The mother-daughter dyad Lorelai and Rory conversing about Stars Hollow gossip while imbibing from (clearly empty) coffee cups is comforting to many of us who rewatch Gilmore Girls annually.
Although we don’t always concur with how they treat Emily Gilmore’s grandmother or Rory’s romantic decisions (sleeping with a married man?! ), we can’t help but watch. The season seven finale, in which Rory departs for her first paying position in journalism and the community of Stars Hollow holds a party in her honour, will never fail to make us cry.
The pleasure of revisiting the Gilmores is a security blanket, but Melissa McCarthy does not share this sentiment.
Fans adored Melissa, who portrayed Lorelai’s (Lauren Graham) closest friend and co-owner of the Dragonfly Inn, Sookie St. James, despite her clumsiness and love of cookery.
Our fondest was when she got inebriated to calm down while her husband Jackson fried the Thanksgiving turkey. You absolutely had to be present.
However, the 52-year-old will not immerse herself in the scenarios.
‘I watched it with Vivian once, my oldest, and we watched the pilot, and I was watching her watch it,’ she explained on the Today show.
‘I’m also always afraid somehow, something’s going to happen, and I’m going to be found in a room watching my own thing. So I have a super paranoia about.
‘I can’t watch my own stuff in the house. For some reason I’m always like, what if I pass out and paramedics come in and the takeaway is like, “She was watching her own stuff, pretty weird.” It’s all I ever think about when we’re watching TV, like, “Oh god do I feel lightheaded. I don’t want to pass out in a room where my stuff’s playing.”‘
This answer is giving significant Sookie energy.
Melissa, who portrays Ursula in the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, has nothing but admiration for the programme.
‘Young people that watched it, now that they have kids, and they watch it with their kids, and now their kids are watching it with their own friends.
‘It has had legs on it that I didn’t expect. It was a really fun little world that Amy created. And was really fun to do, it was working with such nice people.
‘And just to have a regular job, I mean no one was more shocked than me. Maybe my parents.’
She must rewatch the episode and assist us in determining whether Rory should have ended up with Dean, Jesse, or Logan.
Gilmore Girls is available to stream on Netflix.