All the Gilmore Girls Seasons: RANKED

Where they lead, we will follow. Welcome to MsMojo and today we're ranking all the Gilmore Girls Seasons. For this list, we’re counting down our favorite seasons of this show, including the 2016 miniseries. #8: Season 7 Most fans would agree that the final season of “Gilmore Girls”’ original run is its worst. Sadly, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who created the show originally, left after the sixth season following the merger of the WB with UPN that created The CW, so the other writers were left to wrap up all the storylines without her. Lorelai marries Christopher soon after ending her engagement to Luke, Rory and Logan do long distance and he eventually proposes to her in a totally painful scene. Lane’s awful experience with sex and immediately getting pregnant is definitely a dark mark on the series. While we like that it all ended with Rory focusing on her career rather than her love life, there were just too many bad storylines here for it to land anywhere else in our ranking. #7: “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” (2016) While the original run of the show may have wrapped in 2007, the Gilmore girls were back nine years later in “A Year in the Life”. To say that this new content was divisive would be an understatement, so it’s tough to decide where it belongs on this list. On the one hand, it was great to get to see all our favorite characters again but on the other hand, we were kind of disappointed by where they all ended up. Rory was blowing it at being a journalist and having an affair with Logan, while Luke and Lorelai seem to have somehow never resolved any of their old issues. Also that last scene? We still can’t decide how we feel about it. #6: Season 6 As with many shows, “Gilmore Girls” began to decline as the seasons went on, and as the second to last season of the show’s original run (and the final one the creator worked on), season six ranks pretty low. The obvious reason why this season isn’t as beloved as the others is that Lorelai and Rory are essentially not speaking for half of it after Rory decides to quit school. Not only that, but it also marks the arrival of April, who seems to exist purely to ensure that Luke and Lorelai can’t simply be happy together. Not to mention "A Vineyard Valentine", which has to be one of the most awkward episodes of the series and features Rory cooking and going to the gym. #5: Season 5 After the excitement of the season four finale (which we’ll get to later), the beginning of season five involved dealing with a lot of consequences- Rory deals with the fallout of sleeping with her married ex-boyfriend and Lorelai and Luke start a relationship. As the season goes on, we see Rory kicking off her relationship with Logan, which brings on a whole new set of conflicts, culminating in Rory’s complete downfall. There are some great moments in this season, like the entire Life and Death Brigade episode and Emily and Richard finally getting back together. #4: Season 4 The fourth season marked a major change on the show, with Rory moving away from Stars Hollow to attend Yale. This sort of storyline can easily have a negative effect on shows, but the creators managed to pull it off, always finding ways to bring Lorelai and Rory together. We love the episode where Lorelai helps Rory get settled in at school, and Jess returning to ask Rory to run away with him. The highlight of the season though is the developments in Luke and Lorelai’s relationship, which sees them finally going from friends to something more. When the season wraps, the two have kissed, Rory has lost her virginity to Dean, and we know we’re in for some major drama to come. #3: Season 1 While many shows take a while to get their stride, “Gilmore Girls” starts off strong right off the bat. The dynamic between Lorelai and Rory is established early on, though Rory’s personality is definitely a little more defiant and rebellious in the early episodes. Watching Rory’s relationship with Dean develop is exciting, as they share their first kiss and get in trouble for falling asleep after a big dance. Everything was simpler in season one, but it also sets up the major conflicts of the series: Lorelai’s flightiness with men, Rory keeping secrets from her mom, Christopher showing up at the wrong time and ruining things and of course Emily and Richard trying to manipulate everyone around them. #2: Season 2 There are so many great things going on in the second season of the show that it’s hard to know where to start. It kicks off with Lorelai planning and then subsequently cancelling her engagement to Max, and not long after we meet one of the pivotal figures in the world of “Gilmore Girls”: Jess. When Luke’s bad boy nephew shows up in Stars Hollow, he turns everything upside down, including Rory’s seemingly perfect relationship with Dean. The season finale has to be one of the best and most bittersweet episodes of the entire series, with Lorelai finally getting together with Christopher again, only to have it ripped out from under her, and Rory unexpectedly kissing Jess. #1: Season 3 The third season is undeniably the show’s peak, featuring Rory’s senior year at Chilton (and her graduation, which never fails to make us shed a tear) as well as the culmination of the great Dean vs. Jess debate. Paris has sex, Rory gets into Harvard (and decides not to go), Sookie and Lorelai try to buy an inn and Rory tries to make her mother the world’s largest pizza. We get to see a flashback to a pregnant Lorelai debating what to do with her life and the girls have to go to four different Thanksgivings. It doesn’t hurt that this season features the single best episode in the entire show: "They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?" AKA the dance marathon.