For my money, TP:TR’s last 20 minutes are the most authentically nightmarish scenes that Lynch has ever filmed - not just unsettling and wrong but unsettling and wrong in a quiet and invisible way - and it’s a perfect ending. The whole point of the season, the punchline to the title, is that you can’t go back. It’s a…

“Well...Cooper got out of the lodge and they all managed to beat BOB...but then maybe all of reality has been rewritten now? Marge, I don’t understand. Is that a happy ending or a sad ending?”

I dunno, seems to me like we’ve set up the possibility of a Twin Peaks 2.0 with McLachlan and Lee (and maybe Dern) as the only returning actors. The focus would be on Coop trying to make sense of Judy’s dimension where he’s “Richard” and Laura is “Carrie Page”and nothing is familiar.

But didn’t we still get some of that love/joy/redemption? Big Ed, Norma, and Nadine’s resolution, Freddie finding his destiny, the Mitchum brothers finding their heart, the Jones’ reunited (with a hopefully better Dougie). There was some light with the darkness.

At the end of part 17 I thought to myself that Twin Peaks actually has a lot of recognizable logic to it... then came part 18. It’s a suiting horrific end to this surreal masterpiece.

Whenever Twin Peaks isn’t on the air, the other shows should ask ‘Where is Twin Peaks?’ Or ‘Why isn’t Twin Peaks showing right now?’

Twin Peaks had a cliché ending? I’m worried that I have been using the word cliché incorrectly my entire life.

I knew I got lucky when I saw Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee appear (neither of them had been spotted filming previously in Washington State and the Washington shoot was nearly complete) but I didn’t realize how lucky I was!

Lucy shooting Mr. C was very reminiscent of Andy shooting Jacques Renault in the season 1 finale.

“YOU’VE GONE SOFT IN YOUR OLD AGE.”

I UNDERSTAND CELL PHONES NOW

Maybe it’s Baby’s First Critical Analysis to suggest that Twin Peaks: The Return is an extended meditation on both itself and the original run of episodes, but that’s the most coherent interpretation I have so far. I guess the only insight less piercing than that would be “Dale Cooper symbolically represents the…

I agree with you, but it’s not an unimpeachable opinion. Parks was at it’s worst in seasons 1 and 2, not to mention it completely ripped off the faux documentary style from The Office. I think 30 Rock is the true underrated show of that era.

Parks and Rec is the superior show.

Do yourself a favor and watch season 1. Then, while you’re handing out favors, don’t bother with season 2.

The video for “Mickey” was probably part of my sexual awakening as a kid, but song-wise I prefer Weird Al’s version: