Lauren Graham said it best on the 2025 Emmys stage: “Gilmore Girls took the season of fall hostage.” It's only right Graham and co-star Alexis Bledel reunited during autumn's first major award show.

Half-way through the two-hour red carpet circuit, the internet's favorite faux mother-daughter duo blessed fans with their presence. (They've been noticeably absent from the Emmys for years—Graham since 2018 and Bledel since 2010.) Graham and Bledel, a.k.a. Lorelai and Rory, acted as each other's plus-ones in similar column silhouettes.

Graham chose a black illusion gown covered in florals, in lieu of fresh-fallen leaves. It hailed from Swiss label, Akris. Its high neck called for minimal jewelry, including a single diamond ring.

Bledel, on the other hand, went with silver sparkles courtesy of Marmar Halim Pre-Fall 2025. It felt so aligned with Rory's early-aughts aesthetic, from the strapless neckline to the silver beadwork. In the Egyptian designer's line, the bodice was slightly more structural (the top arched up instead of straight-across).

Going necklace-free was certainly a trend of the evening. Selena Gomez, Mariska Hargitay, Cristin Milioti, Chase Sui Wonders, and Bledel (to name a few) made a case for statement necklines, rather than six-figure pendants. To finish, Bledel popped on drop emerald earrings, one of her on-screen character's favorite fall-ish shades.

Gilmore Girls fans everywhere screamed seeing Graham and Bledel on the red carpet. (Apologies to my neighbors.) But wait, they gifted us an on-stage reunion, too. Host Nate Bargatze introduced the former co-stars on a flowery front porch straight out of Stars Hollow. Graham and Bledel channeled their on-screen alter-egos to present The Studio with the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award.

"25 years ago, a show called Gilmore Girls premiered," Graham said during the ceremony. "In spite of our autumnal dominance, Gilmore was actually a very small show," Bledel responded. They reminisced over their "great, big, terrifyingly lengthy scripts," the ones still charming fans today.

All in all, Bledel and Graham looked right at home on the wrap-around, cottage-core porch. However, their designer gowns marked quite a detour from their character's plaid sweaters, denim jackets, and knee-high boots. No worries, though: I have seven seasons of style inspiration to source.

Seeing Bledel and Graham on-stage together encouraged me to queue up my umpteenth rewatch of Gilmore Girls. Who am I kidding? I don't need any excuse to binge my fall comfort show again.

Jared Padalecki, who played Dean Forester in Gilmore Girls, is actually Team Jess in the best boyfriend debate.

"I'm Team Jess. Yeah, I am," Padalecki told E! News when he was asked where he stood at Steel City Con. "Funnily enough, Milo [Ventimiglia is] a buddy, and he's Team Dean, and somebody sent me a meme—in his office in his house, he has his, like, Emmy nomination alert letter, and on the bottom corner it's like, 'Team Dean Forever' and so I drew my own, like, 'Team Jess Forever' with markers, and I was like, 'Same, Milo, like samesies, but for you!'"

Asked where he thinks Dean would be today, Padalecki told the reporter, "Working at Doose's Market. Hiding all the cornstarch."

As the Walker actor noted, it's not the first time he's made his feelings known on the issue. The anecdote he was talking about happened sometime circa 2021, with Padalecki taking to Instagram at the time to post a picture of himself holding a sign that said "I <3 JESS 4EVER" alongside a photo of Ventimiglia's "I <3 DEAN 4EVER" message.

Recently, Gilmore Girls actress Keiko Agena, who portrayed Lane Kim, revealed she totally agrees with Padalecki, telling E! News, "I pretty much have stayed a team Jess person this whole time. And I don't think I'm gonna change."

In case you've somehow read this far without knowing what I'm going on about, on Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) had three main love interests throughout the show's seven seasons: Dean (Padalecki), Jess (Ventimiglia), and Logan (Matt Czuchry). To this day, fans are squabbling as to who the best boyfriend was out of the three, even though it's completely obvious that the correct answer is Jess. Tut tut.

Gilmore Girls' Keiko Agena has Thoughts in the "best boyfriend" debate around the show.

Speaking to E! News, the actress—who portrayed Lane Kim on the cult drama series—shared which love interest she always liked best for her on-screen best friend Rory Gilmore (portrayed by Alexis Bledel).

"I pretty much have stayed a team Jess person this whole time," Agena told the outlet. "And I don't think I'm gonna change."

Explaining her choice, she continued, "I felt like their passions were the same. They both loved reading, they both loved books. They loved challenging each other and the friction of that was so fun to watch."

Jess Mariano was portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia, and counts many die-hard supporters among fans of the show. Rory's other main boyfriends on the show were Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who is often seen as the least controversial of her love interests, and Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki), who is the most controversial of the lot.

Agena further explained why she loved the romance between Jess and Rory, telling E! News, "Because you can grow in the other ways. I think maturity wise, we all had to grow. They were young when they met. But having that fiery interest where you can always talk about things and grow together. I feel like that's the bedrock of a good relationship."

As the outlet points out, Agena knows a little something about solid relationships, having been married to the musician Shin Kawasaki for 18 years.

The actress appeared on the Gilmore Girls revival in 2016. Since then, she has acted in the likes of 13 Reasons Why and Better Call Saul, and currently has three upcoming projects, according to iMDb.

Gilmore Girls is the ultimate comfort show: It’s set in a small town where it’s perpetually autumn and where quirky but kind neighbors abound; it contains just enough low-stakes, easily resolved drama to keep you entertained but not stressed out, and, of course, it centers around an idyllic mother-daughter relationship. Because of that cozy perfection, it can be tough to figure out where to go next when you’ve reached the end of the classic series and need to move on from Stars Hollow.

Thankfully, you don’t need to stray too far. There are plenty of shows like Gilmore Girls to watch next that capture the same pleasant vibes, pop culture-reference-heavy dialogue, and tangled relationships—of the family, friend, and romantic varieties. Here, find 30 TV series to watch if you're a Gilmore Girls fan and where to stream them until your inevitable next rewatch of the Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham hit.

Shows Like 'Gilmore Girls' Airing Right Now

'Buccaneers' (2023– )

In the same way that Gilmore Girls showcased ambitious women living their lives on their own terms, so does this Apple TV+ series. Here, the pursuit of freedom is even more subversive for the five young women at its heart, since it takes place in stuffy 1870s London. Plus, in other echoes of GG, Buccaneers features a love triangle and a very sweet relationship between Christina Hendricks’s Patti and her two daughters, Nan and Jinny, played by Kristine Froseth and Imogen Waterhouse.

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'Ginny & Georgia' (2021– )

Ginny & Georgia isn’t an exact Gilmore Girls dupe, however, its basic premise is uncannily similar: The series begins when newly widowed Georgia (Brianne Howey)—who had her daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry) when she was 15 and who’s no stranger to a perfectly timed pop culture reference—moves her family to a small New England town. In the series’s first episode, she even notes: “We’re like the Gilmore Girls but with bigger boobs!” Need we say more?

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'Hacks' (2021– )

For a slightly different take on a complex mother-daughter(-like) relationship, you must tune into Hacks. It stars Hannah Einbinder as Ava, an up-and-coming comedy writer who takes a job writing for Deborah (Jean Smart), a standup comedy legend whose popularity is starting to wane. Despite their constant butting of heads, the duo form a tight-knit bond based on their shared sense of very dry humor. And, just like in Gilmore Girls, the central pair are surrounded by a web of wacky characters—though Hacks’s Kayla (Megan Stalter) makes GG’s oddballs seem bland.

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'Sullivan’s Crossing' (2023– )

It’s nearly impossible to imagine Scott Patterson, a.k.a. Luke Danes, doing anything other than wearing flannels and being grumpy in a small town, and thankfully, we don’t have to. He fulfills a similar role in Sullivan’s Crossing as Sully, who finds himself repairing his estranged relationship with his neurosurgeon daughter (Morgan Kohan) when she unexpectedly returns to their rural Canadian town. Fun fact: The show is based on a series of books by Robyn Carr, who also wrote the books behind Virgin River, another very cozy Gilmore Girls follow-up.

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Shows Like 'Gilmore Girls' That You Can Watch in Full

'Better Things' (2016–2022)

Compared to the gentle, idyllic vibe of Lorelai’s life in Stars Hollow, Better Things takes a much grittier view of single motherhood. Its five seasons follow Pamela Adlon’s Sam, a working actress in L.A., as she juggles raising her three daughters, dating around, and dealing with her own difficult mother, who lives right across the street.

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'Bunheads' (2012–2013)

In the time between Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amy Sherman-Palladino created Bunheads. The show starred Sutton Foster as an ex-Vegas showgirl who settles down in a small town after getting married and a job teaching at her mother-in-law’s ballet school. Devastatingly, the show was canceled after just one season, but has gained a cult following in the years since—and for good reason: In addition to the delightfully quirky premise, it also featured plenty of GG alums, from Emily Gilmore herself (Kelly Bishop) as the mother-in-law, to Liza Weil, who you’ll know best as Paris Geller.

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'Charmed' (1998–2006)

Just like Stars Hollow, it always feels like fall in the moody San Francisco of this turn-of-the-millennium classic. Charmed starts with a trio of sisters (played by Alyssa Milano, Shannen Doherty, and Holly Marie Combs) discovering that they’re the most powerful witches of all time and proceeding to face down a seemingly never-ending line of supernatural foes. Come for the complex sisterly relationships, stay for the glorious parade of Y2K looks.

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'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' (2015–2019)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is like if the neuroses, pop culture references, and whip-smart dialogue of Gilmore Girls were all cranked up several zany notches. It’s fun, funny, and full of original pop songs you won’t be able to get out of your head for weeks at a time.

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'Derry Girls' (2018–2022)

Derry Girls may seem like a world away from Gilmore Girls—set in Northern Ireland in the ‘90s, during the Troubles—but its fast-talking, hilarious characters and powerful female relationships would surely fit in in Stars Hollow. The shows even share 50% of their titles!

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'The Good Witch' (2015–2021)

Based on a series of Hallmark movies and set in the fictional small town of Middleton, this seven-season series stars Catherine Bell as the titular kind-hearted sorceress, Cassie Nightingale, and Bailee Madison as her daughter Grace, who has some magical powers of her own. Between her similarities to Cassie—a single mother to a teenage daughter and the manager of a local B&B—and her noted love of Bewitched, it’s safe to assume Lorelai Gilmore herself would be a huge fan of this show.

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'Grace and Frankie' (2015–2022)

They may not be mother and daughter, but Grace and Frankie have a very Emily-Lorelei thing going on. After their husbands reveal their longtime love for one another, the two women end up moving in together, setting up a personality clash for the ages: between elegant, uptight Grace (Jane Fonda) and free-spirited Frankie (Lily Tomlin).

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'The Handmaid’s Tale' (2017–2025)

Okay, so a dystopian tale about a society in which women are forced to serve as nothing more than birthing machines, are prohibited from reading or holding bank accounts, and are relegated to the fringes of society doesn’t exactly conjure the same cozy feeling as Gilmore Girls. But Rory G. herself (Alexis Bledel) does appear throughout the series, with her work on season 1 earning her her first Emmy. Plus, like Gilmore Girls, The Handmaid's Tale is powered by relationships between women. So…close enough?

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'Hart of Dixie' (2011–2015)

You might feel a major sense of déjà vu when watching Hart of Dixie. Its storylines, pacing, small-town setting, and overall vibe are eerily similar to Gilmore Girls, making it one of your best options when you’ve convinced yourself to take a break from Stars Hollow…but don't want to.

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'Jane the Virgin' (2014–2019)

Jane the Virgin might as well be called Villanueva Girls. Like Gilmore Girls, it revolves around a responsible, book-obsessed daughter, the fun-loving mother who had her as a teenager, and the strict grandmother who doesn’t always approve of her progeny’s antics. Though, unlike Gilmore Girls, it takes a hilariously over-the-top, telenovela-style approach to telling the three women’s stories.

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'Kim’s Convenience' (2016–2021)

Another family-centric show, Kim’s Convenience is a sitcom about the Korean-Canadian Kim family, who run—you guessed it—a convenience store in Toronto. In addition to being both funny and very heartwarming, it’s also where Simu Liu got his start before becoming a Marvel superstar. The first season holds a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it an absolute must-watch series.

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'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' (2017–2023)

“Life’s short, talk fast” has long been hailed as an unofficial tagline for Gilmore Girls and its screwball comedy-inspired, relentlessly fast-paced dialogue, as established by creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. She may have outdone even herself in that category when she created The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel over a decade later: It stars Rachel Brosnahan as the titular character, a 1950s housewife who decides to chart a new course as a standup comedian after her husband leaves her—and who could easily go toe-to-toe with Lorelai Gilmore in a speed-talking and wit competition.

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'The Mindy Project' (2012–2017)

Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) is like a Sliding Doors version of Lorelai Gilmore. They’re both intelligent, independent women who have great style, talk a mile a minute, and date a rotating cast of charming men who weave into and out of their lives—with both of their rosters led by grumpy but secretly sweet guys with whom they interact on a near-daily basis. Sold yet?

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'Mike & Molly' (2010–2016)

She may have been largely absent from the Gilmore Girls reboot A Year in the Life, but Melissa McCarthy has stayed booked and busy since the show went off the air, giving us plenty more opportunities to revisit that Sookie St. James charm. She plays a similarly cheery character in Mike & Molly, a CBS sitcom that ran for six seasons and stars McCarthy and Billy Gardell as the titular characters, who meet in an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and promptly fall in love.

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'Mom' (2013–2021)

If you’re after a complex mother-daughter relationship with plenty of comic relief, Mom is your show. It stars Anna Faris as Christy Plunkett. She moves to Napa to get her life together and reconnect with her estranged mother Bonnie, played by Allison Janney. Both mother and daughter are recovering addicts, and the core to repairing their relationship is their ritual of attending AA meetings together. The show strikes a near-perfect balance of exploring addiction and other serious issues with sensitivity and honesty, while also being hilarious.

