The moment we’ve all been waiting for finally happened: A Year in the Life premiered on Netflix. It was everything it set out to be and more, with quick-witted humor and familiar tug of heartbreak, the revival answered many questions but also opened the way for a possible second season.
If you haven’t seen it yet, stop reading this now and go watch it. Seriously. You’ve been warned.
It starts off the way everybody wanted: in Stars Hollow revealing that Luke and Lorelai are still together and that our faith in love can be restored and not all is lost in 2016. Before you completely freak out, in typical Luke and Lorelai fashion, no they are not married.
Rory has an apartment in Brooklyn but is constantly flying to London for her journalism job. Her next big project is to work on a memoir with a crazy, hard-to-work-with drunk. She has a boyfriend, but don’t worry, you’ll forget about him, just like Rory. Besides, while she’s in London, she stays with Logan anyway, who by the way, has a fiancée that lives in Paris.
Richard’s death is as heartbreaking as you imagine it to be, and plays an incredibly large plot point throughout the whole revival. Not only is Lorelai trying to get over her father’s death, it becomes clear early on that Emily is very lost and lonely without him.
The revival answers a ton of questions. By the end of the revival, yes Luke and Lorelai are finally married. Rory has trouble finding a job she feels is right, jumping from the wrecked memoir to editing the Stars Gazette Hollow before figuring out (with some help from Jess) that she should write the story of her and her mom. Lane and Zack are awesome parents who manage to have the time to still rock out in their band. Emily clearly still misses Richard but has found peace; she sells the house and moves to Nantucket where she becomes a museum teacher on whaling.
Everything seems so neat and tidy at the end. And then those last four words. Those damn last four words where Rory reveals to Lorelai that she’s pregnant and then it’s over and we’re left to assume that the baby is Logan’s and that everything turns out okay.
So. When’s season two?
