There's no town like Stars Hollow, and no mother-daughter dynamic quite like that of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Just as Rory laments her frequent use of long-winded phrases at the beginning of the series, you realize how much you've missed the snappy, witty, mile-a-minute talking ways of the Gilmore Girls.

It's been more than a decade since Amy Sherman-Palladino welcomed the world into Stars Hollow. When the show formally ended in 2007, Gilmore Girls fans were left with several unresolved matters left open to interpretation. With later syndication on channels like Freeform (formerly ABC Family) and full seasons of the show available to stream on Netflix, the show continued to grow in popularity. Demand for a "proper" ending for Lorelai and Rory finally came to fruition in the form of the Netflix series revival: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

Gilmore Girls in Fall. Netflix

The four 90-minute episodes are broken down into seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. The episodes serve as a quartet of vignettes of Rory and Lorelai's current lives, ten years after leaving them in the Stars Hollow square. The new Netflix format allows the show to tap into a never-before-seen rawness suppressed during the early WB days. The characters have more room to stretch themselves with more passion and bigger dialogue (if you can believe it), while finally satisfying fan expectations and giving the girls the true ending they deserve.

The series warms up by beginning with the coldest time of year, Winter. Lorelai chants a familiar phrase and within a second, all the Gilmore-isms you used to know and love return. At first you want to question it, but after the first quip, you're automatically sucked back in. The first time you see Rory and Lorelai together is also the first time they're seeing each other for what seems like years, and for the viewers, what really has been years seems like yesterday. After a decade of pining for clever banter, impeccably-detailed pop culture references and obscure small-town antics—mostly involving Kirk or Taylor—you find yourself back home.

Rory at Chilton Netflix

Rory is a budding freelance journalist with bylines in top publications such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Though she's getting by, she's struggling to discover who she is and what she really wants to do. While dealing with her career, Rory also struggles to juggle some kind of romantic life. (Yes, all the ex-boyfriends make cameos, and no matter what team you're on, you'll be able to root for all of them.)

Despite her charm and over-the-top personality, Lorelai's life is at a standstill. Since the death of her father, Richard, Lorelai is forced to re-examine many of the decisions she's made in her life when it comes to her beloved Dragonfly Inn, her nine years with Luke and her complex relationship with her mother, Emily.

Though the storyline of Richard's passing was incorporated due to the real-life death of actor Edward Herman, it's hard to imagine the series based on anything else. While the death of Richard is quite somber, it helps build Emily and Lorelai as characters. Lorelai's relationship with her parents is a main theme throughout the show; she's always felt disconnected from Emily and Richard and the society they cherish. But now that her father is gone, Lorelai is forced to address the void in her broken relationship with her mother, something often touched upon during the show's WB run but never truly tackled.

Lorelai and Emily Netflix

In a 15-minute flashback to Richard's funeral, Gilmore Girls, known for its more lighthearted, soft drama, leaves its comfort zone to confront the challenges Lorelai and Emily face. It becomes Gilmore against Gilmore as Lorelai and Emily embark on a rollercoaster of raw, emotional events that take on a more mature and gritty tone than in the restricted TV episodes before.

In addition to dealing with her "stand-up comedian" of a daughter, Emily also finds herself at loss of how to define herself without her husband. As a wife of 50 years, she explains to her daughter that now "half of [herself] is gone." Realizing all the things in life that don't make her happy, she's determined to discover what does.

All of your favorite characters (including some you may have forgotten about) are back, along with several celebrity cameos, and even Michel has an surprise character development. Shocked? Cue the overly-dramatic French accent.

When welcoming her daughter back in the series' opening, Lorelai welcomes the viewer back to Stars Hollow, which is just ask quirky and vivacious as ever. The picture-perfect snowglobe town remains the same, but with several modern adjustments, from Rory's multiple cell phones to Kirk's new and improved inventions for Luke's ever-changing wifi password at the diner. And with the change in times comes new pop culture references like Lorelai's collection of Kardashian magazine covers and mention of Zoolander 2 and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop. Yes, Stars Hollow has received a few updates, and no, this isn't in reference to Kirk's debatable new app.

Though a decade has passed, the new show manages to create a world where the town and the characters remain forever memorable. The familiar catchphrases, the local antics and the unforgettable Gilmore Girls theme music all comes together to create everything you wanted and more for the holiday season.

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