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'Never Have I Ever' (2020–2023)

This Mindy Kaling-created show is another take on the “multiple generations of women navigating their differences and finding common ground” plot. It centers around Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s Devi, a high-achieving high school student, as she grapples with her grief over her father's death, her social standing and romantic pursuits, and her complicated relationship with her mother (Poorna Jagannathan).

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'New Girl' (2011–2018)

The dearly beloved, extremely bingeable sitcom just might be the thing to fill that “fast-talking, tight-knit group of zany characters”-shaped hole in your heart. Plus, Jessica Day's (Zooey Deschanel) status as reigning queen of “adorkable” kitsch just might out-quirk Sookie and Kirk combined.

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'Parenthood' (2010–2015)

After Gilmore Girls wrapped in 2007, Lauren Graham returned to TV just a few years later in another Lorelai-like role as Parenthood’s Sarah Braverman, a single mother of two. The show—based on the 1989 film and 1990 series of the same name—follows three generations of the extended Braverman family and is filled with plenty of quirky characters, (usually) low-stakes drama and warm and fuzzy feelings of community.

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'Parks and Recreation' (2009–2015)

Pawnee could give Stars Hollow a run for its money in the wacky department. Just like in Gilmore Girls, Parks and Recreation’s core group of main characters is surrounded by a vast web of townspeople always ready to pop up when and where you least expect them, launch a truly ridiculous business venture, or take the weirdest stand possible at a local meeting.

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'Riverdale' (2017–2023)

The town of Riverdale has the same cozy, always-autumnal small-town vibe as Stars Hollow, but it’s strange in its own, very unique way. In fact, the quirky characters of Gilmore Girls seem perfectly normal compared to the time travel, underground fight clubs, and haunted dolls of Riverdale—to name just a few of the unbelievably out-there plots that cropped up throughout its seven seasons.

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'Schitt’s Creek' (2015–2020)

The Rosebud Motel may not be able to hold a candle to the Dragonfly Inn, but the Rose family’s motel does feature a staff of just as many eccentric characters as Lorelai Gilmore’s B&B. The same goes for the mother-daughter relationship between Moira and Alexis Rose (Catherine O'Hara and Annie Murphy)—they’re no Lorelai and Rory, but they occasionally have their moments.

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'The Summer I Turned Pretty' (2022–2025)

If you think you have strong opinions on Rory’s boyfriends (Team Jess forever!), wait until you’ve plowed through this Amazon original based on Jenny Han's popular book series. You might be surprised at how powerfully you feel about whichever Fisher brother you’ve determined to be the best choice for Belly (played by Lola Tung). (The right answer is Jeremiah, obviously).

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'Trying' (2020–2024)

This highly underrated British comedy is a perfect follow-up to the feel-good vibes of Gilmore Girls. It stars Esther Smith and Rafe Spall as Nikki and Jason, a couple struggling to conceive and turn instead to adoption, prompting three seasons’ worth of gentle chaos, hilarity, and sweet moments.

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'Ted Lasso' (2020–2023)

One of the best things about Gilmore Girls is its innate kindness: Though the characters sometimes bicker and break apart, the show is never mean-spirited and typically leaves you happy. The same could be said of the hit comedy series Ted Lasso, which stars Jason Sudeikis as the relentlessly optimistic titular character. He plays an American football coach who accepts a job coaching a soccer team in the U.K., despite not knowing a thing about the sport.

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'This Is Us' (2016–2022)

Keep a box of tissues close once you’ve hit play on This Is Us. The show’s six seasons jump back and forth in time, charting the complex, decades-long story of the Pearson family—led by Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Jack (Jess Mariano himself, a.k.a. Milo Ventimiglia), with their three kids, Kate, Kevin, and Randall (played by Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, and Sterling K. Brown, respectively).

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'Veronica Mars' (2004–2007)

Far from a feel-good mother-daughter dramedy, Veronica Mars follows its titular teen detective (Kristen Bell) as she solves mini-mysteries in each episode and unravels larger schemes throughout each season. But now, on to the similarities: Like Gilmore Girls, it stars a precociously intelligent teenage girl (played by Kristen Bell) who’s unafraid to throw out an esoteric joke or pop culture reference that nobody else will get, it’s loaded with highly entertaining aughts fashion choices, and every episode starts with a theme song so catchy you won’t be able to resist singing along.

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New Gilmore Girls episodes are not happening... yet.

Although the show's creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, has no current plans to add to the life stories of Rory, Lorelai, Luke, Lane and the rest of the Stars Hollow gang, she has once again revealed that her stance on that front is "never say never."

Asked about the possibility of a second reboot, Sheman-Palladino told Rolling Stone, "Well, the thing about families is they never work their sh*t out. They are dysfunctional forever and because of that, it’s the best possible way to come up with stories because you will never solve your problems there. It will always be what it is."

As for what a new set of episodes might contain, the TV writer explained, "There were a couple of things [I wanted to explore] but we just didn’t have the time. I really never liked the way Lane’s life shook out. I would have liked to have spent more time on her, especially since she’s patterned after my best friend. Sorry, Helen [Pai]. And I think it would be interesting to see a baby and a kid and what that next Gilmore Girl round would be."

With that said, Sheman-Palladino doesn't want to revive Gilmore Girls just for the sake of it: The stars (hollow...) have to align, she said.

"I think there’s definitely interesting things there but honestly, it was such a kismet before [for the first revival]," she explained.

"We’d all gotten together for some panel in Texas. Everybody was there and we just looked around and it was a moment of: We’re all here, no one hates each other, we’re all getting along, should we jump back in and finish the show? It had an engine that was not manufactured, it just sort of happened.

"I feel like it would need to be a similar kind of thing [to do another one]. It would need to be Lauren [Graham] and I stumbling out of a bar drunk in the middle of the night and inspiration strikes and we figure out something."

Gilmore Girls ran for seven seasons between 2000 and 2007, then came back for four special episodes in 2016. So by my calculations, we're due another four episodes in 2025? Please and thank you!

Ughhhh, another celebrity couple has broken up.

Alexis Bledel and her husband of eight years Vincent Kartheiser are officially splitting up, after he filed for divorce in New York, Us Weekly confirms.

Bledel—who is known for her role as Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls and Emily Malek AKA Ofglen on The Handmaid's Tale—and Kartheiser—who portrays Pete Campbell on Mad Men—were famously private about their relationship and family life, and their split is no different. Us Weekly reached out to each of their reps for comment but has yet to hear back.

According to the publication, the two met when Bledel appeared on Mad Men, and began dating in 2012. Kartheiser proposed in 2013, and they were married in Ojai, California, in 2014.

Oh, and btw, here is the actress' impressive diamond engagement ring, photographed in all its glory on the red carpet:

In 2015, rumors began circulating that Bledel was pregnant. At the time, a source said, "They don't want a lot of people to know. Only close friends and family know about the baby. [Vincent] is trying to keep it quiet."

In actual fact, it eventually transpired that the actress had already given birth to a baby boy at the time, whose name we don't know.

Again, we know very little about their marriage, but we do know they sold their jaw-dropping Brooklyn Height penthouse in 2016, and believe me, you're gonna wanna take a peak.

Career-wise, Bledel is set to star in a third instalment of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, whose release date has yet to be announced.

It's been 13 years since Gilmore Girls left the airwaves for good—and 20 years since it premiered! I've had to survive on reruns for over a decade, and I'm still not over it. If your fandom, like mine, knows no bounds, find out what your favorite characters have been up to since the show wrapped besides, you know, appearing in the revival (thank you, Netflix!).

Alexis Bledel landed her breakout role as Rory Gilmore when she was just 19 years old. While working on the show, Alexis began her career in film, starring in Tuck Everlasting and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. 

Since Gilmore Girls, Alexis' career has continued to flourish. The actress had a reoccurring role on Mad Men in 2012, where she met her now-husband Vincent Kartheiser. She also won an Emmy for her role in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. Recently, she announced plans for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 3. 

In 1996, Lauren Graham snagged her first role in television in a guest spot on 3rd Rock from the Sun, but she didn't hit her stride as an actress until she played the fast-talking, coffee-crazed single mother, Lorelai Gilmore. 

Lauren enjoyed a few roles in films like Evan Almighty and Because I Said So after saying farewell to Stars Hollow. She made her triumphant return to TV in 2010 as Sarah Braverman on NBC's Parenthood. The show ran for six seasons, and she met her partner, Peter Kraus, on set. He played her TV brother!

Kelly Bishop has been working in TV and film since the late '50s. Her first role was on the soap opera As The World Turns and she later appeared in Dirty Dancing. In 2000, the actress was cast in the role of Emily Gilmore, the wealthy and cold matriarch of the Gilmore family. "I've always enjoyed playing what I call the nasty, rich women. Because I can't stand them," she said on a panel in 2016. "So I try to make them as awful as possible."

The actress hasn't appeared in many roles since the A Year In The Life revival in 2016, but she did thoroughly enjoy the journey that the writers sent her on during the reunion. "I was delighted with what they wrote, I really was," Kelly told The Hollywood Reporter. "It was just wonderful for me because she really goes to some different places."

Edward Herrmann was by far one of the most recognizable names when he starred as Richard Gilmore, Rory's dashing and intellectual grandfather. From Overboard to Annie, he was an impeccably trained actor who was instantly recognizable for his tall and strong stature.

Sadly, Edward passed away in New York City in 2014 at the age of 71, after fighting a battle with brain cancer. Towards the end of his life, the actor continued to work, appearing in The Good Wife, The Wolf Of Wall Street, and Black Box. The cast shared their heartbreak at his loss and his death was written into the reunion series.

Scott Patterson had small parts on hit shows like Seinfeld and Will And Grace before he was cast as the grumpy diner owner, Luke Danes, on the Warner Brothers show.

In addition to appearing on the Netflix revival a few years ago, Scott starred in the horror films Saw IV and Saw V. The actor is also a musician on the side.

Melissa McCarthy began her career in the '90s working as a stand-up comedian, but her first major role on television was as the quirky chef and loyal best friend to Lorelai, Sookie St. James, on Gilmore Girls.

After starring in her Emmy-winning TV show, Mike And Molly, the actress stole the show in the movie Bridesmaids and became one of the biggest names in comedy. The actress has recently shifted her roles to more serious films, like the Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me? She'll also star as Ursula in the upcoming live-action version of The Little Mermaid.

The Canadian-born actor had smaller roles before joining Gilmore Girls at the end of season one as Rory's absentee father, Christopher Hayden. David became a reoccurring character throughout the series and the actor enjoyed success on the side with roles in films like Under The Tuscan Sun.

After the show wrapped in 2007, David went to work on Private Practice, as well as star in his own crime series, Cracked. Most recently, he appeared on the Amazon Prime series The Romanoffs.

The actress was 27 years old when she was cast to play Rory's best friend and confidant, 15-year-old Lane Kim. She remained a staple cast member throughout all seven seasons. Before Gilmore Girls, Keiko had minor roles on shows like Felicity and Beverly Hills, 90210. 

After leaving her role of Lane Kim behind, Keiko landed minor roles in TV and film for years. But since the Gilmore Girls mini-series revival, Keiko has been in some of the biggest new shows, including 13 Reasons Why, Better Call Saul, and Dirty John.

Jared Padalecki was just starting out as an actor when he signed on to play Dean, Rory's first boyfriend. The actor had a reoccurring role until 2005, when what happens to most first loves happened: Rory and Dean broke up. Meanwhile, Jared began appearing in movies, like Cheaper By The Dozen and New York Minute. 

After Jared left the show in 2005, he appeared in multiple horror films (House of Wax and Friday the 13th) and landed a leading role on the hit tv show Supernatural, which is set to end after its current 15th season.

After earning small parts in TV shows like The West Wing and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Liza's first major role was as Paris Gellar—Rory's overachieving classmate at her competitive private school. Despite starting out as Rory's foe, the two eventually became friends and Liza's role became a staple in storylines.

Life after Gilmore Girls was pretty good for Liza. After a few guest spots on shows like Private Practice, Liza had a reoccurring role in the first season of Scandal and was a cast member on How To Get Away With Murder. 

Every millennial remembers a young Chad Michael Murray, who had the small-but-mighty role of high school heartthrob Tristan in season one. Chad debuted on the show just as his star was rising in Hollywood.

Soon after, Chad blew up. He landed a lead role on the hit show One Tree Hill, as well as parts in Freaky Friday and A Cinderella Story—opposite Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff, respectfully. Recently he's been acting on another hit teen drama: Riverdale.

Milo Ventimiglia rose through the ranks as a TV actor in the mid-90s, appearing in Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Saved By The Bell. In season two of Gilmore Girls, he joined the cast as Jess Mariano, a love interest for Rory and the nephew of Luke. 

Milo followed up Gilmore Girls with another hit show, Heroes. But his biggest part to date is playing the matriarch of the Pearson family on NBC's hit show This Is Us. He also starred in the film, The Art Of Racing In The Rain. 

Liz Torres was no newbie to TV when she was cast as Miss Patty in 2000. The actress has been appearing on sitcoms since 1965 and was best known for her role on The John Larroquette Show in the '90s. 

The actress has had a series of guest parts on shows since, including Scandal. Recently, it was announced she will appear in the upcoming film Chick Flick.

Sean Gunn had a handful of small roles on TV and in movies before he became known as the odd townsman, Kirk Gleason, on Gilmore Girls.

Sean has done juuuust fine since Gilmore Girls. The actor, who's brother is filmmaker James Gunn, play Kraglin in the Guardian of the Galaxy and Avengers franchises.

America first got to know Sally Struthers for her role on All In The Family, where she playedGloria Bunker. Afterward, she moved on to theater. The actress bopped around television, appearing on various shows, until she filled the role as Lorelai and Rory's big-hearted neighbor, Babette, on Gilmore Girls.

The actress has continued to appear in theater and on television and reprised her role of Babette in Netflix's mini-series revival.

Matt Czuchry joined Gilmore Girls in 2004 as Rory's college boyfriend, Logan Huntzberger. Before, the actor was cast in projects like Judd Apatow's Freaks And Geeks and 7th Heaven.

