Hey guys the first part of this review will be spoiler free. I will get into some spoilers later on but I will give you
plenty of warning. So for now if you haven't seen The Gilmore Girls revival already, you are still in a safe space
There were quite a few things about the storytelling that I honestly just did not like, but first I want to talk about
the things that I did like, because there was a lot that I did truly enjoy. I was a huge fan of the original series.
and I wanted to go back to Stars Hollow. It's one of my favorite fictional places. I feel like we are so lucky that
they were able to reassemble that large this long after the series had ended. That had to have been a massive
undertaking. We Were promise closure with this revival, and I found that to be rather inaccurate.
But there are some things we did get great closure on. DEAN was one of those!
I you were team Dean, you got the closure you were wanting. Dean really only has a five minute cameo
with Rory, but it's the perfect five minutes. It gives you closure and it's such a sweet ending. It seemed like they
had been in touch with each other because she seemed to know who he was with and a little bit about what he
what he was up to. It's the only closure that Rory gets with any of her three boyfriends from the original series
So I'll take what I can get.
The closure to Richard Gilmore
I thought the way the Gilmore Girls grieved the loss of Richard throughout the year was really very touching
They show scenes from Richard's funeral, but the pain of his loss is woven throughout the year, woven throughout
all four episodes. If you've seen the trailer you've seen that massive portrait of Richard on the wall and it's so
sweet because the girls will go up to it and give it a kiss, just throughout without making a big deal of it.
But you can see that they're missing him in their day-to-day life. It's really sweet. Speaking of missing Richard, I
really liked Emily and Lorelei's relationship in this revival. Don't get me wrong, they're dysfunctional as always. But
there's a scene, and you'll know it when you see it, that Lorelei has with her mom. It's a conversation they share
about her dad, and I loved it. I had the feels. That was a great scene.
I really liked Emily Gilmore in this revival, all around. All around, Kelly Bishop, good job, all around.
They really did something with her character. She's widowed. She's trying to figure it out. How does she live
after this staple that's been in he life for over 50 years is suddenly gone? Emily Gilmore has this huge incident
with the DAR. It was magnificent. I love that you can see that her character is going somewhere. Here's where I
get into some of the issues that I had with the overall storytelling. For the major characters like Lorelei, Luke
Rory, especially Rory, I felt like they were stuck in the same place and stuck in the same problems as where we
left them 10 years ago.
It was like no time had passed and it was weird because a lot of time had passed.
And because Rory and Lorelei are more or less in the same spot, it made me confused about why we needed
to revisit the story to begin with. Breaking Bad is a perfect example of a character who is taken to a really
terrible place, but it's a story worth telling. I felt like I was watching Rory and Lorelei make the same
mistakes on a loop and there wasn't enough of a story there. For the minor characters the arrested
development worked. Kirk! he was amazing, I loved Kirk. Kirk was as anxiety-ridden and as zany as ever
And when you go back to Stars Hollow that's part of what makes it special. You want Kirk to be there.
You want to see Michelle and you want him to be a diva and he was and it was great!
And for the minor characters with big personalities, it worked out to see them kind of in the same place
as where they had been, but for the major characters it made me feel like there wasn't enough of a story there
to revisit it. I want to expand on that more, because there is a little bit of a character arc, but I wish
it had been expanded, but I can't get into that without giving a lot away so this is where I'm going to say
Go watch it, come back x3
and then we'll chat. It will be be great. Bye bye non-spoliers.
Okay, OMG that ending!
What was that ending!
I don't know what closure means to you people, but that was a cliffhanger.
So obviously what they're going for is that everything came full circle. We end with a baby bomb.
Rory has basically become her mother. And Lorelei seems like she's on her way to becoming her mother.
It seems like Logan will end up becoming Rory's Christopher. And Jess will end up being - We can only
PLEASE we hope, Jess will end up being Rory's Luke.
Let's start with Luke and Lorelei, because Rory's going to take me awhile to talk about.
When we left Luke and Lorelei 10 years ago, they were finally together, and they were thinking about having
a child. Meeting them again, a decade later still unmarried and still without any child or having even
really talked about having a child was weird and kind of depressing.
Let me know if I missed something. It's possible I missed something, but it seemed like the reason
they hadn't really talked about having a child was because they "forgot about it"
and didn't communicate about it. And I'm like - who forgets to TEN YEARS to talk about having a child
That made no sense. They should have picked up the storyline right after the last season ended.
Sure, maybe they'd look a lot older, but I'd rather suspend that in my mind than ignore the fact that
they "forgot to talk" about something for an entire decade. Don't get me wrong, I love that we got to see
Luke and Lorelei still together. I love them. I love that they're together but I didn't feel like anything
anything changed with Luke and Lorelei, at least not to the point where it warranted revisiting their story.
I also cannot believe that we still did not get to see their big wedding celebration. I wanna celebrate with them
Gosh darn it!
Okay, so Rory. [sigh] Rory.
So ten years ago, Rory turned down Logan because she presumably wanted to pursue something more
valuable with her life, something that was career focused. Rory's career has hardly progressed
ever since she graduated. We also didn't get enough information about what she's been doing in the last
10 years, there's been a string of a few articles. But WHAT have you been doing. Last time we saw you, you
were getting on a campaign bus, and I don't know what happened! Rory also has an arrested development when
it comes to her romantic relationships. She's making basically the same mistakes as a 32 year old as
as she did when she was 19, except now that she's in her 30's, Rory's mistakes come across as a
massive character flaw rather than someone who's just young and making mistakes. And obviously
I would have loved to see Rory be in a successful position. I was going through middle school and early
high school as the original series was coming out, and a huge part of why I loved the original series is
that it's about young women who are bright and witty and have goals and dreams and want to be
successful, and not just successful but important.
important parts of their community and important to the world. And sure, to see Rory floundering so much
that sucked, but if they're going to pull Rory down, that's okay, they can take the character to a place
I don't love, I just wish there was more of a story there. Maybe she got into a lot of debt and now she's a criminal mastermind.
That would warrant revisiting the story. I just felt like they were re-hashing a lot of the same problems
that Rory had in Season 5 when she was a lost Logan lover and she needs Jess to put her back on track.
If I wanted to watch that, honestly, I'd rather just re-watch season 5.
It is kind of an interesting dark comedy to have Rory turn into Lorelei. But even then, I wish I has seen more
of it. If the first episode, Winter, had ended with the Rory baby bomb, I would have loved to spend the rest of the
mini-series seeing how she actually deals with it. How does she tell Logan? Does she even tell Logan?
The wookie hookup was in there to kind of keep us on our toes. But I'm pretty sure Logan's the dad.
I think we're meant to be repeating the past here, so Logan would match up with Christopher.
I would have much rather watched Logan and Rory have a baby bomb conversation than watching them
group dance in tophats. How does Jess react to the fact the Rory's pregnant?
That would have been much more interesting to watch than those farmers dancing for like TEN minutes.
At the end of the original series I thought that Rory was poised to become this strong, independent woman
who's taking on the world. Through the revival it became clear that she's actually not. If Rory is not
actually this independent person, if she is actually kind of dependent on Jess to keep her on track,
I'm okay with that, I'm all for being on team Jess, but I feel like this revival series just left her spinning
in space. And other than one longing look through a window, we really don't have a whole lot
of encouragement that Rory and Jess will end up together or even just become a couple.