Warning: If you have not seen Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life in its entirety, STOP READING NOW. The below is filled with spoilers.
We laughed, we cried, we laughed while crying—these were the inevitable stages of watching Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. We’re finally back with our girls, our Stars Hollow, our grumpy old backwards-baseball-hat-wearing Luke and our Kirk (plus his adorable pig, Petal), and we couldn’t be more emotional. We knew we’d inevitably end up crying, if only for the fact that Edward Herrmann, who played Richard Gilmore, passed away in 2014 and wouldn’t be able to join the revival. These are the 15 (expected and unexpected) moments that made us cry the most while we binge-watched our return to Rory and Lorelai.
1. Rory returns to Stars Hollow
2. Those flashbacks to Richard’s funeral
3. A Second Film by Kirk premieres
4. Rory and Logan say farewell…for good?
5. Jess convinces Rory to write a book
6. Rory’s memories in the Gilmores’ house
7. Sookie returns to the Dragonfly
8. Emily says “bullshit” to the DAR, finally
9. Lorelai calling Emily with her Richard story
10. Emily kisses the painting of Richard
11. Every moment between Jess and Luke
12. Jess looks in Rory’s window
13. Luke and Lorelai finally elope
14. The entire wedding scene
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
15. The last four words
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