Our biggest clue that Nora was 'lying', or trying to console herself with a 'nice story': she wasn't vaporized (or didn't shed her skin et al).

I'm up for an 18 hour movie, but not a bad 18 hour movie.

In all honesty, I wasn't sure who wanted to be telling us the nicer story though. I initially took what she was saying at face value because of Lindelof's connection to Lost (which similarly posited a parallel universe to console us about the afterlife).

Sepinwall's review is mandatory reading, and cautions us not to take everything at face value.

The best thing about Wally Brando was watching Cera trying not to break character and burst into laughter - that shit was hilarious.

Stasi, Stussy.

I knew one of the Stussy brothers was going to die during that scene. I thought, however, that it was going to be Emmet instead of Ray and that the one would start impersonating the other out of envy (which, incidentally, is the plot of a great The Street episode featuring David Thewlis).

Given that the violence against women is deliberate and considered in Lynch's world, causal seems like it might be the wrong word. So I should clarify.

I find Blue Velvet vacuous, and (unlike the film) there is very little underneath the surface.

Parts of this was great (typically the new situations and characters) but most of it was just plain awful (the try hard or affected weirdness and casual violence towards women).

What's a good introductory episode? The reviews and comments are convincing me to check the show out, but it seems it takes a while for the show to hit its stride and the quality is variable.

My appreciation of the show seems to depend on which characters are on screen.

Count me (relatively) underwhelmed.

The show is starting to resemble misery porn, and it appears to take pleasure from luxuriating in other people's suffering.

The Artie Lang/Natalie Morales conversations were the highlight of the episode for me.

If anyone wants to see Aden Young in a very different role to Rectify, they should also check out the first season of The Code. It's hard to believe its the same actor.

I thought the arc of this review could have been calibrated better.

All I wanted was for the show to stop playing games or being coy about the bleeding obvious. There were some remarkable things about Big Little Lies, but storytelling and characterization were not among them.

So we ended up getting what we wanted and not what we needed (a heartwarming and tidy resolution with everything tied up in a pretty bow).

Chekhov's tiger was good for a laugh….but the entire season was a complete misfire because it was shooting blanks.