Very true. I am not sure Rory was prepared to accept that. I can see her becoming a bitter woman in life. 

At best, he chose to romance and marry his son’s sister; his son’s mother’s daughter. That is so comically selfish and lacking in any sense of boundaries or restraint, I’m not really interested in whatever silly excuses he has.

The “I Will Always Love You” karaoke is one of the best bits of the series, so I can never fully hate Season 7 like some people do.

I liked Jason. He was also rebelling against his rich parents and he matched Lorelai’s banter well.

He’s the laid-back, pony-tailed restaurant owner. About as far from Mitchum Huntzberger as you can get!

And yeah, I love the Bunheads cameos in A Year in the Life. Sasha (aka Dark Rory) as the young, hip editor who doesn’t want to hire Rory is *perfect*.

Bohemian bookstore owner Jess is one of the hottest things I’ve ever seen on tv. I hated him during the actual relationship though. 

I agree. I don’t have a problem with stories about privileged people, or kings and queens for that matter. Good is good. I would distinguish Mad Men because it does show an “inside/outside” phenomenon, and how people on the outside move in, etc which makes it a little different than shows about privileged people and…

I get this take for lots of parts of this show, absolutely true, but this doesn’t feel true to what that fight was about. It wasn’t because Harvard was the school Lorelei wanted Rory to attend, it was because Rory’s Harvard dream was exclusively a part of Lorelei’s Stars Hollow life; achievable through the hard work…

Mad Men is mainly centered on rich, privileged businessmen and yet it’s possibly the greatest character drama I’ve ever watched.

Yeah, as people said elsewhere, it’s like ASP couldn’t let go of her original vision for S7 ... but 10 years later it made even less sense.

There is still television about very privileged people, but it camouflages this by making some of them gay or trans. Look at Transparent and Grace and Frankie. Take away the LGBTQ themes and it’s just rich people deciding who to sleep with and what hobby “businesses” to start. None of their decisions are motivated by…

The thing is that it’s explicitly set 9 years after the series ended. Rory is 31 years old, Luke and Lorelei have been together for a decade, etc. All of this is made clear in the dialogue. But on a show where a whole lot changed in 7 years, almost nothing did in the following 9.

Kelley Bishop kept me watching Bunheads through the early episodes until it found its footing. 

While I agree with everything you’re saying, I will point out that the personality mismatches and misunderstandings between Lorelai and her parents do have genuine emotional heft to them, and that push/pull between their love and their inability to get one another drives a lot of the show’s best arcs. Those bits can…

I got a little ways in, realized there wasn’t really anything about it that I liked, and bailed because I wanted to have the future that’s in my head for the characters, not that one.  

Around 2016, I watched through the 6th season of the show (largely propelled by Gilmore Guys, which started getting tired around the time that the show started going off the rails) and for the last couple years I couldn’t remember what it was I liked about it.

I used to say this on the Old Site, but still relevant: GG simply doesn’t work in a world where ‘inequality’ and ‘the one percent’ are embedded in our political discourse. It’s a show about how privilege replicates itself: Lorelai and Rory may think they’re rebelling against their privileged upbringing–and honestly,…

‘the four episodes that made up A Year In The Life mostly pleased longtime fans’

The real tragedy of the 2016 Gilmore Girls revival is that Mitchum Huntzberger was right about Rory.

Sean Gunn usually is good regardless of what role he is in. He only works in a small spectrum of roles but truth is, when he is in one of them he just kinda works. Whether it’s Golden Girls or Guardians of the Galaxy, he’s good at it. I don’t think he’d work as a main character but he’s great at that “Odd person in…