I don't know, how many lawyers wind up having to do community service? It's mostly petty criminals and drunk-driving kids, who just want to get the hours over with. The stakes are pretty low for the overseer, he just needs to initial two names for a few hours.

Nacho's story can go a few different ways besides the obvious one — we know that Hector winds up in a wheelchair, and that this may occur before Tuco is released from prison. Once Hector is out of commission, Nacho should have the runway he needs to exit the game. It probably won't play out that way, but it's not a…

When Dougie is transported to the Lodge, Mike says, "Someone manufactured you for a purpose, but I think now that's been fulfilled." Then Dougie's hand starts to shrink until the Lodge Ring falls off, and as soon as it does, his head disappears, replaced by black smoke.

No other Western European country has elected a moron on Trump's level, although France came perilously close. Western Europe is beginning to actively reject this inanity. Poland and Hungary have fallen to Trumpish movements, but this is less surprising given their historical status within Russia's sphere of…

Ah, totally forgot about that scene (I've only seen The Missing Pieces once). Okay, so maybe the Coopleganger killed that nurse and took the ring. There seems to be a pretty straight line between the Coopleganger, the ring, and Dougie Jones.

I think Dopplecoop is literally the dark side of Dale Cooper, with all of his knowledge, memories, FBI training, and investigative talent. This is why he's so dangerous, because he is exactly as capable as Cooper, but without his strong sense of morality. He also seems to have some Lodge-based electrical superpowers…

In FWWM, Annie appears to Laura Palmer in a dream and says, "I've been with Dale, and Laura. The good Dale is in the lodge, and he can't leave. Write it in your diary."

In the town of Twin Peaks, all the high school students look 25 or older, and nobody ages all that well. 31-year-old Seyfried playing a 24-year-old isn't that much of a stretch, compared to the original series' assertion that Sherilyn Fenn and the guy who played James were still teenagers.

My theory is that the Coopleganger tracked down Annie, killed her, took the Lodge's ring, and then used the ring to create a fully formed 40-year-old Dougie, as God created Adam from clay. Dougie had just enough memories to land an upper-middle-class job and form a family with Janey-E. In other words, I don't think…

I think this is indeed Lynch's longest commentary to date on white male privilege, although Lynch is not really all that race-conscious and I think he intends to comment more on suburbian superficiality in the vein of Blue Velvet.

They are two totally separate words. It's still not acceptable for a white person to say the one that ends in the letter A, it's just significantly less hateful than saying the word that ends in ER.

Wall Streeters are now Democrats. You know, the kind of Democrat that Bernie supporters hate. The reality is that urban conservatives are no longer representative of any significant constituency in the Republican Party. Any "token conservative" that the AVC might add to their Chicago offices would not really…

The country is already being transformed by this. You think other politicians haven't noticed that they're no longer constrained by centuries-old norms? Politicians have always worried about appearing corrupt or appearing to write off large segments of the electorate. Now they know they can do these things and still…

Because Netflix has created a new network paradigm that's kind of modeled on the old broadcast TV model, with very significant differences, and they're still figuring out how it works.

Whoa, I'm on the pro-Lynch side. I'm a 36 year old man and, like most men, I'll look at a younger woman's ass as it walks away. What I most appreciate about Lynch is the way he calls bullshit on the superego and speaks to the id.

But I've paid to see Tom Cruise play a straight man on many occasions. I don't complain that Tom Cruise is taking roles away from straight men.

Yeah there's always been a weird Lennon/McCartney dynamic to fandom's speculation — all the trippy shit becomes Lynch and all the goofy shit becomes Frost, even though we have far less to go on regarding their respective contributions than we do with the Beatles' songbook. Frost has undoubtedly come up with a lot of…

Lynch likes to implicate the viewer in his treatment of women. Lynch likes looking at that actress's ass, he knows most male viewers will like it, and then he reminds you with his camera that you're not an innocent bystander in any of this. This issue was always Roger Ebert's beef with Lynch. Either you accept that…

They've definitely been sealed shut. Reminds me of another thing — "Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see." We did see a masked eyeless spirit in FWWM, but this is another Lodge spirit who "longs to see."

Quality TV coverage takes time. I like the way the AV Club has handled streaming content — they usually don't wait a week between reviews, but they also don't expect their reviewers to watch 13 hours of drama and deliver 13 write-ups within a day or two.