I have recently re-watched the GG episode where Lorelai goes to Parents' Day just to break up with Max, ends up kissing him instead, and Emily is told about it and delivers the famous line “He's just a man, Lorelai”. Right before this shot, the camera does some great movements that had always gone unnoticed to my eye for how smooth they are and how the camera - and the whole make-believe that is storytelling - becomes invisible à la 1930-50s Hollywood.
Right before this shot, the camera moves in a curve, sneaking a peek from behind a bush adorned with Christmas lights. I would've probably never noticed it if I weren't a film and theatre major doing research for her dissertation. It feels precisely as it would've felt if we had been there. We would've heard someone argue and, since curiosity is inherently human, we would've tried to sneak a peek or eavesdrop part of the fight. We would've definitely hidden behind that bush and peek through it. And, oh, how we would've cursed the string of festive lights for blinding us while we were just trying to satisfy our human curiosity.
It's definitely not the first time Amy plans camera movements in a way that it feels like you're actually walking among characters. In fact, it's almost her entire manifesto. Oh but Gilmore Girls has many more examples of it than I had thought. The early-Palladino is all there. It never started out on Maisel when she had the right budget. She'd always have It. She'd always been Amy. She just didn't have the budget to express it as she would've liked to.