‘Gilmore Girls’ are back – on Netflix

While much of the world is still shaking off their turkey coma, Gilmore Girls fans are hyped up on caffeine and sugar in anticipation of the show’s revival. As she says in one scene, ‘We were married for 50 years, half of me is gone.’ We watch her find her way, whatever her way is.

Lorelai is still together with Luke, but she is unsure about what to do with her life and feels somewhat in a rut.

Netflix’s pragmatism in bankrolling such revivals nevertheless contains a whiff of cynicism, inasmuch as it’s so obviously created to bolster the “If you just watched” part of its algorithm, while exploiting a media sphere that increasingly caters to the passions of small fan bases, in essence serving as its eager marketing partner. It’s the reality of “Gilmore Girls”, returning Friday after a nine-year absence, during which longtime fans pined for what they’d lost and newcomers discovered what they’d missed through reruns. Then Rory will be seen in an apartment in London, and from one of the room, who would emerge but Logan (Matt Czuchry), one of Rory’s ex-beau. With the Netflix revival, Sherman-Palladino took the opportunity to write the concluding chapter that she always envisioned, including the famous final four words that she had envisioned for the show since the beginning. So is the character’s journalism career, and while Bledel is aware that her character’s love life intrigues viewers, she’d like them to consider the complete young woman.

It’s quite bittersweet for fans who love Lorelai and Rory’s relationship because Rory has moved away from home and hasn’t been living there for a long time. Upon finding out that Michel and his husband are preparing to adopt a baby, Lorelai brings up the idea of having children with Luke, which prompts the couple to explore surrogacy.

Any true Gilmore Girls fan can not just say those first words without singing them. “I rewatched a lot of the shows, but I didn’t have time to get through all of them, because I had to start writing”. Come on. We’re supposed to believe Rory – oh, she of many boyfriends – would stay with a guy she doesn’t even like for two years?

We don’t know how to feel. It does seem that Rory is driven more by desperation than inspiration at the moment, and springing this whole scheme during a trip to Richard’s grave seemed deeply insensitive. I’d really like to see poor, clueless Christopher redeem himself after years of infuriating waffling. I had it when I was pregnant with my first kid, though. Might I add, I previously predicted Rory would be living in London, she’d be in a tiresome relationship, Lorelai would marry Luke in the town square, Sookie would move to a farm, Lane’s life would be the same and Kirk would create the next Tinder – it ended up being Uber, but close enough. But of course, never one to rule anything out, she was also quick to add that real life doesn’t have endings. I wanted to be with him, but he didn’t want to be in a relationship.

I’m sure it’s not Ragu, robots or reptiles-but we have no idea what got Stars Hollow’s Boo Radley so riled up.