Matt had a major role in the Netflix revival, as fans learned that he and Rory were still involved together. But that isn't the extent of the actor's credits post-Gilmore Girls: Matt starred on the hit show The Good Wife, had a stint on Friday Night Lights, and is currently starring in the medical drama, The Resident.

The French-Canadian actor primarily appeared in French foreign films before his role as Michel Gerard on Gilmore Girls. 

The actor returned to his roots and worked on French television shows like Rumeurs after his role on the hit show came to a close. He's also appeared on shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and recently finished shooting the film My Salinger Year.

The role of Taylor Doose was actor Michael Winter's biggest role by far. Since the beginning of season one, the town busy-body was a consistent cast member and source of entertainment.

Michael continues to be an active actor, appearing on various shows in minor parts, but his role as Taylor Doose is still his most beloved character.

Kathleen Wilhoite joined the cast in 2004 as Luke Dane's flakey sister, Liz. But while she was new to the show, Kathleen was certainly not new to the industry. She starred in films throughout the '80s and '90s, including The Edge. 

Other than her new pink hairstyle, not much has changed with Kathleen. The actress is still acting, though she sadly did not appear in the Netflix mini-series.

In season six, fans were thrown for a loop when Luke unexpectedly learned he had a daughter with an ex-girlfriend. Vanessa Marano played the part, but it wasn't the 11-year-old's first job: She'd already appeared in shows like Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback and Six Feet Under.

Vanessa's time on Gilmore Girls proved to be a success, as the actress landed a series of TV roles afterward. In 2011, she was cast in a starring role on ABC Family's Switched At Birth, and was recently in the film Saving Zoë. 

The tribe has spoken re: Melissa McCarthy, but you know who wasn't curiously shut out of the Gilmore Girls Netflix revival? Emily Gilmore, that's who.

In the grandmother/granddaughter reunion you've been waiting for, Kelly Bishop and Alexis Bledel pose together with Tanc Sade, who, before acting as the third wheel in this pic, played Logan's Australian friend Finn for two seasons.

All hail the Lady Grantham of Stars Hollow. 

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It's a well-worn cliché that a movie or TV show's setting often acts as a bonus character—like how New York City will be bravely taking Samantha's place in the upcoming Sex and the City reboot—but it's definitely true for Ginny & Georgia. The Netflix series about a mother and daughter pair settling into a new life in a new town has drawn plenty of comparisons to Gilmore Girls, including in its similarly idyllic New England backdrop.

Much like Stars Hollow, Ginny & Georgia's Wellsbury is filled with quirky characters (including a flannel-shirted restaurant owner-slash-love interest), small-town vibes, and postcard-perfect vistas. Unlike Rory and Lorelai's status as basically the princesses of their cute Connecticut hamlet, however, Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Georgia (Brianne Howey) are met with suspicion, judgment, and casual racism after moving to Massachusetts, making it a lot less cute, to say the least.

Still, minus its very flawed residents, Wellsbury still makes a pretty spectacular backdrop for the show, offering at least a little bit of serenity amid the increasingly off-the-rails plotlines of the series. Interested in packing up your own life and moving across the country after the suspicious death of your husband? Here's what you need to know about the real-life Wellsbury, Mass.

Is Wellsbury a real place?

Sadly, in the grand tradition of Stars Hollow, Dawson's Creek's Capeside, and so many other adorable onscreen New England towns before it, Wellsbury doesn't actually exist. That said, Massachusetts is home to small towns like Wellesley and West Newbury, as Decider notes, which will get you halfway there!

But while this means you can't grab a coffee or a glass of wine (or three) at the Blue Farm Café, there's still a way to soak up all of Wellsbury's small-town vibes—you'll just need a valid passport to get there.

So, where was Ginny & Georgia actually filmed?

In a twist more dramatic than the ending of the show's first season (sort of), not only is Wellsbury not in Massachusetts, but it's not even in the U.S. The show was shot largely on indoor sound stages at Toronto's TriBro Studios, according to IMDb, and the nearby Ontario town of Cobourg stood in for Wellsbury the rest of the time.

A Cobourg Now report from August 2019 warned residents that the show would be filming in several parts of the waterfront town, which has been around since 1798 and is known as "the gem of Lake Ontario." Among those locations were Audrey's In Town Fashions, which served as the boutique where Ginny gets caught taking a five-finger discount; El Camino restaurant, which was transformed into the Blue Farm Café; the defunct Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate Institute in Toronto, which became Wellsbury High; and the city's town hall, Victoria Hall, which became the Wellsbury Arts Center. The report also noted that all Canadian flags and mailboxes dotted throughout downtown Cobourg would be replaced with American ones.

How did Cobourg feel about pretending to be American?

In typical Canadian fashion, the town appeared to be very polite about being infringed upon by its neighbors to the south. An August 2019 report from the Northumberland News seemed excited about Cobourg's role in the streaming series. And the official Twitter account for the town offered up a "fun reminder" around the same time that "we are still Cobourg, Canada!" despite the American flags infiltrating its downtown.

And it wasn't just the town that had to swap its maple leaves for stars and stripes: Several members of the cast of Ginny & Georgia also had to drop their "ehs" to play Massachusetts residents. Sara Waisglass, Raymond Ablack, Mason Temple, and Schitt's Creek's Jennifer Robertson, who play Maxine, Joe, Hunter, and Ellen, respectively, all hail from Canada.

Did season 2 add any new filming locations?

While the show's second season was mostly filmed in its establish season 1 locations, there were a few new locations, including Victoria Park near Coburg Beach, where Ginny had a de-stressing morning run. The famous Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston was also included as an establishing shot in the Christmas special, so the shopping mall is worth a look for any Ginny and Georgia fans based in New England. 

Gilmore Girls fans around the world are shook: Kirk has finally found his soulmate. On June 15, Sean Gunn, the actor who plays Stars Hollow's oddball resident, Kirk, got married. According to People, Penn married actress Natasha Halevi on Southern California’s Catalina Island. The dress code for the wedding? "‘1920s disco ball goes to the beach,’ which basically meant: be fun, be fabulous, be colorful, be shiny, be awesome. We wanted to get rid of the fear of outshining anyone — and our friends definitely brought it," Halevi told People. Looks like some of Kirk's quirks were kept intact.

Gunn posted this adorable photo to Instagram with the caption: "Oh hey, I got married you guys."

He followed up with a very sweet individual post to thank his now-wife. "I have about a zillion wedding photos and a zillion and one people to thank and I’ll get to them all in due time, but I’m going to start by thanking my wife @tashalitas, who is a force of nature and made it all happen the way it all happened. Thanks, Lefty," Gunn wrote.

According to People, celebrity guests included Judy Greer, who was in the wedding party, Jennifer Holland, and Jenna Fisher. Didn't get your invite? Don't worry. It doesn't appear many of the Gilmore Girls cast attended either. However, there was some representation from the show's creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, also know for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Keico Agena, who played Lane Kim. Agena posted a photo of herself with Palladino on Instagram.

Agena also shared this collage from Gunn's wedding day:

Don't feel bad if you didn't make the invite list! Ms. Patty will probably be on her fourth husband pretty soon.

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If you've ever wanted to be a Gilmore Girl, now's your chance, because this month, you can take a trip to Stars Hollow—well, via Burbank, California. From December 22nd to January 6th, you can visit the Warner Brothers Studio for a tour that includes holiday lunch on the set of Rory and Lorelai's Stars Hollow home. Guests will enjoy recreated scenes from their favorite mother-daughter duo, with original props and costumes all around. Obviously, acting scenes out is strongly encouraged.

Of course, it wouldn't be an authentic Gilmore experience without enough food to put you into a coma. Oven-roasted turkey breast with cranberry-shallot sauce, lemon garlic roasted chicken, veggie burgers, fries, macaroni salad, and garlic-buttered corn are just a few items on the menu. By the end of a meal like that, you can say you've both lived and dined like a Gilmore—just add excessive coffee at any hour of the day for maximum verisimilitude. 

After you've stuffed yourself, you can walk it off with a trip to the famous Stars Hallow Gazebo for ample photo ops. Posing in that square is the next best thing to having the last name Gilmore on your driver's license.

It's part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood and more information can be found at Warner Bros' site. So see you in Stars Hollow?

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Anyone obsessed with Gilmore Girls has at least heard whisperings about the tiny pastoral town of Washington Depot, Connecticut. It's a place so special that just one trip to its local inn (well, really it's a luxurious spa/hotel, but we'll get to that in a moment) inspired Amy Sherman-Palladino to create the fictional world of Stars Hollow. What you might not realize is that Washington Depot is worth visiting even if Gilmore Girls means approximately nothing to you. At least if your interests include gorgeous autumnal colors, adorable woodland chipmunks, local farmer's markets, and a much-needed escape from city living.

Need more convincing? Here's everything I'm trying to say summed up in one picture:

Since I am certain you have just booked your flights/train tickets/rental car, here are my suggestions for where to eat, sleep, and meander once you get there.

Where to Stay

The choice is obvious: The Grace Mayflower Inn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's literally the inspiration for Gilmore Girls—but even if you don't fan-girl over that, you'll fan-girl over the picturesque grounds nestled amongst woods peppered with orange, gold, red, and green. Not to mention the pool flanked by a landscape straight out of a Bob Ross painting. And the chipmunks! Did I mention them? Basically, if Autumn were a physical place, it'd be this hotel.

The Grace Mayflower is definitely a luxurious stay and its prices reflect that, but if you're in the position to throw down a little extra cash during your quick weekend jaunt and you need a break from rentals, this is a must.

P.S. The breakfast is exquisitely yummy and did I mention there's a spa? Yep, I sure did, but it's worth mentioning again.

BOOK IT

Where to Eat and Drink

How! Much! Time! Do! You! Have?! First of all, let's talk about the farmer's market in Washington Depot, where I came away with almost all of this fruit due to getting overly excited:

This sweet little town also has some cute cafes (shout out to Marty's), but for a truly iconic meal you're going to want to venture out slightly further into Litchfield County—the area of Connecticut that includes Washington Depot. I don't mean to be extra, but the meal I had at Arethusa—a farm-to-table restaurant in the town of Bantam—was truly better than most of the meals I've eaten in my ten years of living in New York City. Also, there's an ice cream place next door. Just saying.

And while sadly I didn't have time for this due to getting a massage and being lazy going on a hike, you can visit the beautiful farm where their ingredients come from.

What To Do

Remember that Instagram from up top with the pretty purple flowers? That was taken at a garden called Hollister House that I stumbled upon and spent about two hours roaming around in. This place was like a magical wonderland, full of floral twists and turns. Go here, I beg you.

Another recommended stop for when you aren't busy binge eating fresh fruit, wandering gardens, and living a life of fall bliss? Kent Falls State Park, a short drive away from Washington Depot and a genuinely breathtaking experience:

If you're willing to drive a little further, the covered bridge in Cornwall (not to mention Cornwall Bridge Pottery, where all my mugs comes from) is lovely. If you prefer to stay around Washington Depot, check out The Hickory Stick Bookshop, as it's supremely cozy.

Helpful Tips

1. If you're driving from NYC, or really anywhere on the east coast, leave early. VERY EARLY. Traffic getting to this sweet corner of the world is a nightmare, and there's nothing worse than arriving at your getaway in a bad mood.

2. I'm not going to lie, the cell phone service around Washington Depot isn't great. In fact, in some areas it's non existent. Of course there's wireless in most spots, but prepare to unplug for a couple days. (Not a bad thing!)

3. Bring good shoes. Hiking didn't happen for me (as I mentioned, I'm lazy), but there's definitely opportunity for nature walks around Kent Falls State Park, or even just a climb around the grounds at the Mayflower Inn. Either way, the situation can get muddy real fast. For evidence, please discuss the situation with what remains of my heels.

If the final four words of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life left you wondering if that could really be the ending creator Amy Sherman-Palladino spent years teasing, you're not alone. Melissa McCarthy, who played Sookie St. James on the WB hit and (briefly) on the Netflix reboot, felt the exact same way.

"I had been waiting a long time to know, because Amy [Sherman-Palladino] had always said she knows exactly how it ends, but now it's like, 'Is that the last four words?'" she told ET Online at the Television Critics Association press day in Pasadena, California Friday.

While it's nice to know McCarthy is with fans who felt weird about Gilmore Girls finale, she also broke some not-so-good news about her future with the series. With rumors of another Netflix season swirling, McCarthy finally addressed Sookie's future in Stars Hollow.

"No [I wouldn't come back as Sookie], but I would come back as Lorelai," she said, crushing the hopes of Sookie fans everywhere. "And that is a challenge to Lauren Graham."

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Ever since Netflix aired Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life, the internet has been arguing over who the father of Rory Gilmore's forthcoming baby is. The possibilities? Paul, Logan, or a nameless Wookie Rory had sex with while on assignment. As Netflix puts it:

However, when confronted with the question of Baby Gilmore's parentage during Sunday's Golden Globes, Milo Ventimiglia put forth a new theory. That none of the current contenders are Rory's baby daddy. Which...like...what now?

While we're totally on board with Rory having consensual sex with whomever she damn pleases, the idea that she would sleep with someone off camera and not tell us about it is devastating. But if Milo's theory is correct, who is the father? Feel free to theorize on your own, but guys. The answer is obvious:

Just saying.

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Ever since that jaw-dropping cliffhanger at the end of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, fans have been desperate for more. Netflix even fanned the flames recently with a tweet teasing the unknown paternity of Rory's little Gilmore fetus.

While promoting her upcoming Hulu series, The Handmaid's Tale, for the TV Critics Press Association press tour this week, Alexis Bledel was grilled about the future of Gilmore Girls. Her answer will give fans hope—but not a ton of it.

"I haven't heard anything," Bledel told reporters of a new season of Gilmore Girls, according to Variety. "It hasn't been a conversation as of yet. All of us are just wanting to tell a good story. The only thing I can say about future installments is that it would be about the story and the timing. We want to tell a great story."

We also want a great story, so that sounds good to us. But what about Rory's pregnancy? Can't Bledel at least give fans some insight into that whole thing? Not really, she says, since creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is the master of the Gilmore universe.

