This is day 23 of my first National Blog Posting Month and during these last few days it has been quite challenging for me to write a post each day. We’re on vacation and I don’t always feel like taking the time to post. I also realized that this November 2016 might have been more challenging than any other month of this year. I was very motivated at the beginning of the month and then we had to deal with the election and its outcome. I still feel numb and being in denial every time I read the news. The profanity of planning my birthday actually lightened the mood a bit as going on this trip to SoCal, but on the other hand it made me thinking about moving (again) and these last couple weeks after November 9th have been mentally and emotionally exhausting.
A while ago I started watching one of my all time favorite TV Shows “Gilmore Girls” with my two girls and in the last weeks it helped me a bit to distract me of these heavy thoughts. It feels good to dive into this small town world and the life of mother and daughter Lorelai/Rory Gilmore. So today is the first day of this NaBloPoMo that I’m actually using one of the official writing prompt. Yesterday’s prompt was:
What TV show are you obsessed with? Share 10 reasons it’s better than the other shows.
Gilmore Girls
- Lorelai Gilmore is a strong character and Lauren Graham is a beautiful actress who plays this non-stop talking woman in her thirties very well. Sometimes you don’t know if you want to love her because she’s so witty or if you want to slap her in the face so she will stop talking.
- Stars Hollow is the little town everyone wants to live and be home. It has so many quirky characters and you will find at least one or two you can identify with or want to be friends with.
- Luke is the guy who is always there for you. He might be only a diner owner, but he can fix everything that’s broken and serves you coffee and a burger. He’s a dream.
- There is a Kirk. He is the guy that is unpleasantly annoying, but also immensely persevering. We might despise him most of the time, but he always provides a twist and is good for a fun story. We need more Kirks in this world.
- I love to watch this show with my girls because it has strong female leading roles of up to four generations. Thank you, Amy Sherman-Palladino for strong, educated and quick-witted girls and women.
- This is the third time I’m watching the whole show. I started watching it back in Germany and then I saw it on TV in the US and bought all the DVD’s for little money at Costco. In 2008 I watched the whole show with subtitles and I actually improved my English while watching it. I heard words that I didn’t know before and looked them up while watching. I still relate the word “preposterous” with Emily Gilmore aka Kelly Bishop.
- It predicted the future: The series finale in 2008 showed Rory moving to follow the presidential campaign of an up-and-coming senator named Barack Obama. Didn’t that work out well?
- My husband watched almost the complete show with me (the second time I watched it). He had a thing for Lauren Graham but he actually enjoyed the funny dialogues as much as I did. Now watching it for the second time with our girls, he’s kind of over it and just wants to watching something masculine like boxing.
- Gilmore Girls is more than a show, it’s a lifestyle. We all want to have this rapid-fast, hilarious conversations with our sixteen year old daughter. All mothers and daughters can project themselves onto the Gilmore relationship.
- Gilmore Girls teaches you everything you need to know about Love and Life with the best punchlines and metaphors:
- Michel: People are particularly stupid today. I can’t talk to any more of them.
- Lorelai: If you gonna throw your life away, he’d better have a motorcycle.
- Rory: I’m gonna have to quit drinking coffee, and I love coffee.
- Sookie: This makes me so mad. And sad. I’m smad.
- Rory: Nothing excites me before 11.00 am.
- Richard: Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch.
- Emily: Well, then buy me a boa and drive me to Reno because I’m open for business.
- Lorelai: I don’t like problems. I avoid them when I can and I don’t like people pointing them out to me.
This post is a part of a series called NaBloPoMo 2016 hosted by BlogHer. NaBloPoMo is short for National Blog Posting Month and it challenges writers and creatives to post on their blogs once a day (at least) for the month of November. You can find all my posts on my blogher page, too. Stay tuned!
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