Category: Jenny is a nerd

If you haven’t finished watching all the seasons of Gilmore Girls, this will contain some spoilers. So you might not wanna read. If you haven’t or don’t care, read on, my friends!

Back in the day, I worked for the local WB station for five seconds. Before it became the CW (wait, is that even what it’s called? That doesn’t sound right.) Even after my glorious tenure there ended, I remained an avid watcher of their shows. So, I watched Gilmore Girls from beginning to end, 7 years straight, when it was actually on. I know, RIGHT? Crazy. I will probably never be able to say that again.

I loved Rory and Lorelai. I loved their unabashed subsistence on junk food and their impossibly fast dialogue. I loved all the quirky Stars Hollow folk: Kirk, Lane, Mrs. Kim, Patty, Babette & Maury, stupid Taylor and of course, Luke.

I loved Rory and Dean. Except when she became an adulteress, whoops. I hated Jess. I was meh about Logan.

I adored Sookie. Melissa McCarthy was so funny and sweet as Sookie, before she got all goofy crazy big-time star! I mean she’s a great goofy-crazy big-time star, but how great was she as Sookie? Quirky and bright and fiesty!

ANYWAY. Naturally when GG came on Netflix I had to binge-watch my old fave. I loved chilling with Rory and Lorelai and even Richard and Emily once again. LOVED IT.

But the end of the series left me again with a longing, like it did the first time. WORSE than the first time, really. I mean I know the knew it was ending and they could wrap it up, and they did…but DANGIT I would have loved to see Luke and Lorelai get married. I mean, I hung out with them for SEVEN YEARS, I kinda feel like I was owed that! Why, for once, can’t TV let the audience see the main characters be HAPPY and live it out for awhile?

Sigh.

I need a movie. I have a Veronica Mars-like longing for a GG movie. But Grandpa Gilmore (Richard Herrmann, who was marvelous in so many differernt productions over the years) had to go and die SO NOW WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?

Hollywood, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, and Amy Sherman-Palladino, you have GOT to fix this for me.

I mean, I know we live in a world where we have real, actual problems.

But I need a Gilmore Girls movie.

And if Hollywood is gonna spend money on making frivolous films instead of spending it on fixing the real, actual, problems, they might as well spend it on fixing this one especially for me.

And the guy who played Michel. I haven’t seen him around anywhere.

PRETTY PLEASE???

Though I literally have zero free time these days, I have somehow made a wee bit of time for a new obsession. A podcast of all things.

I have never before listened to a podcast. But then my cousin Anna casually mentioned to me that she was addicted to Serial from This American Life. It’s a podcast where one story is told in a series of shorter weekly episodes. The subject: one of my fave things, a CRIME CASE! It’s the story of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in Baltimore, Maryland when they were both 17 in 1999. Serial is dedicated to figuring out whether or not he really did it.

 

And it’s awesome. It’s R-I-V-E-T-I-N-G.

I’m totally addicted. There are currently 10 episodes, a new one coming out every Thursday.  Even though when I started listening they were already 6 episodes in, I caught up really quickly, listening with my earphones in while I worked in coffee shops. When they took a break for Thanksgiving, I waited in agony for a new episode! As always, it was worth the wait, and as always, it leaves you wanting moooooore at the end.

I love it. So does everyone else, apparently. There are Reddit threads and people tweeting up a storm about it and basically…no one can get enough of SERIAL!

(This pic will only be funny if you are addicted to Serial. I think it’s hilarious!)

Are you listening in? Let’s TALK ABOUT IT in the comments!!! Not addicted to this Serial yet? Get on it…..go listen for free at Serialpodcast.org!