I had sex, so now I don't get to go to Harvard." Later on, when she's talking to Rory, she calls herself a slut and worries that Jamie won't like her anymore. Paris loses her virginity to her boyfriend Jamie right before she's rejected from Harvard, and in her epic onstage meltdown she says, "I'm being punished. Rory, Paris and Lane's first times are all pretty traumatic in different ways, and though individually they make sense, in combination it's kind of a bummer. Here's hoping that A Year In The Life can take advantage of a more enlightened time-and a more liberal distributor in Netflix-and let Michel stop living a lie already.Īt least when it comes to the teenage characters. Everybody pretty much agrees that Luke's coffee is exceptional-but if you actually watch him make it, this doesn't really add up:Īt first, there was no real indication one way or the other about Michel's sexuality, and fans were left to ask the age-old question, "Is he gay, or just French?" But the answer became increasingly clear as the show went on and Michel stayed single, never dated anyone, never even talked about dating anyone. "It's the best coffee in town!" So says Lorelai, and Lorelai is a woman who knows her coffee. We know from promo interviews that Rory is struggling with her journalistic career in A Year In The Life, so maybe this representation was deliberate. As far as her journalistic skills go, her version of going "undercover" with The Life and Death Brigade is walking up to people, announcing she's a reporter and asking them questions-defeating the purpose of going undercover in the first place. But he wasn't wrong when he told Rory: "You don't got it." Rory did spend her internship at the Stamford Gazette acting like an assistant, not a reporter-and while it's understandable she was intimidated, this was true in other areas, too: when she was editor of the Yale paper, it was mostly her dedication and management skills that shone. Yes, Mitchum Huntzberger is a patronizing blowhard with an unfortunate resemblance to Donald Trump, and yes, he was wrong to crush a 20-year-old intern's dreams. Here, the five most upsetting things you realize upon re-watching Gilmore Girls as an adult:
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But you take something different from a TV show every time you watch it, and there's a lot of sad truths about Stars Hollow that emerge. Gilmore Girls is probably one of the most re-watchable shows ever made-its soothing slice-of-life rhythms and lack of anything too dark or dramatic makes it the ultimate in comfort viewing.