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Rory and Jess from A Mom to a Friend: Do we still fall in love with the bad boy?

Gives Homer a Netflix the romance industry is full of narcissistic and selfish characters that we easily sublet their hearts to. But in a world where we are increasingly aware of relational dynamics and the toxicity of certain behaviors, Are we still under the spell of the bad boy?

We could have chosen who we wanted, but on our podium of the authentic rebel we put him: Jess Mariani, character of the series Gilmore Girls (The A mother as a friend, damn a Mediaset), which brings havoc in the paradoxical Stars Hollow, in the soul of Rory Gilmore, in the mind of Lorelai Gilmore, in the uncle’s house Luke and in our youth.

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Leather jacket in one hand and book of poems by Allen Ginsberg in the other, Jess has the task of the deus ex machina, to shake from the respectable torpor Rory and catapult her into true and healthy adolescence, one made up of slammed doors and secrets with her parents.

Jess he is immediately identified as a “bad element” by the community: he lies, he doesn’t go to school, he argues, in short, he follows the script of the bad boy as well as he sang it Billie Eilish: tough guy, rough guy, puffed guy. But it is in his relationship with Rory that we identify the emotional dynamics that interest us. Jess makes you feel immediately Rory special, he raises her to the only human being on the globe capable of understanding him and above all gives her books full of quotes written just for her. At the same time, however, he is unfriendly, like a post office worker at 5.55pm, withdraws, changes his mind and triggers that frustration-attraction mechanism that exacerbates feelings.

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When they know each other, Rory is already engaged with Dean: a not secondary detail that increases the sense of error and heightens the adrenaline around the relationship with Jess. Through the latter, Rory she experiences a different life, a special bond that makes her believe, by virtue of love, that she is able to dominate the darker part of him.

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But feelings are not always enough and the ending is in line with the premises: he disappears, without saying anything, without even an Instagram profile to stalk and for her the time comes to have to deal with herself.

Thanks to Rory Gilmore we know that it will always be difficult to resist the charm of the rebel, but it is important to learn that picking up the pieces can be a therapeutic experience, especially in adolescence, when we demolish and rebuild our personalities with more elasticity.

After Jess, Rory will never be able to go back to being the naïve girl of the past, her expectations and needs will change from now on. Come on next, come on Logan.

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