Toshiko sasaki biography of rory gilmore

This post contains spoilers about Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, which is now streaming on Netflix.

Near the end of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Rory tells her dad Christopher that she’s switching gears and writing a book: “The whole journalism thing didn’t pan out the way I’d hoped.” And with that, Rory became more relatable than ever in the show’s entire existence.

Of course the “whole journalism thing” doesn’t work out for everyone, unless your name is Christiane Amanpour or the late David Carr (who has an unexplained but brilliant cameo on the show in a framed photo at the Stars Hollow Gazette newsroom).

Leading up to that meet-and-greet with daddy dearest, the revival opens with Rory fresh off a successful Talk of the Town piece in the New Yorker (well done Rory!) about a feisty Brit named Naomi Shropshire.

Everyone, especially Luke, is proud. Luke even commemorates Rory’s