Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Discussion Thread

I know Gilmore Girls isn't perfect but it's my favorite show. I got into it semi-late, the summer when season four just ended. I spent all summer watching the first three seasons, you know, back when Netflix sent you DVDs through the snail mail, so "binging" wasn't really a thing. I then watched the last three seasons every Tuesday at 8 and upon first watch, sobbed through the finale.



I honestly don't know if I've ever been more excited for a piece of entertainment. I've watched every episode of the show at least fifteen times (between reruns, me owning the boxed set and now of course Netflix). My boyfriend moved in with me in July and he had no interest in it but I made him watch it and he quickly fell in love and we watched the whole series and we will be watching the revival tomorrow.

We are waking up at 2:45AM, getting food ready (also getting take out Chinese tonight before they close so we have it for the show, obviously) and we will be binging all six hours of it right when it comes on at 3:01AM. I am SO EXCITED this is happening.

Watched episodes 1 & 2 already and it just feels like coming home...

I laughed a lot and cried a bit... so happy the Gilmores are back!

Just sad to see how botoxed Lauren Graham looks...

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I binged the whole thing!



I am torn. Part of me really enjoyed it, but I think I am left mainly feeling like Stars Hollow might be the kind of place you can't really go back to.



What I loved:

I REALLY enjoyed a great deal of the cameos. The Parenthood people interacting with Lorelai seemed to pop up every time I was just about to throw in the towel.

Carol King hitting piano made me get up and dance.

Sally Struthers. She can just do no wrong on this show in my opinion. Babbette is a national treasure.

Paris. That seems like exactly where Paris would be now, maybe minus the kids.

The last four words:

What I didn't:

It's been 6 years. I think too little has changed. I needed some sort of improvement in Lane's band. lol

Luke's hair. Was that a toupee? Hair plugs?

The over-the-top dream-like sequences that weren't actually dreams.

Rachel Ray. Really?

Sookie. It felt weird and forced for her to just show up and, for some reason, it really bothered me that Melissa McCarthy doesn't sound like Sookie any more.

I don't buy that Rory would put up with being the other woman. I don't buy that Logan would marry someone else, when he was clearly in love with Rory.

It bugged me that Luke blew up at Lorelai because she decided everything about their relationship and he just went with it, only to be thrilled when she not only decided that they were going to get married, but when and where.





So, I assume we're getting more?

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I was very disappointed. In fact, that's kind. I hated it. Has Graham had Botox, or was this the worst makeup ever? As usual, Kelly Bishop was the best thing about it. And the ending may have very well been appropriate for the original series, but it fell flat with a 32 year-old Rory.

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Overall it was great time to spend with old friends.

I loved loved loved the Rory-Lorelai and Lorelai Emily scenes. Paris and Luke were good too. I didnt mind that Rory had a hard time finding herself. We cant expect that Lorealai wouldnt have aged in 10 years.

But there was way too much time wasted on Michel, Kirk, Taylor and other wacky towns people though. it seemed forced. The Rotating chefs was just stupid. Worst of all was that horrible way too long Stars Hollow Musical.



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Updated On: 11/28/16 at 11:36 AM

JerseyGirl2 said: "I binged the whole thing!



I am torn. Part of me really enjoyed it, but I think I am left mainly feeling like Stars Hollow might be the kind of place you can't really go back to.



What I loved:

I REALLY enjoyed a great deal of the cameos. The Parenthood people interacting with Lorelai seemed to pop up every time I was just about to throw in the towel.

Carol King hitting piano made me get up and dance.

Sally Struthers. She can just do no wrong on this show in my opinion. Babbette is a national treasure.

Paris. That seems like exactly where Paris would be now, maybe minus the kids.

The last four words:

What I didn't:

It's been 6 years. I think too little has changed. I needed some sort of improvement in Lane's band. lol

Luke's hair. Was that a toupee? Hair plugs?

The over-the-top dream-like sequences that weren't actually dreams.

Rachel Ray. Really?

Sookie. It felt weird and forced for her to just show up and, for some reason, it really bothered me that Melissa McCarthy doesn't sound like Sookie any more.

I don't buy that Rory would put up with being the other woman. I don't buy that Logan would marry someone else, when he was clearly in love with Rory.

It bugged me that Luke blew up at Lorelai because she decided everything about their relationship and he just went with it, only to be thrilled when she not only decided that they were going to get married, but when and where.





So, I assume we're getting more?



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I agree with the dream sequences. They were odd and out of place.

I feel some storylines were introduced for no reason and not really resolved. Or give us reason to care. Like I was pretty let down by the hype of Sutton Foster and Christian Borle because they were just there for the musical stuff.

I also want to know where Rory got the money to travel back and forth to London so many times if she was broke. Or was there something there that I missed?

Overall it was good. Interestingly, I preferred the first 2 episodes to the last 2.

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What a waste of valuable time.


And talent! Kerry Butler, Sutton Foster, and Christian Borle and you make it suck? What's the point? Put nobodies up there and shorten it!

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Okay, so everyone was SO EXCITED about this and I'd heard about the show for years, but never actually watched it. So, I decided to give it a fair shot and watch every episode of every season and then understand A Year in the Life in context and "get" what all the buzz was about.

LORD HAVE MERCY, WHERE WAS THE MAGIC KOOL-AID THAT GOT PEOPLE TO WATCH THIS THING?!?!?!

I can't recall any television characters more detestable, yet inexplicably embraced and worshiped by nearly everyone in their fictional world, and to such an insufferably nauseating degree, than Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Either of them could ruin as many lives as they wish and still, everyone would happily give their last dollar and sacrifice their lives and souls for them. I think Sookie and Miss Patty were probably the only characters I didn't end up hating at some point in the entire run.

The most amusing thing about the show was that people thought it was "feminist". Well, that and Stars Hollow: The Musical only because of Sutton and Christian. It was funny and had nothing to do with any of the horrible characters.

I'm flabbergasted this show had so many fans and ran past...well, season two at the most.

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Updated On: 6/26/17 at 03:34 PM