I have heard of Ausiello and remember him from TV Guide, but this site was new to me. He basically complains that a director who has been given the freedom to create a magnum opus didn't just do the "Fuller House" thing and continue a show from 1990 in the exact same way.

Exactly. It's strange to me that a bunch of people who literally saw Cooper chasing himself around in the finale and heard multiple direct references to him being a doppelganger don't get that. There was no "good Leland" in the Lodge when he killed Laura. He was possessed. Coop, not so much.

But only one bit the big one, bay-bee.

People saw a show, they want to talk about it with other people who saw the show. The majority are being respectful about using spoiler tags or not revealing specific info. That's not "acting like children on a playground with a secret." That's called "acting like adults who want to discuss something other adults saw."

It's very unlikely that Lynch would hire a man who publicly accused him of raping his own daughter and killing his good friend.

It's not Bob. It never was Bob. It's Cooper's doppelganger.

1. I think a lot of people are assuming this character is basically BOB, and I think they're all wrong. Even the mechanism is entirely different than when BOB possessed Leland. This is a doppelganger, a "dark side" of Cooper, and it entirely makes sense that the evil version of Coop would share his traits, including a…

There only two reasons I give this a B+ and not an A is that the "This is all one movie" approach is a bit more limiting than it is expansive. If it had been structured as a television series I suspect we would have had tonal shifts from horror to comedy to surrealism to realism and back again in a more or less…

Short people got no reason to live…

Why not both?

Is that David Lynch in this case or Showtime? I feel like if I pitched a family sitcom there I'd get back, "This is great, but we need 20% more tits."

I saw that and was touched by it, just the same way I was touched by David Bowie's "Lazarus" video. If I have to go in a horrific, lingering way I hope I have as much courage as they did to make something profound out of it.

There are a lot of people who for whatever reason are mouth-frothingly angry at the prequels and Lucas for making them (I've never been one of them), but even they should be able to recognize that, they had a point of view and there was a vision behind them even if the execution was flawed or even terrible. And…

Suicidal ideation is in many cases normal coping behavior in times of sorrow, and the majority of people who experience it do not attempt suicide — but ideation over a continual period of time is a fairly reliable sign of clinical depression or other psychiatric illness, and without treatment can lead to circumstances…

I think the best way to see this is to NOT have seen the original recently. If looked at through the fogginess of memory (or the even greater fog of lack of knowledge), the film holds up surprisingly well on its own. I saw Trainspotting 20 years ago and enjoyed it, but never loved it the way some people do (perhaps…