Updated September 26, 2019 26.0K votes 5.4K voters 410.5K views
Over 5.4K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of 8 Reasons Why the Gilmore Girls Revival Sucked
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Vote up the things you hated most about Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
After Amy Sherman-Palladino stopped writing for Gilmore Girls after Season 6, a mediocre 7th season was released which concluded the popular series in May 2007 - or so fans thought. On Friday, November 25, 2016, the Gilmore Girls revival, titled Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, was released on Netflix. And even though fans had been clamoring for more Rory and Lorelai for years, it was ultimately pretty disappointing. Although there were some saving graces, here are some of the most disappointing things about the new Gilmore Girls.
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The Stars Hollow Musical Was Pretty Bad
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The musical in "Summer" was truly disappointing compared to others in the past. The songs were subpar, and was it really even necessary? It also threw a big musical wrench in the plotline that didn't segue nearly as smoothly as the writers seemed to think it did. Plus, did it really need to be that long? The payoff did not warrant 15 minutes of overdone musical parody.
2,428 votes
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Rory Is Much Worse Than We Remember
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Rory is pretty awful in the Gilmore Girls revival. From the very first episode, we see Rory dating a guy named Paul while also casually sleeping with Logan behind Paul's back. We get it, it's the 21st century, monogamy is a choice, not a requirement, but if you want to have an open relationship, shouldn't you... you know, discuss it with your partner? Because when you don't, what you're doing looks an awful lot like cheating. Yikes.
2,237 votes
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Those Last Four Words
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"Mom?" "Yeah?" "I'm pregnant."
Apparently, this is the ending Amy Sherman-Palladino planned for Rory, and Gilmore Girls as a whole, all along. This is what she waited so many years to execute, to see fully realized. This is what fans waited for, what they believed would deliver them from the inauthenticity of Season 7. And it wasn't worth it.
When Rory said, "I'm pregnant," and the screen cut to black, it didn't feel like an exciting cliffhanger - it felt cheap. It felt like a betrayal of the strong, goal-driven character we've gotten to know who never expressed even an inkling of interest in having children. Leaving her - and us - with questions over the paternity of her child overshadows the entire series, and not in a good way.
Did it feel like something was missing in the beginning of the Gilmore Girls revival? For true Gilmore Girls fans, singing along to "Where You Lead" by Carole King is a crucial part of the show. But this was missing, which was a big disappointment to viewers. Sure, there were some familiar “la las,” but you can’t blame fans for feeling a little cheated. The theme song does eventually play at the end of the final episode “Fall,” but at that point, it's too little, too late.
2,038 votes
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Rory and Lorelai Fat Shame Some Pool-Goers
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You would think that with a progressive show like Gilmore Girls, the characters would be above something as petty as fat shaming. However, the revival assured viewers that this was not the case. The first of two sophomoric insults came at the beginning of the third episode, “Summer.” We enter on Lorelai and Rory sitting by a pool as two overweight men walk by with their stomachs out. “Belly alert!” remarks Lorelai, and Rory responds with a “Holy moly!”
The second instance comes later when the girls are back at the pool. A pool-goer welcomes Rory back to town and she attempts to thank him but ends up calling him fat. This is a man that the two women have secretly nicknamed “Back Fat Pat,” by the way. So it is a little bit harder to excuse this Freudian slip.
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Logan Huntzberger Is Back and He Still Sucks
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In the revival, we are again graced by the presence of Logan Huntzberger. Logan is easily the most detestable of all of Rory Gilmore’s love interests. His good looks and charm almost make you forget how slimy he is. Despite his engagement to a French heiress, he still hooks up with Rory and makes amends for how things ended. Yeah, it is cute and you want to root for them, but about that whole engagement thing?
