THIS IS NOT A DRILL
October 19, 2015 7:25 PM Subscribe
Netflix will be making four 90-minute Gilmore Girls episodes, written by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. Lorelai, Rory, Emily, and Luke are expected to return.
Sherman-Palladino left the show before the final season and has said it was not what she would have done with the characters. The possibility of a reunion had been floated by Scott "Luke" Patterson, which he walked back during a reunion panel this summer.
We still miss you, Richard.
Sherman-Palladino left the show before the final season and has said it was not what she would have done with the characters. The possibility of a reunion had been floated by Scott "Luke" Patterson, which he walked back during a reunion panel this summer.
We still miss you, Richard.
Five bucks says I'm gonna jump up and down and totally lose my shit for a minute right here
posted by palomar at 7:30 PM on October 19, 2015 [32 favorites]
posted by palomar at 7:30 PM on October 19, 2015 [32 favorites]
Well, yeah. That too.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:30 PM on October 19, 2015
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:30 PM on October 19, 2015
Gilmost Girls
posted by The Whelk at 7:31 PM on October 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 7:31 PM on October 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
I am so delighted by this news. Glad that Amy Sherman-Palladino can end the show the way she wished to.
posted by OolooKitty at 7:39 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by OolooKitty at 7:39 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
What about Paris? Lane? Won't someone think of the vital secondary characters?
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 7:40 PM on October 19, 2015 [25 favorites]
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 7:40 PM on October 19, 2015 [25 favorites]
If there's no Paris, there's no goddamn point.
posted by palomar at 7:42 PM on October 19, 2015 [28 favorites]
posted by palomar at 7:42 PM on October 19, 2015 [28 favorites]
I have never seen the show, but many of my favorite people love it, so I'm sure it's charming. I might even watch this. But I will forever think of this as the show that made it okay for Rory to be a nickname for Lorelei. This makes me feel old and out of touch, shaking my cane while protesting that Rory is a boy's name.
posted by Ruki at 7:43 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Ruki at 7:43 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
More details (but a bit spoilery -- if you're planning on remaining totally in the dark -- so I won't say what).
posted by retrograde at 7:44 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by retrograde at 7:44 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
There'd better be details of Lane being awesome!
posted by ChuraChura at 7:51 PM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by ChuraChura at 7:51 PM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
i hope jess has metamorphosized into a gargantuan grumpy head, just rolling around stars hollow and scowling
Wait, was he not already?
posted by Etrigan at 7:59 PM on October 19, 2015 [5 favorites]
Wait, was he not already?
posted by Etrigan at 7:59 PM on October 19, 2015 [5 favorites]
Pleeeeeeease don't let it include any arc involving Lorelai royally screwing up her relationship with Luke again. My heart is weak as is, I don't think I'd survive it if that happened.
posted by lizbunny at 8:00 PM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by lizbunny at 8:00 PM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
Yay! So many of my friends are gonna be thrilled. However, what about the rest of Stars Hollow? I greatly enjoyed the bizarreness of small town politics that were very well represented in that show.
posted by yueliang at 8:02 PM on October 19, 2015
posted by yueliang at 8:02 PM on October 19, 2015
If you haven't watched the original series in a while and want more than 360 minutes of new Gilmore Girls, you can slow down the playback and extend your viewing time, while increasing your comprehension of the dialog.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:17 PM on October 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by filthy light thief at 8:17 PM on October 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
Have Sean Gunn fill in for every actor not coming back, and play it as if that's totally normal.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 8:23 PM on October 19, 2015 [37 favorites]
posted by knuckle tattoos at 8:23 PM on October 19, 2015 [37 favorites]
I suspect Rory/Paris is not what we'll get but I'll keep my fingers crossed
posted by esoterrica at 8:31 PM on October 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by esoterrica at 8:31 PM on October 19, 2015 [8 favorites]
Can I be really selfish and demand a combined GG/Parks and Rec/Northern Exposure revival so all my favorite eccentric small-town characters could come back AND meet each other?
