Smart Pop Classics: Happiness Under Glass from Coffee at Luke’s

In the Smart Pop Classics series, we share greatest hits from our throwback essay collections. This week, in her essay from Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest , Jill Winters compares Stars Hollow to a snow globe, a picture perfect place full of eternally content characters . . . and Lorelai Gilmore.

RORY: It’s a Friday night. We should be out, I don’t know, partying with the homies.
LORELAI: Our Stars Hollow homies are all in bed by now.
(“Keg! Max!” 3-19)

It always looks l...