A great example of why most critics are meaningless and mostly there to stare at their own navels.

I know. I hope he gets some recognition for the role. I'd seen him before (mostly on Knots Landing) but he's been terrific here.

I kept thinking this would end with her dying, but if she is just left with the spoils of their new life as he moves on that wouldn't be as bad.

Tom Sizemore was just so funny in the scene cowering behind the desk. Every time they keep having these characters reformed or purified by the goodness of Dougie, I still shake my head and laugh and yet it works. It's like Wonder Woman's lasso, in the form of Kyle Maclachlan.

I wonder if she may be working for Mike or the "good" arm.

I'm uneasy saying it as I don't want to say (I know you aren't saying this either) that he's hot when I think of the terrible things the character has done, but the actor really is very striking in how they present a young, soft guy being rough around the edges. Lynch frames it well, similar to what he did with…

It reminded me of old Lorenzo Lamas stuff. Others kept saying Over the Top, that Stallone movie.

I also love that even if we haven't seen any of it oncamera, Bobby has gone from the town brat who was going to set James up on drug charges to being such a good guy that James' uncle Ed sits him down for a meal and treats him like a son.

The work from the old Peaks vanguards in this episode impressed me a lot, especially when these scenes were so throwaway in of themselves in the larger narrative. I wasn't sure if I'd feel anything when I saw Ed again, because it had been so many episodes and I wasn't sure I was in the mood for more angst and…

That's where I thought they were going when the Fusco brothers said Dougie was an escaped convict. Of course they just laughed and threw it away.

What was the trolling in that one? Just curious.

There have been some critical complaints but I notice those who aren't attached to the show emotionally are more willing to give it a chance. The critic who seemed to be most attached emotionally threw the equivalent of a tantrum over the premiere.

Norma once told Ed that her entire life was the diner as she couldn't be with him. If the right person made her an offer I could see her agreeing, with conditions.

Oh that's right. I guess it looked the same to me from the outside.

To me she was in some kind of time loop herself. I think the constant clinking glasses that Hawk heard might have been her going to fix herself more booze, and we were hearing it over and over even as we saw her with Hawk.

I'm pretty sure they're saying that this is the same filling station. I spent that whole last scene waiting for a woodsman to materialize, say, "Gotta light?" and kill Ed. I was so relieved it didn't happen (yet anyway).

Neither have I. I thought she did a nice job with a scene where she mostly just had to be lovestruck or smitten. She did look like she was going die from embarrassment a few times. Anyway, I saw someone saying how glad they are that Lynch gives "B or C-list" actresses a chance on his show, naming Amanda Seyfriend or…

Lynch's work has always been attacked as much as praised - probably more than most directors in his position and length of career. The Dougie stuff has also been attacked from early on. I get why people would want it to wrap up. If I loved Cooper as much as some do, I might have been fed up as well. But to me the…

And Tom Sizemore being horrified and hiding away. It looked like Kyle was trying his very hardest not to break up.

For a long time I refused to completely invest because I figured it was just a stopgap to the inevitable return, but as Lynch took more and more time on all these random crazy characters, I've enjoyed it more and more. It's one of the funniest set pieces I've seen on TV in years - it's this strange cocktail of…