Gilmore Girls: A Year In the Life Gets Its First Trailer & More Scoop on the Netflix Revival

Would Amy Schumer like Lorelai Gilmore? Lorelai would like to know

By Jean Bentley Jul 27, 2016 6:41 PMTags

Would Amy Schumer like Lorelai Gilmore?

That's what Lorelai would like to know in the very first official trailer for Netflix's Gilmore Girls: A Year In the Life. The teaser takes you through your favorite places in Stars Hollow—Luke's, the Dragonfly Inn, Doose's, the iconic gazebo—before giving us the first footage of Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel back in character as your favorite mother-daughter duo.

"Do you think Amy Schumer would like me," Lorelai asks Rory, who is quick to respond with a "no."

While that might sound puzzling at first, you should hear Rory out because her logic is sound.

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"It's not like I'm perpetually armed or at sundown I turn into one of those vampires with no sense of humor or I have that plant strapped to me that only blooms every 50 years and smells disgusting," Lorelai laments.

But here's the reason: "Water sports. Every single time I see her in a magazine she's on vacation doing water sports." Such a good point and SO TRUE. 

Stars Graham, Bledel, Scott Patterson, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and excecutive producer Daniel Palladino discussed their new, rebooted series in front of critics at the 2016 Television Critics Association summer press tour.

"For me it was just an incredible experience," Graham reflected. "It's like getting a chance to go to college when you're really ready, when you get what an incredible opportunity you have…it just felt really emotional and it was a rare opportunity."

Netflix also played the first two minutes of the first installment, "Winter." The short clip (which unfortunately won't make it online) revealed one key fact about the new show: while Lorelai is still living in Stars Hollow, Rory is visiting from her home in London.

Graham, Bledel and co. also spoke (vaguely) about Rory and Lorelai's love lives, those last four words, Melissa McCarthy's return and more. Here's what they revealed:

 

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On Rory and Lorelai's love lives:

"Well, we're not supposed to disclose where we pick up with her romantic life, but all of her ex-boyfriends make an appearance in these chapters in one way or the other. I think people's questions are answered by the end of it," Bledel confessed.

As for Lorelai, "She does have a love life," Graham teased. "I think not all the questions have been answered. To me, one of the aspects of the show that felt the same but different, in the wake of losing Ed [Herrmann], which was and still is a great loss for us, it was also part of our story we were telling, which was the journey of how everyone is recovering. That gave the show a depth and an emotional complexity that felt like to me here's the show grown up even more…through dealing with that, she makes some decisions."

On placing too much of an emphasis on their love lives:

"I think it's just kind of interesting that that's what people are excited about," Bledel said. "People do get excited about the romantic storylines, there is so much more to her character that it is great when people are focus on those things, her accomplishments."

Said Sherman-Palladino, "I know there's a lot of 'Who's she going to end up with?' ...I was finding there was a lot of 'I watched this with my daughter,'" she added. "I hear a lot of 'My daughter wanted to go to Yale because of Rory'...I think all the things we were trying to do with Rory, I think they resonated."

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On the potential for more installments:

"This is what it is right now. We put these together, we told these stories and now we throw them out to the universe," Sherman-Palladino said.

On wanting the episodes released separately:

"I am 1000 and I enjoy seeing it, walking away, having some coffee, a sandwich," Sherman-Palladino said, "and also because it's such a journey and such a build to the last four words."

On McCarthy's return:

"We love her. We always knew, amongst us and amongst her, we knew that we were going to figure it out. It's just that it took on a life of its own," Sherman-Palladino said. "It's an age of ugliness and how do we stir up bad feelings and it got this bad sheen on it."

Said Graham, "She came on one of our last days and it was just incredible. If, for some reason, had that not happened, we would have felt a gap in what we were trying to do. ...It just made it even more perfect than it already was."

Gilmore Girls: A Year In the Life will hit Netflix on Nov. 25.

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