Items7The creator’s order
  1. 1Love and Marriage (1996)Love and Marriage (1996) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 28, 1996Where it all started, and only for the truly devoted. Her first series as creator is a Fox family sitcom about a Manhattan couple, played by Anthony Denison (pictured in 2009) and Patricia Healy, raising three kids on opposite shifts: he runs a parking garage by day and she waits tables overnight,…0
  2. 2Gilmore Girls (2000)Gilmore Girls (2000) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired Oct 5, 2000The blueprint for everything else here. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore trade jokes about movies, music and celebrities so quickly that scripts averaged 80 pages an episode, well past the usual length for an hour of TV, and the show's own tagline was "Life's short. Talk fast." Seven seasons and 153…0
  3. 3The Return of Jezebel James (2008)The Return of Jezebel James (2008) 5.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Mar 14, 2008The completist's curiosity. Parker Posey plays a successful children's book editor who cannot have children and asks her estranged younger sister, Lauren Ambrose, to carry her baby, and the two leads are a fine match for Sherman-Palladino's motor-mouth rhythms. It is a short watch for a reason:…0
  4. 4Bunheads (2012)Bunheads (2012) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Jun 11, 2012The closest thing to more Gilmore Girls, and the one most fans missed. Sutton Foster plays Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who marries on impulse and ends up teaching at her mother-in-law's ballet school in a sleepy coastal town, and Kelly Bishop, Emily Gilmore herself, plays that…0
  5. 5Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 25, 2016The ending the Palladinos never got to write in 2007. Set nine years after the original finale, this Netflix revival tells one year in four feature-length episodes named Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, each running 88 to 102 minutes, with the couple back as writers and directors. It is gloriously…0
  6. 6The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Mar 16, 2017The big-budget version of the voice, and the one that won Outstanding Comedy Series at the 2018 Emmys. Rachel Brosnahan's Midge is a 1958 Upper West Side housewife who turns to stand-up after her marriage ends, which makes talking fast her actual job. Alex Borstein's Susie, from the Gaslight club,…0
  7. 7Étoile (2025)Étoile (2025) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Apr 24, 2025The Palladinos' return to ballet, this time on two continents. Ballet companies in New York and Paris swap their star dancers to save themselves, with Luke Kirby, Maisel's Lenny Bruce, running the New York side opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg in Paris, and Lou de Laâge as the star dancer at the…0