However, things could have been different.

Season 3 even included a sort of backdoor pilot in its penultimate episode.

How often does an enemies-to-friends story turn out so well?

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However,most of his character development happens off-screen.

However,Windward Circlecould have fixed that.

Jess is in a bad place during “Here Comes the Son.”

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He won’t graduate high school, and even the ever-loyal Luke lost faith in him.

Why Was the ‘Gilmore Girls’ Jess Spin-Off Never Made?

Despite hints of what could have happened,Windward Circlewas never made.

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Nor would the backdrop of Venice Beach have the samecozy feeling as the small town of Stars Hollow.

Alexis Bledel and Milo Ventimiglia as Rory and Jess arguing on the street in Gilmore Girls.

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A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.

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