Luke and Fleischman, Maurice and Ron Swanson, Lorelai and Leslie Knope ...
posted by NorthernLite at 8:35 PM on October 19, 2015 [10 favorites]
Luke and Fleischman, Maurice and Ron Swanson, Lorelai and Leslie Knope ...
posted by NorthernLite at 8:35 PM on October 19, 2015 [10 favorites]
I hope they answer some of the lingering mysteries. Like what happened to Taylor after the townspeople drove him into the sea.
posted by greenland at 8:36 PM on October 19, 2015 [18 favorites]
posted by greenland at 8:36 PM on October 19, 2015 [18 favorites]
So psyched for this!
posted by CrazyLemonade at 8:42 PM on October 19, 2015
posted by CrazyLemonade at 8:42 PM on October 19, 2015
I hope they answer some of the lingering mysteries. Like what happened to Taylor after the townspeople drove him into the sea.
What is dead may never die
posted by knuckle tattoos at 9:02 PM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
What is dead may never die
posted by knuckle tattoos at 9:02 PM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
As someone who has never seen either show, I've just realized that every time I've read anything about The Gilmore Girls, I've mentally substituted The Golden Girls. I've just now figured out that they are in fact two separate things that I don't know anything about, and not, as I had supposed, one single thing that I don't know anything about. Thank you for your kind attention and I will let myself out.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 9:07 PM on October 19, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Sing Or Swim at 9:07 PM on October 19, 2015 [10 favorites]
Oh my goodness, I've missed Stars Hollow, Kirk, Michel, etc. (much more than the principal characters, tbh, although I'm fond of them too). There had better be a goodly portion of MANDATORY SAM PHILLIPS on board.
posted by FelliniBlank at 9:18 PM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by FelliniBlank at 9:18 PM on October 19, 2015 [4 favorites]
I suspect Rory/Paris is not what we'll get but I'll keep my fingers crossed
Well it might not be what you get, but I'm not going to let something trivial like a complete lack of textual support stop me. Rory/Paris 4 Eva.
posted by Proofs and Refutations at 9:38 PM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
Well it might not be what you get, but I'm not going to let something trivial like a complete lack of textual support stop me. Rory/Paris 4 Eva.
posted by Proofs and Refutations at 9:38 PM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
And let me just say GOD BLESS THE NETFLIX for repeatedly doing marvelous stuff like this. I know in my heart they would have picked up Season 4 of Hannibal in a red hot second if Amazon didn't already have the S1-3 streaming rights in its claws.
posted by FelliniBlank at 9:39 PM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by FelliniBlank at 9:39 PM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]
There is not a single day that goes by that I don't quote from this show. When Ausiello tweeted it this evening, I did a Miss Patty-approved happy dance.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 10:09 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 10:09 PM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeeeeeeessss. Kirk forever.
posted by minsies at 10:39 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by minsies at 10:39 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Will they allow us to play them back at 80% speed?
posted by mulligan at 11:05 PM on October 19, 2015
posted by mulligan at 11:05 PM on October 19, 2015
I love the fact that Amy Sherman-Palladino hasn't even seen that last season.
posted by Petersondub at 11:49 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Petersondub at 11:49 PM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
And let me just say GOD BLESS THE NETFLIX for repeatedly doing marvelous stuff like this. I know in my heart they would have picked up Season 4 of Hannibal in a red hot second if Amazon didn't already have the S1-3 streaming rights in its claws.
The absolute best part of all of this is that as far as I have heard, all Netflix is really doing is market research into under-served niches and delivering content right to them. They can afford to produce equivalent-to-TV broadcast content, but without the risks or costs of having limited time slots. If one of these revivals fails (like Arrested Development sorta did, and probably others I don't remember or didn't even hear of.) they don't lose out on another, possibly more popular show, and they can afford the risk of giving more control to the creators. This all applies to their original programming as well, even more so when it come to the niche market focus and ability to risk more original content (Bojack Horseman is emblematic of that to me.).
