23 years after Gilmore Girls first premiered, the show is still beloved and gaining new fans thanks to its availability on Netflix. In 2016, it even returned for a brief revival, allowing viewers to once again hop into the cozy world of Stars Hollow and see how their favorite characters have been holding up. According to the show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, however, some of the crew’s favorite storylines got cut, including one revolving around something you might not expect from the Gilmore Girls universe: K-pop.
That’s right, in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Sherman-Palladino confirmed that the show’s writers wanted to introduce a plotline in which Mrs. Kim, the conservative Korean mother of Rory Gilmore’s best friend Lane Kim, begins “to manage a K-pop band.”
“It’s so weird because K-pop is so huge now,” Sherman-Palladino said, before explaining that the plotline was dropped because the revival “frankly” didn’t have “enough money” to produce everything they wanted to. Now, it seems like Sherman-Palladino might have preferred to give that story more priority. “This was years before I even knew who BTS was,” she said. “I sort of feel like, ‘Goddammit. That K-pop story would’ve been so cool.’”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Sherman-Palladino explained that she wishes she had focused more on the character of Lane in general. “There were a couple of things [I wanted to explore] but we just didn’t have the time,” she said. “I really never liked the way Lane’s life shook out. I would have liked to have spent more time on her, especially since she’s patterned after my best friend. Sorry, Helen [Pai].”
Touching on other topics, Sherman-Palladino expressed her amazement at the sustained popularity of Gilmore Girls, stating that she wishes Lauren Graham was celebrated more for her performance on the show, and even offered some insights into the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike: “Right now there’s no competition. The streamers own everything. They’re Goliath.”
Read the full Rolling Stone interview here
As for the scrapped K-pop storyline, we may never know the details of Mrs. Kim’s band, but you can familiarize yourself with all things K-pop by checking out Fan Chant, Consequence Associate Editor Mary Siroky’s weekly column for K-pop fans, stans, newbies, and, hey why not, even fictional characters who want to manage bands.