"I honestly haven't gone down that path of imagining it," she said of who might be the father of Rory's baby. "It all lives in Amy's imagination. She has a very clear vision and always has and we haven't had input as to the stories and the characters on the show very much."

Well, fingers crossed for ASP's imagination to churn out another great chapter of the Gilmore story to get the cast back together again, because if the Final Four Words are any indication, she'll take the secret of Rory's baby daddy to her grave rather than give it away in an interview.

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Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival debuted over Thanksgiving weekend, and after binging it + reading every single piece of content the internet has to offer, you're probably close to Gilmore'd out. But don't put away the Mallomars yet, because we found a blooper reel lurking on YouTube. That's right: A BLOOPER REEL.

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

The bloopers in question are from Season 1, Episode 2, AKA "Love, Daisies, and Troubadours," and mostly feature Lauren Graham flubbing her lines and swearing. There's also a priceless scene of Graham and Alexis Bledel having a fake conversation as the camera films them taking a car ride around Stars Hollow.

BRB, 💀.

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It's hard to believe there's a Gilmore Girls fan left on the planet who hasn't seen A Year in the Life at this point, but there is at least one. Lauren Graham (aka Lorelai Gilmore herself) hasn't seen the revival series yet, and there's a chance she never will.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Graham opened up about not watching the show in a 92nd Street Y talk with Michael Ausiello.

"There are many actors who learn a lot by watching themselves. I'm not one of those people, so I stayed away from it," Graham explained.

But even though she doesn't feel like she gets much out of watching her own performances in general, Graham also admitted that there's more to it when it comes to Gilmore Girls.

"I was so on another plane, it felt like, during the doing of the thing, and I had some of my favorite moments I've ever had as an actor and as a person in that experience," she said. "I just want to leave it there for now—that was enough. That was more than enough. It was the best experience I've ever had."

Her Gilmore hangups don't start with watching the Netflix revival though. Graham said she struggled to even read the script for "Fall," the final episode of A Year in the Life.

"I shot a couple scenes without having read the whole thing," she admitted. "I was on this crazy high and feeling so thankful and so pleased with what the material was, I almost didn't want to know how it ended. I was worried where it was going and what if I'm disappointed. But finally I had to do it, 'cause I really had to film it, and I sat at the kitchen table and I cried from page one all the way to the end. It was the biggest emotional experience."

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There's another Gilmore Girls conspiracy out there, and no it does not have to do with the show's four final words. It has to do with one of series' most iconic themes: coffee.

Before A Year in the Life aired on November, Netflix released four Gilmore Girls posters for each episode of the show. But fans were quick to criticize the posters on social media, saying that in the four themed posters, Rory (or Alexis Bledel, at least) didn't know how to properly hold things, especially giant coffee cups.

Since the series has aired, a brand-new complaint has been trending on social media. On last night's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the TV host informed his guest, Lauren Graham (AKA Lorelei), of what the Internet is thinking of now. Apparently, the way she and Bledel hold the Luke's coffee cups in the series must mean they're empty. Say it isn't so!

"There has been a bit of online complaining that at Luke's you guys drink a lot of coffee, but people online are saying clearly the coffee cups never have anything in them, they look empty," Colbert told Graham.

But not to worry, Graham set the record straight. "I want to tell you one thing, that is a true thing: There is always coffee in my cup," she said.

In addition to talking coffee on the The Late Show, Graham also admitted another truth: She cried majority of the time she was on the Year in the Life set. She elaborated:

You know what could help ease those tears? More coffee.

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The Gilmore Girls revival revealed tons of new information, the most important of which was Amy Sherman-Palladino's famous final four words:

Rory: "Mom?"

Lorelai: "Yeah?"

Rory: "I'm pregnant."

The series concludes on a major cliffhanger, with the implication being that Rory will follow in Lorelai's footsteps and become a single mom. But not so fast. In a recent interview, Amy Sherman-Palladino reminded fans (some of whom were disappointed by the end of Rory's narrative) that everyone's favorite journalist might terminate her pregnancy. After all, every woman has the right to choose.

"By the way, Rory doesn't have to keep the baby," ASP told TVLine. "There are choices here that she can make. It's just the left turn. It's that curveball that life throws you. I will say, weirdly, that I like it much more now. I still think it would've been cool [to do in season 7]. I still would've listened for the [fans] screaming out the window. But there's something about Rory being the same age as Lorelai was when we first met Lorelai that has a lot more symmetry, and means a lot more."

It's probably not fair for anyone to say that Rory should or shouldn't continue with her pregnancy, but hopefully she makes the choice that's best for her future. (Note: it's worth pointing out that Rory's currently jobless, homeless, and has no income to speak of. If she chooses to stay pregnant, she has a lot of challenges ahead.)

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life gave us a chance to catch up with some of our favorite fictional people from Stars Hollow, Hartford, and even Yale. In some cases, this was a wonderful experience (see: Luke and Lorelai's relationship and literally everything about Paris). In others, said experience was the actual worst (see: World's Worst Journalist/Decision-Maker Rory Gilmore).

But sadly, some characters who are near and dear to our hearts were handed a truly awful 2016. Here are 14 Stars Hollow denizens who were completely shafted by the revival—whether it was in the form of a head-scratching storyline, a pointed absence, or a "WHY, Amy Sherman-Palladino, WHY"-inducing disappointment.

1. Sookie

Sookie is the heart and soul of Gilmore Girls, and while her lack of onscreen presence during A Year in the Life is understandable (the struggle to get now-A list Melissa McCarthy back was well-documented), her role in the revival is almost nonsensical.

The official story is that Sookie's on sabbatical at Dan Barber's Blue Hill Farms, working on the evolution of fruits and vegetables. Since Sookie is a well-established flake, it's believable that she would disappear for two years. But not to grow food. To cook it. Always to cook it.

2. Jackson

Poor Jackson. With Sookie largely out of the picture, it makes sense that her husband wouldn't have a ton of screen time—but how great would it have been to see Jackson argue about produce with one of the Dragonfly's many celebrity guest chefs? Or, you know, have any presence whatsoever aside from a 30-second conversation that simply serves to explain Sookie's absence.

3. Lane

Out of all of the characters who didn't get the revival treatment they deserved, Lane takes the cake. I've never been a fan of her storyline from the final season, but to see it played out a decade later is somehow even more depressing. Sure, Steve and Kwan are adorable and she's clearly a great mom, but Zack is unhappy (more on that later), and Hep Alien seems to be more of a hobby than a real pursuit. I wanted Lane to get the chance to rock—and not just on church basement tour organized by her mother. Her go-to move in the revival is the shrug of a woman who has given up and accepted her lot in life.

4. Zack

When we meet circa-2016 Zack, he looks physically rundown (raising twins can do that to you), and he's vocally unhappy about how his life as a businessman has turned out. It's respectable that Zack is putting his family first, but you also get the sense that he regrets every life choice he ever made. It's, well, a bummer.

5-6. All of Hep Alien, actually

Brian doesn't seem to live with Lane and Zack anymore, but we see him ask about crashing in the spare room, so I'm a *little* concerned that he's homeless and couch-surfing at 32. Meanwhile Gil, the forever-happy Hufflepuff of Hep Alien, seems just as thrilled as ever. Guess we don't have to feel sorry for him, but it's a little sad that he didn't go further with his music.

7. Lulu

Lulu's been loyally by Kirk's side for more than a decade. She even considering carrying his spawn child, and all she gets is a lame cameo working as an usher at the movies? Lulu deserves better–especially considering her guy gets more screen time than anyone not named Gilmore.

8. Max Medina

Wait. If Lorelai's ex Jason "Digger" Stiles got his in the revival, why didn't Max Medina at least deserve a mention? Headmaster Charleston could have name-dropped him when trying to sell Rory on becoming a teacher at Chilton. Or Max could've even shown up to give Rory some much-needed life advice. A thousand yellow daisies doesn't get you much these days, apparently.

9. Tristan

Speaking of Gilmore love interests, you may have noticed that Tristan makes an appearance—albeit the weirdest and briefest of all. Paris spots him at the Chilton alumni day, prompting her bathroom freakout. The freakout is so good that you forgive Amy Sherman-Palladino for recasting Tristan and barely trying to hide it, but still we have questions: What's Tristan up to? How did military school change him? And why bother bringing him up at all if this is what we're going to get? Just, WHY.

10-11. Madeline and Louise

Francie gets a scene and Madeline and Louise don't even get a mention? Way harsh, ASP.

12-14. Robert, Finn, and Colin

Fans are pretty divided on The Life and Death Brigade in general, especially after the group's trippy sequence in A Year in the Life. But after the gorilla masks come off and the night club-buying is finished, Rory takes a (weird) moment to say goodbye Wizard of Oz-style, and it's clear that none of them have changed since Yale. Maybe a little growth would help these guys feel less like caricatures and more like real humans the fandom could get behind? Just a suggestion.

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At the age of 15, Rory Gilmore was full of promise and potential—or at least that's what we were told by literally everyone on the show. Gilmore Girls wanted us to think Rory was smart, hard-working, kind, loyal, and true. And while we do see glimpses of those traits, especially in the first few seasons, we also see Rory's warts—her narcissism, selfishness, and impulsiveness—all of which become painfully apparently when she does things like lose her virginity to her married ex, steal a yacht, or drop out of Yale.

In 2007, Gilmore Girls ended with Rory on a promising path (the Obama campaign, anyone?), and there was reason to hope that A Year in the Life would give us a more mature, nuanced version of her. But it didn't. It so didn't.

The Gilmore Girls revival gets a lot of things right (Lorelai and Luke's very believable and mostly drama-free relationship, everything Emily does, Michele's open sexuality and happy marriage, etc.), but Rory's storyline feels like revenge. What did this bookish "perfect" girl do to ruin Amy Sherman-Palladino's life, and why is she taking that rage out on a fictional character?

Revival Rory is a walking, talking regression—making choices that might have been relatable at 22, but are downright unforgivable a decade later. Let's get started.

The Paul Thing

The Paul Thing is one of the most unforgivable aspects of 2016 Rory. We meet Paul in the revival's first episode, and learn that he and Rory have been dating for two years. No one in the Gilmore-Danes household can remember the poor guy (including Rory), but it's clear that he's in it. He fixes Lorelai's computer, he brings Luke an antique wrench—all small efforts that show how much Paul cares about Rory.

The running joke is that Paul is forgettable. Rory has been "meaning to" break up with him, presumably for years now, but never seems to remember. So she doesn't break up with him. Instead, she cheats on him, repeatedly and with multiple people (Logan, mostly, but also a Wookie). Rory's treatment of Paul is callous and cruel.

The Affair

Speaking of Logan, let's talk about that affair. While Rory's busy cheating on Forgettable Paul, Logan's cheating on Very-Much-Remembered Odette, his fiancée. If you thought Rory had learned a lesson about being the other woman from that Dean debacle, you'd be wrong. She never shows any remorse about the affair or how it might affect Odette. The only thing she seems to feel for her rival is annoyance—especially when poor Odette decides to move in with her future husband, which inconveniences Rory and the logistics of her affair.

Her Journalism Career

As terrible as the decisions Rory makes in her personal life are, her career trajectory might be even more disappointing. Rory has always had great things fall in her lap, perhaps most notably when she was made editor of the Yale Daily News for no good reason.

Rory's luck must have held, as assignments from prestigious publications like The Atlantic and The New Yorker seem to fall from the sky during A Year in the Life. When we meet Rory, she's rambling about irons in the fire and waiting for Condé Nast to call her. She's not hustling. She's not reaching out to editors. She's not pitching stories. She's not engaging in the work she does have. She's not even trying.

The 'GQ' Story

Even though Rory is entirely lackluster, she still gets to write a print story for GQ, which, to be clear, is an opportunity many hard-working journalists dream of. During the course of reporting said story, Rory falls asleep during an interview with one source, and then has a one night stand with another. The whole ordeal makes it clear that Mitchum Huntzberger made the right call all those years ago: Rory just doesn't have what it takes to be a journalist.

Sandee Says and the Epitome of Rory Gilmore's Narcissistic Privilege

After Rory decides to bail on the GQ story, Lorelai convinces her to take a meeting with Sandee Says, a website that's been courting her for the better part of a year. It's not entirely clear which real-life website served as the inspiration for Sandee Says, but it is clear that Rory thinks she's too good to write for them—though she deigns to come in for an interview.

When the site's Editor-in-Chief throws her curveballs like "what are some things you'd like to write about?" Rory is completely unprepared. She expected to be handed the job outright and says (actually screams) exactly that to said editor.

The 'Stars Hollow Gazette'

After her disaster of an interview, Rory moves back home (but refuses to acknowledge that she has) and saves the Stars Hollow Gazette from closure by volunteering to step in as editor. It's the saddest of all of Rory's story lines in the revival, and paints a perfect picture of exactly what giving up looks like.

Jess to the Rescue

So, what gets Rory out of her rut? Is it her moxie? Her chutzpah? Is it a meaningful talk with one of the strong female role models she has? Is it fate stepping in and forcing her in the right direction? Nope.

It's Jess. Jess-effing-Mariano assesses Rory for 30 seconds after having not seen her for four years, and tells her she should write a book. He even tells her the plot of said book. And she's like, "Yeah, I'll do that." 😐

That Meta Memoir

Rory decides to write a book about her mom (after all, her own life has not been particularly memoir-worthy), and when Lorelai understandably isn't on board with her child co-opting her story, Rory throws a fit. She can't understand why Lorelai, who has generally sacrificed everything for her happiness, is finally putting her foot down. And are we surprised? Rory's quest for validation at the expense of others never ceases to amaze.

The Final Four Words

A Year in the Life ends on the famous Final Four Words that creator Amy Sherman-Palladino always intended to close the series with: a pregnancy announcement. It would have felt like a full circle moment if the show had ended when Rory was in college, but it's a huge miss for Revival Rory—which brings us to the revival's core issue:

A Year in the Life strives to make Rory too much like 16-year-old Lorelai. She and Logan could just leave their respective partners and be together (since they're clearly still crazy about each other). But if that happened, Logan couldn't be Rory's Christopher. And Rory could be a good, successful journalist. But if that happened, she wouldn't need to run away to Stars Hollow.

