140-Character Review: ‘Gilmore Girls’ Comes A Full Circle

‘Gilmore Girls’ is back with ‘A Day In The Life’ after a whole decade, and we finally have some closure.

Gilmore Girls are back after nearly a decade with A Year In The Life streaming on Netflix from 25 November. The revival got nearly the show’s entire cast back together, including Melissa McCarthy, Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia, Matt Czuchry, Keiko Agena and Liza Weil.

We had left the world of Starshollow in Bon Voyage (last episode of season 7) where the town bids adieu to Rory as she prepares to join President Obama on his presidential campaign. And the revival begins with Rory shuttling between her job as a journalist in London and back home in Starshollow.

I binge-watched the show and here’s a 140 character round-up of the four 90-minute episodes of the trip down memory lane with laughter, sadness and most of all, closure. Well, almost.

#GilmoreGirlsRevival: #AYearInTheLife is finally here! #AmyShermanPalladino dives straight into taking us down memory lane..

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#Lorelai’s clutching a coffee cup in the gazebo & #Rory arrives. There it begins, all over again.

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The fast-talking, pop-culture-references, binge-eating on junk food...and this is only the first few minutes into the #GilmoreGirlsRevival.

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The #Gilmores catch up on happenings in their life as the town troubadour plays his guitar in the background. *Yup, he's still territorial*

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And there’s the usual #FridayNightDinner…it never stops to amaze me how the show addresses the same strained Emily-Lorelai relationship.

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#Lorelai is all of 48 years & she still hasn't gotten it right with her mother, Emily.

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But this is probably the first time Emily effectively makes Lorelai realise that she is just as selfish with her own loved ones, Luke et al.

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But they get past it, like always. But when Lorelai asks Emlily to get help in order to deal with the loss of Richard...

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BAM! Tricked into therapy with her mother! Why didn't anyone think of this before? To have them DISCUSSING their problems, for a change.

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This was probably one of the funniest moments of the revival. To have Lorelai being tricked by her mother this way. After all this time? Always.

Then there was the dealing with the death of Richard Gilmore.

Instead of having the absence of Richard become a hurdle, it's the core of the revival with all the pain & loss laying their emotions bare.

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A Year In The Life

But #GilmoreGirlsRevival is more than just revisiting the past. #AYearInTheLife shows the characters evolving as they grow.

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And Rory’s not-so-perfect 30s might be my favorite part of the revival. She's trying so hard to keep it together with her 'job' & love-life.

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There are moments where it feels like the plot isn’t moving forward and the characters are just doing things to fill space in the 90-minute long episodes.

But the writers capture the reason behind why the show still resonates with its audiences. Like Rory being stuck in a rut, or like Lorelai having everything she wanted, but still questioning whether she’s truly happy or not.

The reason why Gilmore Girls revival works is the fact that you can still go back to it for its familial warmth and comfort, even though some things about the show are a bit too perfect. Like the little, quaint town of Starshollow.

And with the #Gilmores, life is a journey of self-discovery. Trials and travails of life, they continue no matter what.

— Sabika Razvi (@SabikaRazvi) November 26, 2016

You won’t feel particularly sympathetic towards Rory for the way she’s treating the people around her, but it is remarkable, the way the creator of the show, Amy Sherman-Palladino shows the other side to her. With her flaws and mistakes in abundance.

Some wounds just don’t heal and some mistakes you just cannot help but make.

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And about the #LastFourWords? That is the beginning of another ending.

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And for Gilmore Girls, life comes full circle.

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