Coffee and pop-tarts was what I sat down with to watch the Gilmore Girls revival on the Saturday of Thanksgiving break. It was a testament to the years I had spent watching and re-watching Gilmore Girls, laughing at Lorelai’s jokes, cringing through the pain of Rory’s bad relationships, and cheering them on through all their endeavors.

Gilmore Girls follows single mom Lorelai Gilmore who had her daughter Rory at sixteen. They live in Stars Hollow, Connecticut where Lorelai owns the local Dragonfly Inn.

The show follows the mother-daughter duo for seven years where we see Rory go through high school and college. We see Lorelai date multiple guys.  We see them fight, laugh, cry, and experience life.

The revival was presented in four “mini movies”; all an hour and a half long and corresponding with the seasons – winter, spring, summer, and fall.

The first episode starts off with Rory coming home from London to visit. We had last seen Rory at the end of season seven jetting off to write about Obama’s campaign trail. Here we see 32 year old Rory who is now a published journalist.

Throughout the revival series, we see Rory experience the ups and downs of adult life-trying to find a steady job, a place to live, and even dating a guy she can’t remember (Sorry Paul, this Rory is new to all of us).

When we last saw Rory and Logan, she had just declined his proposal of marriage, but they have started seeing each other secretly because Logan is engaged to a French woman.

We see Luke and Lorelai go through troubles in their relationship. Lorelai decides she wants to have a baby, but then decides to fly out to California to experience the book Wild by Cheryl Strayed. She flies to California, but ends up not hiking the Pacific Crest Trail after some setbacks.

The show handled Edward Herrmann’s death in 2014 extremely well by staging it as if he had died from a sudden heart attack a couple months ago. He played Lorelai’s father, Richard Gilmore. A flashback takes us to the funeral where Lorelai gave an inappropriate eulogy about her father. It was most definitely out of character for her and it’s definitely not the Lorelai Gilmore we’ve all known and loved.

Let’s talk about Emily, Lorelai’s mother, for a minute. She handles Richard’s death as best as she can. She goes through all her possessions to see which ones bring her joy. Obviously, nothing will bring you joy if your husband has just passed away.

After talking some sense into her, Lorelai convinces Emily to go to therapy, but somehow gets roped into going with her too. We see new conflicts during their sessions where Emily claims Lorelai wrote her a hateful letter and gave it to her on Emily’s birthday even though Lorelai has no recollection of this.

After Emily quits therapy, Lorelai continues to go because she, too, feels lost. Death can really do something to a person. Emily decides that her own version of therapy is quitting the DAR. The DAR is the  Daughters of the American Revolution, which Emily has been apart of for decades. She sells her house, moves to Nantucket, and begins working at a whaling museum as a tour guide.

How about those four words at the end of the show? Rory announces that she is pregnant and the baby’s father is most likely Logan. She’s unemployed, living all over the place, and doesn’t have any underwear. Obviously, this was the intended ending to season seven that Amy Sherman-Palladino had planned when the show ended nine years ago.

Palladino’s plan was to have Logan be Rory’s Christopher and Jess be her Luke. There are definitely parallels between Luke and Christopher: both hate their fathers and both are a little bit spoiled reckless at first but grow into mature, kind-hearted  men who love a good romantic gesture. Just look at that time Chris bought Lorelai a restaurant in Paris because she was starving. 24 hour McDonalds anyone? It parallels with Logan giving Rory a house so she can write her book about her and her mom.

Don’t get me wrong – I loved being back in Stars Hollow and seeing where everyone was, but there were definitely some kinks in the show that weren’t there before. I felt the show had too much of a modern effect. Isn’t the point of Stars Hollow supposed to be that it’s so out of the way they come in late on the trends? I missed the old timey feeling of the Stars Hollow I used to know and the innocent Rory who was mature enough to know not to sleep with an engaged man. I miss the Lorelai who didn’t share inappropriate stories at her father’s funeral. Despite the fact that the show was not the same as it’s always been, I am stoked for the next series where we can see the new addition to the Gilmore clan.