While that symmetry might have been poignant in 2007, it doesn't work in 2016. Rory is a 32-year-old woman forced at every turn to behave like a 16-year-old girl, which is a disservice both to the character and the viewers who loved her.

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The Gilmore Girls revival ended with a huge bombshell: Rory Gilmore, world's worst journalist, is pregnant with her first child. And as exciting as this is, we can't help but wonder what it means for Lorelai and Luke.

Lorelai made it pretty clear that she wants children (she and Luke even considered a surrogate), and while a grandchild *might* do the trick, her bout of baby fever isn't necessarily over. At least not according to Scott Patterson (AKA Luke), who says the couple's future entails kids—and lots of 'em.

"I think being married to that girl is going to be a really good thing," Patterson told Entertainment Tonight. "We're going to have a lot of babies!"

Your move, Amy Sherman-Palladino.

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Almost the entire original cast of Gilmore Girls returned for the Netflix revival, A Year in the Life. Even Edward Herrmann, who played Richard Gilmore and passed away in 2014, was a huge presence on the show. But one OG cast member did double duty, reprising her original character and a new one.

Rose Abdoo, who plays Gypsy, Stars Hollow's resident mechanic (/miracle worker, considering how long she's kept Lorelai's car running) took on a second role in the revival. Did you spot her?

Abdoo also played Berta, Emily's unintelligible maid. Emily is notorious for letting maids go after just a few days (or less), but Berta stands the test of time, lasting the entire revival season and even following Emily to her new home in Nantucket.

If you missed this the first time through Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, you are not alone. Abdoo is a chameleon.

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life answered a lot of questions fans had after the original series ended in 2007 (also, now would be a good time to turn back if you're avoiding spoilers from the Netflix revival).

Did Luke and Lorelai stay together? Yep. They totally did.

Did Luke and Lorelai ever get married? Not during those nine dark years, but they do finally tie the knot in A Year in the Life.

Who did Rory end up with? No one, but also maybe/probably Jess, eventually?

Did the Final Four Words live up to the hype? In terms of impact on the characters and your emotional state, yes, they did.

But the new episodes also left us with so. Many. Questions. Even though A Year in the Life has been billed as the final conclusion Gilmore Girls fans have been waiting for, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year that they have a "never say never" attitude toward extending the series even more.

Here are 15 lingering questions we have after A Year in the Life that prove there's still plenty to unravel in more Gilmore episodes down the line.

1. What is Rory going to do about that baby in her belly?

The Final Four Words we've all been waiting for are Rory announcing to Lorelai that she's pregnant. Assuming we're privy to all of Rory's sexual encounters, the baby is Logan's. This is problematic since Logan lives in London and is engaged to another woman.

Before announcing the pregnancy, Rory quizzes Christopher on how he felt about not being a part of her life. At first, it feels like she's grilling him for information for the memoir she's working on, but once the pregnancy bomb is dropped, the Christopher scene takes on new meaning. Is Rory planning to raise the baby alone? Is she even going to tell Logan about it? ~QUESTIONS~.

2. Related: Will Logan move back to the States to help raise it if she does tell him?

And will that be the end of his engagement (because it probably should be)? It will be hard to keep the affair from his bride-to-be, Odette, once she meets Logan's infant child.

3. How does Rory feel about her pregnancy?

Because it's pretty unreadable from that brief moment when she announces the big news to Lorelai.

4. Will Rory stay in Stars Hollow now?

Or is she still planning to move to Queens?

5. Is Jess going to make a move with Rory?

Because he's clearly still in love with her. Now that Rory is pregnant with Logan's baby, it feels like she and Jess are doomed to live out Luke and Lorelai's life story. Logan is, in many ways, Rory's Christopher and Jess seems content to wait, Luke-like, for the right moment to swoop in and make his feelings known.

6. If she moves back to Stars Hollow, will he?

Don't do it, Jess. Don't.

7. Is Sookie coming back to the Dragonfly Inn?

It's kind of unclear. She gets territorial about her kitchen being used by other chefs and she doesn't seem satisfied with what she's been doing, but Sookie's plans are left vague and open-ended. On a practical level, this is probably because, if Netflix does commission more episodes, there's no guarantee that Melissa McCarthy would have time to appear again.

8. Is Michel going to stay at the Dragonfly now?

Michel's decision to leave the Dragonfly was both heartbreaking and totally understandable. He needs to grow and he feels stuck at the small town inn. As a last ditch effort to stay, he asks Lorelai if she would consider expanding the inn and its services, so he could have more responsibility. She finally does expand, but only after Michel has accepted a new job and started interviewing for his replacement. Is it too little, too late? Does Michel stay in Stars Hollow?

9. Speaking of the Dragonfly, what's the plan with this new location?

Like, will Sookie be a part owner of it, too, since Lorelai is using Luke's inheritance from Richard to pay for it?

10. How long until Emily gets fired from her volunteer position at the Nantucket Whaling Museum?

This was an odd place to end Emily' story anyway and the children are literally sobbing (not tears of joy) halfway through her first presentation. Can this actually last?

11. And will she want to quit and move back closer to Rory to be around the baby?

Because, after missing out on Rory's childhood, she's definitely going to want to be a big part of the kid's life.

12. Do Paris and Doyle ever reconcile?

They're divorcing and, while it makes sense that Paris would get divorced, I still ship these two pretty hard and want them to work things out. 

13. Why does Zack look so old?

It looks like he has lived a hard, fast, rock star life, but he's theoretically just been in Stars Hollow, getting promoted at his day job and doing the family man thing for the last decade. I'm a little concerned for Zack, who looks like he's aged a solid decade or two more than most of the characters.

14. Will we ever actually get to know Mr. Kim?

It was a nice gesture to include a shot of him in the revival, if only to prove he exists and isn't a figment of Mrs. Kim and Lane's imaginations, but what's his story? Why was he never around? We could do a whole episode on Mr. Kim.

15. Is anyone going to read Rory's book?

Does the Gilmore Girls story lend itself to a memoir? And, if it does, should Rory be the one writing it? Has her side of the story been that memoir-worthy?

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Rory: Mom...Lorelai: Yeah?Rory: I'm pregnant.

Gilmore Girls fans have been waiting for years to hear Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel utter the series' now-infamous Final Four Words. A little backstory: Gilmore Girls creator/writer/producer/goddess Amy Sherman-Palladino created the lore of the Final Four Words when she revealed that she had always known the dialogue that would close the series. Then, she and husband/producer Daniel Palladino parted ways with the show before it's final season and the Final Four Words were never spoken.

Until now.

It probably goes without saying, but almost nothing but spoilers ahead, so if you haven't watched Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life yet and want to experience the Final Four Words for yourself, stop reading now.

So what were the Final Four Words?

And that's it. Fade to black, the end (unless Netflix and the Sherman-Palladinos decide to go for more, of course). Obviously, this is meant to be a full circle moment, and since Rory is 32 in A Year in the Life (the age Lorelai was at the beginning of the original series), it kind of works. But let's not forget that Amy Sherman-Palladino didn't intend for Rory for be 32 when she spoke these words; she intended for Rory to be 21 or 22 when she spoke them.

This would have, obviously, drastically altered the ending of the original series. It's unlikely Rory would have been setting off to cover the Obama campaign, for example, if she had just found out she was pregnant.

Obviously, it's going to take a while for Gilmore fans to process this ending and what it would have meant for the characters back in 2007, but now at least we finally know.

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When fans heard that Netflix was bringing us (and, more importantly, the original cast of Gilmore Girls) back to Stars Hollow, one of the first and most persistent questions was about Rory Gilmore's love life. Now, we have our answers (and we're going to talk about them here, so, you know, spoiler alert for those who haven't binged every episode of Gilmore Girls and A Year in the Life yet).

At the end of the original series, Rory is single. She's just graduated from Yale, rejected Logan Huntzberger's marriage proposal, and is getting set to hit the road covering the Obama campaign. This was in 2007.

When we meet Rory again in 2016, she's seeing someone...kind of. I say "kind of," not because it's not a real relationship (it is—they've been together for two years in the first A Year in the Life episode, "Winter"), but because Rory never treats it like one. Her boyfriend, Paul, is doting but apparently forgettable. Lorelai and Luke forget that they've met him, Rory forgets that she's invited him to stay with her family, and is only still dating him because she keeps forgetting to break up with him.

But does Rory end up with Paul the Bland and Forgettable? No. Even though Rory (completely horribly) never remembers to end things with Paul (even as she's sleeping with other people), he does finally break up with her, via text message, minutes before the end of the final episode, "Fall."

This means that Rory is *technically* single at the end of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, but obviously things are much more complicated than that. Here's a brief cheatsheet of Rory's romantic entanglements in the revival series.

Logan Huntzberger: Rory and Logan shippers got their hopes up early on in the revival when, during a trip to London, she stays in Logan's apartment and it's clear that they are still seeing each other. Yes, even though Rory is dating Paul, she's still seeing Logan. And yes, Logan knows about Paul. He's cool with it because he's engaged to a woman named Odette, who lives in Paris and is conveniently never around to be bothered by Rory and Logan's affair.

Because that's what Logan and Rory have—not a relationship, not even a casual fling, but an affair. A premeditated, on-going affair. This lasts throughout the entire revival series, with Rory and Logan finally seeming to go their separate ways after one last hurrah with the Life and Death Brigade in "Fall."

The Wookie: In "Spring," Rory has her first one night stand, with a Wookie. Well, with a guy dressed as a Wookie, who is also a source for a story she's writing. Rory Gilmore, pillar of professionalism and good judgement, sleeps with him while reporting a story for GQ about people who stand in long lines for things. This is while she's having an affair with Logan and still in long-term dating limbo with Paul.

Jess Mariano: Rory and Jess never actually revive their romance in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, but he's still probably the closest thing to a romantic endgame that we get for Rory. Near the end of the very last episode, "Fall," Luke asks Jess if he's over Rory and his words say "yes," but his brooding eyes/body language/aching bad-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold soul all say "no, definitely not." He looks at her through a window like, "ah, someday maybe I'll be with the love of my life."

Because, sure, why not? Pining silently for years when the object of his affection was right there and available worked out for Luke.

tl;dr: Rory is technically single at the end of A Year in the Life, but Logan and Jess are both clearly still hung up on her. Dean, however, is happily married in Scranton and well on his way to having enough kids for a basketball team, so at least one person was able to find happiness after the great Rory Gilmore.

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In the early 2000s, Rory Gilmore was an icon to nerdy, quiet, bookish girls everywhere. When we met her, she was leaving her so-so public school behind for an Ivy-bound education at Chilton—totally aspirational. Then she went to Yale, leaving audiences thinking "dang, Rory just keeps getting better."

Except that she doesn't.

Despite making her Ivy League dreams come true, Rory Gilmore actually peaked in high school, which isn't something you'd generally imagine a Rory Gilmore-type doing. Sure, it's possible that she'll redeem herself when we meet her again in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, but when it comes to the original series run, high school Rory > college Rory, every single time. Here's why:

1. When Headmaster Charleston (and older, male, white authority figure) sits high school Rory down and tells her she might not have what it takes, she fights back, studies harder, and becomes valedictorian of her class.

2. Meanwhile, when Mitchum Huntzberger (another white male authority figure) tells college Rory she might not have what it takes to be a journalist, she drops out of Yale. I repeat: She. Drops. Out. Of. Yale.

3. When high school Rory gets a D on a paper in Max Medina's class, she accepts his criticisms, moves forward, and works harder.

4. When college Rory gets a (quite honestly, very deserved) D on a paper at Yale, she argues with the professor, nearly cries, and then storms out with a sassy quip.

5. High school Rory fights for a spot on the Chilton newspaper, takes any story she's assigned, and makes it the best it can be.

6. Meanwhile, college Rory feels entitled to better stories than she's being assigned. Oh, and then she's voted Editor-in-Chief of the paper after dropping out of Yale for a semester (a position she isn't running for and three other students are).

7. High school Rory's responds to a bad day by saying the word "suck" a lot and eating junk food with her mom.

8. College Rory responds to a bad day by stealing a yacht with Logan and ending up in jail.

9. High school Rory has an incredible work ethic and impeccable time management. She gets straight A's, excels in extra curricular activities, and still finds time for Stars Hollow's many festivals and celebrations.

10. College Rory acts like the world is ending when she's asked to complete 300 hours of community service over the course six months, which works out to 12.5 hours a week. During this time, she has no job, no schoolwork, and is living a plush rent-free existence in her grandparents' pool house. 👀

Everyone changes in college, but Rory Gilmore changed almost exclusively for the worse. All the fingers crossed that she gets some redemption in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, which premieres on Netflix THIS FRIDAY.

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If you're a Gilmore Girls fan, you've probably had November 25 marked on your calendar for a while now. You may have dissected each new trailer, binged old episodes, debated Rory's exes with friends, and made viewing plans for the long holiday weekend (perhaps with your mother). But it turns out at least one fan is woefully unprepared for the impending special on Netflix: Christiane Amanpour.

"Are these the new ones? Really?!" exclaims the otherwise poised CNN correspondent at the International Press Freedom Awards (she's just been informed that new episodes arrive on Friday). "Oh my god, I love Gilmore Girls. I'm excited about Gilmore Girls' return."

Of course, she's not just any fan—Amanpour was a very real person in the otherwise fictional world of Stars Hollow, serving as a guiding light and idol for protagonist Rory Gilmore, who dreams of being a journalist. Rory tells her school principal that she wants to be Amanpour in the second episode of the series, and the Peabody award-winning broadcaster even made a cameo in the series finale in 2007—though she now says that she finds herself "gormless" in the scene. (That's "awkward" or "goofy" for those not up on their British insults.)

While plot developments for the impending revamp are hard to determine from the initial trailers, it seems possible that Rory's given up on her journalism dream: She complains aloud that she doesn't have a job and is seen (maybe) teaching at her high school. Amanpour is bummed at the prospect.

