It’s been four years since the “Gilmore Girls” revival dropped on Netflix, and it would be an understatement to say that not all fans were thrilled with what they saw when Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) reentered their lives almost a decade after the show ended. With the four-part series’ broadcast debut on The CW earlier this week, TheWrap thought it was a good time to reflect on everything that bugged viewers about “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” in 2016. Enjoy reliving the madness that ensued when we got back to Stars Hollow. But first, grab some Pop-Tarts and coffee, because you’re gonna need them to get through this list. Actually, skip the coffee. It will just get you more worked up.
1. Who the heck is Rory’s baby daddy? The most obvious, but still most infuriating, part of the revival was the infamous final four words. Now we know that Rory is pregnant, but we may never know who the father is. Also, this pregnancy came out of nowhere, so that wasn’t fun. Ugh.
2. Rory didn’t learn her lesson about cheating. At the end of Season 4, Rory slept with her married ex-boyfriend Dean and fans understandably freaked out. She seemed to have learned from the misstep during the original series, but in the revival she has a full-blown affair with Logan. WTF?
3. Paul. Why? Just, why? What was the point of Paul? To make us all realize Rory has become totally inconsiderate to the point where she won’t break up with a guy for a year because, reasons?
4. Lorelai and Luke’s issues. Look, fans get that a happy ending in the series finale didn’t necessarily mean the couple was safe forever. But watching these two will-they-or-won’t-they all through the revival was just annoying. Especially when we *knew* they would.
5. Rory’s freakin’ phones. The revival took place in 2016, not 2002. It made no sense that Rory would need a work phone, a personal phone and a Stars Hollow phone. This may have been one of the smallest annoyances, but it was a bit that got old *real* fast.
6. Many of the references were super dated. Fans were so excited to get a taste of creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s take on current events, but it seemed like the revival was all over the place with references. Yes, Lorelai and Rory have brains filled to the brim with pop culture facts from decades past, but this was a time for us to hear them riff on what’s going on right now.
7. The Gilmore Girls weren’t very PC. We’re not saying that Lorelai and Rory need to change their personalities, but the two have always been very accepting and open-minded, so some of the jokes about body image, race (Emily’s maid, anyone?) and sexuality were awkward.
8. Rory’s career (or lack thereof). Rory was a stellar student and the editor of the Yale Daily News. And while she may not have ended the show with a permanent job offer, we were hoping to see that she had made something great of herself since taking off to follow Barack Obama on the campaign trail in the finale. Instead, Rory seems to be not only drowning in the journalism field, but not even trying hard to stay afloat.
9. Jess. The problem with Jess was there was no problem with Jess. Jess was perfect. Jess was the picture of stability and awesomeness compared to everyone around him. Honestly, this made us mad because we realized Rory didn’t deserve to get back together with him at this point. After all, he’s come so far and she’s regressed so much. So maybe it’s good they didn’t?
10. Lorelai’s weird “Wild” trip. Fans didn’t care how lost Lorelai was after her father Richard’s death and her relationship “problems” with Luke — the trip she took to hike the Pacific Crest Trail was just not realistic. Luckily, she didn’t actually even start it, so that fell in line with her character. But it was still a very weird move.
11. That letter. During one of their therapy sessions, Emily brought up a horrible letter she says Lorelai sent her on her birthday one year — only Lorelai swears she never wrote such a letter. And then that’s it! We never learned who wrote it or why. Uh, okay.
12. Lorelai’s initial reaction to Rory’s book. Lorelai has never been anything but supportive of Rory — sometimes to her detriment. So for her to snap at her daughter’s (well, really Jess’) idea to write a book about their lives seems really weird. Yeah, she finally got on board, but being down on it from the beginning was out of character.
13. Paris and Doyle. Man, did fans love this couple during the series. So it totally killed us to see they were getting a divorce by the time the revival rolled around. However, they hadn’t actually finalized anything by the end of “A Year in the Life,” so we can dream.
14. Rory’s nomad existence. Rory was a crazy-organized person throughout the entire series. The idea that she wouldn’t have a permanent address, let alone one place to store her stuff, by the time she was 32 is just unbelievable.
15. The lack of other characters’ storylines. “Gilmore Girls” was always a show about, well, the Gilmore girls. But, it still focused pretty heavily on all of its characters. We didn’t get enough Sookie, Lane, Zack, Jackson or Mrs. Kim in the revival. Though we finally met Mr. Kim and got a pretty decent amount of Michel, so, yay?
