Gilmore Girls Revival: Why Sookie & Dean Are Hardly In A Year In The Life
2016’s Gilmore Girls revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, brought back most of the original cast for the Netflix miniseries, but why did viewers see so little of fan favorites Sookie and Dean? The original Gilmore Girls lasted seven seasons before it was canceled, and the light-hearted dramedy remained a cozy TV institution for a decade after finishing its original run. Few shows are lucky enough to earn as loyal and dedicated a following as Gilmore Girls managed to amass.
For years there were rumors of a reunion for Rory and Lorelei Gilmore, but it wasn’t until 2016 that streaming service Netflix released the controversial miniseries A Year in the Life. This four-episode Gilmore Girls revival brought back most of the show’s original cast but earned the ire of some fans for altering the characters. Of course, not every actor was able to put in an appearance in the reboot, and some had their screen time compromised by promising post-Gilmore Girls career commitments. Such is the way things go for many TV revivals that happen a long time after the original show ended, as people move on.
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Two prominent Gilmore Girls characters who barely put in an appearance in A Year in the Life, though, were Jared Padalecki’s Dean Forrester and Melissa McCarthy’s quirky chef Sookie St. James. The former was a formative love interest of Gilmore Junior before Rory and Dean's season 3 break-up, while the latter was Lorelei’s reliably funny right-hand woman throughout the series. Although both actors do put in appearances in A Year in the Life, they’re both only in the revival very briefly with a single scene each and a rushed explanation for their absence throughout the
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