Gilmore Girls, the Best Show of the Decade The premise of a television show that chronicles the ups and downs of a single mother with a 16 year old daughter living in a small town in America seems unpromising, but adds in a conservative and upscale parents and the many romantic possibilities for both the ladies and this could leads to plenty of good dramas. Yet, the show that was aired back in 2000 with the same premise was not as dramatic as it could be. In fact, it was rather more of a comedy series mixed with drama, widely known as dramedy, and all these were due to the brilliant writings from the writing team and also the great actors in the series. That was the beautiful series of Gilmore Girls, premiered back in 2000 and ended its seven years run in 2007. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the main aspect of the show was the Gilmore family. Lorelai Gilmore, amazingly portrayed by Lauren Graham, was pregnant when she was 16 years old and ran away with her new born baby to the fictitious town of Star Hollow in Connecticut. The show began when her daughter, Lorelai "Rory" Gilmore, played by Alexis Bledel, at the age of 16 years old, was accepted by the prestigious private high school. Lack of financial fund to transfer her daughter to a better school, she reluctantly went to her rich and distance parents, Richard and Emily Gilmore (Edward Herrmann and Kelly Bishop), for loan. They agreed to it, with strings attached. Every Fridays, both the Gilmore girls would have dinner with them and talked about their lives. Thus, begins the many battles of wits. I remembered watching the first season of the show back in the days when I was still in my secondary school. I was not sure why I was attracted to the show, yet, I was faithfully chasing the show every week. Well, as faithfully as I can as back then, I was in morning session and I sort of have bedtime. Thankfully, I had a television in my room and I often watched all the late night shows in darkness and muted volume, heavily dependent of subtitles. It was like this that I fell in love with the show. Anyhow, recently, I got hold of the whole series and I had been relentlessly watching every single episode again until the end. I had not watched the final season of the show, mainly because the local stations did not aired it. At the series finale, my eyes were watery with tears and all the mucus were crowding at my nose. I did not wish to bid farewell to the two beautiful ladies and the many other eccentric characters populated the small town. What set apart this show from other family drama is the relationship between mothers and daughters, of Lorelai and Rory, and of Emily and Lorelai. Lorelai and Rory, besides being mother and daughter, they were also each other best friend. They loved spending as much time together as they can. Lorelai was easy to approach and very open-minded and she seldom played the mum card when she was with Rory, who was all sugar, sweet and everything nice, making their relationship much desired by every parents. Of course, it would not be believable if there were no fights and quarrels between them but often their differences did not last long, with the longest being almost five months which happened in Season 6. Meanwhile, Emily and Lorelai had a rocky relationship, right from the start of the series. While Lorelai was everything hip and exciting, Emily is the opposite of her. Uptight and classy woman who preferred high teas and social gatherings with the same social stands, both Emily and Lorelai did not see eyes to eyes with almost everything, providing much of the show's dramas. Yet, there was one similar trait between them and it was the motherly love for their daughters. However dramatic the situations got into, there are a lot of humors inserted into its dialogues. Both the leading ladies spoke at the speed of light like trains and trains of thoughts passing by each other. And the passengers of the trains were of famous pop culture references that are simply laugh out loud. The show was sorely missed by its fans, myself included. Watching the final episode of the show was sad, especially with the thought that there will be no more Gilmore moments in my life. However disappointed the fans were of the show, I still find the ending was a fitting farewell, albeit lying with so much more potentials for future development. See you soon, girls.