Gilmore Girls

Now that Netflix’s long-awaited Gilmore Girls revival has wrapped production with the majority of its former cast, fans are awash with hype for the actual premiere. Netflix has yet to set a date, but we’ll soon have Gilmore Girls all year round, judging by the official title and its poster.

After months of uncertainty and an awkward public back-and-forth between Melissa McCarthy and Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, it’s finally, officially, 100 percent all happening. Yes, McCarthy is returning to reprise her role as Sookie St. James, the greatest (and clumsiest) chef in Stars Hollow, and the most reliable pal a cool single mom like Lorelai Gilmore could hope for.

It seems like only yesterday, that Netflix announced an end to the drug-induced haze that followed all our collective anguish at Gilmore Girls’ final season, in staging a long-awaited revival. Now, we’re already back in Stars Hollow, as the first official photos of new Gilmore Girls have arrived.

The moment Netflix confirmed that Gilmore Girls would return for a four-part Netflix revival, as well the subsequent announcements of returning cast, we knew one thing for sure: Rory, Dean, and all of Stars Hollow would all weigh their two cents in on Batman v. Superman! Right? Or … at least Dean and Jess would. Look, cross-promotion is weird.

Even before Netflix officially announced a four-part Gilmore Girls revival coming to the streaming service, it hadn’t seemed particularly likely Melissa McCarthy might find time to reprise her role as Sookie St. James. McCarthy even downplayed that she’d been asked at first, but now officially confirms that she won’t have time for a role.

If ever you wondered how non-Star Wars fans feel about the flurry of casting news dominating airwaves between each movie, Netflix’s Gilmore Girls may offer a clue. All three of Rory’s boyfriends will now return for the revival, including Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia and more, as the internet continues to lose its collective mind.