I assumed she meant The Experiment/Mother, the symbol for which appeared above one of the mountains on Hawk's map.

She has done a fantastic job, especially given how challenging this particular show must be to review.

Yes, hospital basement iirc.

The Theresa Banks murder in particular seems like it was at least as much about Leland's self-interest as about Bob's direction.

>I don't think that EM is also the frogbug, because you see it hatch from an egg that EM vomited up.

Before this episode I thought the bug crawling into the girl's mouth was just meant to be an evocative, nightmarish image that connects with many of the themes of that episode and the series as a whole, i.e. the end of innocence due to inviting a new evil into the world (building the atomic bomb). I seriously doubted…

So far it shapes up as his masterpiece. Can he stick the landing though? I have full confidence.

The way I am thinking about the roadhouse vignettes has to do with a passage from Infinite Jest that talks about "figurants," which are the extras on a TV show that sit around and silently mouth fake conversations at each other. The example given is the random extras in the "Cheers" bar. And the passage is from the…

It was pretty absurd. Total callback to the scene from the pilot where Mike and Bobby bark at James.

Sarah doesn't react to the glitches in the audio she's hearing either. Maybe the residents of Twin Peaks have become accustomed to time being f'ed up.

I also felt like there were slight variations in the audio that was looping.

I agree. I think the "something in my kitchen" last episode was Sarah in a different timeline. Like the scene in Inland Empire where Justin Theroux investigates the noise in the soundstage and later in the movie we learn it was Laura Dern's character in a different timeline.

They may have opened the tube right away, but they STILL haven't visited the coordinates it pointed them to!

Not sure I understand the negative reactions to Audrey's demeanor. We're meant to know basically nothing about her marriage or her life or what she's upset about…so why would we be judging her negatively for any of it? Seems like there's something about a woman being angry at a man that makes people uncomfortable.…

I think that's totally fair. I also think Lynch has an affinity for actors who give slightly stilted performances because it can add to the dreamlike quality of his work. See also Naomi Watts, an amazing actress intentionally playing well over the top in the first two thirds of Mulholland Dr as well as TP The Return.

He was fantastic. What a genius, out-of-nowhere casting choice.

Something about the initial shot of Miriam from across the road made it look like she was wrapped in plastic. Got my heart racing in a bad way.

Bobby Briggs as a character and Dana Ashbrook as an actor are both light years ahead of where they were in the original show. Almost all the acting in The Return is stellar really, including returning cast like Ashbrook and Beymer who were really pretty terrible in the original, though I've always thought that Lynch…

Seriously overrated show. Justin Theroux doesn't have the chops for that role, plus his character always struck me as pretty unpleasant and rude. I would've quit after season 2 if 3 hadn't been the final season. It was one of those shows I just kept watching because I didn't know what the hell was going on and vaguely…

I think Chuck was verging on suicidal and knew Jimmy would check in on him once he heard about HHM, so he put on a show for Jimmy much like he did for Howard earlier. Once that was done he felt free to descend into the abyss that was beckoning him.