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Gilmore Girls: A Millennial Story Come Full Circle
Culture
The Netflix revival of the beloved series is uniquely positioned to offer a long-term portrait of one of TV’s first nuanced Generation-Y protagonists.
By Tara Seetharam
When it premiered this fall, the new CBS sitcom The Great Indoors came under fire for relying heavily on unimaginative jokes about millennials: They’re obsessed with social media and political correctness, addicted to technology, sheltered, entitled, and lazy.
But the series, which just received a full-season order, at least suggests that portrayals of Generation Y are prevalent enough in the public consciousness to justify a network show dedicated to making fun of them.
The pop-cultural footprint of Millennials is especially apparent in the broader TV landscape, which has seen a boon of stories focused on members of that age group over the past five years.
At least a dozen current shows examine the generation’s varied experiences wit