Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham as Rory and Lorelai Gilmore in front of the Stars Hollow sign and Rory looking annoyed
Gilmore Girls ran for seven seasons before the show was canceled, and it eventually got a four-episode Netflix revival called A Year in the Life. With the beloved series continuing for so long, it's no surprise that the later seasons and revival feel different from the earlier outings of the show. There are many changes from Gilmore Girls season 1 to A Year in the Life, though they're not all immediately noticeable.
9 Gilmore Girls Lost Some Of Its Small-Town Charm As It Continued Stars Hollow Loses Its Luster As The Show Continues Close The small town of Stars Hollow contributes heavily to Gilmore Girls' charm, but some of this is lost as the series continues. There are a couple of reasons for this. For one, Stars Hollow no longer seems novel after watching Gilmore Girls for seven seasons and a revival.
Although Rory turns some of this around before Gilmore Girls season 7, she never fully returns to the likable, innocent character from the earlier outings. This is to be expected to some extent; Rory had to grow up during the show's seven-season run. However, Rory fails to win viewers back over, even in A Year in the Life. Looking back on the show overall, it's difficult to reconcile the woman from the revival with the high school student from season 1.
Likewise, Rory continues to flail in her career and love life throughout Gilmore Girls, and even A Year in the Life never adequately resolves these aspects of her life. Sure, you can argue that Rory needs to be alone to figure things out. But there are only so many times viewers can watch Rory make the same decisions and mistakes before it becomes predictable.
4 Lorelai & Rory's Relationship Isn't As Compelling They Feel Less Close In Later Seasons Of Gilmore Girls Close As one might expect, Rory and Lorelai grow apart as Rory enters adulthood — and unfortunately, this impacts Gilmore Girls' later seasons and revival. The series' appeal is its central mother-daughter relationship, but that bond withers while Rory is in college. There's the entire fallout between Lorelai and Rory when the latter drops out of Yale.
A Year in the Life continues this trend, depicting Paris positively in her adult life. She's a successful woman running a fertility clinic in the revival, which fits Paris' ambitious personality very well. She's just as entertaining and likable in A Year in the Life, meaning her growth during Gilmore Girls' later seasons stuck.
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