After years of being banished to DVD sets and iTunes purgatory, Gilmore Girls is finally coming to Netflix on Oct 1. And if you're not excited about that, I don't know what to do with you. The Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel dramedy (that aired from 2000-2007 on the WB and later the CW) was one of the best of the quirky small town series of the time (howdy, Northern Exposure), but had a straight-up feminist bent. Besides launching tons of young careers (howdy, Adam Brody and Melissa McCarthy), Gilmore Girls was also known for tons of pop culture references, snappy patter, and a true depth of feeling between the mom and daughter. Here's more from Indiewire's Liz Shannon Miller:

Hailing from the same era of television that made Joss Whedon and Aaron Sorkin into icons, "Gilmore Girls" featured many of the same qualities that made "Buffy" and "West Wing" so beloved — great actors, quality production values and dialogue so distinctive that you could pick it out of a line-up, blindfolded. And that came directly from series showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino (who created the show with her husband Dan).

While not necessarily everyone's taste, the speed-talking and pop culture references made sure that "Gilmore Girls" sounded like nothing else on television, and proved Sherman-Palladino's importance to the show when, after her departure at the end of Season 6, the series struggled to recapture her voice. When discussing the history of auteur television, Sherman-Palladino's name frankly does not come up enough, and that's a shame.

Damn right it's a shame—a shame that can be reversed by you getting hooked on Gilmore Girls when it comes to Netflix on October 1st. (Sidenote: Once when I was in NYC at a cafe, I saw Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel in real life having breakfast alone together, and I was like, "Wait... I'm totally in Stars Hollow!! SQUEEEEEEEE!!)

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