While Gilmore Girls is definitely full of millennial meaning and narratives. In the first episode,  the interaction between Laurelai and Rory, highlights differences between generational groups. Rory definitely fits the millennial outline. She has a very good relationship with her mother, she’s intelligent and self-motivated, and in the end understands that going to a private school is better for her long-term goals than staying in public school. She has Ivy League goals. She ‘gets’ school uniforms and embraces the idea. Laurelai several times warns Rory about making the same mistakes she made in her youth, highlighting the difference between their mindsets at that age.

The second episode highlights the technological aspect of the millennial generation. Computers and their use are all over the place. Rory uses her computer for research and homework and to instant message Logan. The music kid is displays a tech savviness. Cell phones are also used throughout  as a primary means of communication. And similar roles/uses are seen throughout almost all of the millennial television we watch. Technology, computers and cell phones in particular, are very much a meta-narrative seen throughout.

Rory’s feminism is more visible in the second episode. In her interactions with her editor and, more so, with Logan show her as a strong, deliberate, and driven young woman. But the most feminist of her actions is confronting her father and asking him to leave her mother be. Not only does she confront him, but she really asserts both her and her mother’s independence.