But theyre back for this special event series.
It tells a story about grief and change, rootlessness and restlessness.
The show is basically a reboot about the struggle of rebooting.
Credit: Robert Voets; Netflix
The surprising twists and turns of a meandering journey toward renewal are worth protecting and your discovery.
The story is three-stage rocket blast.
Sample line: Dont stand there shaking!
Apologize to your parents.
The fate of Richard Gilmore (Edward Herrmann, who died in 2014) catalyzes much of the plot.
He tries to chase them away with bogus, insulting passwords.
Rory might be the most difficult character to set up, per spoiler rules.
Does he represent the future, or is he baggage from the past that must be dropped?
Winter dotes on Kirk (Sean Gunn) and Taylor (Michael Winters) in particular.
(Get ready for Kirks latest nutty scheme: a car service called Ooober.
Ill let him explain how its different from Uber.)
And as usual, theres an abundance of entertaining references and sly pop commentary in the writing.
A scene in which Paris melts down in a bathroom is one of the highlights of the entire series.
Still, many choices pay off with marvelously zany set pieces.
Rory is used to reflect and judge her generation, to mixed results.
More #PeakTV shout-outs in this episode:The Returned, Halt and Catch Fire.
Does Carole King not exist in the GilmoreGirlsVerse?
I never realized that.
One of them might even be a dream sequence.
And you get the legendaryfinal four words.
But if Sherman-Palladino leads with more, I will follow.Fall grade: B
Series grade: B+
