A coma. Her school-age reference to Charlie's "homework," the rotary phone, the lack of a computer, the aged set, her total absence from Richard's story, her dream and Charlie's sleepiness.... IMO it's an elegant mirror of Dale's removal from the world for 25 years. The good Audrey is in a...

TINA: "What story is that, Charlie?"
TRICK: "The name's Trick, Angela."
TINA: "Fuck you, Billy."

Well I'm warming to the willful frustrations of Part 12. I haven't stopped thinking about Audrey and Charlie and the strangeness of their scene, which suggests to me it worked and will eventually pay off. I don't believe the scene is set in our waking world. Audrey is frozen in place but wants to le...

Audrey relapses into a coma.

This was the first time in The Return that I've found it a chore to finish a part. It just didn't gel for me. It felt like mostly leftovers, filler and repurposed footage. I did love Diane entering through the red curtains, Carl's display of kindness and his advice against selling blood, Cole's new ...

What if the traffic Candie was talking about is the traffic in Twin Peaks that Bobby ran into? Wow. That hadn't occurred to me, but I like it. I don't know what that implies about Candie - is she empathically attuned to Twin Peaks? - but at the very least it makes an associative link between scenes.

I can appreciate why fans disappointed by The Return might hope for another season, but I doubt it's likely and I wouldn't even want it. I'm just enjoying this miraculous gift of 18 hours. Every story needs to end, and after 25 years Twin Peaks is getting one crafted by its co-creators. That's more ...

I have a feeling that Bobby's arc is going to end in a warm embrace with his father on the veranda of a vast estate.

I think they'll address it through the character of Candie. Either she is Annie or she's Annie-like (maybe an entity created by the lodge). Still hoping Heather Graham might pop up, but it's not looking very likely. Ditto some others. I don't see Annie in Candie, but I still believe Annie may be Ja...

If Janey-E doesn't win this truly we are living in a dark, dark, age. But I think I love all of them.

As for Bushnell, the way he's been working out I bet he clocks somebody next episode. Maybe Hutch.

Cooper gets pulled through the lodge and exits whole in Twin Peaks. One of the first things he does is ask for a phone. Because he's a conscientious guy he calls Janey-E. He says he's in Twin Peaks, and though he can't explain, he's not the man she thought he was. Janey-E tells Sonny-Jim they're tak...

Lynch and Frost have been subverting my presumptions brilliantly since the start and I love them for it. All along, the one thing I knew for certain was that I would hate that Jim Belushi played any part in this. And now: "I love this guy!" And every time I thought I knew where we were hea...

Maybe my biggest wish of all is that we are left with mystery. I never expected we wouldn't be, until episode 9 and Hasting's confession. IMO that was too much information and it killed my interest in Buckhorn. It's how "I'm not gonna talk about Judy" gives us mystery, and "Here's who...

I've fallen in love with Naomi Watts as Janey-E and hope Lynch and Frost see her through safely to Part 18. IMO she's one of the miracles of The Return.

And since we're talking wishes, I still have one that we see Bowie.

And of course more Mike, more Zone/Lodge, and Sheryl Lee.

I really like how Lynch and Frost continue to subvert my assumptions about the characters. After we were introduced to Stephen, I had the impression he was more a weasel and the local loser than an abuser. So his reintroduction in full-on, snot-faced, out-of-his-mind rage was maybe the biggest shock...