"Oh, Rory! Say it isn't so!" she cries at the news, before offering another (completely amazing) suggestion for what Rory could do with her life. "I'm going to tell Rory to aspire even higher. How about first female president of the United States?"

Amanpour says she was flattered by the way Gilmore Girls framed her career, but her obsession went beyond that: "You know, the show was so smart. The mother and daughter were smart, the guys in it were smart. It was rapid-fire, intelligent conversation, with really intelligent aspirations. It just shows that smart actually does win sometimes."

Since Amanpour didn't know new episodes were dropping this Friday (!!!), she has some plans to rearrange. "It's on Netflix?" she asks. "I'll be in London. I'll watch from there. Great!"

Great, indeed.

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When Gilmore Girls premiered in fall 2000, I was in 7th grade and just a couple months shy of 13. I fancied myself a Rory Gilmore before Rory Gilmore was even a thing (though I'll admit I had my fair share of April Nardini moments—sadly minus the enviable science fair prowess).

I was bookish and nerdy, and while I wasn't shy, I was definitely introverted. I had a great relationship with my mom. I liked junk food way more than, uh, non-junk food. I dreamed of leaving my hometown for the Ivy Leagues. And as a middle schooler, all of the above was more than enough reason for me to feel like I was looking in a mirror when I saw Rory onscreen.

But confession: I stopped watching Gilmore Girls during season five. I could claim that I stopped out of protest for Rory's relationship with now-married Dean, but that would be a lie. At the time I supported her 100%, and thought it was great that their love found a way. I wasn't just drinking the Rory Gilmore Kool-Aid—I was chugging it like cops were about to break up the party.

In reality, I stopped watching Gilmore Girls for boring "life" reasons; I was 16, suddenly had a part-time job, and had a lot more school commitments (those Ivy League applications were fast approaching). My family didn't have TiVo (remember when DVRs were all TiVos?), so I eventually got a few episodes behind, which turned into lot of episodes behind. There was no way to catch up.

Still, even though I wasn't watching the show, Rory Gilmore was still in my heart. I had only seen her freshman year of college play out, but I was sure she was doing great (HA!), and still listed her among my fictional idols. When I left for college, I cut my hair into a bob because that's what Rory did her freshman year. It felt symbolic and important, and made me feel close to her—as if by getting her haircut, I was also channeling her academic essence.

Confession No. 2: When Gilmore Girls came to Netflix, it took an embarrassingly long time for me to finish the series. But when I did finally watch in anticipation of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, I didn't just finish it. I binged it. And by the end of the show, Rory was no longer my favorite Gilmore Girl. Neither was Lorelai. No, in 2016, my favorite Gilmore Girl was—no, is—Emily Gilmore. (It's sort of like the time I realized that after years self-identifying as a Ravenclaw, the Sorting Hat would definitely whisper, "...But you could do great things in Slytherin" upon being placed on my head).

As a teenager, I identified so strongly with Rory that when we weren't on the same page, I adjusted to be more like her. As an adult, the Gilmore lady I aspire to emulate is Emily, 100%. Here's why she's a boss:

She knows who she is and what she's about.

I want to have as much confidence in my choices as Emily does. Not to wait around for things to happen, but to make them happen. The older I get, the more and more I do just that.

She isn't afraid to ask for (okay, demand) what she wants out of life.

Emily knows what she wants and that, I think, is half the battle. The younger Gilmores are often crippled by indecision, but Emily is incredibly decisive. That's admirable.

She plays the game, but she knows when to break the rules and stand up for her and hers.

Remember that time Emily straight up dismantled Shira Huntzberger for saying Rory wasn't good enough for Logan? Remember how that was the best?

She's honest (sometimes to a fault).

Sometimes the truth hurts, but that's never once stopped Emily Gilmore from telling it.

She's stubborn, but she tries to change.

One of the things I admire most about Emily is that, as set in her ways and Type A as she is, she doesn't always want to be those things. Emily tries to be flexible, and connect with Lorelai and Rory. She doesn't always succeed, but when she does, it's beautiful and there's pudding for all.

She's a Twinkie.

To paraphrase the great philosopher Wallace Fennel, underneath that angry grown woman shell, there's a slightly less angry grown woman who's just dying to connect with her daughter and granddaughter. That's the Emily I love.

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We're officially less than a week away from the premiere of Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival and there is no chill to be found anywhere. At this point, people are literally tasking Gilmore Girls with "saving" 2016. It's a lot to ask, but if any show can deliver, it will be this one (*please* let it be this one).

In anticipation of the impending premiere, Netflix just released another Gilmore trailer and there's a LOT to unpack here. Let's dive right in.

1. Rory and Lorelai are adored (and waited upon) by the next generation of Stars Hollow citizens.

2. Luke is still calling them out on their shenanigans (we'd be disappointed if he wasn't).

3. Rory is going to spend time with two small children—but whose are they?

4. Lorelai seems to be involved in planning a wedding. Like, really involved.

5. Adult Rory cannot find her underwear.

6. But she *does* have plans that warrant a "lucky outfit." 

7. Stars Hollow snow is still the *MOST MAGICAL* snow there is.

8. No matter what team you're on, know that all of Rory's exes aged well.

9. Emily Gilmore shops at Kohl's (unless she borrowed this Candie's shirt from Lorelai).

10. Lorelai is still obsessed with coffee (not that we needed a new trailer to tell us that).

11. Rory Gilmore is every millennial struggling to figure things out.

12. Richard's death is going to wreck you even more than you thought.

13. Lorelai is ~soul searching~.

14. And...questioning her relationship with Luke? WHA?? No. No. No. *Sticks fingers in ears and hums loudly*

15. Rory is still friends with Paris and Lane.

16. Stars Hollow has a whole "thirty-something gang" who "went to college, then out in the real world, and it spit 'em out like a stale piece of gum and now they're all back in their old rooms." Like Rory. Ouch. Sorry, Rory.

17. The Stars Hollow Musical might be the best thing we ever see.

18. Caesar still works at the diner!

19. Paris still has significant anger issues.

20. And that wedding Lorelai was planning? Looks like Luke is wearing a tux to it. NBD. (JK. BD. VBD.)

21. The Gilmore ladies can still EAT.

Watch the glory for yourself and of course watch the ~whole thing~ when Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life drops on Netflix November 25.

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It feels like the entire world is excited for Gilmore Girls to return. We're excited, the cast is excited—and for good reason. When A Year in the Life premieres on Netflix, we'll finally get some closure for our favorite characters (are Luke and Lorelai married yet? Who did Rory end up with? How is everyone doing after Richard's death?).

We'll also finally hear the infamous final four words—the ones creator Amy Sherman-Palladino says she always intended to end on before she and husband/producer Daniel Palladino left the show at the end of season 6. A lot of Gilmore fans are *quite* invested in those final four words.

Turns out, at least one member of the cast was just as invested: Scott Patterson, who plays grumpy diner owner/coffee master Luke Danes.

"I actually submitted a list of what I wanted the four words to be to Amy and Dan [Palladino]," he told TV Line. "And when I found out what the four words actually were, I was quite perturbed. They didn't take [my suggestions]. So I made some phone calls and raised the roof a little bit."

On a more serious note, Patterson added that he was actually "a little surprised" by what the four words were and said that the exchange (which takes place between Lorelai and Rory, of course) is "clever" and "made sense" as a note to end the series on.

And while this might have fans more anxious than ever to just FINALLY hear those words, Sherman-Palladino would really, really love it if you don't jump ahead or spoil it for the rest of the internet when you finish your binge.

"It's such a journey and it's such a build to the last four words," she said during the Television Critics Association press tour this summer, according to MovieFone. "[But] we live in an age where I knew people were going to go right to the last four words and then put it on the internet and possibly spoil it for people who are going to take the journey."

Your Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life binge begins November 25.

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Much like Thanksgiving pie, Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival is just days away, so go ahead and take a minute to scream internally. The series is shrouded in mystery, but MarieClaire.com got a chance to speak with Liza Weil (AKA Paris Geller), and guys. Not only did she have a fascinating take on how Gilmore Girls might handle important social issues ('cause you better believe Rory and Lorelai are feminists), she dropped what we consider a pretty big spoiler about how the revival might end.

Marie Claire: Gilmore Girls was made during a time when TV just couldn't be as progressive. But in real life, Lorelai, Rory, and Paris would be discussing all the things my friends and I talk about: sexual assault, Black Lives Matter, a woman's right to choose. We've seen glimmers of topical subjects on Gilmore Girls (that Planned Parenthood poster in Rory's dorm), but will the revival push things even further?

Liza Weil: I'm only aware of the few episodes I've done—it's shrouded in such secrecy that I haven't even been able to read the other two episodes. But the ones Paris is a part of, yes, I think it's safe to say Gilmore Girls might go a little blue in places it may not have been able to go. It's handled really well. Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino really use that freedom to their benefit.

MC: In the original series, I loved that Paris rejected (or tried to reject) Doyle in order to prioritize her career. Gilmore Girls was really ahead of its time with gender role reversals—especially given that it was aimed for teens. Looking back, do you appreciate how progressive the show was?

LW: I think that Gilmore Girls did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all. The show made it cool to be a smart girl. That certainly wasn't happening at the time—you were surrounded by beauty shows and teen soap operas. Gilmore Girls felt very apart from everything else that was happening. I felt very lucky to be able to be on a show dealing with those issues. I was proud. I was still young, and to have somebody like Amy making me aware of those ideas—it really did form me.

MC: The most popular Gilmore Girls question is Team Logan or Team Jess, but do you find it strange that some fans assume there are only two options for adult Rory?

LW: That's very well-handled. Amy comes to it from the point of view that none of those previous boyfriends were the right person for Rory. They served a purpose for her during that time in her life, and she hasn't necessarily found "the person" yet. Of course, it's a television show and there are so many beloved characters, and people have a tendency to romanticize a notion of "maybe there's somebody who can loop back around, isn't that a lovely idea?" In the world of Stars Hollow, there's an aspect of that which could work. But Amy does a really, really smart thing in terms of how she's portraying Rory. I was very impressed with how she was able to tap into those periods in life where you're feeling a little lost and unsettled. I think you'll find these people are still trying to figure it out in a lot of ways.

MC: A lot of actors (read: everyone on Friends) seem frustrated that they persistently get asked about one iconic show when they have an entire body of dynamic work. Do you find the constant association with Paris frustrating, or do you appreciate it?

LW: It's a lot of feelings, I think, when people so strongly associate an actor with a character they play—but the main feeling is I feel very happy that I've been able to play somebody that people connect so strongly to. That's overall a very good feeling. There's the sweet and the sour, I guess. It does sting a little bit. Your insecurity as an actor maybe seeps in, but ultimately I think it's a very lovely thing. It doesn't happen that often. It's mostly good, I'm fine with it.

MC: Are you anxious about how built up the revival is?

LW: I was completely freaked out to go back. I haven't played this person in 10 years. I'm a very self-critical and nervous person anyway, so it was daunting. Amy and Dan have such strong voices, and the characters are so well-formed in their writing, but yeah, I feel a considerable amount of pressure. The die-hard fans out there were really craving a different kind of ending than was given to them, and Amy and Dan have come up with some satisfying things. But you can't please everyone, I'm sure there's going to be some haters.

MC: Who do you think Paris is voting for? She gives off major Hillary vibes just in her own personality.

LW: Hands down, 100 percent, she's with her. I don't have any question about her allegiance with Hillary. It may be too spot on, but I think it's accurate.

MC: Would you do another installment?

LW: If we would do more? Yeah, I think we would. Certainly, if Amy and Dan were at the helm of it, I think that's very appealing. And I think that you may find that the way it ends may feel open-ended. We'll see.

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If there's a fan base I most belong to, it's Gilmore Girls. From going on their junk-food-fueled diet to visiting Stars Hollow IRL (Washington Depot, CT), I've tried to immerse myself in all things Gilmore. The one missing piece of the puzzle? As a beauty editor, it's Lorelai's infamous "Vicious Trollop" lip color—a shade so nice it "frightened" Emily Gilmore. The novel of the latter aside, I always thought of it as the perfect post-coital, just-bitten lip shade.

Well, now it's here via Etsy—except in lip balm form. And while I definitely acknowledge that the Gilmore Girls love 'em some lip balm, and the confectionary"pink orange vanilla" flavor would strike their fancy, I have to say I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping for something more sassy, like a bold MAC matte, you know? I thought we were on the right track when the official Gilmore Girls account posted this.

However, if a tint is more your vibe, the balm created by Urban Tee Farm can be yours for $5.25, alongside other Gilmore Girls-inspired shades like "Spring Break" and "Java Junkie."

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The time has come to talk about Lorelai Gilmore, or—more specifically—her adventurous fashion. Because "adventurous" is truly the only way to describe the sartorial journey of this this tiny-scarf-loving hero. In an effort to both pay homage to Lorelai and parse through her fashion journey, we've ranked her 30 most insane outfits on a scale of "Okay, sure, we get it" (AKA outfit #30) to "Is this a fashion crime, y/n?" (AKA outfit #1).

Let's start of with something moderately palatable: this striped wrap dress. Yeah, it's being invaded by a swarm of evil butterflies hell bent on ruining what would be a simple pattern, but whatever. Dealing with it.

At first, Lorelai's obsession with headbands seemed so sweet and innocent. So sweet and innocent, in fact, we barely noticed that this jacket was clearly made for a person with much shorter arms. But then things took a dark turn....

Dark, like the wash of jeans she chose to pair with this tie-dye shirt and bandana. 

Also, in case you were stressing about whether or not Lorelai owns a bandana in green, the answer is yes. Yes she does.

Oh good, she also owns one in red. Thank god. 

Wait no, make that several. Because one can never have too many red bandanas to pair with their deconstructed American flag shirts.

Hands up if you bought this shirt in 1998 after leafing through a dELiA*s catalog? Same. 

Not even pizza (the ultimate accessory) can lend credence to this headband + camo combination.

