Right, so:
[spoiler]I thought on the whole it was excruciatingly bad, with a couple of somewhat redeeming moments.
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The whole thing seemed more comedy infused than the originals, like more surreal than the original whimsy. This is probably for the best, because when it tried to be serious, it generally fell fucking flat
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The sheer amount of call backs to previous bits was unnecessary, just felt put in out of obligation. Why Dean? “Tristan”? Even Sookie, would have been easier without her.
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Rory left her own grandfather’s funeral early to go fuck her engaged ex in London. Nice! And Lorelai’s story… even if she was drunk / angry, seems so out and out wrong and not even in character. Just daft plotting to reinsert a gap between her and Emily.
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Everything Rory did was awful. Logan, “Paul” (how hilarious! A gag basically stolen from Arrested Development), she deserved to have a failed career. The thing with the town newspaper made no sense (two full time staff but the editor was unpaid? Okay). SandeeSays, getting Mitchum’s help wth Conde Nast… even her brilliant idea to do a book wasn’t her idea. And of course she should have expected Lorelai to be upset about it. Also, you’re 32 and have been given everything on your life on a plate, riches beyond imagining. If you’re failing at shit, it’s your fault. Deal with it. Seriously, fuck Rory.
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Lorelai wasn’t much better. Her and Luke still don’t seem like a functional couple - the surrogacy thing was never properly resolved, they kept on talking around it (while also partly ignoring April).
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That musical sequence took fucking hours for approximately zero payoff. The fuck? What was the therapist doing there too?
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The Wild bit - do the Palladinos have some grudge against Cheryl Strayed? Felt like a suggestion in a writer’s meeting that got out of hand. The whole thing was badly paced and edited, but that in particular felt superfluous.
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The general whiteness / privilege etc that always existed just got ramped right up, didn’t it? Emily’s “hilarious” foreign family, the cringey gay pride bit, the ludicrous displays of wealth (even worse than the Life & Death Brigade shit was just Rory flying back and forth from London). Paris’ house was literally too big for her nanny! The pool bits with the child slaves and fat shaming was very odd too.
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At one point they stole a gag straight from Family Guy (the Wizard of Oz “I’ll miss you the most of all / Hey, we heard that” line).
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Everything it took the piss out of - Cronuts, Man buns (more than once), Hamilton, Uber, etc etc - felt out of date already.
POSITIVES, SUCH AS THEY WERE
Emily was great, the only actually enjoyable character arc in it.
Paris, Kirk, Michel, Taylor, Babette, etc, still bringing the goods. Michel had the best LOL moment (“Did you play Rolfe from the Sound of Music one to many times?”) Paris kicking the door shut too, that was good.
Luke’s speech in the kitchen injected some heart into the thing.
Logan and Jess both got really buff! JFC. How do I look like Jess.
Yeah, I think that’s it. So who’s the daddy of Rory’s baby then/ Logan or the Wookie are the only two people she shagged right? They’re not actually going to make any more, are they?
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