There's some evidence that Breitbart's traffic was artificially inflated by Russian bots, leading the traditional media to cover Bretibart as a far larger and more influential organization than it really was. After the inauguration, Putin turned off the bots.

I wonder why NRA members aren't more interested in selling guns to black people, LGBT people, and immigrants. These are the people most in need of owning a gun to protect themselves from an oppressive government.

Maybe the future looks like a worse version of this, and future historians are going to look back at the pre-Trump era with abject horror.

Way back in the original series (S02E09), Leland explains how he became possessed by Bob. He claims that while staying at his grandfather's vacation home in Pearl Lakes, he met a neighbor named Robertston. It's implied that Robertson sexually molested him, and Leland says he eventually "let him in". Cooper then…

Journalists have always made mistakes as part of the process. The important thing is that they correct these mistakes when they are discovered. The answer isn't that the news media can never ever make a mistake in the Trump era. That's just holding the media to Trump's standard — which, I'll give you a hint, but…

Hmm? There is only one other mention of Pearl Lakes in the franchise, and it's the place where Leland met Bob. The boy is about the right age (people are saying it makes Leland a few years too old in Season 1, but this is a franchise that cast a bunch of 25 year olds as teenagers). The boy and girl are credited as…

There's always been the suggestion that Laura had outsized significance to the Lodge residents that went way beyond her stated role as a source of pain and sorrow. They went to a lot of trouble to try and corrupt her spirit, and it never made sense to me that extradimensional beings would care that much about the…

The last time I rewatched Season 2, I pictured Burgess Meredith's Penguin interrupting a Windom Earle rant and saying, "You're overacting."

The PalmOrb scene is sad because it strongly suggests that Laura Palmer was sent to earth for the sole purpose of suffering Bob's abuse, for reasons that only make sense to the Giant. Laura was always fated to be raped and murdered by her own father.

Leland Palmer's grandfather's vacation house was identified in the original series as being in Pearl Lakes, so the boy we saw in this episode was almost certainly Leland. I'm backing off my earlier theory that the girl was Sarah Palmer, but it seems that Bob possessed Leland via his interactions with the girl.

Reading between the lines of that interview, it sure seems like Middleditch had an "I'm the star!" attitude on set and felt he was being upstaged by Miller, and it caused a lot of tension in the workplace. I'm sure that happens all the time behind the scenes of every TV show with an ensemble cast, but it's pretty…

You're all making good points. (Lynch apparently disagrees with me, but I do think bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives). What's throwing me off is the dates — why not say Bob was born in 1945, rather than 1956? That time jump only seems to exist in order to line these events up better with Laura Palmer's…

That is my interpretation of the season-opening black and white sequence.

Well, if doing that allows Laura Palmer's soul to enter the world and help save it from Bob, then isn't that worth interrupting an evening radio broadcast and killing two employees?

In my opinion, Fire Walk With Me corrects this oversight — Bob turns into Leland during Laura's murder and says "I always thought you knew it was me!" The whole movie makes it clear that Leland isn't some passive vessel, as stated during the series. Leland knew what he was doing.

Maybe the Woodsmen aren't fully evil.

The frog-beetle girl could be Sarah Palmer, right? Laura Palmer was 18 when she died in 1989, which would place her birth around 1971. Sarah didn't exactly look like a young mom, so if she was a teenager in 1956 she'd be in her early 30s by 1971.

I'm not all that upset about the Marvelification of Star Wars, likely because the prequels so thoroughly ruined the property for me that I'm satisfied with workmanlike remixes of the original trilogy.

This is what I come up when I parse the logic of the "tapes" gambit:

The deepest idea this franchise has ever produced is right up there on the poster in four words!