Melissa McCarthy's Gilmore Girls character Sookie St. James and Jared Padalecki’s Dean Forrester were two prominent Gilmore Girls mainstays who barely put in an appearance in A Year in the Life. If Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life wasn't likely to be the last time audiences will ever get to visit Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow, McCarthy's very minor appearance as Sookie wouldn't feel so disappointing. The rest of Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life may have been charming enough, but this Gilmore Girls disservice is still glaring – this didn't provide the Sookie Gilmore Girls reunion that fans deserved.