It’s a well fleshed-out world that makes Gilmore Girls feel like somewhere viewers know and have actually been. Even when Rory is away at Chilton or Yale or Lorelai is visiting her parents in Hartford, home base is always Stars Hollow, and there are always stories living there.īut, Stars Hollow is more than just a setting or a home base. All of these characters are sure to run into each other everyone's sure to know the latest gossip. Stars Hollow’s closeness turns up the temperature of any storyline. It makes fights more serious it makes romances more awkward or forbidden or tense drama is bigger. Making sure characters are always in the same place builds on the drama and adds to the storylines. And, sometimes it’s about where the characters live or frequent like Central Perk in Friends or the loft in New Girl. Sometimes it’s familial bonding like Full House. Often it’s at a workplace, like in The Office or Parks and Recreation or school like Community or Gossip Girl. There are many ways that series position characters to be more or less forced together on a day-to-day basis. The layout of Stars Hollow, of course, isn’t its only important feature.
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