Netflix is actually pretty exciting right now as a way to produce content, not just distribute it. Feels weird to like it though. Data mining to the rescue?
posted by neonrev at 12:46 AM on October 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
The absolute best part of all of this is that as far as I have heard, all Netflix is really doing is market research into under-served niches and delivering content right to them. They can afford to produce equivalent-to-TV broadcast content, but without the risks or costs of having limited time slots. If one of these revivals fails (like Arrested Development sorta did, and probably others I don't remember or didn't even hear of.) they don't lose out on another, possibly more popular show, and they can afford the risk of giving more control to the creators. This all applies to their original programming as well, even more so when it come to the niche market focus and ability to risk more original content (Bojack Horseman is emblematic of that to me.).
Netflix is actually pretty exciting right now as a way to produce content, not just distribute it. Feels weird to like it though. Data mining to the rescue?
posted by neonrev at 12:46 AM on October 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
Rory is a boy's name
She actually preceded Rory Gilmore so I never got too het up about this. I actually wondered if that was on purpose--good patrician New England and all.
(FWIW, I also know a female Rory but it's short for Aurora, which makes more sense than Lorelai. I always supposed that "Rory" was based on a baby pronunciation.)
posted by dlugoczaj at 1:08 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
She actually preceded Rory Gilmore so I never got too het up about this. I actually wondered if that was on purpose--good patrician New England and all.
(FWIW, I also know a female Rory but it's short for Aurora, which makes more sense than Lorelai. I always supposed that "Rory" was based on a baby pronunciation.)
posted by dlugoczaj at 1:08 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Without Richard, this is going to be upsetting, but I am cautiously optimistic.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 3:12 AM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 3:12 AM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
WHAT yes yes yes. I just woke up my husband to tell him and he wasn't even mad I woke him. "Lorelei better not fuck this up," he muttered as he fell back asleep.
Yay!!
posted by Pardon Our Dust at 3:42 AM on October 20, 2015 [17 favorites]
Yay!!
posted by Pardon Our Dust at 3:42 AM on October 20, 2015 [17 favorites]
Maurice + Lane's mom. Oh, yeaaaaaaaaah.
posted by wenestvedt at 3:51 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by wenestvedt at 3:51 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sadface realizing that Emily will be a widow.
posted by Kitteh at 4:57 AM on October 20, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 4:57 AM on October 20, 2015 [6 favorites]
I would prefer a storyline where Richard took up with Pennilyn Lott.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 5:45 AM on October 20, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 5:45 AM on October 20, 2015 [11 favorites]
I presume actors from the new Twin Peaks will regularly appear to disturb things.
posted by maxsparber at 6:34 AM on October 20, 2015
posted by maxsparber at 6:34 AM on October 20, 2015
I am absolutely giddy about this. Fucking giddy.
I am fully confident that they will bring back lots of the Stars Hollow regulars. Though it might be tough to get a lot of Sookie's time these days!
There'd better be details of Lane being awesome!
Seriously. Lane's fate is one of the few things about this show that can still make me angry to this day.
posted by lunasol at 7:36 AM on October 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
I am fully confident that they will bring back lots of the Stars Hollow regulars. Though it might be tough to get a lot of Sookie's time these days!
There'd better be details of Lane being awesome!
Seriously. Lane's fate is one of the few things about this show that can still make me angry to this day.
posted by lunasol at 7:36 AM on October 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
I sure picked the wrong year to give up coffee. (But this is exciting enough on its own!)
posted by ilana at 7:39 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ilana at 7:39 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
yes! so excited.
posted by needlegrrl at 7:59 AM on October 20, 2015
posted by needlegrrl at 7:59 AM on October 20, 2015
NorthernLite: Can I be really selfish and demand a combined GG/Parks and Rec/Northern Exposure revival ….?
This would be best shown simultaneously, in rented theaters, nation-wide.
For myself, just a Gilmore Girls + Northern Exposure cross-over would be enough. There would now be two bustling cafes but still only one radio station in the combined town; Star's Hollow would benefit form the addition of moose; and Alaska could be relieved of the dumb Anthony-Edwards-as-Mike-Monroe rathole. Heck, Shelly Tambo could apply to college!
