No, but Tom Waits *was* evoked in my mind when Reznor was doing his maniacal laughter bit in the song; the toothy grin and shades reminded me of Waits circa Franks Wild Years..

I'm maybe 6 episodes into a S1&2 re-watch; been watching between episodes of S3 - I haven't seen these episodes for the full 25 years.
And *so far* S2 has been great, and in no way has the quality dipped from S1 - I'm in for a tough two weeks while I wait for episode 9, aren't I?

Absolutely Emily deserves huge kudos for all of her reviews thus far and tonights was some of her best work yet, perfect balance of analysis and re-cap.

I couldn't really see any Kafkaesque elements to this particular episode, this was pure unleashed visual language.

I hear ya; I too was frozen on the spot, not sure if I blinked nor breathed throughout - I *did* however let out the tiniest of chuckles when Laura's golden orb was deposited into our world, that visual was just so charmingly funny.

it was a Lynchian homage to Kubrick/Malick and goddamn if it wasn't a feast for the eyeballs and braincells.

*Star Wars* is old.
- and if you think my demographic isn't among the biggest investors in and propagators of the Star Wars market you'd be dead wrong.

cheers for the double dipped Simpsons snark; those quotes would be 20+ years old themselves.

Give it another 30 more movies, people will start to branch out and look for something new. Maybe.

The sad thing is there still appears to be a huge audience for this crap - same with fucking Star Wars - I was born in '74, so Star Wars blew my tiny mind when it dropped - but that was *40 fucking years ago* … these days I give zero fucks about the Star Wars universe, which, let's face it, is a 'franchise' (a term…

props to Gwen, she wins this round - My Sharona came on the radio the other day, I hadn't heard it in quite a while, but goddamn if it isn't just powerpopperfection. The guitar solo is wonderful too.

Murderer.

I've slung a fair bit of praise around here recently for quality reviews that I've read etc. - but you're right, that was shithouse.

haha; naaah - the 1-1-9 chick is terrifying!

I tried; he wasn't taking calls ..

the Head.

I can relate to that; I hate work!
stick it to da man Ontkean!

that kinda calls Mark Frost's integrity as a son into question, which is a big call indeed.

also she may have wanted to confront the person who abused her in an effort to gain some closure from a horrifying experience.

Sonny Jim is adorable!