‘Gilmore Girls’ Season 8 Spoiler Netflix Revival To Change ‘One Thing’ That ‘Steps On’ Plans
The upcoming limited series season 8 revival of "Gilmore Girls" on Netflix is apparently set to change some things from the show's original run on television, according to the show's creators and producers of the revival.
Speaking with a group of reporters at last month's Television Critics Association summer press tour, "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino revealed what she and husband Dan Palladino has planned for the show's return as a limited series on Netflix later this year.
Amy Sherman-Palladino was the progenitor of the series when it first ran on The CW, wth her husband Dan Palladino serving as an executive producer. The couple left the show after it's penultimate season, leaving the seventh and final season of "Gilmore Girls" in the hands of the network's other writers.
Considering the final season's writers may have had a different vision for the show compared to its original runners, Amy Sherman-Palladino will reportedly change at least "one thing" among the elements the original run had for the upcoming limited series revival of "Gilmore Girls" on Netfilx.
"There was one thing I wish... I'm not going to tell you," Sherman-Palladino told reporters without clarifying on the issue. Instead she merely said that "it was the only thing where I was like, 'Ah, I'll go a different way.'"
The above is not to say that the "Gilmore Girls" progenitor has a beef against the original run's seventh season, or against the writers who took over after the left the show. "Nothing against the seventh season, but any writer who was so emotionally connected to something and then pulled out of it is going to find it very hard to go back into that world and not feel like you either want to slit your own wrist and die slowly in a swimming pool, or be angry or be jealous."
As for the show's return on Netflix, the limited series will take the form of four 90-minute long episodes that will have a running "seasonal" theme with a certain season covered for each episode. Sherman-Palladino originally planned to stagger the episodes' release, but the higher ups at Netflix reportedly vetoed that idea under the belief that holding out on the show's fans and deviating from company tradition might bite back at them.
Speaking to TV Line at the same Television Critics Association summer press tour, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos joked that "If we would not have [released them] all at once the fans would've killed us. I'm petrified of those fans; they are so passionate."
