So What’s the Reasoning Behind the Gilmore Girls Revival’s Four Episodes?
One episode for each time we've watched the entire series? (Gonna need more episodes.)
The Gilmore Girls revival’s excitement is matched only by its mystery. Who will/won’t make an appearance? Who will wind up with/has wound up with who? Are Rory and President Barack Obama besties? Why only four episodes, for the love of all that is good?
Well, new information about the format of the abbreviated—if blessed with thankfully extra-long episodes—season might make a bit more sense of that tragedy. According to “insider” reports to TVLine, each of the four, 90-minute Netflix episodes will feature a storyline for a particular season—not of TV, mind you, but of the year. (Remember that use of the word?)
So we’d be getting 90 minutes of summer, fall, winter, and spring with Lorelai, Rory, and the gang to make up an entire year’s worth of story in just four episodes. That leaves me with two questions: “Will winter be the beginning or the end?” and “What story arc will tie the year together?”
Lorelai always had a special relationship with snow, so I’m guessing winter won’t just be shoved in the middle somewhere like it is in a traditional TV season. Maybe things will pick up in the winter and start with something … magical?
As for that year-long plotline (if that’s even the case)? Who knows? Just don’t mess with my emotions, Gilmore Girls revival—not after the slow self-destruction of your initial run—or you and I are through. Through, I tell you!
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