Simpsons, right? Baseball episode?

Agreed. It's like, it's become the convention with police procedurals to put a "colorful" persona as the coroner, in order to detract from the dull-exposition quality of those scenes (from Se7en to Prime Suspect to True Detective to The Night Of etc. etc.) and Twin Peaks is doing that in an interesting, self-aware way…

Wait — I'm sorry, but what did I say that pissed you off?

Like Kubrick, or (the underrated) Bennett Miller, who, in the commentary track for Capote, said his purpose in the opening two minutes of titles was "to slow everyone down."

Baby out of wedlock? (So he's named "Horne"?)

No, it's absolutely chronological.

Yeah, that's his body while his head is floating around sideways saying "Blue Lodge," in "non-ex-ist-ence."

Not really. She's still demanding that a man give her everything for free.

Make sure you're watching the highest-quality, highest-resolution copies of the episodes. The stark, plain aesthetic isn't flattered by low-resolution or compression.

I think that's exactly what it was. And, I think "restored" Coop will retain that ability.

That actor's really good. He's in Fight Club as the baggage guy at the airport who insinuatingly tells Edward Norton how luggage gets pulled if it contains "a dildo" (towards the beginning).

Marvel Studios' recent adoption of the 1970s "Bubblicious"/neon/airbrushed van/Atari aesthetic is one of the greatest things ever.

They're still within the "title safe" margins of the embedded 4/3 frame…mostly.

Yeah, but Betty is Stephen Hawking compared to Janey-E.

Ha! Good point.

It can be read as a brilliant, snide caricature of humdrum, everyday American life — people are so engrossed in their shallow, petty little consumerist patterns of behavior that they aren't paying any attention to each other or thinking at all. I especially liked the encounter with the couple at the casino two…

It reminded me (excuse the extreme nerdliness) of Captain Picard in "the nexus" seeing what his life would be like if he had a wife and kids.

That whole opening 25 minutes is, in my opinion, just stunning. It's beautifully shot and scored, and paced with a sense of growing menace, and all the performances are good…and I love the town that's the anti-Twin Peaks (the sheriff's a jerk; the coffee's terrible etc.). And the "blue rose" dialogue has haunted me…

It absolutely showed Laura's death!

Exactly. With respect to folkinghippy, I hate this argument and how often it comes up.