(Also: eponymousterical?)
posted by wenestvedt at 8:03 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
This would be best shown simultaneously, in rented theaters, nation-wide.
For myself, just a Gilmore Girls + Northern Exposure cross-over would be enough. There would now be two bustling cafes but still only one radio station in the combined town; Star's Hollow would benefit form the addition of moose; and Alaska could be relieved of the dumb Anthony-Edwards-as-Mike-Monroe rathole. Heck, Shelly Tambo could apply to college!
(Also: eponymousterical?)
posted by wenestvedt at 8:03 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I would be deeply amused if ASP just straight-up retconned the seventh season out of existence.
posted by Automocar at 8:21 AM on October 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by Automocar at 8:21 AM on October 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
I guess this means we won't say bye-bye to our Netflix subscription for some time...
Now since Amazon has the streaming rights to Veronica Mars, surely they can underwrite a reboot of that show??
posted by of strange foe at 8:56 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Now since Amazon has the streaming rights to Veronica Mars, surely they can underwrite a reboot of that show??
posted by of strange foe at 8:56 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
As someone who has never seen either show, I've just realized that every time I've read anything about The Gilmore Girls, I've mentally substituted The Golden Girls. I've just now figured out that they are in fact two separate things that I don't know anything about, and not, as I had supposed, one single thing that I don't know anything about. Thank you for your kind attention and I will let myself out.
Wait! You need to watch them!
(Start with The Golden Girls. The Gilmores are okay, but if you binge watch them too fast you will find yourself throwing your viewing device across the room yelling SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP at it.)
posted by Sys Rq at 8:59 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Wait! You need to watch them!
(Start with The Golden Girls. The Gilmores are okay, but if you binge watch them too fast you will find yourself throwing your viewing device across the room yelling SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP at it.)
posted by Sys Rq at 8:59 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
"All I want is for Emily Gilmore to become a later-in-life lesbian." From (of course) the Toast
posted by ChuraChura at 9:12 AM on October 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by ChuraChura at 9:12 AM on October 20, 2015 [7 favorites]
I have to think that Amy Sherman-Palladino's endgame for the show gives more attention to and resolution for the Lorelei/Emily relationship.
Season seven finally resolves the Luke/Lorelei tension, but that's so much less interesting and central to the concept of the show, to me. Luke isn't a Gilmore OR a Girl, and we've seen that kind of "will they/won't they" suspense on a million other shows. Of course they will... eventually.
But Emily absolutely is one of the Gilmore Girls, and "can Lorelei and her mother ever repair their relationship?" was part of the premise of the show, and not... Totally resolved, to me. I kinda want to see Lorelei voluntarily invite Emily over for dinner with no prospect of monetary returns, and I want to see Emily come and eat at Lorelei's kitchen table and laugh.
posted by OnceUponATime at 9:12 AM on October 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
Season seven finally resolves the Luke/Lorelei tension, but that's so much less interesting and central to the concept of the show, to me. Luke isn't a Gilmore OR a Girl, and we've seen that kind of "will they/won't they" suspense on a million other shows. Of course they will... eventually.
But Emily absolutely is one of the Gilmore Girls, and "can Lorelei and her mother ever repair their relationship?" was part of the premise of the show, and not... Totally resolved, to me. I kinda want to see Lorelei voluntarily invite Emily over for dinner with no prospect of monetary returns, and I want to see Emily come and eat at Lorelei's kitchen table and laugh.
posted by OnceUponATime at 9:12 AM on October 20, 2015 [13 favorites]
One of the unsettling delights of the short-lived Bunheads was having Kelly Bishop play the complete opposite of Emily Gilmore. It was great!
posted by Kitteh at 9:26 AM on October 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 9:26 AM on October 20, 2015 [5 favorites]
"All I want is for Emily Gilmore to become a later-in-life lesbian."
Roseanne did that story line already. The Toast's imaginary script could practically be quotes from some of those Roseanne episodes.
(Edited to add -- I love the Toast. I just also like Roseanne.)
posted by OnceUponATime at 9:32 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
Roseanne did that story line already. The Toast's imaginary script could practically be quotes from some of those Roseanne episodes.
