Paris became a surgeon. Rory is a jet-setting journalist.
Paris still divorces Doyle. Lane divorces Zack and hitches onto a real band and gets famous and gets back together with Dave. Rory and Paris get married.
This is what happens from now on. Nothing regarding Rory in that revival ever happened. It is law.
Raise your hand if you were personally victimized by the last four-ish words.
Talking about season 6 last time felt like you could literally tell when the downward spiral that led to the worst season of Gilmore Girls
started. And no, it wasn’t April Nardini, at least not exactly. Now we
have reached season 7, which I previously referred to as a “dumpster
fire”—an ending to the series so unworthy, the show’s original creator
didn’t even watch it, and we’re getting a revival in less than two
weeks.
But is it really that bad, or are we all just bitter? And also bored. Let’s find out!
I don’t think I make a secret of it, but Gilmore Girls was one of my favorite pieces of media growing up (until S4, that is). Hopefully you’ve done yourself the treat of reading Jana’s meticulous and even neurotic retrospectives on each season with such thoroughness that it puts me and Julia to shame.
This is the final piece, with the show limping across the finish line in what is easily one of the worst seasons of any piece of media. Enjoy!
Never before have I felt such a strong need to post a “senpai noticed me!” meme.
Thank you so much!
(Also yes, look guys, I am still writing this thing. Last season retrospective, it’s only new stuff from here on out)
Season 4 was a turning point for Gilmore Girls as a whole. We left familiar settings and had both Rory and Lorelai try
something new: college and opening an inn. Season 5 sees Lorelai’s inn
running, and Rory still at college, but while season 4 at least still
had some of the charm of the first three seasons, season 5 is where things get… Icky.
This is basically where everything starts going to hell.
Two more to go after this! Yes, it is me and I write again. This time about a good show going to shit, #NotMyRory and all your faves are ruined. It also takes me an entire paragraph to use a gif from my newest obsession, and that was only with really restraining myself.
Gilmore Girls has reached its mid-point, and it might just be all downhill from here. Last time,
we covered the end of the Chilton and Independence Inn era, and went
out on the highest note possible – Rory got into the Ivy League College
of her choice; Lorelai got to open her own inn.
How do you follow up this high-stakes season with the practically
perfect finale? Why, by delivering the only season of this show that has
ever won an Emmy, of course!
So gather your hilariously oversized luggage, grab some junk food of
your choice, and settle in for some award-winning… Make-up?!
Overdressed & Underappreciated 