Yes, I'm saying it's subtle. It's impossible to work out what, exactly, happened to Jack at the end of the movie (just to pick one example) or what the twins — and the hotel — want with Danny, while King makes it all thuddingly clear.

Han Solo is "somewhat reminiscent of the Fonz"? Oh my God. That's the most insane thing I've read in days. I don't know whether you're a comic genius or irrevocably deluded.

That's where we've always been, man.

I do! That guy's hilarious (based on Hail Caesar).

No, apologies for being unclear: I'm saying that King says this, because he apparently doesn't understand the themes of his novel or how the story works on anything but a literal level. His view of the Overlook as "a locus of real evil" (which he felt that Kubrick just didn't "get") where you see the malevolent spirit…

It's a fascinating topic, actually. There's a few decades' worth of King's nasty commentary (in various venues) and then of course there's his own TV version from 1997 — intended to "fix" the problem — which, no comment.

I fucking hate Ron Howard and his schmaltzy movies (which are a relic of a very dark time in cinema; the Forrest Gump period), and his absolute disregard for reality as evinced in Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon and A Beautiful Mind, all three of which do extreme violence to the important factual history they're based on,…

Based on the interviews, I think T. J. Miller is having some kind of crazy ego catharsis moment that hasn't quite put him in the David Caruso/Terence Trent D'Arby danger zone, but he's getting close.

"I have a pretty good eye for a wad of yuan" would be great Harrison Ford narration that got removed decades later.

My only problem with all this (and it's a very small one — I thought it was fantastic) is just the old "nature of evil" conundrum that was the wedge between Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick. King hated Kubrick's The Shining for reasons that connect directly to lots of high/low-art debates and King's basic (and, I…

A lot of people may not remember, or be aware, that both 2001 and The Shining got mostly negative reviews when they were released (and of course they're both unimpeachable masterpieces today). Pauline Kael hated both of them. You can read nearly all the original reviews of 2001 collected in books and it's remarkable…

"I crush your head!"

Doesn't that make them too old?

That place was in color.

Jeff Bridges!

That's not very nice. These reviews are unusually intelligent (compared to other Twin Peaks analysis elsewhere) and have been filled with very smart conjecture.

Right; it's all a con. You're getting swindled. Good for you for figuring it out! The rest of us are losing our shirts over here; we can't help it. (We're so dumb.)

Thanks, again (I thanked you yesterday for another of your informed comments). Annotating Twin Peaks with real citations to spiritual/cultural/anthropological precedents is extremely valuable and interesting!

Each week, you can tell from the screen shots in the review how well Emily L. Stephens understands this show (and the entire David Lynch project). She always nails the exact frame when the sublime is captured; when things get most interesting.

I didn't know, or hadn't thought of, any of that. Thanks very much — it's very insightful and informative.