Lauren Graham Also Dislikes 1 Largely Despised ‘Gilmore Girls’ Storyline
Lauren Graham portrayed Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls from 2000 until 2007. She reprised the role in 2016 for a four-part special. While the part is only one of several notable roles for the actor, it is the job she is asked about most. During a recent podcast appearance, the famed actor opened up about what it was like to portray a young single mother and which storyline she hated. As it turns out, Lauren Graham was just as bothered by Lorelai and Rory’s falling out as Gilmore Girls fans. She hated it for the same reason.
Lauren Graham dislikes Lorelai and Rory’s fight just like everyone else
Lauren Graham has been very public about her attachment to Lorelai Gilmore. The veteran actor has admitted that it was her favorite gig and that she’d always be open to returning to the franchise if another revival was on the table. While Graham loves the time she spent as Lorelai Gilmore, she’s not sold on every single storyline featured during Gilmore Girls’ seven-season run.
Recently, Graham appeared on Call Her Daddy to chat about her life and career. During the chat, Gilmore Girls, of course, came up. Graham told host Alex Cooper that she loved working on the show but wasn’t in love with Rory and Lorelai’s big fight as a storyline. She said that, for her, the storyline, which spanned several episodes, didn’t land. She noted that it was too drawn out for her liking.
How long did Rory and Lorelai Gilmore’s estrangement last?
Lauren Graham isn’t the only person who hates the estrangement storyline. While fans hate Lorelai and Christopher Hayden’s marriage as a storyline more, the estrangement is also loathed. The length of the fight seems to be what fans are most bothered by. Do you remember how long it lasted, though?
The storyline, which centers around Lorelai and Rory’s estrangement after Rory drops out of Yale, took up a lot of real estate in the show’s sixth season. The initial argument occurred in the 22nd episode of season 5, “A House is not a Home.” The pair didn’t reconcile until “The Prodigal Daughter Returns,” the ninth episode of season 6.
It is often hard to nail down exactly how much time passes between episodes on most TV shows. Thankfully, the writers for Gilmore Girls spelled this one out for us. Lorelai was so bothered by the estrangement that she spoke about it openly. She even kept obsessive track of how long the rift lasted. In a later season 6 episode, Lorelai tells Logan Huntzberger that her daughter didn’t speak to her for “5 months, 3 weeks, and 16 days.” The break lasted 192 days. Would the rift have been more palatable if it had lasted fewer episodes? It’s impossible to tell, but we and Lauren Graham both agree that 10 episodes of Lorelai and Rory not speaking was too many.
