Your opening question is "Why is anyone excited about this project given the way the original project was received?"

Yet that is what happened. And it was the precise caprices of the audiences that made it so.

It was all those butts.

Isn't that all the more reason to be excited? The Twin Peaks universe revisited with Lynch's complete investment, without the interference of network notes or censorship, and conceived beginning to end as a narrative whole. That pushes us potentially close to Fire Walk territory.

Except that's not how a network show works, not now in the era of auteur-television, certainly not then.

The show let us down precisely because Lynch ceased his involvement. Now he's doing every episode, something not even the best run of the show can boast.

Not likely. Didn't he cite Red Dragon as "pornographic", being the reason he passed on the film all those years ago?

Scott mentioned that Gilly wanted to do a Marissa Wompler episode, which never happened, so maybe Womp It Up?

Hell, there's at least 5 major ones coming out this year, at least two of them serious Oscar contenders.

Brad Pitt and George Clooney are pretty much the exemplary example of A-list indie actors.

If you can't sleep at night, it's not the coffee, it's the bunk.

Cheang is easily one of Hong Kong's best working today, although Monkey King makes me question his move to Mainland blockbusters.

It's another casualty of Prince and his newfound faith.

The third one was the best one. Fuck the haters.

The president doesn't have as much pull as people think. And this was purportedly not the film he stumped for.

Everything I've heard is that it was the film he was actively campaigning for, but the jurors weren't having it.

Oh man, when they finally told Chevy he was being filmed, boy did he get pissed.

Who'd think the IRS would go after organizations with the express goal of getting rid of taxes?

Regional celebrities count as unknown.

Shoes, odduck! The family hangs little shoes on our Christmas tree.