"Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" series triumphantly returns as story-writer Amy Sherman-Palladino gathered most of the original cast of the long-running series for four new 90-minute episodes. This four-part reboot, is divided into winter, spring, summer and fall, and picks up nine years after the series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino ended.
It's been 10 1/2 years since the last episode aired. The original plot of the series is about a drama centering on the relationship between a single mother (Lauran Graham) and her teen daughter (Alexis Bledel). For the series reboot, Lorelai Gilmore is still running the Dragonfly Inn in Stars Hollow, Connecticut, with a bad-tempered assistant, Michael Gerard (Yanic Truesdale).
The cast, Lauren Graham said that the new story line would be about a young woman and the struggles she faces.
"It's a story about a young woman and kind of the struggles she faces. Yet the dynamics among these two roles, they've grown up, but still the same. And that kind of foundation of 'Here are the people you have to rely on' can take you through any age" she says.
Sherman - Palladino didn't expect that her girls would ever have a comeback until Netflix popped up and decided to finance the whole production. "When Netflix decided to storm the world and just take over overnight, we thought, 'Well, what a great opportunity to explore into a different form, to tell stories in a different way using beloved characters that we loved' " she says.
Bledel, who's 25 and starred on "Mad Men," "Us & Them," "Jenny's wedding," says falling back into the role was like riding a bike. "It really was as if no time had passed," she says.
A new trailer for Netflix's "Gilmore Girls" revival was released on Oct. 25, 2016. The series begins airing Friday on Netflix.
