Here’s How Richard’s Death Affects Each of the Gilmore Girls

“We had several delightful stalkers working for us, like all the young assistants who could major in Gilmore”. Legend has it she knew the last four words of the series as soon as she started production, but we never got to see them come to light, as she never got to end the series as she envisioned.

“We basically emptied our heads of everything that filled them up over the last nine years”, said Sherman-Palladino, who crafted the four 90-minute instalments alongside her writer-director husband, Daniel Palladino, who was also an executive producer on the original series.

A decade later, four one-and-a-half-hour long episodes of the popular series have been released on Netflix.

Almost a decade since “The Gilmore Girls” and the adventures of Rory and Lorelai Gilmore ended, the show returns to Netflix.

Fans will either love or hate the show’s final four words. Photo / Saeed Adyani – Netflix.

Spoilers for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life within; if you haven’t had the opportunity to watch all four episodes, turn back now.

Did Luke and Lorelai stay together? Yep. Their first session doesn’t go particularly well, and it’s only after playing on her sympathy that Emily gets Lorelai to agree to continue the sessions weekly. But she doesn’t believe him because this, too, is one of her patterns. Lorelai (Lauren Graham), a single mom who has strayed from the path laid out by her Mayflower mother, is fiercely devoted to her daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel), whom she had at 16 and raised alone after running away from home.

“No you don’t. He didn’t fit. Eventually, I read it and it was very satisfying”. “He’ll find someone incredible one day. And so will you”.

Rory will be torn between the two, a revelation that explains her awkward encounter with her father Christopher. “Hey, what’s going on in there?” Jason Ritter played Graham’s love interest Mark in Parenthood, and she apparently wanted him to step into Gilmore Girls as well. We now know that this little reunion took the form of a brief, slightly uneasy meeting between Chris and Rory at his fancy office. However, the question is, did they really deserve the second chance at an end this time?

The dialogue was peppered with jokes and pop culture references that made us feel, by overhearing these conversations, that we’d been invited into an exclusive club that only we understood. Lorelai has retained her sassiness, but with age has become more vulnerable and susceptible to emotional breakdowns.

It might be Logan, because of his ongoing affair with Rory, but his engagement to a French heiress might only lead to further complications. It just won’t resonate the way it might if you’ve been watching since Rory wore her private-school uniform and formed her first friendships. As they talk, Mitchum also lets slip that Logan is engaged to a French woman, Odette. We’re unlikely to see another season of “Gilmore Girls” soon, but the ending puts Rory in the same place her mother once was: raising a child without the help of a father.

So that bring us to the other point of view: What kind of insane cliffhanger is this?!

The dynamic between Lorelai and Rory, the show’s signature element, doesn’t have the same finish-sentences effect as before, and they’ve settled into something more casual. Is it Logan, given that the two were having an affair? Now she’s a jet setting journalist with so many cell phones she keeps forgetting she has a boyfriend. “You need to find something to write that you’re passionate about”, Jess says. Some think that this was flawless way to end the beloved series, bringing everything full circle.

Netflix greenlit a revival in January, a few months after much of the cast reunited at the ATX Television Festival in Austin to much fanfare.