Gilmore Girls’ Lorelai Never Apologized For Her Lowest Point With Rory

Summary:

• Gilmore Girls was one of The CW's biggest hits of the 2000s and followed the lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.
• In the first season, Lorelai's storyline revolved around her relationship with Max Medina, Rory's English teacher.
• Rory was uncomfortable with this relationship, but Lorelai never took responsibility for her actions.

Gilmore Girls was a phenomenon not only because it managed to convincingly portray the relationship of a single mother trying to navigate the world with her teenage daughter, but also because of an interesting dynamic in the personalities of the two.

It's not uncommon to see an immature adult in a sitcom, just as it's not uncommon to see a somewhat ingenious child. However, this was an interesting concept to explore in a dramatic show without making the characters caricatures of themselves and leaving them in a natural environment.

With a mother, Lorelai Gilmore, who had her daughter as a teenager and was strained by her own parents, and a daughter, Rory, who grew up with love and care, but had to learn to be responsible to support her mother, the dynamics of the Gilmore household were always somewhat turbulent. And unfortunately, the writers haven't always done justice to these characters.

Lorelai's joke about apologizing to Rory for kissing her teacher at school is considered one of the lowest points in her relationship with her own daughter.

Lorelai and Rory's English Teacher Romance

Many fans of the show have spent a lot of time discussing whether the whole relationship between Lorelai and Max, who was Rory's teacher at the time, was ethical at all. To the show's credit, the characters discussed the consequences within the show but went ahead with the romance anyway.

Aside from the whole ordeal with the broken engagement and the effect it had on Rory, Lorelai has never really apologized to her daughter for bringing as much chaos to her school life as she did to her home life. It all started when Lorelai and Max shared a kiss at school, and Paris spread the rumors in no time.

All Lorelai really said were the words of manipulation. Instead of acknowledging her daughter's feelings and apologizing for her actions like the adult she is, she decided to protect herself and make excuses. She turned the situation to her advantage by saying how much she was afraid of this very thing.

Saying "I'm human, and I screwed up" is a good enough start to something more meaningful, but those words alone suggest no accountability. Not that Lorelai has ever been able to take any.

If you want to re-watch Gilmore Girls to be disappointed in Lorelai's parenting methods again, you can stream the show from the very first episodes on Netflix.