Friday, November 25, 2016

A Gilmore Revival Marathon

Unless you live under a rock, you surely know what today is.  :)  When news of the impending revival was released, it went like wildfire through many a friendship circle.  My very good friend and I decided to watch it together.  In true Gilmore fashion, we planned our food.  I added food to it (I'm getting to double dip a bit because my boyfriend's family is coming into town later today and I needed to cook for them anyway).  I decided to write a post about it and update it as we watched or until I got too drunk to continue updating it.  This post will include food eaten, books referenced, and NO SPOILERS!  It will likely hold general impressions, like "After this episode, I was left feeling..."  But DO NOT WORRY about me blowing major plot points.  If you are commenting, I ask that you kindly do the same.



The revival experience began last night.  My friend met my boyfriend and I at my uncle's house for some post Thanksgiving meal drinking.  We ran to a grocery store on the way back to my house for her portion of the food.  We watched some football.  I continued drinking.  Then my lovely boyfriend said he would excuse himself so we could watch a couple of episodes.  We each picked our favorite episode.  I chose season one's "Love and War and Snow," while she picked "They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They" from season three.  Then we watched the finale.  We wrapped it up around 1:00am.  The new episodes wouldn't drop until 3:00, so we decided to go to bed for a while and wake up at 7:00.  I'm up.  I got me some water and some allergy meds.  I'm ready to go!  

The last time we saw Lorelai, Rory, and the gang, I was just finishing up my freshman year of college.  I totally felt Rory's sense of "OK, now what do I do?"  However, during the entire run of the show, I felt like I could relate way more to Lorelai.  The daughter who had to do things the hard way.  Anyway, I finished college, went to grad school, took a year off, and started law school (currently in my second year).  From what I've seen of the previews for the revival episodes, Rory's is feeling completely adrift--it looks like she's between jobs, not in a relationship, feeling rootless, like she's just marking time.  I TOTALLY GET THAT!  I always thought that by now I'd be way more settled down and rooted.  So, it's odd, but maybe in this revival, I'll relate more to Rory.  We shall see.

OK.  So, my friend, Kelly, is up.  Finally.  We're about to get started.  I'm still not ready for food.  But I have an awesome looking breakfast casserole waiting for me.  


Let's get started!


Episode 1

It was weird seeing everyone again after so long!  But it also felt like coming home again, in a way.  The first episode is "Winter."

Books Referenced:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Leaves of Grass
On the Road
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Not as many books as I would have thought!  But these are good ones.

Food consumed:
Powdered Donuts
Coffee
Breakfast Casserole

It took a while before I was awake enough to eat food, but I managed to scarf down some donuts.  Then I moved onto the breakfast casserole.  Super yummy!  I highly recommend the recipe.

We've both expressed some level of disappointment that now the revival is 25% over.

Quick bathroom break, then onto the next episode!



Episode 2

"Spring"  Ah!  This episode!  This is what I was talking about!  I love how it's all coming together.  And now we're sad that it's half over.

Books Referenced:
Shakespeare
Aeschylus
Death of a Salesman
Edith Wharton
Fiddler on the Rood
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Art of War
Dorothy Parker
David Foster Wallace
Cloud Atlas

So many more books this episode!  And I love the authors.  This is shaping up to be a pretty good reading list.  :)

Food Consumed:
More breakfast casserole.
More coffee.
More powdered donuts.
And we broke into the pie and ice cream.  :)


I guess we are on to summer!


Episode 3

Books Referenced:
Wild
Anna Karenina
Games of Thrones
The Godfather
Edward Albie/Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nora Ephron/I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman


Food Eaten:
Frozen pizza.  :)

The plot thickens!


Episode 4

Books Referenced:
Wild
Eat Pray Love
Macbeth
The Raven
Picture of Dorian Gray
David Mamet
Little House in the Big Woods
True Grit
Alice in Wonderland

Food Eaten:
Not much.  But I did make a pot of chili.

Ummmm...wtf?!  We're definitely going to need some more episodes!


Overall, I think there was a pretty good reading list to be gleaned from the episodes.  But there weren't as many books as I would have liked.  Nor did they reference some really good recent picks.  I was kind of surprised by how many classics were mentioned.

I'll have to watch the episodes again to see how many books I missed!

8 comments:

  1. I'm holding off on watching the Gilmore Girls until tonight when everyone will be asleep and I watch in peace and quiet!

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  2. Never watched Gilmore Girls but I hope you enjoy the new version. :)

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  3. I just watched the last episode and I'm SO SHOCKED. Sadly, I'm the only one of my group of friend who has ever watched the series, but it's awesome that you're getting us updated with your feelings about this. Maybe it's the effect of the last part of the episode (I love Kirk so much), but Autumn was my favorite and I can't wait to read your thoughts about it.

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  4. I love that your journey coincided with Rory's! I haven't netflix, and was gutted that they did it through it, but next time I'm at my Mum's I'm going to watch them (only figured this out yesterday!) so happy out! Great way to watch them by the way-the way it should be done! Enjoy!!

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  5. I love that GG referenced Marie Kondo....especially WHO was looking at their things to find what sparked joy.

    I am hoping to watch Summer and Fall later today.

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  6. Ummmm...wtf?! - Exactly the reaction I had. And I had so been looking forward to this revival!

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  7. I like the way you presented this post. Documenting general feelings with no spoilers, what you ate (a la Gilmore Girls style) and the books referenced (wish I had thought of it, but so glad you did).

    I enjoyed my experience, found some scenes uneccesarily long and wish there were more. I'd love to see then do a similar thing each year - the four seasons like this was a fun idea.

    PS I'm Team Jess forever no matter what happens - always have been and always will be. :)

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  8. I like the way you presented this post. Documenting general feelings with no spoilers, what you ate (a la Gilmore Girls style) and the books referenced (wish I had thought of it, but so glad you did).

    I enjoyed my experience, found some scenes uneccesarily long and wish there were more. I'd love to see then do a similar thing each year - the four seasons like this was a fun idea.

    PS I'm Team Jess forever no matter what happens - always have been and always will be. :)

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