Fun fact: Lynch has now directed more hours of television than film.

Supposedly this is the song that Vedder's doing on the show.

It's even sillier than that. He didn't fake his death in an explosion. He was being walked away in cuffs at the time, and he set off the bomb in order to cause a distraction so he could make a run for it. Then Benson & Stabler chased him in the woods for a couple of minutes, heard a water splash, saw a pond, and just…

You'll have to wait. Three and Four are the only episodes that are being made available early.

There's something kind of hilarious about this scene, of all things, being the most polarizing thing of the first four episodes.

No follow-up yet, but my best guess is that Vegas guy and his boss are the people that "Dougie" owes money to.

My chief takeaway from that Cera scene is that Lynch must be a Tim & Eric fan (I'm not).

It’s actually much sadder than Anderson just turning him down. He’s gotten pretty unhinged over the years. At the time of filming, he posted some Facebook rants saying he turned them down because they didn’t offer him enough money. Then a bit later posted something implying that Lynch was a child molester. All quite…

What I love most about the tree is that it seems to have been something thought up on the spot after Michael Anderson refused to reprise his role. Think about the thought process that asks the question “How do we write around not having this actor?” and answers it with “We’ll turn him into an electric talking tree.”

I'm predicting that Bobby's a dirty cop. The way he seemed to have no idea how the drugs were coming in makes me suspicious.

He's credited as "Jean-Michael Renault" so presumably he's playing some new, previously unmentioned Renault relative.

Atmospherically at least, it's kind of stunning how many dialogue scenes there are with nothing but dead air as background noise. The original show would have Badalementi tracks for damn near every scene.

The truth is that whatever distinctions there are between "possessed by Bob" and "evil doppelganger" haven't really been established in any sort of practical terms. Cooper seeing Bob's reflection in the mirror is identical to how Bob manifested with Leland.

Showtime made a really bad call in splitting these two parts up on their streaming platform. The cutoff point for part 1 is completely random (it ends on the Dakota cops discovering the body part in the guy's trunk) and the way threads start intersecting in hour 2 makes pretty clear that these two parts were intended…

Lillard been doing good character work for a while at this point. We're probably going to have to quit being surprised by it pretty soon.

I like it because it increases the chances of a team running out the clock on the first drive and kicking a field goal as time expires, thus circumventing the extra possession rule.

Yeah, Lynch is wrong whenever he says they never should've revealed the killer. The mistake was doing it in the middle of the damn season. The creatives clearly needed a break to come up with a new central storyline but they were forced to improvise on the fly.

I'm going through my rewatch right now, and he is good for some unintentionally funny moments. I just watched him shout "Why?!" at the sky after Donna walked in on him making out with Maddy and stormed off. He seemed genuinely confused about why she was so upset.

I question if Amazon's willing to let Tambor be a major participant though. Networks usually have contractual restrictions on actors doing stuff with their major rivals.

Kind of surprised that Amazon would let the star of their biggest show moonlight with a show on their main rival. Wonder how reduced his role will be.