I'd assume so. He knew to ask "How's Annie?" when he first talked to Truman and Hayward (though maybe he also knew something about Annie from Earle having just brought her to the Lodge).

I suppose it's possible that he just escaped from that cabin and wandered off again and nobody in Twin Peaks really knows what happened to him after he first woke up and attacked Shelly.

There's now a candidate named Doug Jones running for Senate in Alabama. I think at the next debate, he should hire Kyle MacLachlan to show up instead and just repeat the last three words everybody says while drinking coffee and eating chocolate cake.

I saw that scene as just another reflection of how the town's emotional and moral "health" have declined over the years. It always had its dark side, of course, but it feels like some of the more reprehensible behavior is taking place more openly now. In the original series you wouldn't have seen two guys treating…

Tarantino-esque aesthetic isn't entirely foreign to Lynch, particularly in Wild at Heart and Lost Highway. Maybe it's Barry Gifford's influence? Though I'd agree that I don't particularly like it when it pops up.

Or maybe they just prefer not to interact too much because it reminds them of things they'd rather not be reminded of, even if they're not holding a grudge. Though given that famous scene when Bobby, Mike, and James are all locked up at the same time, maybe we might have seen one of them give the other a sort of…

I hope for Bobby and Shelly's sake that she's still alive. Those two have been through enough hell for five lifetimes as it is.

That's a good point. Like you, I'm not sure how much Lynch and Frost would be thinking in those terms, but it makes sense that Twin Peaks would not be in good shape economically.

Could be. Another parallel is that in the original series, there weren't any cops on the take in Twin Peaks, at least none that we knew of, whereas now there's at least one (Chad), just like Deputy Cliff from Deer Meadow was. OTOH, at least Twin Peaks still has a competent and responsible sheriff, and Norma and Shelly…

Others have mentioned this before, but maybe it didn't fully hit home until the close of the episode with Big Ed: it seems like the town of Twin Peaks has become a pretty grim, sad place. In the original series it had its dark and disturbing secrets mixed with the endearing quirkiness, but there was room to hope that…

IIRC, it was hinted in Frost's "Secret History" book that these are probably not "aliens" in the sense of extraterrestrials who came here from other planets, but rather supernatural/paranormal beings who are responsible for UFO sightings *and* a number of other strange events in human history. And in the original…

I'm wondering if Diane's situation could be a little more straightforward than that and she's somehow been hypnotized or blackmailed by Mr. C. It's difficult to see what she gets out of collaborating with him unless she's always been corrupt and had been selling FBI secrets to criminals back when she worked there, in…

I didn't necessarily see the fan as part of Leland's character *or* as a symbol so much as just a mood-setting, inexplicably creepy image that's part of Lynch's unique M.O. I've said before that he must be one of the few directors capable of making a piece of furniture scary.

I actually did laugh at Ben getting sidetracked with nostalgia about his bike and at the French woman taking so long to leave the room. Though if you didn't tell me the name of the writer/director in question or the series and just told me, "septuagenarian writer/director plays a character in his own work and has a…

I had a hard time feeling too much sympathy for Audrey given how verbally abusive she was towards the guy. Obviously this isn't a healthy relationship and I could see how his slow-paced reticence might be annoying, but I didn't think he deserved all that vitriol either.

Yeah, he still seems to be himself in the Lodge scenes of episodes 1-3. It's not until he re-emerges in Dougie's place that he seems to have lapsed into amnesia/catatonia.

I think it's #2. I wasn't sure at first if there was something supernatural going on with the sick kid, but given the lack of follow-up I think she was just vomiting or we'd have seen Bobby and her mom react in a way other than just being alarmed and/or nauseated (e.g. like the cop who got sick when he poked his head…

Sam Stanley was one of the funnier characters in FWWM. If he got trapped in the Lodge, he'd probably just wander around the various versions of the red room estimating how much the couches and statues are worth.

Frank and Jesse could almost star in a Hot Fuzz-style parody of Twin Peaks, with Frank as the experienced, serious professional and Jesse as the overeager partner. Chad could be the main villain.

I also got the sense that Albert's "But smoking is bad for you!…I know - 'Fuck you, Albert'" might have been him purposely trying to put up a front of continuing their snarky banter so that she wouldn't realize that he suspects anything.