(Edited to add -- I love the Toast. I just also like Roseanne.)
posted by OnceUponATime at 9:32 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
One of the unsettling delights of the short-lived Bunheads was having Kelly Bishop play the complete opposite of Emily Gilmore. It was great!
What I loved about that was, well, everything. But specifically, I loved that she had that same sort of "I'm in charge" imperiousness of Emily, but in the character of a California bohemian dancer (which is apparently closer to who Kelly Bishop is in real life). My personal headcannon is that she's Emily's bohemian twin sister that we never hear about because she scandalized the family by running off to New York to become a dancer and wound up on a commune in California.
Bunheads was tragically short-lived.
posted by lunasol at 9:56 AM on October 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
What I loved about that was, well, everything. But specifically, I loved that she had that same sort of "I'm in charge" imperiousness of Emily, but in the character of a California bohemian dancer (which is apparently closer to who Kelly Bishop is in real life). My personal headcannon is that she's Emily's bohemian twin sister that we never hear about because she scandalized the family by running off to New York to become a dancer and wound up on a commune in California.
Bunheads was tragically short-lived.
posted by lunasol at 9:56 AM on October 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, I am so excited for this! I recently introduced my husband to Gilmore Girls and it's become his favorite Netflix binge. When I first watched the show, I was Rory's age, looked like Lane, and lived in California (where the show was actually filmed), and now I'm Lorelai's age, live in CT, and my husband works at Yale. Guys, I can't even begin to tell you how weird my life seems when viewed through nostalgic Stars Hollow glasses.
posted by Diagonalize at 10:10 AM on October 20, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Diagonalize at 10:10 AM on October 20, 2015 [10 favorites]
I would have loved more Bunheads. Those dance sequences!
posted by Kitteh at 10:20 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Kitteh at 10:20 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
If Michel comes back, can he at least come out properly? That he was supposed to be straight always confused me.
posted by Diagonalize at 10:35 AM on October 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by Diagonalize at 10:35 AM on October 20, 2015 [9 favorites]
I'm shocked no one has brought up the amazing Gilmore Guys podcast yet. The "emergency episode" they released this morning was adorable and fabulous.
posted by Ragini at 10:47 AM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Ragini at 10:47 AM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
I would have loved more Bunheads. Those dance sequences!
YES.
posted by lunasol at 11:02 AM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
YES.
posted by lunasol at 11:02 AM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Seriously. Lane's fate is one of the few things about this show that can still make me angry to this day.
Yeah, me too. She like always had to do or eat something terrible.
posted by zutalors! at 12:57 PM on October 20, 2015
I presume actors from the new Twin Peaks will regularly appear to disturb things. Audrey Horne did have Luke's daughter.
posted by cottoncandybeard at 1:42 PM on October 20, 2015
posted by cottoncandybeard at 1:42 PM on October 20, 2015
Yeah, but Luke's daughter ended up with John Lithgow the serial killer as a dad.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:47 PM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:47 PM on October 20, 2015 [2 favorites]
Audrey Horne did have Luke's daughter.
She was also Jess' stepmom or something in Santa Monica!
And Shelly was barely disguised as Christopher's first wife, Sherry... And Gwen Moran showed up as Liz... And the coffee at Luke's was damn fine....
posted by bookwo3107 at 3:10 PM on October 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
She was also Jess' stepmom or something in Santa Monica!
And Shelly was barely disguised as Christopher's first wife, Sherry... And Gwen Moran showed up as Liz... And the coffee at Luke's was damn fine....
posted by bookwo3107 at 3:10 PM on October 20, 2015 [3 favorites]
My only direct, first-hand experience with the Gilmore Girls involves a trip to the movie store. In the depths of sleepless nights with an infant, my wife was binge watching almost anything to help her get by. One fine day in sunny Toronto I found myself at the hipster movie rental place nearby, sheepishly slipping a couple of Gilmore Girls DVDs across the counter to a youngster that raised an eyebrow when he saw the title.
