I like the character, can't say I really knew anything about Chrysta Bell prior to the Return - people are so uptight about her flaunting her sexuality, I think she's been awesome though, and I just like the *look* of her, Albert and Cole together.

Agreed; re-watching the original two seasons 26 years on, Dana Ashbrook really shines out and the writers clearly have a lot of fun with his character.
He's been re-integrated into S3 really well.

I too was a bit disappointed with Emily's assessment of this particular episode, mainly because I've agreed with most of what she has written in her reviews throughout this season, and because she has made some killer insights along the way.

interesting that we got a bit of backstory for Dougie Jones tonight too; was it '97 that he seems to have come into existence?
Car crash?

https://www.youtube.com/wat…

the dancing scene and the scene where Franco cooks are the only interesting things about S3.

Did it have a group of mis-matched heroes who learn to work together as a team to overcome a big baddie with intentions to dominate/destroy the world/universe? With a big, reeeeally spectacular showdown at the end?

I'm not how sure how extensively Fripp worked with Blondie, but he recorded maybe two things with Talking Heads - and I wouldn't say he had much affect on their sound at all.

………. as it was made in Australia (as the article - and the ABC stamp - tells us)

I don't think that's what happened, but you did temporarily blow my mind.

I tend to agree; it basically came across as a mutant - not dismissing the possibility that it was some manifestation of Laura, but my money'd be on Bob.

hell I absolutely adore the Straight Story - but Eraserhead/Blue Velvet/Lost Highway/Mulholland Drive are like faces of stone in his oeuvre …

I'd start with Blue Velvet and go onto Lost Highway, but the Return should be sufficient grounding to go into Mulholland Drive ..

I was chatting with someone recently about Dennis Potter, apparently Lynch is/was an admirer - I've only seen the Singing Detective and Cold Lazarus, but there's an episode or two of the Singing Detective that would qualify for sure; that mini-series was *decades* ahead of its time.

wow, thank you! still basking in the afterglow of episode 8, how lucky are we

well that's kinda my memory of it too - I hold some small hope that there might be some enjoyable nuggets between then and the finale, but my dusty memory says otherwise - it was a pretty alarming drop ..

yyyeaaahhh … ok.
I'll allow it.
I'm sure you're relieved! :-)
I thought the Dougie episodes definitely had Barton Fink feel ..

absolutely it is fairly straight forward - the visual language used to tell that story though is so inventive and artful as to invest it with more weight and depth.

The thing is, it's been like this *most* weeks!
Amazing.

I'm a die-hard Lynch fan - what's to defend? I loved it and found the whole thing mesmerizing - I lost all concept of time while I was watching that shit.