
Set in a storybook Connecticut town populated by an eclectic mix of dreamers, artists and everyday folk, this multigenerational drama about family and friendship centers around Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter, Rory. Lorelai owns the town's bed-and-breakfast, the Dragonfly Inn, with best friend/chef Sookie, and contends with weekly dinners with eccentric, well-off parents Richard and Emily Gilmore (who always have something to say about their daughter's life). After high school, Rory attends Yale University but frequently returns to Stars Hollow to visit her mom.
Emily and Richard are happy when Lorelai and Christopher attend Friday night dinner together; Sherry asks Christopher to send their daughter, Gigi (Nicolette Collier), to visit her in Paris; Stars Hollow is plagued by an odor.
Christopher talks Lorelai into visiting Rory during Parents' Weekend at Yale; Luke meets April's swimming coach, who convinces him to take her adult swimming class.
Christopher and Lorelai take his daughter to visit her mother in Paris; Rory's tenure as editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News ends, leaving her unsure of her future.
With the wedding called off, mother and daughter travel to Harvard University, where Rory gets a glimpse of college life and Lorelai confronts a past that could have been.