"Hmmm, what should I wear to work?"

*reaches for blindingly shiny pink blouse*

To paraphrase Cher Horowitz, this shirt is a total Monet. 

"Wait, this seems pretty normal," you thought to yourself, failing to notice the giant pattern festooned on Lorelai's pants. 

In case you're having doubts about what your eyeballs are seeing, Lorelai's wearing a sparkly kitten t-shirt with a zip-up pink hoodie and blue puffer jacket. That's all.

Behold, the most aughts outfit ever. 

Ahhhh, memories of a simpler time when everyone's sweaters had random outcrops of knitted florals on them.

God knows how many innocent sheep were left freezing to make that shearling jacket. 

Rory's face = us while trying to understand Lorelai's shirt.

Don't you love the subtle, totally not-at-all loud feel of this shirt?

At a certain point, Lorelai abandoned her bandanas and started experimenting in The Art of Wearing a Bucket Hat. It was a confusing time for all of us.

BRB, over here living that bucket hat life.

Of course, sometimes Lorelai switched things up and wore a newsboy cap. Sorry, make that a news(Gilmore)girl hat. Ha ha ha.

 It was the best of times, and in many ways, it was the worst of times.

Please don't mistake this as a scene from Newsies. It is, in fact, a still from Gilmore Girls. 

At one point, Lorelai tried to make newsboy knit caps happen. She failed.

PSA: always wear your jauntiest beret while attending a funeral. 

This shirt is a reminder of a dark time in fashion: cap sleeves. Their mission? To look unflattering on even the most toned of arms. 

Sorry, still not done talking about hats. Here's a particularly glorious one, paired with Lorelai's favorite accessory: the functionless scarf. 

Actually, one might argue that as the show went on, the functionless scarves got tinier. 

And tinier.

Until eventually they were so small, they became necklaces. 

But sometimes Lorelai skipped the scarf because she was busy wearing cowboy boots with daisy dukes. Which brings us to her most iconic—and most insane—outfit of all time. Fin.

Because the siren call of coffee and Mallomars just couldn't be resisted, MarieClaire.com hopped in a Jeep over the weekend (JK, it was a Honda) and drove to Stars Hollow, AKA Washington Depot. Why? Four words: Gilmore Girls Fan Fest, where stars and fans collided to celebrate everyone's favorite show in its birthplace. As you might expect, we learned a ton of Gilmore Gossip. Get ready.

The Independence Inn is real, only it's real name is The Mayflower Grace. In fact, Amy Sherman-Palladino was inspired to write Gilmore Girls on a trip which included a visit to the gorgeous hotel, and bonus: the chef 100 percent adheres to the Gilmore Girls Diet.

"The inn was so beautiful. And everything looked like it was covered in sugar. It was just like one of those eggs that you stare in at Easter," Sherman-Palladino said of the town. "If I can make people feel this much of what I felt walking around this fairy town, I thought that would be wonderful."

Melissa McCarthy's headshot sealed the deal. Here's a brief description from casting director Mara Casey on the magical perfection that was McCarthy's photo: "I remember Melissa's picture. She was a wee bit off to the side. Kinda cut-off, black and white. With a beautiful bright smile. And the picture wasn't quite in focus." Classic.

Here's an example of one of McCarthy's headshots. Again, classic.

Seriously, no one knows who Lane's dad is. Including writer/producer Sheila Lawrence, who was literally like, "who was Lane's father?" when asked. This mystery will never be solved, the end.

Amy Sherman-Palladino had a strict no-midriff rule. Remember how low rise pants and belly shirts were super popular in the roaring aughts? Yeah, Amy was having none of that. The simple reason? Connecticut is cold AF. "If you were in Connecticut in winter, you'd be freezing," Costume supervisor Valerie Campbell said. "You wouldn't wear a bare midriff." FYI, this rule was taken so seriously that part of Campbell's job was telling Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham to pull down their shirts while filming.

Mr. Robot has a cameo. By which we mean Rami Malek, who you might remember as "that dude in Lane's bible studies class."

Jared Padalecki had zero competition, because duh, he's amazing, Team Dean etc. Apparently, Sherman-Palladino was so impressed by 17-year-old Padalecki that she wanted to hire him on the spot—though she did have other actors try out for the part just to keep the studio happy.

Gypsy is gay. At least according to Rose Abdoo, who played her. "She's got a crush on Lorelai," Abdoo told the Fan Fest audience. "Gypsy loves Lorelai." Considering Lorelai is the most lovable ever, this makes tons of sense.

Hep Alien is still a band. And yes, they will sing the Gilmore Girls theme song if you ask nicely enough.

Jackson's chemistry with Sookie was so 🔥, they brought him on as a regular. "The chemistry we had was instant," Jackson Douglas said during a panel with the Gilmore Guys. "I just kept coming back and coming back, and it just grew based on our chemistry with each other."

Ummm, Caesar went to Chilton with Rory? Aris Alvarado can be spotted at Rory's high school dance, and confirmed that his character graduated before starting work at Luke's. File under: *That feeling when the fan theory you're obsessed with turns out to be true.*

Kirk's favorite job? Announcing the hockey game. Or, to quote the man himself, "I really enjoyed being the announcer at the hockey game." Let's go ahead and re-live the memories:

Ryan Gosling was almost cast, but his audition was...um...less than stellar. Casting director Jami Rudofsky used the words "fell kinda flat" when describing Gosling's performance, and apparently Amy Sherman-Palladino was unimpressed.

And finally, most of the cast are Team Jess. Here's the official breakdown:

Rose Abdoo (Gypsy): "I'm Team Rory all the way."

Rini Bell (Lulu): "Me too."

Keiko Agena (Lane): Jess

Aris Alvarado (Caesar): Jess

John Cabrera (Brian): Jess

Jackson Douglas (Jackson): "No one's good enough for her."

Mike Gandolfi (Andrew): "She's a powerful woman who doesn't need a man to define her."

Sean Gunn (Kirk): Logan

Todd Lowe (Zack): Logan

Vanessa Marano (April): Jess

Liz Torres (Miss Patty): Dean

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It feels like there's no one on the planet who isn't excited for Netflix's Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. But, turns out, someone from the cast was actually not 100% full of happy feels when she was asked to return. Liza Weil, aka fierce-to-a-fault Paris Geller, just admitted that she got a major case of nerves when it came to stepping back into her Gilmore Girls role.

According to E! Online, Weil, who currently stars on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder, was worried her current character's very dark and twisty personality would accidentally seep into her performance as Paris.

"I was worried," Weil admitted. "I was definitely worried because I had wrapped season two of Murder and I think, like, the next day or two days later, I was on set on Gilmore Girls."

Weil's fears were put to rest as soon as she got back on set though. She credits series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband, Gilmore Girls executive producer Dan Palladino, with putting her at ease, via their writing.

"But I will say that Amy and Dan's writing, it just really does the trick for me. Paris is so alive in that writing and it's just very, very different from Bonnie," Weil said. "It was actually a very welcome sort of respite from Bonnie. It felt nice to be a little bit more broad and all of those Paris Geller-y things....You read those scripts and it's all on the page. It certainly made it easier."

We can't wait to see Paris back in all of her lovable Paris craziness when Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premieres on Netflix Nov. 25.

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If you, like myself, were in love with Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls, then you know that his hair is a key feature of his Bad Boy Hotness.

Here it is in all its James Dean-y natural glory: cool, slightly ruffled, perfect for running fingers softly through.

Then here it is in Season 7, slicked down like a skunk. Jesus, no wonder Rory picked Logan.

When Netflix announced that Jess would have a major plotline in the Gilmore Girls revival, there was reason to hope that we'd see the return of Hot Jess. But then this teaser video came out of him sporting bloated hobo hair on set and the concern became to mount.

Photos of him during the time of shooting made things especially concerning. Like, what is this? Unless you are auditioning for a Burt Reynolds biopic this is not an okay look.

Now, I was hoping that this was all just for his new show, This Is Us, and that he would look slightly more like the Jess we all know and love in the revival, but the first photo that Netflix has released has forced me to abandon all hope.

I can only assume that in this scene Luke is saying, "What is going on with your hair?! I raised you better than that!"

Let's hope Rory stages some sort of hair intervention before they end up getting back together and living happily ever after.

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For reasons that are best described as "UGH," and "he sucks," and "can you not?" the internet seems to hate Dean from Gilmore Girls. You know, Dean? Dean Forester? That's right, he has a last name.

And I get it. I, too, once hated Dean. He is the literal definition of "nope." He is so thirsty that it's a miracle he isn't dead from being parched. But he's also so much better than Rory Gilmore's other boyfriends.

I'm here to argue that this labrador of a human isn't so bad—minus the fact that he wore a stained shirt during the above promotional photo shoot. It's time to support the third party candidate that is Dean Forester so we can Make Stars Hollow Basic Again. And in the very likely event that you are currently horrified and need convincing, I set forth my case:

Dean thought Rory's differences made her unique.

Unique, like his taste in man-bangs. No, Dean never wrote adorable marginalia in Rory's books (related question: does Dean know how to read?), but he was super supportive. Look:

Dean was *so pumped* to chill with Rory's mom.

Does your significant other spend hours of his free-time hanging with your mom? Probably not, because it would be weird, but Dean didn't care about weird. Dean lived for weird. HE LIVED FOR IT.

Dean was his authentic self.

He was basic AF and he knew it. He didn't need a motorcycle jacket to be cool. He was experimenting in the wonderful world of norm-core. And unlike Logan, he didn't need money to impress Rory. He just built her a car with his own two hands.

^ Meanwhile, this is the only thing Jess can accomplish with his hands.

Dean loved pop culture. Like, he's basically a pop culture critic.

Did Jess ever sit down with Rory and watch The Donna Reed Show? No, he was too busy "writing" "a" "novel." Meanwhile, Logan was too focused on Scrooge McDucking his way down a pile of money to even know who the Donna Reed was.

^ This is Donna Reed, Logan. Not that you even care.

Dean dealt with a ton of elitism.

Remember when Rory's grandparents invited Dean over and made him feel terrible for being middle-class? Dating the 1% is hard, and let's not pretend that Rory didn't enjoy a ton of privilege from her wealthy background. (Side note: Dean also enjoyed plenty of privilege from being a white male in Connecticut, but still.)

On that note, Dean actually had a job and understood the value of work.

Also, remember when Rory and Dean went to the school dance and Dean screamed at Tristan during one of his Dean Rage Sessions™? On the surface it might seem like he was suffering from a total lack of chill, but maybe he was just a regular kid doing his best to keep afloat in a sea of ascot-wearing prep schoolers.

Dean subverted stereotypes.

When Rory asked if Dean was her boyfriend, he said "if you want me to be." Feminism! And sure, Dean was clingy when Jess showed up in Stars Hollow with a bag full o' emo—but as soon as Lorelai told Dean to give his gal some space, he did. And honestly, what would you do if your girlfriend started hanging with this living, breathing LiveJournal entry come-to-life?

And finally, the elephant in the room...

Dean cheated on his wife with Rory, which yes, is awful. The man is not perfect—his bangs prove that. But lest you forget, Logan got with another lady while he and Rory were "on a break" (AKA cheated, depending on who you ask), and if you think about it hard enough, Jess was probably mentally cheating on her with some combination of Allen Ginsberg, Amélie from Amélie, and Montgomery Cliff.

FYI, Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival drops in November, so it's not too late to join me on this crusade and change your vote. Dean for president of Rory's heart, tbh. Especially since the other candidates currently dress like this:

And are blatantly stealing Dean's patented hair look:

Please visit www.SaveJessFromMiddlePartedHair.com.

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Guys, guys, guys, two exciting things!

1) There are only a few more weeks until you get to feast on Thanksgiving turkey and Netflix's Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

2) The stars of the beloved show made a total killing for the revival, which couldn't be more well-deserved.

Variety reports that Alexis Bledel (AKA Rory Gilmore) and Lauren Graham (AKA Lorelai Gilmore) made an estimated $750,000 per episode, or $3 million total for the revival's four upcoming episodes. And FYI, they're earning more than anyone else on Variety's list—including Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke and House of Cards' Kevin Spacey.

Just imagine how much coffee $3 million would buy. Actually, let's do the math. Assuming a large cup is around $1.50 at a diner, that is two million cups of coffee. *faints*

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premieres November 25 on Netflix. Watch the trailer below to start feeling cozy.

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Thanks to Netflix, Gilmore Girls is returning with four new 90-minute episodes in November. There are a ton of questions fans hope Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life will answer. Do Luke and Lorelai live happily ever after? How are the Gilmores coping after Richard's death? What are the final four words?

But of all the questions burning in fans' minds, the most prominent is probably: Who will Rory end up with? It's been confirmed that all three of Rory's major love interests—Dean, Jess, and Logan—will make appearances in the revival, but which of them (if any) turns out to be her forever soulmate?

While each Rory boyfriend has his own legion of shippers, fans of the Rory/Dean pairing can do a happy dance over the latest picture on the Gilmore GirlsInstagram, which shows a box of corn starch nestled between some of Rory's favorite books on a shelf.

In case you need a refresher, the corn starch is significant because, when Rory and Dean share their first (very adorable, very innocent) kiss, Rory was in Doose's Market (where Dean worked part-time) pretending to shop for corn starch. The kiss left her so frazzled that she ran off, corn starch in hand, which explains the picture's perfect caption: "First kiss. First crime."

Of course, the Rory/Dean-themed picture comes after Instagrams that served as major throwbacks to her time with Logan and Jess, as well. Last week, the Gilmore Girls account posted this picture that called back to the first time Rory realized Jess loved books almost as much as she did:

And two weeks ago, the account shared an image that gave fans of Logan and the Life and Death Brigade a major happy moment as well:

We'll just have to wait until Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premieres on Netflix on November 25 to find out who really wins Rory's heart for good.

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is going down on November 25, which means you'll be spending your post-Thanksgiving feast drowning in a sea of turkey, feelings, and Dean-related side-eyes. Netflix's revival has been awash with secrecy, but hold up—we just got our hands on some spoilers. Get ready.

