I wanna preface this by saying I see how it's so many people's (including myself!) comfort show. It's heartfelt without being saccharine; it's warm, cozy, and nostalgic. But for some reason, every time I watch it I get filled with this weird sense of melancholia?

I'm only 20 so this show was before my time, but maybe that's why? Like, I'm not necessarily nostalgic seeing as I never actually experienced it, but I feel an inexplicable sense of longing for it. I dislike the whole "I was born in the wrong generation" cliché, and I'm sure the 2000s had its own drawbacks, but I can't help but think I missed out on that simpler time.

Being a teenager is difficult regardless of what era you lived through, and perhaps I'm romanticizing it while overly fixating on the negative parts of my own teenage experience. Growing up with technology being shoved in my face and not knowing a time without Internet has definitely done more harm than good.

Combine everything with the fact that Rory Gilmore has a picture-perfect, storybook life and it's a recipe for how to make me jealous of a fictional character, but also for that era in general. Maybe it's just an effect of how stylized the show is and I'm just really susceptible to it. Lol it's so dumb. But I'd love to read your perspective if you lived through that time!