This is the first episode of A Year in the Life that's actually pretty good. There are still some off moments (The thirtysomethings, the ending, etc.), and the musical was just horrible. (You can make something amusingly bad without actually torturing your audience in real-life.) But the rest of the episode could actually pass for Gilmore Girls. There are actually several funny moments in this episode, and people largely act like themselves instead of like alien corpses reanimated by Netflix designed to torture audiences. Some people actually use their brains in this episode (the ending not included). It was good to see and while still very flawed, it was way better than the first two episodes.
