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The basics are similar to a point. Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose, each of whom outshines the material, star as sisters Sarah and Coco. However, Sarah (Posey) in addition to being chronologically older, is so much more mature and centered that they might as well be mother and daughter.
DNA is all the estranged sisters have in common. Sarah is career-oriented, Coco is a ne’er-do-well. Sarah is fashion-conscious and fastidious about her home. Coco is oblivious to what she looks like and bounces from place to place, depending on which friend will have her. Then circumstances lead them back into each other’s lives.
The similarities between the two series are by design, according to Sherman-Palladino.
“I like family dynamics because I can’t figure out mine.
Gilmore [Girls] was a mother and daughter but the relationship was very different. That was a relationship about two people who were instantly invested. They were so bonded, they finished each other’s sentences.
“This relationship is a departure because it’s two women who just don’t know each other at all. They’ve never formed any sort of bond. It’s weird because they’re adults but they’re just starting to figure out who they are, how they react, what they like, what they don’t like, how they’re going to make each other crazy, how they’re not going to make each other crazy. It’s just a wonderful dynamic.”

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Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
The show’s premise is oddly serious for a sitcom: Posey’s character, Sarah, plans to conceive a child with a sperm donor and her own egg, then have estranged sister Coco move into her Brooklyn loft and carry the baby for her.
Ambrose struggles to imagine being a real-life surrogate mom.
“Well, if the conditions were right,” she said after a moment. “But I’d have to be pretty Zenned-out.”
The actress acknowledges being intense and passionate by nature.
“Sometimes I’m, maybe, too passionate. And then I’m devastated by things and disappointed often.”
Her latest devastation: learning that she is allergic to chocolate.
Ambrose, who was born in Connecticut with the last name D’Ambruoso, grew up in a food-centric household of Italian-Americans. Her father, she said, is a caterer at Amarante’s in New Haven, “a big, Italian, wedding-extravaganza place.”
She looks exactly like her paternal grandmother, a redhead, she said, adding: “There’s red hair on both sides of the family. My mother made me promise to never dye my hair. ‘It’ll never come back,’ she said. I don’t know if I can live up to that — actresses are always asked to do crazy things.”
So far, though, so good.

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