I wouldn't be so quick to assume. Let's not forget that Lynch was responsible for "Just You and I."

*smiles* Call for help.

I hope it's not the case and he's just having himself a good old extended luau, but did anyone else detect some significance in the repeated mentioning of Harry's illness? It still strikes me weird that Michael Ontkean was a longtime booster for revival and then all of a sudden wasn't.

I'd really like to believe every soul can be rehabilitated, but yes, there are limits. There's an exchange from one of the rarer cuts of Manhunter that sums up my feelings pretty well:

Another e-miserable twentysomething reporting in. Following the election I found myself constantly getting sucked into moronic comment section spats (particularly on YouTube - I know it's the fetid asshole of the Internet, but I have terrible impulse control). Even when the other party was clearly not arguing in good…

Good to hear! I was concerned because this struck me as reminiscent of FWWM in its ominous tone, out of town excursions, and preoccupation with the Lodge stuff. "Loyalty to the original series" might have been too general - I suppose I was thinking of the particular sort of viewer that came for the soapiness and humor…

Good point - could well be! Still wondering what the hell Jacoby's up to in the woods.

…Even so.

That was straight-up unadulterated Lynch and I fucking loved it. Too beside myself to formulate anything more cogent, but yeah, I'm just so glad he's back and doing his crazy thing. The vast majority of that episode was awesome enough that I'm willing to forgive "James was always cool."

That always pisses me off. As if you can't easily flip it by saying the loved ones are being selfish in expecting the person to continue suffering horribly for their sake.

Yeah, I didn't see it coming in the slightest (to the point where I genuinely gasped and did a double take when the news scrolled along the ticker this morning). I'd read he struggled with depression and addiction when he was young, but it seemed like that was all well behind him. Maybe this was a DFW-esque "back with…

This. I work in a predominantly Republican rural community (that he took, naturally) and have encountered a number of generally okay people who are simply existing on another plane due to exclusive consumption of right-wing propaganda.

"Does this include a gratuity?" "YES SIR!"

I just love that something as deeply strange and uncompromising as the Saga of Señor Droolcup actually aired on prime time network TV. Imagine the average channel surfer stumbling across that stuff.

More than a little late to the game with A Manual for Cleaning Women (then again, almost everyone missed out on Lucia Berlin in her time). Masterful short stories, frequently bleak but always beautifully written, with an undercurrent of wry humor to balance out the darkness. The comparisons to Carver, Paley, Hempel et…

I'm always surprised by the contrast between Annie and Alison. She played a pretty convincing 18-year-old in general for being in her late 20s.

Same here, but I see it as a perk.

Not to put it on a level (yet), but I'll nominate Mark Felt as a testament to the potential significance of anonymous sources. I'll concede that they may be overused in recent reporting, but don't you find the sieve-like rate at which this WH leaks to be indicative of some serious tumult? They can't ALL be partisan…

Putting aside the knee-slapper that is ascribing a "progressive socialist agenda" to the Democratic party, I'm sincerely curious: are you actually about anything but spite? Or have years of toxic rhetoric replaced any semblance of good faith ideology with a blind determination to drag everyone else down to your level?

Okay, full disclosure, I tossed off my reply in the name of lulz. Going by that overwrought paean to post-truth, I hoped you'd take the bait and spin out into an oblivion of parenthetical apoplexy. Reluctant kudos on being a bit less predictable than the average Breitbart/whatever-chan interloper.