Review of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Let behind the fantasy world of Stars Hollow from 2000 and enter this crude, 2016 self-explained revival whose existence most Gilmore Girls fans will try to deny. No more quick, witted Lorelai-Luke dialogues but sour complaints, no more graceful yet ambitious Rory but "my life is a mess" failed in life Rory. All of the other characters are now dimmed characters, with the outstanding exception of Paris and her acid tongue who didn't even appear in the last part. And that musical play, c'mon, give me break. But I'm here to talk about Rory Gilmore. It's sad to watch a disheartened Rory ranting about her miserable life, sleeping with an engaged man, cheating on her boyfriend, rejecting a job in Chilton, being fired by her lunatic but only client and being dropped by an editor after a disastrous interview, all because of something very plain to see: Rory never matured emotionally all the way to her 32th birthday. Nobody told her New York is not Stars Hollow. Nobody told her the world outside is not Hartford. The real world simply did its job: to eat her up, spit the bones and ask for the next one. Look, by contrast, to Paris: being Paris, she succeeded. The final "I'm pregnant" scene is not actually the end, is the prelude to what Rory will become if her book doesn't work: in three or four years, this new single mother will have to take the lectureship in Chilton (if there's still a vacancy) or doing a 9 to 5 in a workstation or anything, with Lorelai helping with the kid while keeping an eye in her own marriage, and no more offers, no more expectancies, no nothing waiting for the arrival of the fourth decade. But let's be optimistic for a minute: maybe the book works and who knows, she'll be signing autographs and somebody turns it into a TV series called "Gilmore Girls". Sorry, but in real life as this revival tried to picture most of the time, it won't happen. Alexis Bledel herself spoke about her dissapointment by Rory's final fate. "It was a hard thing to me to digest", she said. I'm sure is harder to anyone else. Especially the hardcore fans.