She visits her icy grandmother, Emily, who’s still mourning her recently passed husband. She certainly has one in London, despite dating a fella named Paul at home.Īnd Stars Hollow is still home-emotionally if not literally. And perhaps she has a boyfriend in every port of call. Rory has long since graduated from Yale and is now a freelance writer, traveling the world in search of great stories. While the dialogue is as snappy as ever, even Stars Hollow has to accept the occasional change. It’s called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and it’s split into four episodes each roughly 90 minutes long. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Gilmore Girls, which has aged surprisingly well and still boasts a robust, passionate fan base, joined the retro party.īut this version of Gilmore Girls (released in its entirety Nov. Netflix has become America’s nostalgia network these days, serving up everything from sweeping historical dramas ( The Get Down, The Crown), ’80s-esque sci-fi homages ( Stranger Things) reheated cheesy sitcoms ( Fuller House) and even revamped animated kids’ fare ( Voltron, Popples). Now, Lorelai and Rory Gilmore are back drinking coffee in Stars Hollow, Conn., talking about love and life and dropping obscure Lord of the Rings references-this time on Netflix. Even at its height, Gilmore Girls was never watched by much more than 5 million people-a pittance back when shows like CSI were drawing five times that and more.īut nothing ever really dies in these nostalgia-driven days-especially if your fans holler long and loud enough.
GILMORE GIRLS A YEAR IN THE LIFE SERIES
The series lost its creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, in 2006 when the show was folded into The WB’s successor, The CW, and lasted just one more season. (Ah, those halcyon days before everyone had the internet in their pockets.) While most hour-long scripts run, at most, 60 pages, The WB’s little-watched but much-loved dramedy saw its scripts land in 78-page territory, each packed with so many pop culture references and “Gilmore-isms” that The WB published booklets detailing them. For seven seasons (2000-2007), that tagline fit the Gilmore Girls pop-saturated, rapid-fire dialogue to the proverbial T.
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