for the fourth time...wow, personally this is my favorite lynch work. questions for y'all this time around: 1. why do you think betty disappears right before rita opens the blue box? 2. how do you guys explain some of the more tangential scenes like the hitman screw up sequence / pool cleaner stuff...

I think maybe the original idea was an unnerving symmetry. This is done also in The Missing Pieces - the trio of scenes where LMFAP repeats the line of returning home. But I'm glad we got what we did, too. Mike's repetition of his Fire Walk With Me poem is, and this is the real risk of the idea of ...

Might see a "Many Sons of Newark" style flashback into the past where Harry, Hawk, Hank, Ed, Norma etc are high schoolers in the late 60s/early 70s, Leland and Sarah a young couple new to town getting ready to have a baby, Ben cheating on Sylvia with Doc Haywood's wife, etc, while Coop ja...

Now I am curious what the original plans were for Philip Gerard -- maybe he was only supposed to appear at the end of ep. 17, where he recites his poem and guides Cooper to Philip Jeffries?

Season 4: Shelly falls into a deep depression when "Invitation to Love: The Return" premieres and largely abandons it's late 80's soap opera roots.

Watchmen most closely resembles Lindelof's own Leftovers in its structure and post-crisis alt-present world, as well as Westworld in its puzzle-box withholding of twists as well as sci-fi topicality. I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but episode 6 of Watchmen seems to be indebted to Twin Peaks...

It seems the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has created a bit of an appetite for shows about showbiz in the 1950's -- perhaps On The AIr: The Return could capitalize on that? I really don't feel like there will be a S4 of Peaks. The ending of S3, however messy and inconclusive it might feel at times, brings ...

Richard and Linda (Thompson):

There's obviously a lot of differences between TPS3 and Watchmen, but there has been something vaguely S3-ish about the way Watchmen has allowed the Ozymandias plot to blossom patiently without a clear point or endgame in mind. Although last night's episode did a lot to actually explain his stor...

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Agreed... Best film I've seen in a few years.

I'd love to expound on how amazing it was, but I really don't want to spoil it

The disembodied hands give it a very Addams Family-crossover feel, ha. I guess this looks good? I don't have any VR/Oculus experience through which to compare this to. If they include the RR Diner, the Great Northern, The Palmer House, One Eyed Jack's, and I don't know, random stuff like Jacoby's of...

Since we are speculating on things written for actors who didn't appear, I wonder if the "imposter Phillip Jeffries" bit came about organically in response to David Bowie's passing. It's just such a minor plot point cited off-hand once or twice -- perhaps Lynch/Frost didn't always have tha...

That really is a head scratcher. And I don't buy that they just didn't have a place for her in the script. they shoehorned Gary Hershberger in for a cameo as well as Alicia Witt for two scenes with almost no dialogue. Agreed... But out of all the characters from the original series, Catherine Marte...

I'm actually generally okay with the Dick Tremayne stuff, at least pre-Little Nicky. Ian Buchanan just pulls it off, somehow. The Roadhouse courtroom bits just fall flat for me though. Back onto top 10 tv shows, my tastes don't include too much that hasn't already been praised in this thread. I like...

the Roadhouse trial scenes Yeah, people don't talk about the Roadhouse trial stuff, but it does kind of fall flat, for me anyway. I mean obviously it's Twin Peaks and I love it no matter what, but just contrast the Roadhouse trial to, I don't know, Leland's jailhouse confession an episode or two pr...