Go to http://ro.co/take to get a membership starting at just $99 for your first month. ? Gilmore Girls is of course the story of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore both figuring out how to grow up into the people they want to be – but there’s a third Gilmore woman who provides a very different perspective to the show with her own biting wit: matriarch Emily Gilmore. Emily was constantly at war with daughter Lorelai, over everything from major life decisions to the minutiae of her outfits. She is uptight and close-minded, the total antithesis of the fun and free Lorelai, and she can often come across as suffocating and even straight up mean. But, if we take a closer look, we can begin to better understand why Emily behaved the way she did, and why her evolution was actually just as important as Lorelai and Rory’s.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:53 Emily & Lorelai's endless war
02:39 The big Lorelai "what if..."
04:08 What really drives Emily
06:28 thanks to Ro
07:28 Why Lorelai ran but Rory got pulled in
10:17 What Emily was *really* worried about
10:56 How she evolved (without changing who she is)
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