While "How's Annie?" felt like a cliffhanger in the best sense of the word, The Return's ending feels far more definitive to me. Not so much on a narrative level, because obviously there are plenty of unresolved stories that could be picked up in a fourth season, but spiritually and emotio...

The idea of Good Cooper fighting it out with Bad Cooper or, worse, BOB, was one of the things I was most dreading. Thankfully Lynch and co avoided it. Now, the question of whether using Freddie as the vehicle was any better is a valid one. Despite adoring The Return in general, I have to admit that ...

Not sure if it has been written here yet, but the English translation of "Jiao dai" is "to explain." Make of that what you will.

I'm not sure if there's a separate thread for this, but there's been some excellent and thought-provoking writing online today provoked by the finale. Especially from Indiewire and (surprisingly) Rolling Stone. The critical response seems incredibly enthusiastic overall.

I would kill for a final, happier ending for Laura, at least (I do not, at this point, expect her to come back to life). And to get confirmation that folks like Audrey, Shelly and Bobby turned out okay. But I don't think Cooper will ever come back from this even if the show returns. I think one way...

Genuinely astonished by how many people there are that didn't enjoy 18, to the point where there are multiple posters claiming they're in tears at how awful it was. I'd rate it as my second favourite episode of The Return after 8. Loved it. I think tonight's reaction is almost identical to what I r...

Genuinely astonished by how many people there are that didn't enjoy 18, to the point where there are multiple posters claiming they're in tears at how awful it was. I'd rate it as my second favourite episode of The Return after 8. Loved it. I think tonight's reaction is almost identical to what I r...

Does anyone have any thoughts about the incredibly disturbing Sarah Palmer scene, in which she smashes and stabs at the iconic Laura prom queen photograph? I'm assuming it's not a coincidence that right after it Laura disappears from Cooper's sight?

Honestly, the only unresolved thing that's driving me utterly crazy was who exactly was behind the door at the Palmer house giving "Mrs. Chalfont" the answers to Cooper's questions.

Can we talk for a second about the Cooper/Diane relationship? I did read "My Life, My Tapes," but I don't remember the apparent reference to something happening between the two of them at one point. Still, taking for granted that it's there, these episodes make it seem as if they'd been q...

Expecting the Season 4 announcement soon. That was no ending. It was kind of what I expected. An ending that would outrage and will take all of us together trying to put different interpretations to come to a handful of them that work for us (there will be more than one for sure). Spot on. A conven...

Lynch just out-Lynched himself. I absolutely loved every second, but what in the name of fuck.

Incidentally, to think that, back in Season 2, our prelude to the finale was Miss Twin Fucking Peaks. To me, that's sort of a perfect summation of how ultimately this new season, despite its flaws and frustrations, is operating on a completely different level to the original.

If this Diane was a tulpa, then what are we retrospectively meant to make of her scene with EvilCoop in the jailhouse? She seemed so genuinely disturbed and vulnerable there. Was it another one of the moments like in her last scene in Gordon's hotel room where the "real" Diane was struggl...

If this Diane was a tulpa, then what are we retrospectively meant to make of her scene with EvilCoop in the jailhouse? She seemed so genuinely disturbed and vulnerable there. Was it another one of the moments like in her last scene in Gordon's hotel room where the "real" Diane was struggli...