I'm watching the Gilmore Girls: Year in the Life. We just got to the musical run through. I know it's supposed to be excruciating. But my stream stopped just before the tap dancing for five seconds, as if to say, "I'm giving you a chance to escape. Take it." That's some high level watch from the hall.

I'm really enjoying it.

I loved it. I just finished, and I sort of feel hungover, but it was satisfying to me.

I liked that part Calli, although I appear to be the only one.

the Waterloo part really killed me, and having seen Carole Kings Beatiful, so did the part where she suggested the audience sing along to her uplifting songs!

It didn't bother me either, but I'm incapable of analyzing it critically.

Overall, I found GG emotionally satisfying. I liked Lorelei's arc and where she ended up. Emily Gilmore's, too. I had a bit more trouble with Rory, although some of that's probably envy. Why yes, it might have been nice to spend the first 10 or so years out of college wafting around NYC and Europe, finding my passion and having handsome men put me up and help me make career connections instead of scrabbling for multiple soul sucking jobs to pay off my student loans.

I'll own that plays into it. However, the whole fooling around with men in other allegedly committed relationships thing is starting to look like a habit and not a great one. And seeing a teaching job at a prestigious school being offered to you on a plate as a sad fallback option instead of a challenging, potentially highly rewarding (emotionally and mentally, if not financially) career move raised my hackles. Teaching isn't just something you settle for when you can't get any of your real, important dreams to work out.

But Kurt doing something wonderfully right was very satisfying. Lorelei's whole lines are for people who don't know how to make connections bit was fun and highlighted some of her strengths. Jess seemed to have grown into a gruffly caring, competent person, which was nice to see. I actually empathized with the mayor guy trying to get people behind a municipal sewage system. People often don't want to think about what happens post-flush, but it's these sort of unsexy issues local officials have to worry about.

Things seemed set up for a second miniseries. I hope it happens.

So Paris lives on my street in Brooklyn. And Doyle still looks like me.

I think that means you win the degrees of separation thing.

I kinda thought that whole musical storyline, specifically Lorelei being the only one critical of it, underlined how she was stagnating rather than being content with how things were. The Wild business was much more watch from the hall for me. Ugh. Fun bit for Peter Krause, though.

To be fair to Rory, I don't think she thought of the Chilton possibility as settling until the headmaster said he was trying to help her. It was just a possibility she hadn't considered when he first mentioned it. If he'd followed that up with "seeing how good you were with the students just now, we could really use someone like you here" would have given her an entirely different attitude about it.

Loved Emily's journey, and Lorelei's made sense for her, Rory's...in a theoretical way I like that she's hitting that "but what if I can't make things go the way I want them to" point that is so hard for successful good-student types when they finally run into it, but her romantic choices are baffling to me, to channel Tim Gunn. I did appreciate her easiness with Dean (so weird to call have JPad be "Dean") at the store, that was nice to see. I'm concerned that they are setting things up for some kind of parallel - having Rory is what gave Lorelei direction and discipline and whatnot and now Rory becoming a single mother will be her own true path to happiness. That would be...disappointing. I did like how the last scene colored the earlier scene with her father, though. The questions make a lot more sense.

Seeing everyone again is just so fun. A little too much Kirk in the first hour, but just about right in the end.

So. DirectTV Now? PlayStation Vue? Sling TV?

Anyone?

Huh.

So Amy Sherman-Palladino rather strong suggests that Rory would get an abortion instead of becoming a single mom like Lorelei: [link]

To be fair, raising a baby wookiee is a huge commitment.