one of the decade's best, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is currently streaming in Australia on Netflix, and in the US on Netflix with a 7/10 audience score that speaks for itself. 4 episodes — the right length to tell the story it is telling. Television that earns its era label is rarer than the number of shows attempting it suggests — most of what gets called prestige TV is really just expensive TV. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is one of the genuine examples: the craft is there in the writing, the performances, and the way it handles its subject matter. Lauren Graham's involvement signals the kind of production that attracts serious talent and uses it properly. Available now on streaming — no excuses left for not watching it.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It aired in 2016. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-season curiosities.

The kind of show you put on in the background and find yourself actually paying attention to. It earns every laugh across its entire run — no coasting on goodwill. The comedy comes from character rather than situation, which means it holds up on rewatch in a way that pure farce never does. Lauren Graham sets the tone, but the supporting cast is where a lot of the best moments come from. If Brothers and Sisters is already in your rotation, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life fits naturally alongside it.