God, I hate Ben Affleck and his insufferable, smug, fake-emotive onscreen persona…and his "intellectual" offscreen schtick.

You've pinpointed the major problem of the age — arty TV shows!

I'm really tired of your commentary, but on the other hand you seem smart and reasonable, so I'm not going to disrespect you as others have done. I know I can't change your mind, but I wish I could, because I'm convinced that a trivial attitudinal problem is interfering with what could be a fantastic, joyous viewing…

Respectfully, I don't think so. The red room was pretty clearly "the black lodge" in S2.

I noticed how ridiculous she was, without knowing that was his wife. Agreed; shades of Yoko (although nobody could be worse than Yoko).

He always dares to say "those thongs"

And check out the "matroska" file format. Great for movies!

YES! Watching it a second time, I noticed how great that was — like, deep inside it's the same person, with his same quirky grasp of colloquialisms.

The music when the Woodsmen surround Evil Coop's body is Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" slowed down to like 20% speed.

And the room Coop was in, was shown in color. And it had that fucked-up time effect (like the Woodsmen in #8).

I may have misunderstood you on a simpler level: I assumed you meant "End of Act I" as the first of three acts (which would possibly have arrived at the end of episode 6), not two acts (which would come right now, or next episode.)

If the whole thing were five hours longer, sure. (The next episode is the halfway point, sad to say.)

Respectfully, you — and the rest of us — have no idea what's coming.

Wait a minute, what about that plangent music over the dissolving aerial shots of Vegas that opened episode four or five?

I always thought it would have been vastly funnier if Homer had just said "Brilliant!" and left it at that.

Just don't say it three times.

But my point is, had you gone to the theater in 1968 and seen it, given the morés of the time and the critical consensus and the baffled/angry audience members around you, you would have had a similar reaction to the one you're having now to Twin Peaks The Return #8. 2001 is already canonized as a masterpiece and the…

He's the Fredrich Engels of Twin Peaks.

And yet here we are in Twin Peaks' version of 1945 looking at a building labeled "Convenience Store."

Lynch is doing this on purpose and it's his core mission, his main intention. I wish you and everyone else who doesn't like it would dispense with this fiction that he's