10 Gilmore Girls Couples That Were Totally #RelationshipGoals, According to Reddit
Yes, we are jealous.
Or, let's be real, envious, because it should've been us! We also deserve love like that! How dare Gilmore Girls depict healthy relationships between some of the most relatable characters in the world?! We're gonna rub it in and showcase 10 of the best pairs from the show, so we won't suffer alone.
What is the key to a good romance story, or any story in general? It doesn't have to be realistic, but it has to be believable and relatable. Gilmore Girls tackles all of that, especially in the romance department.
The cast is huge and quite colorful, consisting of a variety of characters that are the embodiments of certain tropes, maybe sometimes a bit more grotesque, but it's still fiction, and we can still see ourselves in some of them.
We also want someone who's weird in our specific way and gets us. We also want to be understood on that subconscious level in an unconditional way.
The way Gilmore Girls portrays all the kinds of relationships that fit these criteria and adds some that deviate from it, building a healthy dose of comedy on it, is masterful, even if it leaves us sobbing.