loved it. especially the "jelly remover for photo albums" callback. the last episode is very Stella.

Their taglines are classic examples of inept criticism:
Twin Peaks The Return is a show about returning.
This is a story about telling stories.
You get the drift.

You could ask that about every single episode.

And that AV Club grade: A -

Stop this. If this is leading into a "Belushi deserves an Emmy nod…" spiel than just stop. He's not great. He merely gets through the scenes and they're too short and underwritten to make anything of his performance. His performance was similar to any villian in a Zucker/Abrams movie.

it doesn't

most of the show commentary is fan gibberish

Your first though was right. The acting was horrible.

"If I’d encountered “The Return, Part 8” as a discrete hour-long experimental film, I’m not sure I’d be as impressed with it. " Classic

maybe he read the script

I'm enjoying enough to watch. I'm just saying if I wrote that the Lou Reed / Metallica album Lulu was a "perfect record" because it was "Unlike anything I've ever heard", that you would question my skill as a critic for obvious reasons.

Like anything you want, warts and all. But if you're a journalist, maybe discuss those warts too, instead of giving an automatic glowing review because you like the director.

I meant that everyone loved Twin Peaks so they want to love The Return. And I've only seen glowing reviews of The Return, despite some obvious flaws/bad writing/horrible acting. It's great that there are fans trying to decode endless possibilities from the Michael Cera speech, or James "always being cool", but I think…

It was a hastily written joke. You're looking too deeply into a comments section post, and Twin Peaks The Return.

I can enjoy something without thinking that it's the best. I liked most of season 1 and FWWM.

That explains the Michael Cera speech. That was genius obviously. A+

My opinion is that the next episode could be 60 minutes of static and it would still get an A-.

I liked most of Season 1 and Fire Walk With Me. I can enjoy something without saying "that was the best! Grade A". If a character thinks that they're Robert E Lee in this season, I'm sure that will have a deep meaning to someone and that's great, but just having someone say "octopus, tuberculosis, don't die" doesn't…

Some of these scenes are like Stella shorts, so if Michael Ian Black shows up for a cameo I will enjoy that.

There are a few scenes in last nights episode, all of them are too long, poorly written and acted. So Diane pops in for 10 seconds and that's something I guess.