On the Heightened Sense of Privilege in 'Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life'

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser] [Vulture] November 29, 2016 [Follow Vulture on Facebook] What to Read Today [On the Heightened Sense of Privilege in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Gilmore Girls was always a show about mostly white people living mostly comfortably. But the Netflix reboot takes that to a new level.] [2NE1’s CL and Dara Write Somber Notes to Fans Apologizing for Breakup: ‘It Fell Apart’ They also confirm the existence of an unfinished final album.] [Rory Gilmore and Why We Need Better Fictional Journalism Like a lot of TV, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life doesn’t quite capture journalism accurately.] [Manchester by the Sea Named Best Film by the National Board of Review But what does that mean for other awards?] [Vulture Pick: John Mayer Laundry Detergent by The Laundress Yes, that John Mayer.] [Stephen Root Will Play the Title Role in The Man in the High Castle Join the resistance.] [What’s New on Showtime: December 2016 The Hateful Eight! Fargo! Twin Peaks!] [What’s New on Hulu: December 2016 The newcomers include Apocalypse Now, Iron Man, and Anomalisa.] [There Won’t Be a Rogue One Sequel to Further Confuse You Cancel your Rogue Two jokes.] [Lin-Manuel Miranda to Produce Films and a TV Series Based on The Kingkiller Chronicle Fantasy Books May we never be forced to leave the protective bubble of Miranda's imagination.] [What’s New on Amazon: December 2016 The Man in the High Castle returns for its second season.] [What’s New on HBO: December 2016 Midnight Special, A Serious Man, They Live, and more.] [The Vulture TV Podcast: Gilmore Girls Edition A lively debate.] [Star Trek: Discovery Casts a Gay Character and a New Alien They'll join Michelle Yeoh, who plays a starship captain.] [Watch a Creepy Scene From the New Film The Eyes of My Mother Director Nicolas Pesce's dark approach to family fun time.] [What’s New on Netflix: December 2016 Captain America: Civil War hits Netflix on Christmas day.] [How Jessica Jones’s Co-Creator Got Over His Fear of Returning to the Character It's been 15 years since her comics debut.] [Leah Remini Says She Was Once Forced to Bully Les Moonves for Scientology Tom Cruise was supposedly involved.] [Matt Czuchry Isn’t Sure What to Think of Gilmore Girls’ Final Four Words, Either Who's the baby daddy?] [George Takei Would Rather ‘Die to Protect the Right’ to Burn the American Flag Than Let Donald Trump Take It Away The Star Trek actor passionately defended freedom of speech.] [The Reason Carrie Fisher Began Her Affair With Harrison Ford Also Doubles As Excellent Real-Estate Advice "No one told me about location rules, or lack of rules."] [Martin Scorsese Will Meet With Pope Francis to Discuss Silence, and You Know the Pope Is Gonna Want a Screener Ahead of his film's Vatican premiere.] [The Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock Designed Shoes to Raise Money for Planned Parenthood  The Beastie Boy has partnered with L.A. vegan shoe brand Keep in support of women's health.] [Here’s a Promo for Passengers, a Movie About Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Hooking Up in Space, Set to a Song Called ‘Levitate’ So much sex in space!] [The Makers of Neruda Are Nostalgic for a Time When Poets Tried to Change the World “These guys were really trying to transform people’s ideology throughout the poetry. No one does that anymore.”] [Read More on Vulture »] REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact [Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com] This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe] | [vulture.com] | [unsubscribe] | [privacy policy] | [nymag.com] | Copyright © 2016, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013