The Internet has just barely been keeping it together since initial rumors of a Netflix Gilmore Girls revival emerged last fall. Now, in a two-part interview with TVLine, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has revealed some details about her vision for the four-part miniseries, which was officially confirmed a few days ago.
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1. Edward Herrman’s death "looms large”
The actor who played husband, father and grandfather Richard Gilmore passed away in 2014, and the new Gilmore Girls episodes will acknowledge his importance and legacy for both the show and its universe.
"The pilot started where all three [Gilmore] women were at a change in their lives. And it felt like, 'Wellm that’s where we need to start [the revival],'” said Sherman-Palladino.
“For Emily, it had to be that Richard was gone. And what did that mean? What does it mean for all three of the girls?...Because it’s mortality. Something they loved is gone, which means things you love will not be around forever. And you can’t take them for granted.
"It’s walking onto that Gilmore set that is going to be a very different feel, because one piece is missing,” Palladino added. "So it looms large over the work that we’ll do.”
2. The men of Rory’s life will return
Whether you're a fan of Jess, Logan or Dean (really??), everyone wants the Gilmore guys back to wreak havoc in the new episodes.
"Our plan is to get as many of the lovely men back as possible,” Palladino said, although she noted that schedules and budgets will make the final call. “Certain storylines -- one of which involved one of the boys -- had been taken out of our hands. We’re still dealing with who’s going to be in it. We definitely want to see them. And we have storylines planned. I just need someone to tell me they’re going to show up.”
3. Don’t expect cursing just because it’s Netflix
"There are venues where you need language for the stories you’re telling,” Palladino said. "We never needed that, honestly. We never needed Taylor to go on a foul-mouthed: 'You f*cking assholes in Stars Hollow.' For us, our language is more about Hepburn and Tracy and less about f*ckity f*ck f*ck f*ck.”
4. Sookie is welcome -- but Melissa McCarthy is elusive
"Melissa was one of us,” Sherman-Palladino said. But McCarthy has blown up since Gilmore Girls ended, becoming one of Hollywood's most in-demand comic forces.
"Planning around her crazypants schedule and her movies and her this and her that and Ghostbusters…I would just be sobbing in a corner for six months," Gilmore's creator continued. "That would be my whole life. But if her people called me up and said she’s free on these particular days or would love to drop by and just be in one scene, we would put her right in.”