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The Gilmore Girls Revival Trailer Is Here, and So Is All of Stars Hollow

They’re back.  

Still taken from the trailer

The first full-length trailer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, is here, after what feels like an eternity of teasing. But while our last sneak peek at the revival was light on plot, offering just a little bit of mother-daughter banter, this time everyone, and we mean everyone, is back. Melissa McCarthy’s klutzy Sookie has command of the kitchen, Milo Ventimiglia’s Jess is offering his former flame a pep talk, and Kirk (Sean Gunn) is attending Friday-night dinners, for some reason.

But what of our titular Gilmore girls? Well, it seems all three of the Gilmore women have come to a crossroads: Lorelai (Lauren Graham) seems restless in her relationship with Luke, Rory (Alexis Bledel) is “rootless” as she’s off traveling the world, and Emily (Kelly Bishop), the matriarch of the Gilmore family, is coping with the loss of her husband.

One of the major questions that A Year in the Life raised was always how the revival would deal with the death of actor Edward Herrmann, who played Richard Gilmore in all seven seasons of the original.* Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has promised that his absence would “loom large over everything,” and from the looks of the trailer—and that giant portrait—that’s exactly the case. Fittingly, it seems that Bishop, who played Herrmann’s wife, will be doing a lot of the emotional heavy-lifting, and no one would blame you for tearing up at hearing, “I’ve been married for 50 years. Half of me is gone.” Even if it is more than a little jarring to see Emily Gilmore in a T-shirt and jeans.

All four 90-minute episodes of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life launch on Netflix on Nov. 25.

Correction, Oct. 25, 2016: This post originally misspelled Edward Herrmann’s last name.