Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Netflix put on the eighth season of Gilmore Girls and gave fans their fix.
Dec 10, 2016
Our rating: A+
The awaited revival of the hit early 2000’s show, Gilmore Girls came out over the 2016 Thanksgiving weekend. Gilmore Girls followed coffee addicted mother and daughter Lorelai and Rory Gilmore through their small town life from 2000-2007, ending with an ambiguous future for its main characters. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, picks up 10 years later with cameos of all the past characters except, sadly, Edward Herrman, who played Rory’s grandfather; Herrman passed away in 2014.
Lorelai Gilmore, played by Lauren Graham, and Luke Danes, played by Scott Patterson, taking a romantic stroll.
The series was not set up by its usual 22 episode season, but rather by yearly seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall, each episode an hour and a half long. A constant, however, was the perfectly timed pop culture references made by the mother-daughter duo. The renewal created the perfect sense of nostalgia, however, fell short on new plot lines. The show dwelled too long on unnecessary aspects such as Stars Hollow: The Musical, spending a full 10 minutes on it and including four separate musical numbers, three numbers too long.
Mother and daughter enjoying a late night snack of coffee and Poptarts.
“I waited so long for a new season to come out and to be left on a major cliff hanger was not what I had imagined,” junior Valeria Gutierrez said.
A Year in the Life certainly left more questions than answers. While the Gilmore universe has gotten a definite confirmation on Lorelai’s relationship status, there are still questions on the future of the Dragonfly Inn and essentially all facets of Rory’s life. All watchers eagerly awaited the final four words, which left viewers surprised and wondering whether more episodes would be released.
“It was cool revisiting the characters years later, and I really enjoyed the new episodes, but I wish that they didn’t finish the season so open-ended,” junior Kelly Hanley said.
Lorelai and Luke enjoy the Stars Hollow town meeting.
Nevertheless, for those who watched the first seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, it’s a definite must see. The characters are played to perfection and the relationships and interactions in between them are still as heartwarming and dependable as always. Its lighthearted drama and witty humor make for the perfect marathon weekend.
