There’s now a second place find the residents of Stars Hollow.
As of midnight PT Sunday, Gilmore Girls is available to stream on Hulu. The erstwhile WB/CW series about a mother and daughter (Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel) living in an impossibly quaint small town in Connecticut has joined the Disney-owned streamer in a non-exclusive licensing deal. The show remains available on Netflix, where it has streamed for years. (The made-for-Netflix follow up Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life remains exclusive to that platform.)
Along with the full, 153-episode run of the original series, Hulu has also created a Gilmore Girls holiday episodes collection on the show’s landing page, featuring nine Christmas-adjacent episodes from all seven seasons.
Gilmore Girls has been an enduringly popular watch on Netflix, ranking among the top 10 library series each of the past three years, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. It also gets an annual viewing boost every fall, a phenomenon series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino credits to the comforting vibe of the show.
“It’s interesting about the fall, but I’m not totally surprised, because if people latched onto it because it was comfort food and it was comfortable, it makes sense that there’s a moment in it that that is — not iconic, but it really fulfills that promise and what people are turning to it for,” Sherman-Palladino told The Hollywood Reporter in November.
“I swear the show is bigger now than it was at any peak of when it was on the air, and it’s just so strange to me,” Sherman-Palladino added. “When we started this show, kids were not walking around with cell phones. There was no social media. I think they had pagers, like they were all drug dealers in The Wire. So kids 1734339456 that are so into social media and being on their phones, it’s always interesting to me that they can relate to a show that’s such a foreign time to them, and yet there’s something in it that they can connect to. I think that’s amazing.”
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