"It's for my wife," was all I could manage to say.
posted by Walleye at 9:26 PM on October 20, 2015
"It's for my wife," was all I could manage to say.
posted by Walleye at 9:26 PM on October 20, 2015
I'm confused by that comment, is Gilmore Girls some ladies' thing to be embarrassed about?
posted by zutalors! at 9:30 PM on October 20, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by zutalors! at 9:30 PM on October 20, 2015 [10 favorites]
It's only embarrassing if you ship Rory with Dean. Then you deserve scorn.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:02 PM on October 20, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by knuckle tattoos at 10:02 PM on October 20, 2015 [12 favorites]
One fine day in sunny Toronto I found myself at the hipster movie rental place nearby, sheepishly slipping a couple of Gilmore Girls DVDs across the counter to a youngster that raised an eyebrow when he saw the title.
"It's for my wife," was all I could manage to say.
This is such an odd thing to post in the middle of a thread of both men and women talking about what a great show it is.
posted by lunasol at 7:36 AM on October 21, 2015 [12 favorites]
"It's for my wife," was all I could manage to say.
This is such an odd thing to post in the middle of a thread of both men and women talking about what a great show it is.
posted by lunasol at 7:36 AM on October 21, 2015 [12 favorites]
"It's for my wife," was all I could manage to say.
Scene: Etrigan is hanging out at the U.S. base near Basrah, with a fellow soldier who's barnstorming around Iraq with his Special Forces team. Major Badass and I go way back, so I've heard most of his stories before, but none of the people in my unit have, so he's enjoying a Cuban cigar and regaling the younger troops with Tales Of War (many of which are true). The talk winds down, and I ask him whether he caught up with the last season of Gilmore Girls. A few other people laugh, and Major Badass pins them down with a glare.
"Best goddamn show on television," he rasps, taking another long hit from the cigar. "Now that Buffy the Vampire Slayer's off the air."
posted by Etrigan at 7:43 AM on October 21, 2015 [21 favorites]
Scene: Etrigan is hanging out at the U.S. base near Basrah, with a fellow soldier who's barnstorming around Iraq with his Special Forces team. Major Badass and I go way back, so I've heard most of his stories before, but none of the people in my unit have, so he's enjoying a Cuban cigar and regaling the younger troops with Tales Of War (many of which are true). The talk winds down, and I ask him whether he caught up with the last season of Gilmore Girls. A few other people laugh, and Major Badass pins them down with a glare.
"Best goddamn show on television," he rasps, taking another long hit from the cigar. "Now that Buffy the Vampire Slayer's off the air."
posted by Etrigan at 7:43 AM on October 21, 2015 [21 favorites]
This is nowhere near as badass as Etrigan's story, but when my brother and husband aren't bonding over gory video game kills, they're frequently jabbering about their shared appreciation of Gilmore Girls. Brother is firmly Team Lorelai. I'm not 100% sure, but Husband appears to be mostly Team Kirk.
posted by Diagonalize at 1:01 PM on October 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Diagonalize at 1:01 PM on October 21, 2015 [2 favorites]
Gilmore Girls Revival's 4-Episode Narrative Twist Revealed
Well, according to insiders, each episode will represent a different season over the course of one calendar year. In other words, there will be a fall chapter, a winter chapter, a spring chapter and a summer chapter.
This sounds great.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:37 AM on October 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
Well, according to insiders, each episode will represent a different season over the course of one calendar year. In other words, there will be a fall chapter, a winter chapter, a spring chapter and a summer chapter.
This sounds great.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:37 AM on October 26, 2015 [4 favorites]
Oh that is cool! I feel like Gilmore Girls always dealt with seasons well. One of my favorite traditions Lorelai and Rory have is how they go for a walk the first night it snows.
posted by lunasol at 7:44 PM on October 27, 2015
posted by lunasol at 7:44 PM on October 27, 2015
I don't know how I missed this news. My daughter and I just squeeeeeeeeeeeeeealed for 5 minutes Now she has gone into her room to binge watch old eps. We can't wait!
posted by stellathon at 8:26 PM on November 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by stellathon at 8:26 PM on November 6, 2015 [2 favorites]
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