2 posts tagged “alexis bledel”

ABC Family aired the series finale of the Gilmore Girls yesterday (for the very first time since the series ended in 2007). In the final episode, Rory gets a job at a web magazine where she's set to cover Barack Obama's campaign.

Two years after the fact, I can't help but wonder what Rory Gilmore is doing now. I find it strangely omniscient that the writers of Girls would decide that our little Yale grad would follow Obama rather than other Democratic presidential hopeful Clinton. I wonder if they had a feeling he would become President someday.

Where is Rory Gilmore now? Is she feeling the pains of the recession, jobless and broke and living in a cardboard box? Or is she flourishing as a reporter ala her hero Christiane Amanpour? Or is she back at Star's Hollow, living at home like so many other college grads her age?

I smell a new ABC Family spin-off series.

Alexis Bledel has ventured outside of Star's Hollow and stopped sharing pants with a group of girls. In her latest film, she's been cast as a post college graduate in the movie aptly titled, Post Grad.

The story in this movie is a direct rip-off of my life. Like Alexis Bledel, I went to school, majored in writing, and couldn't land a job. I had to move home with my parents (an eccentric bunch).  I, too, at one point in my life couldn't choose between Dean and Jess (Who am I kidding? I was always a Jesse's girl).

While the trailer is cutesy but forgettable, I think this film will do well at the box office because of the growing number of young adults forced to move home with their parents due to the recession. Finally, an anthem for the Boomerang Generation!  Plus, it doesn't hurt for the movie's poster child to be a beloved modern television figure. Who didn't want to be a "Gilmore Girl"? 

I would also like to add, "Welcome back, Michael Keaton."