20 burning questions we need answered after watching 'Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life'

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Spoilers for all of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

If you're reading this, chances are that (like us) you spent the weekend bingeing Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life on Netflix, and not communicating with anyone that wasn't fictional and/or an incredibly fast talker.

But even after six hours of our Thanksgiving weekend Gilmore bender, it obviously wasn't enough to answer all of our Stars Hollow questions.

After that cliffhanger ending, we've got just a few questions we need to talk about, right now:


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1. So...Logan is 100% Rory's baby's father, correct?

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2. BECAUSE: I've seen some online discussion and that just seems silly. We know Rory didn't have sex with Jess, because if they were sleeping together, she wouldn't have been so excited to show him the sample chapters of her book (as she would have already seen him/told him).

AND: It's not the dude in the Wookie costume, because they hooked up in "Spring," and there's no way Rory is currently six-ish months pregnant, not showing, and hasn't told her mother yet, right? RIGHT?

(This goes without mentioning Paul, because we already forgot about Paul.)

3. That said? The final moments showed us Jess still definitely has a thing for Rory (#TeamJessForever). With Amy Sherman-Palladino saying she's always seen Logan as Rory's Christopher, does that mean Jess is Rory's Luke?

4. DOES THAT MEAN in a hypothetical future, Rory has a baby in Stars Hollow, Luke and Lorelai are the coolest grandparents ever, and Jess is...occasionally around to help out?

We already know he's a great dad.

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5. There's no way Paris and Doyle actually got divorced, right?

We don't see Paris actually sign the divorce papers, which we should take to mean that while Rory was busy Life & Death brigade-ing Paris and Doyle were off somewhere reconciling. Paris is probably bossing Doyle around, pregnant with kid No. 3 as we speak.

Feel free to adopt this theory into your own personal canon.

6. Who sent Emily that mean letter she brought up in therapy, if it wasn't Lorelai?

7. How has Taylor Doose not aged a day?

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8. What's the origin story for the secret bar of Stars Hollow?

9. Stars Hollow: The Musical—Broadway-bound?

10. How many Bernie Bros has April dated?

11. What does Hep Alien think of the current streaming wars?

12. Does Carole King's music not exist in the Gilmore-verse?

13. Why did no one tell us Digger got hot?

14. We're definitely getting a The Gilmore Girls real-life book at some point, yes?

15. How many people a year attempt to "go Wild" and discover they are wildly out of their depth? [Ed. A bunch, actually.]

16. Where are these poor boys' parents?

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17. How come we went to Chilton, but didn't get to see Max Medina?

18. How many times have Colin and Finn seen Across the Universe?

19. Did anyone else not realize Gypsy and Emily's new maid Berta were played by the same actress (Rose Abdoo)?

20. And, finally, where do we sign up for Emily's Nantucket whale class?

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It sounds absolutely perfect.

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