The much anticipated "Gilmore Girls" revival show was released in four parts -- Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall -- this past Friday. The show picks up nine years after we last saw our beloved Gilmores, and while the times have changed, Stars Hollow has not. It is still the small, friendly town everybody wants to live in. Miss Patty and Babette are still as nosy as ever, Doose still runs the town and Rory and Lorelai are still the fast talking mother-daughter pair girls everywhere aspire to be.
If you are anything like me, you were counting down the days until the revival was released and sitting in front of your Netflix at 2:59 a.m. waiting for the play button to appear, and you then proceeded to watch for six straight hours. Was the wait and loss of sleep worth it? Absolutely. Am I disappointed? Sort of. While the dynamic of the show stayed the same and this revival compared to others (sorry "Fuller House") was truer to the original, it still left us hanging. And not only did it leave us hanging, but some of my favorite characters on the show (Sookie, Dean and Christopher) did not appear until the very end of the last episode. We did get to see more of Michel and Paris and find out more about what goes on in their personal lives, which we did not see in the original series. The saddest part of all was the loss of Richard Gilmore, but the writers did a beautiful job of still making sure his presence was felt and he was not forgotten.
Overall, I think the revival was fantastic and almost exactly what everybody wanted. We got to see Lorelai and Luke (FINALLY) get married and Emily lighten up. But, I still feel like we don't have the closure with Rory I was so hoping for. Throughout the entire mini series she was just floating around from house to house and people to people, though she is still the Rory we all know and love, her ending was just not satisfactory for me, especially with that bombshell of an ending. All we can do now is hope for a second season that will hopefully leave us with more answers than questions.
