Review Roundup: Netflix's GILMORE GIRLS: A YEAR IN THE LIFE

Netflix's highly anticipated streaming event, GILMORE GIRLS: A YEAR IN THE LIFE premieres Friday, November 25th! The four, 90-minute movies, are bringing your favorite Stars Hollow residents back together - Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham), Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel), Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop), Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy) and many more. Sutton Foster will also make a guest appearance.

Picking up life nine years after the originAl Gilmore Girls signed off the air. Amy Sherman-Palladino is the creator and executive producer. Daniel Palladino is also an executive producer. They are both writing and directing the series. Gilmore Girls (WT) on Netflix is produced byDorothy Parker Drank Here Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Let's see what the critics have to say about the television event thus far:

Michael Ausiello, TV Line: Save for the aforementioned, somewhat bloated Stars Hollow: The Musicalinterlude in the third chapter, "Summer," series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino have given this grateful, longtime fan the satisfying conclusion he's been waiting nearly a decade for.

Jeff Jensen, EW: Listening to the rhythm, lilt, and inspired language of their dialogue is music to the ears - and in one hilarious passage, expresses in the form of an actual musical. It provides a welcome dose of hilarious and humane escapism that satisfies like a nostalgia trip even while subverting it. It tells a story about grief and change, rootlessness and restlessness. The show is basically a reboot about the struggle of rebooting.

Maureen Ryan, Variety: Everything "Gilmore Girls" tries to pack in - the wit, the whimsy, the pop-culture references, THE FAMILY conflict, the perfectly calibrated insults, the set pieces that go on a bit too long - can feel pretty pummeling at a 90-minute running time. The show is sometimes too overstuffed for its own good.

Robert Bianco, USA Today: Yet for every misstep, there's a moment from Graham or Bledel that makes you laugh or breaks your heart, or that cuts through the cuteness to ring absolutely true. And even at its most exasperating (as with those infamous "final four words"), there is so much talent and charm on display, you're likely to be in a forgiving mood.

Alan Sepinwall, Uproxx.com: The problem with revivals is that great TV shows - or even mediocre but successful ones - are alchemy: A product of a specific time in the lives of the people making the show, the characters on the show, and even the culture in which they originally aired. Even if all of the original participants return, it's hard to recreate the feeling of them being together back in the day.

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter: Especially in the early "seasons," A Year in the Life is warring with itself, as Sherman-Palladino wants to be picking up right where she left off, to act like there wasn't a seventh season and there wasn't a cancelation and like it isn't 2016, leaving the miniseries stuck halfway between stagnation and needing to over-explain that the sand has continued through the hourglass.

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