Just to be sure, you've also watched "Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces" I hope.

This is natural. I'm glad all my other favorite shows are wrapping up next month for the most part, so I can give The Return the attention it requires.

In the house with the drug addict mom yelling "ONE ONE NINE!" you see a big red balloon, much like the one in Lamorisse's classic lying dead on the ground. But, in the still above with Janey-E Jones, you see another red balloon still somewhat afloat after the missed birthday. Each home contains an innocent child…

Or, these are just the dark recesses of our own world where "Mr. C" feels at home and operates within. It's certainly not the world of fresh pine smells and ducks right on the water, that's for sure.

I'd drink a tub of Carrie Coon's bathwater.

You nailed it- it's all about confronting the shadow-self. This year, we've also got Agent Cooper and Bob going at it like Legion and The Shadow King. As Jung (by way of Buddha) wrote: "Everyone carries a shadow… and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."

Katherine Kelly is easily the best thing about both those series, and her Quill is a great character, who deserves a better show.

I certainly did not consent to this.

I'm sorry to hear it, man. That all sounds very arbitrary and unfair. But, yes, there are so many more places where one can engage in more meaningful discussions and not be subject to random insults- to Hell with that!

Seriously? WTH? That site is like the 20-year-long train wreck.

I read the 15 going down to 3 as the eyeless woman sacrificing herself to lower the voltage, so that Cooper could escape without dying. Maybe all these numbers refer to the hidden voltage or frequencies of things.

Loved the double reference to North By Northwest in that scene, with the cheesy green screen driving that Hitchcock always used.

The "Missing Pieces" scene with Bobby and Laura in the Briggs' basement is incredible, and perfectly captures all of their enabling codependency. Bobby's reaction seemed to especially call back that scene, which would have been the last time he saw Laura alive.

It was all that, and hilarious, too, especially through the lens of The X-Files rivalry having happened in the interim.

I know, it's like, Fargo, Better Call Saul, The Leftovers, American Gods, Legion, etc… move down the bench. And I *ucking LOVE those shows!

Yes, it seems like Doug-E was made entirely out of appetites and extra Garmonbozia.

Definite call-back to "The Man in The Planet" from Eraserhead.

Carotid artery, which provides blood to the brain and face.

Emmit's death reminded me most of James Gandolfini's in the Coens' "The Man Who Wasn't There," which is also referenced in Varga's statement of being so unnoticed that he might not exist, (mirroring Gloria's low-to-no tech profile) and night flying saucers from another place in S2.

I loved the cops' reaction to drive this point home.