Richard's death has majorly impacted Emily: Amy Sherman-Palladino says that Mrs. Gilmore's arc will answer questions like, "What does the death of a husband mean to a woman who had a life very specific to her all of these years?" and "Where does she go from here?" 

Lorelai is having a low-key existential crisis: Sherman-Palladino says fans will find Lorelai as a "single-yet-coupled independent woman who has had guards up all her life to protect her daughter and to protect herself." She'll be dealing with questions like, "Where am I now? Where's my path? Where's my comfort?" In other words, who is Lorelai without Rory?

Rory is having a high-key existential crisis: Expect Rory to have very little chill, because she's questioning basically all her life choices. [Edit] "It's this idea of, you hit [your 30s], you did everything right—you went to college, you had the good grades, you worked really hard—and yet somehow life isn't turning out the way you wanted it to turn out," says Sherman-Palladino. "And because the world is changing [so quickly] I think that's something a lot of very well educated [thirty-something] kids are going through. They're turning around going, 'I did it. I did the homework. I did the finals. I did the whole thing. I know the shit. Why am I not getting where I need to go?'"

Fair questions, but as long as Rory doesn't end up with Dean, we're thinking she's good to go.

The Gilmore revival will be released in four parts on Friday, November 25 at 12:01 am PT on Netflix. Prepare yourselves with all the Pop-Tarts.

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Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival is dropping the day after Thanksgiving, and frankly, we're not sure we can handle the mixture of that much turkey and that many emotions. Stars Hollow looks just as charming as usual in Netflix's new preview, but prepare for some pretty huge changes—most notably, the loss of Edward Herrmann (AKA Richard Gilmore).

"To me, one of the aspects of this show that felt the same but different was in the wake of losing Ed, which was and still is a great loss for us personally," Lauren Graham said during a Television Critics Association panel. "It was also part of our story that we are telling, which is the journey of how everyone is still recovering, and that gave the show depth and an emotional complexity. It felt to me like, 'here is the show, but grown up even more.'"

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Graham says Herrmann's death "plays into all the choices the characters are making and what they're dealing with in a new way," and that Lorelai will make a few ~life decisions~ through dealing with the loss of her father. These two had a complex relationship on the show (with Lorelai often repressing her loving feelings), so it should be interesting to see how she processes.

Anyway, time to duck into the nearest bathroom and weep/watch the Gilmore Girls trailer a few dozen times, right? Right.

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When you watch the anxiously awaited new season of Gilmore Girls on Netflix, you'll be watching it in a whole new way. The revival series will take place in four long episodes instead of several short ones, so it'll be like watching a few movies instead of the original series.

Lauren Graham spilled the beans on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which films on the same lot as Gilmore Girls. "It's been the most incredible experience," she said. "I cry trying to talk about it because I feel so lucky to get to do it."

The show will be called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and it will consist of four 90-minute episodes. Each episode will correspond with a season, so we'll get to see Stars Hollow in winter, spring, summer, and fall. Graham said they're almost done filming the season, but Netflix hasn't announced a release date yet.

Here's the new promo poster for the show, which (of course) features a cup of hot coffee:

And here's the animated version, which gives you the sense of calm you need while you anxiously await the premiere:

Watch Lauren Graham confirm all the details on Ellen below. She'll probably give the world even more on Monday, when her full episode airs.

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Thanks to Team Jess vs. Team Logan, Gilmore Girls is a surprisingly divisive show (it's like, pick a side, guys). But if there's one thing that unites us in these dark, Dean-filled times, it's that we are all Rory. And we were all Rory before saying the sentence "We are all [insert random celebrity here]" was a thing.

Gilmore Girls aired from 2000 to 2007, when most of its viewers were high school girls the same age as the youngest Gilmore. Many of us faced the same classic teenage experiences: falling in love for the first time, getting into fights with our parents, leaving home for college, subsisting on a diet of pizza and Mallomars, and having everyone in our small Connecticut town be weirdly obsessed with us. (Okay, that last one is a lie). 

Rory was inarguably influential—if she cued up the new Arcade Fire on her iPod, so did we. If she dusted off a copy of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, we were right there with her. But Gilmore Girls ended when Rory was on the cusp of being not a girl, not yet a woman (thanks, Britney Spears), and we never got a chance to hear her thoughts on topics that are so important to us today. Is she voting for Hillary Clinton? Is she writing op-eds about abortion access in Texas? (Reminder: She's a journalist.) Does she have thoughts on gun control, LGBTQ rights, or Black Lives Matter? Or will her circa-2016 conversations with Lorelai be limited to safer subjects, like the rise of Squad Goals?

If you re-watch Gilmore Girls (which you should, because duh), it's clear that Rory and Lorelai are feminists. Between The Bangles obsession and Rory's reading list full of classics like Susan Faludi's Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women and Elizabeth Wurtzel's Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women, it's clear that these are girl's girls. But the show was incredibly limited by a) the teenage audience that was its core-viewership, and b) the fact that it aired on The WB and then The CW. 

Sure, Lorelai taught Rory how to unleash her inner Beyoncé and be a strong, independent woman (note the pro-choice poster in her dorm room)—but on the flip side, she didn't even consider having an abortion when she became pregnant as a teen. In fact, Christopher's parents floated the idea and it was met with shock and dismay, which is fine when viewed with a "her body, her choice" lens, but a little odd when taking into account Lorelai's feminist ideals. This isn't to say you can't be a feminist and choose to have a child via unplanned pregnancy—but with the tense reaction to even *identifying* abortion as an option, there was a definite sense that it was taboo in the early aughts Gilmore Girls narrative. (Which was likely a product of the show airing in a decade when they were rarely showcased on TV, let alone TV for teens.)

But the thing is, it's 2016. Female-focused network TV shows regularly touch on "divisive" subjects like abortion, sexism, and racism, while shows like Girls full on tackles them. Yeah, you might say, "Girls is on HBO and caters to millennial women," but Gilmore Girls is on Netflix and it also caters to millennial women—due in part to the fact that we've all grown up. To that point, we can totally see 30-year-old Rory being friends with Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, and Jessa—especially considering that they're all 30-somethings who graduated from elite schools and moved to big cities.

Like her imaginary Girls friends, Rory would probably have had several sexual partners, one near-brush with an STD, at least a couple on-line dating accounts, and a sassy knit sweater that says "A Woman's Place Is in the White House." But will the Gilmore Girls revival accurately portray her journey (as privileged and overwhelmingly white as it may be), or will Rory's biggest life challenge be deciding which one of her high school boyfriends she should hook up with? The fact that Jess, Dean, and Logan are a part of the revival makes us think the show might operate in a time warp where the only huge change in Rory's womanhood is her age as opposed to the vocalization of her beliefs. 

It's frustrating to think about Rory's character suffering from the confines of her own show, but maybe Gilmore Girls doesn't have to turn into some white-girl social justice manifesto that incites a bunch of think-pieces (ahem, like this one). Maybe it's fine to put our opinions on hold and take a trip back to a world where one Planned Parenthood poster is enough to satiate our thirst for girl power. It almost seems unfair and preemptively show-ruining to have entirely new expectations of grown-up Gilmore Girls, but it'll be pretty hard to look the other way if Rory is 30 going on 16 in the bougiest town in America—especially when racial and gender diversity in Hollywood make almost-daily headlines. There's no clear answer, but it's definitely something to think on while praying that Dean and Rory don't get back together. (Seriously, please no.)

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Sorry, internet prayer circles, Melissa McCarthy is 100 percent not joining her fellow Stars Hollow denizens on Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival. OR IS SHE? (No, she's seriously not...maybe.)

"I am thrilled that they are doing it," the star recently confirmed to ET. "I am not doing it."

McCarthy's statement to ET seems pretty concrete, but hold up: she also told E! that she doesn't think she's joining the cast.

"I don't think I am," she said. "I didn't actually get asked to do it. But I think they thought I was busy, and then by the time it did come up, then I actually was."

Can we all agree to live in a (possibly delusional) world where the word "think" means McCarthy is secretly going to make an appearance? Because there's no doubt that she misses playing Sookie: "I want to cook again. I want to put salt and then stir. That was seven years of my life and it was really great. I was proud of that show."  

Excuse us, gonna take a quick break and do this for a while:

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Aside from one photo of Dean trolling us with his hair flop, Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival has been pretty hush-hush. Here's what we do know: The show takes place over four episodes and features almost all of the main cast (minus Melissa "Uninvited" McCarthy). Here's what we don't know: Which dynamic duo is getting married—because yes, a little birdie tells us that a ring exchange is most definitely going down in Stars Hollow. And as the saying goes, there ain't no wedding like a Gilmore Girls wedding, 'cause a Gilmore Girls wedding is probably Renaissance-themed.

A fellow Gilmore Girls sleuth posted the below photo of a prop room while touring Warner Brothers, which features a giant candelabra clearly marked for the show's wedding set. Now, as far as we're concerned, there are only two relevant weddings that could take place: Lorelai + Luke or Rory + Dean. (Haha, just kidding, Rory + Logan—as if she'd ever marry Dean.)

After much analysis and discussion, we're thinking the style of this candelabra is slightly too old-school for Rory, who would presumably pick more contemporary decor for her big day. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is that Lorelai is finally getting married to Luke. Either that or Emily Gilmore is getting remarried to some random, which would be an even bigger blow than Jess' ego was that one time he did magic.

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Do you remember where you were on May 15, 2007? We were on our couches watching Rory leave her life behind to follow her career dreams.

It was the series finale of Gilmore Girls, the show that quickly became a mainstay in the pop culture zeitgeist. But as a nation united under Stars Hollow, we are also a nation divided—who among her love interests actually deserved Rory's heart? Was it her first boyfriend Dean, the labrador retriever of a human? Was it Jess, the angst-ridden bad boy whose literary intellect was rivaled only by Rory herself? Or was it Logan, the charismatic rich guy who had a lot of daddy issues? (Sorry, Tristan and Marty, but really, who are we kidding.)

All it takes is the slightest mention of any of these names at MarieClaire.com HQ for us to launch into an immediate—and heated—debate. As a group we've spent an embarrassing amount of time hashing out the nuances of Rory's dating life, and yet every single time someone so much as broaches the topic (which happens quite often, considering we run a newsroom that covers the Gilmore Girls revival as aggressively as a serious breaking news story), we launch right back into a whole new debate. 

So we decided to settle it right here, once and for all.

Let's Talk Rory

The thing that revealed itself to us, very early on, is that fighting the good fight of Which Boyfriend Is Best for Rory is hard when Rory herself can be, frankly, very annoying. (Good for TV, female characters, women, etc. Bad for making an argument for boyfriends.) She's naïve, doesn't really get how the world works (remember when she was only going to apply one school? That school being HARVARD??), and she's put on a pedestal by basically everyone which can't be good for homegirl's sense of worth IRL (she's very fragile, you guys). This, obviously, complicates picking the *best* suitor, but here we go. 

Team Dean Isn't a Real Team at All

Dean, while an adorable first boyfriend, morphed into this kind of stupid dope who cheated on his wife with Rory (her first time, mind you). Not a good look. As MarieClaire.com writer Mehera Bonner puts it: "Dean is barely a person."

We entertained Dean for as long as it takes to dismiss him. I'm sorry Jared Padalecki, hopefully the writers do Dean more justice this time around. 

Not even Dean is Team Dean.

Which brings us to...

Team Jess Sees Them as Soulmates

I'm unabashedly Team Jess, and not because I'm anti-Logan (he's alright but he just was a charismatic asshole who got less asshole-y, IMO). I just think Jess and Rory both needed to grow up and then they'd be perfect for each other. Mehera and social media editor Rosa Heyman are both TJ as well, so I'm not alone.

Here's what you need to know about Jess: Everyone who ISN'T into him says he's 1) angsty and 2) acts like a child. To which I say, 1) he was sent to live with an uncle in a town he doesn't know during high school so, yes, he's going to be angsty and 2) he is a child. But the important point to note is that when Rory starts dating Logan and drops out of Yale—because Logan's publishing mogul father is basically like "uh you're not going to cut it in this industry" and so she decides to try and steal a yacht and then drop out of Yale and be sad (see "Let's Talk About Rory")—Jess is the *only* one to wake her up and make her come back to reality. (Something she's not great at.) Not Logan, not Lorelai, not her grandparents—Jess. He comes back into her life after publishing a book that he wants to show her, realizes Logan is a dick, and heads out of dinner. And this happens:

She's a better person with him, you guys.

Team Logan Sees His Good Side

Logan is privileged and comes with a lot of family issues, but he works through them and gets in touch with his *feelings* thanks to Rory. At first he doesn't even want to date her, because he could hurt her—which is sweet, I guess. He encourages her to take risks and, you know, jump off things with umbrellas because she's gotta learn to live. 

But in all seriousness, everyone who is Team Logan (which includes our boss Jessica Pels and associate editor Lauren Valenti) loves that he 1) is charismatic, charming, and exciting AF and 2) he loves Rory, like, a whole lot. Which is true. I just don't think they were *the* match. 

But he was a good one for the most part. And they had great chemistry. No one can deny that.

So Who Should It Be?

Like Rory, all her men are flawed. Dean was kind of dumb and immature, Jess had some issues to work through, and Logan was bougie beyond all measure. 

While theorizing about where they are now/where the reboot might pick up, we concluded essentially three things: 1) Jess is probably an author 2) Logan works in consulting or runs some sort of publishing empire like his dad and 3) Dean is the new Taylor (AKA the town mayor)...or works at Dairy Queen.

But who will be with Rory? Considering one cheated on his wife to be with her, one cheated on her (okay, okay they were on a break), and one still hasn't slept with her/respects her for her mind and values her opinions, I think we can all agree who is the better fit. (It's Jess, you guys.)

MC.com writer Kaitlin Menza believes that the Gilmore Girls revival finale will take similar cues from Dawson's Creek finale, wherein Rory (like Joey) will have to choose between two men—which could very well be true. 

But honestly, like assistant editor Chelsea Peng states as someone who has never seen the show: 

Good point, Chels. Very good point.

Now it's your turn...

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