Luke and Lorelai’s Best Flirting Barely Sounds Like Flirting — And That’s Why It Works
Most television flirting is designed to be obvious. Luke and Lorelai appear to prefer insults, complaints, coffee negotiations and conversations that would sound completely ridiculous without years of chemistry behind them. That is exactly what makes them funny. Their dialogue works because Luke and Lorelai rarely stop the story to announce that they are flirting….