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Although it never really seemed likely that Luke and Lorelai would split up, it was nice to see them reconcile. Their scene in the kitchen was sweet and Luke, especially, shines. The anxiety in his voice is palpable. He got a rare emotional speech and knocked it out of the park. As he is trying to convince Lorelai to stay, Luke goes over some of their history together and it is a nice reminder of how much they’ve been through. But he didn’t need to worry, because marriage was the change that Lorelai was looking for.

When she first appears, it seems that Rory (Alexis Bledel) has fallen back into her funk. She’s at the Gazette but the spark that came from putting out her first issue is gone. However, it quickly becomes pretty clear that not much will happen there. But that’s where first sign of the Life and Death Brigade’s impending arrival appears. Throughout the day, a lot of random, weird things happen, and Rory begins to think she’s going crazy. But it’s all actually part of the Life and Death Brigade’s plan to make an entrance. It’s nice how they teased and built up their arrival, and their intro scene was beautifully shot and had a nice dreamy/surreal quality to it.

Unfortunately, they are still jackasses. The show really wants to sell how fun and charming they are, but they’re actually terrible and annoying. The fact that they’re in their 30s but still run around in their little brigade is a good indicator of why their names aren’t worth remembering. Their life of privilege allows them to continue behaving like obnoxious, entitled children. For some reason the writers seem to think that lines like, “I’m bored, I think I’ll buy the club” are cute. But they just serve as further proof of how insufferable these trust fund babies are. And their awfulness always rubs off on Rory.

As usual, Logan (Matt Czuchry) is the mastermind behind this excursion. He’s trying to smooth things over with Rory since they’ve recently hit a rough patch. But there’s something odd about how audiences are just supposed to overlook the fact that Logan is engaged. And the show even tries to make Odette, Logan’s fiancée, the bad guy. It seems like the writers could have come up with a better reason to make Logan and Rory’s romance fail. The fact that he is cheating on his fiancée makes it hard to really care about their relationship falling apart. And their decision to stop seeing each other is not as honorable as the show wants to think it is.

Eventually, Rory realizes they have to put an end to this and sends him home. However, it’s a little puzzling to see how surprised Logan is. Having gotten what he wanted all his life, he probably did think he could keep seeing Rory even after he got married. So in a way, Rory declares her independence from Logan, but it would have been better if she hadn’t already done it at the end of Season 7. And it was handled better back then.

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