She's a morning pick-me-up…no, more like a rocket, a pocket rocket.

I think she's managing a multinational corporation with all that paperwork.

I think that's right.

"How long have I been out?"

Donna was fantastic in the first two or three episodes and then Lara Flynn Boyle suddenly decided she was the manifestation of sex incarnate and needed a million closeups and cigarettes and Ray-bans and a whole new vamp/sexpot persona (while her offscreen affair with MacLachlan empowered her to demand that the show…

Oh, okay. Thanks for straightening me out.

When Harry Dean Stanton gamely produced that penny whistle and blew it…Oh my God was that great.

I'm a fan of Alicia Witt from The Sopranos (and, much more recently, on The Walking Dead) but I never dreamed it was the same actress as played Gersten — even though I and my friends routinely quote her "Now that some time has passed" poetry lines from the Twin Peaks pilot.

But she's always been like that. Shelley was perennially kind of out-of-focus — it worked since it made her relationship with Leo seem more plausible.

That whole bit was brilliant.

The whole Bobby/Shelley/Norma vibe is wonderful! It's so real — you really do believe that the town's been existing all these years without us watching, like a game of SimCity that's left running in another room.

Address was "Sycamore" something, like the "Sycamore Trees" song in the last episode of Season 2, (and, in general, in the area around the Black Lodge).

The pianist was quietly hilarious — like a Muppet, or "Sam" from Casablanca, his arms didn't seem to be moving at all, and he was sort of peering vaguely down at the keyboard, like, "Say, nice music…am I doing this?"

I also thought of Rust Cohle's visions (although I'd never noticed the similar names, I think there may be some deliberate echoing going on, in whichever direction). It had me kind of wishing that the new show had the superior effects and more contemporary technical artistry of True Detective (color grading, etc.) but…

Fantastic review as always! So perceptive — affectionate yet critical.

Once again…watching it a second time, and falling in love.

Think of Shatner as Sean Connery and Pine as Daniel Craig.

NEVERTHELESS

I've been noticing that from the beginning. She's great at it. The stills always get me re-thinking the episode, and mulling over scenes or moments that I hadn't paid quite enough attention to.

Pretty much every time a non-artist critic lectures about "rules" that "can't be broken," they're proven wrong. It's a losing game because people like that are always on the wrong side of the history of the development of art.