing TV shows helps build a stronger relationship
• Thirty-nine percent of respondents say they’re two peas in a pod, and are BFFs like Rory and Lorelai.
• Thirty-one percent say they may be polar opposites like Lane and Mrs. Kim, but they just want what’s best for each other.
• Thirty percent know it can be complicated like Lorelai and Emily, but they can’t imagine life without each other.

Fans of Gilmore Girls will rejoice this Thanksgiving weekend when Netflix releases Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a four-part revival series that picks up the story 10 years later. The new show features most of the original stars, including Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Melissa McCarthy, Sean Gunn, Keiko Agena, Liza Weil, Matt Czuchry, Milo Ventimiglia, Jared Padalecki, and Yanic Truesdale.

The original Gilmore Girls debuted in 2000 on the WB network to critical acclaim, but it was not initially a ratings success. Airing on Thursday, the show had to go up against Survivor on CBS and Friends on NBC. However, when the show moved to Thursday nights, it became the network’s highest-rated series, and by its fifth season, the show became the WB’s second-most watched prime time show.

Gilmore Girls was honored by the Viewers for Quality Television with a “seal of quality” in 2000, was named New Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association in 2001 and the show earned an American Film Institute Award in 2002. Both Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel won Teen Choice Awards, among others.

In 2006, when the network changed to The CW, creators of Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel, could not come to an agreement with the network to continue the series. On May 3, 2007, The CW officially announced that the series would not return for that fall season.

Fans of the show were not happy with how the show ended, and Amy Sherman-Palladino pushed for a follow-up movie. In 2010, Graham told Vanity Fair how a Gilmore Girls movie could be a possibility.

“What’s funny to me is that in all these years, no one ever talked about it except the fans. But now people with power, people who could actually make it happen, are talking about it. I think it could be good, but I wonder if we’ve waited too long. I don’t want to be walking around the town square with a cane.”

So is the new Gilmore Girls follow-up any good?

Michael Ausiello from TV Line says, “I’ve seen all four 90-minute episodes of Netflix’s revival and I’m here to assure you — one Gilmore acolyte to another — that it delivers. Holy hell, does it ever deliver.”

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Jen Caney from Vulture is a little more lukewarm in her review, but she is still a fan.

“While watching Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, you may find yourself asking the same thing, and you may conclude that there is still plenty to love. But you also may find yourself looking more critically at this Main Street, U.S.A., and more easily spotting some of the flaws that co-exist alongside its charms.”

And Ben Travers from IndieWire has this to say about the new series.

“Perhaps what’s most important to realize about the new material is that it’s clearly made with love. There’s very little eye-winking involved, and for a series as sincere as Gilmore Girls has always been, that’s the perfect attitude to take. In era of revivals driven and manipulated by the almighty dollar, A Year in the Life is refreshing in its genuine creation.”

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