Rather than make this series any better, the return of the Coop we know and love puts this series' failings into even sharper relief. What we wouldn't have given for Cooper to have been there from the start. Honest question: How would the hyper-competent Cooper of this episode - who's now taken tim...

Well, I didn't hate this epsiode, but saying that I liked it better than most of the other ones is faint praise indeed. It just seems utterly stupid to me that all of these plotlines were set up, dragged out for about 15 episodes and then magically resolved with little warning. A lot of people have ...

I get what you're saying. It's not like I (as someone who has yet miles to go to somewhat warm up to The Return, if it'll ever hapen at all ) am someone whose viewing preferences can be (I say this at the risk of sounding disrespectful or elitist, though that's far from my intention) easily aligned...

SIGH ... this is so beautifully stated I could cry! Aces, man, truly. Very true. I'm honestly amazed at the acclaim for The Return given how difficult it is to connect with. Not that I don't respect that, it annoys me when ridiculously easy to connect with works (like The Shawshank Redemption) are ...

The only thing that could make me more afraid this year would be if they decided to make a sequel to BladeRunner... oh. Y'know, I really, really love BladeRunner. All five versions of it... The upcoming sequel fills me with apprehension because I have a feeling it will 1. dispense with plot and con...

Lynch has had plenty of folk tell him "no" over the past 30 years. Coincidentally, this resulted in his best work. For Blue Velvet, he was given a tiny budget, a derisory director's fee and was under contract to deliver a 2-hour movie. Apparently, his initial edit ran for about 3 1/2 hours...

Hey ABR, wish I were involved in those discussions! Just having friends would be nice, lol. Anyway yeah for me it's one of the worst things I've seen. Unfortunately that's in absolute terms not just relative the Original or the expectations I had. As per my post up the page I do have to admire the ...

The main problem with S3 is that the characters, such as they are, are wafer-thin and woefully underdeveloped. You cannot have a compelling drama without compelling characters. I mean, what the fuck is all that nonsense with Audrey and her husband? It's literally a waste of time. Their presence ser...

BadCoop - "Who ARE you? Who TF ARE you?" I wish we had a better sense of what he's been doing for 25 years. Has he been mooning around selling drugs and boning skanks? Or has he been doing magic Lodge stuff, 'doing the devil's work' style. He seems to have magic powers and capacity to som...

To say that Cooper would never have solved the Palmer case is a bit of a stretch. Saying that the murder was solved by Laura's spirit is an even bigger one. Remember, around the time Cooper finally apprehended Leland, the show was still (mostly) grounded in a sort of believable reality. Cooper's dr...

Ooooooooh-kaaaaaayyyy, I don't know how to multi-quote, but here are a few of my thoughts on some of the above posts. Lynch is teasing or trolling or whatever you want to call it. It's not as if the punishing tedium of the show feels to him like a more conventionally-paced show feels to everybody el...

I thought Part 14 was one of the best of the season. As with the other best ones, it becomes better the more I think about it. And yet somehow it, like The Return as a whole, also gets worse the more I think about it. How can I simultaneously say I'm quite enjoying The Return and consider what we'v...

Aqwell that was awesome lol Here's another one linked from Rotten Tomatoes : " And now, reluctantly – drag me to it, as if to a soft-play area or Debenham’s at sales time – we arrive at Twin Peaks: the Return (launched 22 May, 2am). Watching four episodes has been the endurance test of my midd...

Remember Judge Clinton Sternwood? He was in, if I recall correctly, precisely two episodes of Twin Peaks, yet he was a fully formed, rounded, nuanced and believable character. This was possible because actual screenwriters wrote those episodes. The major characters in the new Twin Peaks are not eve...

I'm still open to the possibility that the last four hours will be wonderful. Then we would have four great hours to cherish for years to come. I'm also very interested, once these frail shadows that we call Season 3 episodes have quit the stage, we'll meet in a thread where everyone can give a tho...