Like a lot of people, I was excited to see the new edition of the Gilmore Girls, but A Year in the Life sadly didn’t live up to expectations for me.

I feel like the 90-minute running time messed up everything. The humor didn’t click, and they were trying to make it cinematic when it’s just a comedy show about a simple life filled with quirky, mundane activity.

Here are some things that just didn’t feel right about the revival:

The writing was bland and relied too heavily on making references to the past show. It tried very hard to be just like the show in some ways with Luke and Taylor fighting over some trivial town thing.

It was way too reminiscent on the show when it should have just focused on the new chapter and being its own thing.

I had a big issue with some of the scenes and how they decided to take the story.

The play scene that lasted about twenty five minutes. Why did they have to show the whole thing? Full numbers and all? It was a horrendous time waster. There was no point in that besides filling up time. And yeah they just had to put rap in one of the songs so they could make a reference to Hamilton. Wonderful.

The whole spiel about people staying in the diner to use the Wi-Fi and work on their computers, you could have done without pointing it out every episode.

Rory writing a book about her and Lorelai’s relationship and life and calling the book Gilmore Girls. Ugh.

Sadly the show didn’t stop pulling out the tropes of trying to be “original” and instead kept on going and decided to make Luke and Lorelai elope the night before their wedding. It was so typical and felt like they were just trying to rush to the end when they could have started the episode early with their wedding and ended with the party and finally deciding what to do with Rory.

And that brings me to the very end where they decided to do a cliffhanger. I thought the revival would be four parts and then done; everything wrapped all nice in a bow, but instead only one link to the story had to be left either to the unknown or as a plow to make sure they could drag the revival out longer then need be. If you wanted to do a whole storyline of continuously crazy events then why not just make a full season of the show? The format would work best anyways than the four film-length episodes.

I am a huge fan of Gilmore Girls, but my favorite part of watching the show was that I got to keep watching the all characters lives unfold. When the show first ended, I was left just wanting to keep following the characters and the everyday life. The four 90-minute long episodes just doesn’t fit that type of story.

It messed with the writing and didn’t give the story and characters enough time to show what was going on. I loved following all the characters’ stories not just Lorelai, Rory, and Emily. What about Lane? They always followed Lane around without Rory there, and it was such a great side story, but from the revival I didn’t even get what Lane and the band did besides play at the secret bar and oh year Lane has a dad after him never ever making appearance on the show.

I just feel like they approached the revival very poorly and didn’t try to make it at the quality Gilmore Girls usually is, but instead pushed out what they could in a manner that tried to stick with their formula of witty comedy without trying too hard to make the story full.