I disagree, I think the Richard and Emily drama in seasons 4-5 is terrific. I love watching Emily try to deal with how the role of the high-powered businessman's wife has changed over the 40 years that her and Richard have been together.

I actually think the writers succeeded at making Lorelai someone who was immature and obnoxious at times, but also someone who worked hard at being a mother and a business owner and a good friend and a fairly active member of the community. The writers couldn't figure out Rory once she got to college. I always found…

They're not quite Mean Girls — they're a bit nicer than the other Mean Girls — so it makes sense that they would keep Paris around to help them with their grades.

Yes, I think Paris did grow throughout the course of the show while retaining her core personality, which can be a tricky thing to pull off.

I loved the relationship between Jess and Luke, and how it slowly evolved throughout the show. And I do think that Jess did get over Rory — I love how he turned into her one "get a grip" friend.

Even Lorelai's character had the interesting storyline where watching her friends chafe against the status quo forced her to seriously consider expanding her business — and that would be plausible at 5 or 10 years out from the original series. I'm not sure about her and Luke being stuck at "living together" for nine…

I think part of the problem is that the revival works if it's been about 5 years since Rory graduated college — being 27 and a bit untethered because freelance writing isn't working makes sense both generally as a plot and specifically for Rory. At 10 years post-college, not so much. I suspect ASP was just set on the…

I think the show did explore how the sudden access to her grandparents' world affected Rory (especially early on, see the S1 "Rory's Birthday Parties" as an example), but it didn't do it in a critical way. It could've leaned into that way more, especially in S5 when she was running around stealing boats and quitting…

Eeesh, I love Luke (because I love curmudgeons), but good god could you imagine being next to him on a plane? 4 hours of ranting about the low quality of the food, the size of the seats, and the awkward interactions with other passengers in the aisles. At least Rory would just read for the whole flight.

So much of Rory's freshman year experience makes no damn sense.

Yes, and I thought this episode did a nice job of showing where Lorelai gets her appreciation of mocking bad TV/movies from.

Yeah, you couldn't ignore the terrible S6. S7 did a lot of the tedious heavy lifting that was needed for Lorelai and Christopher to break up for good. (They would always be each other's "what-ifs" until they actually tried being married, I think.) S7 also did fairly right by Rory — while I love S4, Rory's plotline is…

Digger was the best non-Luke boyfriend, and I agree that season 4 — particularly the second half of it — is one of the best of the show. (All the points for the parallels between Lane and Lorelai.)

Yes, and in fact in a previous episode when Oleg's mom told him she'd been in a camp, she seemed to be intentionally blurring the timeline as to when exactly she'd been in there relative to when she'd had Oleg.

I thought this was one of the most devastating parts of the episode (and The Americans excels at nothing if not finding new and creative ways to be devastating). They finally found a specific cause that resonated with her, but now they have to lie to her to keep up appearances. This will really not end well for anyone.

I hope his upgrade to the main credits isn't ultimately a danger to his character. I am unfortunately not optimistic about the fate of Stan's black sidekick….

I am fairly sure that Nathan left Madeline right after Abigail was born, and that Ed is Chloe's dad. So Abigail and Chloe are half-sisters, and Chloe and Skye are not related.

And why can literally no one in the room think to consider that maybe someone else is hurting Amabella? That is driving me nuts.

It's not just that he didn't test the fish — it's that he explicitly wanted to do something differently than Brooke and Shirley, without thinking about why they were taking that approach.

Retta! She'd be a great neutral character who doesn't want (or need) any part of either the Good Place or the Bad Place.