Ever since Netflix announced Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life earlier this year, fans have been impatiently waiting to see the new installment of their favorite show. People are eager to return to Stars Hollow and once more be swept away in the show’s fast pace and quick wit. Original creators Dan and Amy Palladino returned for the reunion after leaving over a contract debate after the original sixth season. This was a big relief for fans who did not love the seventh season without them. On Friday, the four episode season went live on Netflix and a long awaited closure was (kind of) given.

 Each episode of the new series represented a season as an ode to the famous Carole King theme song where it sings “winter, spring, summer and fall; all you have to do is call”, and thus took viewers through ‘a year in the life’ of their beloved characters. Almost every single original cast member, excluding Edward Hermann who passed away in 2014 from brain cancer, returned; including comedian Melissa McCarthy, Supernatural star Jared Padalecki, and former Heroes lead Milo Ventimiglia. The show opened in Stars Hollow during winter, where Rory returned home after a career high, and where favorite couple Lorelai and Luke are living happily. The show then follows all three generations of Gilmores as they deal with Richard’s death, their own love lives, and just making it through their everyday struggles. “The episodes were exactly what I wanted them to be,” Junior Megan Lochen said, “They definitely did not disappoint.”

 Anyone who has watched the original Gilmore Girls went into these episodes with certain expectations, myself included, and viewers came out with mixed reactions. The episodes themselves were just as great as they used to be, but more than a few fans were disappointed with how certain characters had changed. Logan Huntzberger, Rory’s wealthy ex-boyfriend, was turned into exactly what he never wanted to be: his father. He follows his father’s every order, including becoming engaged to a woman while he was still obviously in love with Rory. Jess Mariano, another one of Rory’s exes, was seemingly brought in to once again become a character whose only purpose is to pine after Rory – 10 years later. The debate over these characters continues, but overall the consensus is that this Gilmore Girls revival was a huge success. Fans were overjoyed with once again being able to enter a world they thought to be long gone, and were not left disappointed. The huge four-word-ending bombshell left the ending open to interpretation, and also open to a more permanent revival. Amy Palladino said that she always to planned to end the series with this line, as she felt it brought everything full circle. There was a decent amount of foreshadowing beforehand, especially when Rory goes to visit her father and questions him on how he felt about Lorelai raising her alone. The similarities between Logan/Rory and Christopher/Lorelai are abundant. Essentially, Rory turned into her mother as she will now be raising a child on her own (granted, at a much more mature age). The similarities between Logan and Christopher cannot be ignored either. Both young, wealthy, ambitious men who don not want to become their own fathers. In the end, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is definitely worth watching.