Gilmore to Watch: How Gilmore Girls played a role in Ginny & Georgia's Netflix Pick-Up with Sarah Lampert

Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast

Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh

Leisure, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first episode of Gilmore to Watch: a new segment where we explore stories in the film and television medium filled to the brim with similar tropes, storylines, and energy that will satisfy the itch between rewatches of your favorite comfort show <3

For our inaugural episode, Tara sits down with Sarah Lampert, creator and executive producer of Netflix's Ginny and Georgia, a series that centers around the mother-daughter relationship between young Georgia Miller and her teenage daughter Ginny, to a very small, very picturesque New England town to start a new life. Georgia quickly catches the eye of the local restaurant owner, while Ginny immediately falls for the brooding bad boy across the street. But beneath the surface of Georgia's quick-wit and million-dollar smile are secrets she and her family can only run from for so long; especially in the tiny little Hamlet of Wellsbury, Massachusetts where everyone knows each other's business.

Social media and Gilmore Girls fans were quick to compare this premise to the original mother-daughter duo we all know and love, but where many tropes, parallels, and sentiments coexist between the two series, there are many vast differences; and we're here to talk about them all! We're dying to know...did Sarah grow up watching Gilmore Girls? How does she feel about the comparisons? And what role did Gilmore Girls play in landing her show in front of the execs at Netflix? Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable besties, this is a fun one!!!!

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0:00.0	5, 6, 7, 8.
0:01.9	Ginny.
0:02.9	And Georgia, of course.
0:09.6	Hi, everybody.
0:10.7	Welcome to the first episode of Gilmore to watch with Tara.
0:13.4	I'm Tara.
0:14.2	Hi, I'm so glad you're here.
0:16.1	I'm really excited about this segment.
0:18.1	Of course, as we talked about earlier this week, if you listened to
0:21.4	this week's GTC, this is a new segment that Haley and I kind of dreamt up together as a bit of
0:29.4	a tandem segment to Gilmore to read, which Haley gets to host with y'all once a month and
0:35.3	bring on a writer to talk about a book that has a trope that's
0:40.8	similar to this show. We all know and love Gilmore Girls. And I thought it would be really
0:46.0	fun as someone who's not necessarily an avid reader. And I'm sure that there are people out there who
0:50.6	might not be avid readers like me, but who instead prefer to consume other
0:56.6	stories via a watchable medium like film or television to have a segment. And so we decided to
1:04.4	start Gilmore to watch. And I'm so glad that y'all are here. Our first episode is really
1:09.4	special and I feel so honored that I got to have a
1:12.5	conversation with this writer. I have Sarah Lampert, who is the creator and executive producer
1:18.9	of Ginny and Georgia, which has been compared to Gilmore Girls in a lot of different ways.
1:25.8	And in some ways, I think it is so justified and so to
1:29.6	Sarah. And in other ways, there are a lot of differences. But of course, because this show is about a
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