Everything you need to know before watching the Gilmore Girls revival on Netflix

Lorelei is learning to cope with the demands of being a boss, and with her surprising relationship with Luke: the whole town soon knows they are dating. Christopher reappears on the scene when Sherry abandons him and their daughter.

Rory is in her second year at Yale, and dating Dean who quickly and messily separates from wife Lindsay. However, Logan Huntzberger soon appears on the scene, making a poor impression but later attracting Rory's attentions. Dean and Rory split again, and Logan and Rory make it exclusive. But when Logan's media magnate father crushes Rory's journalistic ambitions during an internship, Rory decides to drop out of Yale.

Also in this series: Luke helps Liz and T.J. with their Renaissance Fair booth. Paris' older man Asher dies. Sookie's husband Jackson wins a campaign for town selectman but can't handle the duties. Sookie has another kid. Richard and Emily reunite, and neither are fans of Luke. Lane gets together with band mate Zach.

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Episode 3, Written in the Stars Hiding a relationship in Stars Hollow? Fat chance. After a date in which Luke reveals he has kept the horoscope Lorelei gave him the first time they met, Lorelei stays over at the diner - and wanders downstairs to get coffee in the morning to find the whole town staring at her. Rory meets rich Yale student Logan and thinks he's a jerk.

Episode 7, You Jump, I Jump, Jack Logan, who is falling for Rory, helps her get her story on secret society The Life And Death Brigade. He and his friends whisk her away into the woods, but Rory is more than an observer: she must also take Logan's hand and bungee jump from a very tall platform.

Episode 22, A House Is Not a Home Rory's had terrible feedback from Mitchum Huntzberger, and it causes a major identity crisis. In fact, Lorelei is driving her home from the police station after she – with Logan in tow – decided to do something crazy and steal a boat. Without telling her mum what really happened, Rory decides to drop out of Yale. Lorelei's not a fan of that plan but Richard and Emily decide to let her live with them in the pool house instead. Impressed by Luke's love for her and her daughter, Lorelei proposes.

Season six

What you need to know: The Gilmore Girls have fallen out before, but this is serious. Rory is living in her grandparents' pool house, doing community service for stealing the yacht and working at a job which Emily arranged: not the Rory everyone knew and loved. Lorelei is hugely hurt.

But while things are going well between Rory and Logan (except for a row about him sleeping with other people while they were split up – think "we were on a break!"), she gets the push she needs when Jess turns up. He reveals how he has turned his life around – shocking her into reconsidering her own decision and returning to Yale.

Luke and Lorelei are engaged, but Luke suddenly finds out he has a daughter when a girl called April Nardini pops into his diner to DNA test him for a school science project. He doesn't know how to tell Lorelei, and when she finds out, it drives a wedge between them, and it may not be possible to repair.

Also in this series: Lorelei adopts a dog, Paul Anka. Lane and her band have been on tour. Lane and Zach get married. Paris is editor of the Yale Daily News but she goes off the rails, so the staff replace her with Rory. Logan's dad forces him into the family business, but when Logan has a serious fall, Rory is the only one who steps up to look after him.

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Episode 7, Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number The Gilmore Girls had always planned to spent Rory's 21st birthday in Atlantic City, sipping martinis, playing 21. But as Rory and Lorelei are estranged, Emily plans the birthday instead – and it's way less fun. Rory also has to contend with her mother's pastor, who has been sent to tell her not to have sex: "It is a gift you can only give to one man. Once you give it, it's gone, you cant re-gift it. If you give it away too soon, to the wrong man, then when the right one does come along, you have no gift to give... you'll have to buy him a sweater." Rory breaks the news that the "ultimate gift ship" has said. But on the upside, Lorelei and Rory finally talk.

Episode 13, Friday Night's Alright for Fighting Paris has completely lost her grip on the Yale Daily News, becoming so impossible that most of her staff has quit. Rory takes control, and with Logan's help she gets the paper out on time. Meanwhile, Lorelei tells her parents they no longer need to pay for Yale, and the whole thing leads to a major confrontation at Friday Night Dinner.

Episode 20, Super Cool Party People Lorelei wants to meet April and help organise her birthday party, but Luke pushes her away. However, when the whole thing is a disaster he calls on her for help - giving Lorelei a chance to bond with April. The kid's mum unfortunately is not a fan of this. Rory rushes to the hospital when Logan is injured.