I can't really usefully add much to what has already been said in these (excellent) reviews, other than to fully endorse the broad thrust of the comments being made. I felt that the end to the original series was one of the best I have seen (for a long-running 'much beloved' series).......striking a balance between an over the top sugary sweet 'and they all lived happily ever after' and an equally over the top 'oh my god the car is going over a cliff' tragic ending - Gilmore Girls is a nice series for nice people and you can't realistically pen a 'black' ending. Just enough intrigue, just enough hint at things being good - great balance. In the mini- series it felt to me almost as if this was political comment on how silver spoon prep school/ivy league kids end up coming to nothing (but the thirty-somethings were comically over the top even for that premise!) except that Paris seemed to be thriving in a role totally unsuited for her, which sort of harpoons that argument and serves to point to the overall confused state of affairs (cue for a lengthy musical number?!!!) we find in this 'wrapping-up'. All in all I wish I hadn't watched it.......I was happy and content at the end of the original series and now I am losing sleep worrying about Rory's decline (yes I know she isn't real!) because - despite all the envious comments about her being entitled - she was a lovely girl and someone who I would be proud to have as my daughter, to have her living out of boxes with no actual job showed a callous disregard for her as a 'person' and the loyal viewers who had devoted such a large chunk of their recreation time to following 'the girls'.
