Another mega meta episode with references to O Brother Where Art There (chained escape, entering parables, and Ray's animal transformation), Blood Simple (the bloody hunt), A Simple Man (more parables and G-d intervenes), The Big Lebowski (narrator at the bowling alley), and Fargo (naturally), as well as Twin Peaks…

It is. However, if he is not the son of Audrey, Ben, or Jerry Horne, or some other relation, there is another theory: that he is the son of Johnny Horne and… (organ music) Laura Palmer, his private tutor. Tune in next week…

manslaughter ≠ man's laughter.

Yeah, you see this in the desert development where Cooper emerged. There is no more grass.

it remains one of the most profoundly beautiful and disturbing montages in motion picture history. I remember seeing it when it came out and feeling like it was the first real statement on how much this "Reagan era" was steeped in Hollywood nostalgia for the clean cut, pre-Viet Nam period of the 1950's. Then, the…

The way the brutalized, naked Dorothy intrudes on this scene is the perfect example of a master at work. The scene is already fraught with garden variety sexual tension and violence, as a drunk, jealous boyfriend confronts Jeffrey, but Dorothy's emergence from the shadows sends this tension through the roof. I…

I remember first watching Eraserhead in college on a little B&W TV at 2 AM. Couldn't get the sound of that "baby" crying out of my head for weeks.

Specifically, a 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin on a thirty-year-old John Deere 110 Lawn Tractor at a maximum speed of 5 mph (when not careening down a steep grade with the brakes out).

It was interesting, this crazy band, "Trouble," with Lynch's own son Riley on guitar, making their world debut on the Bang Bang stage with the song "Snake Eyes," while we are also introduced to the psycho son of a Horne, possibly the offspring of Audrey and Bad Cooper/BOB.

One possible psychological explanation is that, after coming home from Silencio, Diane wakes up from her Hollywood dream of Betty and Rita. We then see her memories, reviewing who/what in real life inspired who/what in the dream. But then, her grief, isolation, fear, and guilt trigger a psychotic break, driving her…

It was like the beginning of Alien 3.
"You liked the last one? Yeah, we're not doing that."

Geez, Louise! I hadn't even thought of that possibility.

I'm still kind of shocked, although not terribly surprised, at what a stone cold international Bondian super-villain Mr. C/BOB has evolved into. From hiding inside a guilty lawyer, to controlling a vast network of crime and information. Apparently, the pairing of BOB and Cooper's shadow self was a nightmarish…

Excellent point- very well put.

Christ on a bike! Me, too. Because, golly gee-whiz it's just about the peachiest keen thing since sliced wonder bread.

I think that's very possible. Her recognizing Mr. C and him saying "you follow human nature very well" is very suspect.

After all those years, they are not "deleted scenes," but "missing pieces."

Yes, now I remember, but he doesn't remember or can't comprehend his time there. right?

Right, sort of implying that it's been replaced by the Black Lodge, or that humans no longer have access to it.

Do we know much more than what Hawk's people believe, that "the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside, that "love" is the key to entering the White Lodge, the Black Lodge is the shadow-self of the White Lodge, and "legend says that every spirit must pass through" the Black Lodge "on…