Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Gilmore girls is my all-time favorite show. Quirky, smart, and expertly cast, the original series left us wanting for nothing. This is why I was so hoping that the revival would carry on the original spirit of this modern classic. I was wrong. I didn't want to get my hopes up, because revivals are hardly ever as good as the original, so I came in expecting very little, but at least hoping that it would keep up the original spark of the show. Instead, we got 6 hours of disjointed banter, none of which succeeded in matching the original level of cleverness. Many of the characters, such as Jason, Dean, and Doyle, seemed to have been shoehorned into the script just to check a box. Their interaction with the main characters seemed forced and very scripted, not at all in keeping with the Gilmore banter we have all come to know and love. It seemed as though the writers were so set on having the story come full circle that they forgot that this show is less about that and more about the comedy. We watch Gilmore girls, partly to watch a refreshing, albeit unnatural, mother daughter relationship, but more than that, we watch it to laugh. And the writers seemed to have forgotten that that was what we loved most. More than anything, I was hoping for a better ending to the show than I got in season 7 of the original. I'm not sure I got it. I'm not really sure what I got. All I can say is that I'm left scratching my head. It wasn't good, but it wasn't really bad either. The bottom line is it wasn't Gilmore girls.

I can't speak for everyone, but I think a fair amount of GG fans would agree with me: what we wanted in a reunion series was more of the first 5 seasons, not more of the last 2. It's been 10 years and somehow everyone is only just now finding themselves? Luke and Lorelai have NEVER talked about whether to have kids and only now want to get married? Rory is ambling around befuddled about who to sleep with and where to live? Actually bring some closure to the story and give fans some satisfaction in watching their favorite characters find fulfillment and happiness. What's the point of doing a reunion series if they're all just as aimless as they were in season 7 and the show ends on some open-ended cliffhanger that leaves us all throwing our hands up all over again. The writing and acting tries too hard and falls very flat. You don't gain anything from this series and in fact lose a lot of the magic and sense of hope you were left with in 2007.

Stop with the musicals!!!!! Ugh!! And give Rory a back bone and a brain!!

Would love to see how it plays out after the ending of this one.

The overrated Palladinos should have left well enough alone. This overlong (should've been two, not four, episodes) revisits Stars Hollow Connecticut 10 years or so later. Most of the characters are the same. Rory is the most disappointing. She's still floundering career wise, with questionable moral center. She's dragging this guy around for two years who she has no interest in, while being intimate with a man engaged to be married. (A repeat of the Dean sexcapade of years earlier). Lorelei can be proud and disgusted with her at the same time. Other predictable plot devices are thrown in. Emily reigns supreme, as always. Kelly Bishop is an amazing actress. She was the best this series had to offer. It's nice to see many of the old faces, some briefly, but overall, it could and should've been a whole lot better. How Taylor and Kirk survived without being 'eliminated' is amazing. Thankfully no sign of April Nardini.👏. Even the cliffhanger was boring. Time for the Palladinos to close this saga down for good.

I don't get why the rating is so high the miniseries just ruined the series : no Lorelai funny jokes, Rory being irritating as usual and everyone has small parts.

The episode are so long and there are unnecessary filler and the ending why did it leave in a cliffhanger