I do like that we see Ray Wise in the new series. Perhaps not so absolved, in the end.

Ray Wise does such an excellent job here. As you say, right to the end.

Cooper is susceptible on two fronts - on his wonderful Boy Scout values and his own past mistakes. The Boy Scout is too certain that everything will be okay in the end, and his mistakes mean his courage falters and sinks when the Lodge presents him with a vision of Caroline.

I get that. And Ben Sasse is decidedly not my favorite, but he wasn't making a racist remark. He was just being Midwestern as hell.

No, it's a reference to the way rural Midwestern teenagers "walk beans" and detassle corn as a summer job. Half my high school did summer work in the fields. Paid better than everything else did.

TEAM BARB

You seem like you're fun at parties.

Oh, I understand Jade. Jade took action to get him someplace where he could conceivably get help. I was referring more to everyone he interacts with inside the casino for more than a couple of minutes - the woman who makes his change clearly notices something's wrong, his pseudo-work-buddy and buddy's wife notice…

You just don't understand his ~pain~

I like it even in relation to Twin Peaks. I thought it gave a lot of complexity to a few different characters (the mewling, grating "I thought you always knew it was me!" said by a certain character at the end suggests a truly terrible fact that is only ever implied in the series itself) and Sheryl Lee played the hell…

Yeah, but DoppelCoop had only just escaped into the world. I felt like the crazed laughter was in response to a sudden freedom. You get a sense of the orderly, organized side of Dale Cooper already seeping - DoppelCoop's first big NEED is to brush his teeth. That's a very Dale Cooper fixation. Then he gets into the…

He is legitimately IN a motorcycle accident after said long and pointless subplot, though. I actually wasn't sure whether or not he survived it, so it was neat to have them reference that and mention that he's "quiet" now - suggests some kind of long-term damage from it.

Yes, Emerald and Jade were identical twins played by the same actress, a great nod to Maddy and Laura (who, granted, were cousins - although I feel like there was an implication Leland may have been Maddy's biological father, too).

Especially considering Bobby's breakdown with Dr. Jacoby in Season 1, where it becomes clear that Bobby was actually doing okay before he got involved with Laura, and his relationship with her is what sent him off track into dealing drugs and being a general ill-tempered juvenile delinquent.

To play Dale Cooper not yet having found his way back to living takes an incredible talent for subtlety. To play Evil!Cooper takes an incredible talent for overt maliciousness. To play BOTH those things with utter believability… I am in awe of Maclachlan's work here.

I always thought that's the main reason the otherwise absolutely over-the-top One Eyed Jack's scene with Benjamin Horne worked so well. When he realized Audrey had been the one behind the mask, you could SEE his self-loathing and realization of how lost Audrey had gotten while he was ignoring her on his face.

If I hadn't been promised Sherilyn Fenn's return I wouldn't have watched the new TP at all, it just would have been hollow without her. She gave Audrey such an innate decency hidden under layers of spoiled-little-rich-girl and did a really compelling job of showing when Audrey's better instincts fought against her…

The mysterious billionaire is referred to as male a couple of times. Although that still wouldn't rule out Audrey, this being the Twin Peaks universe where people get away with seriously obvious disguises all the time (Catherine as the Japanese businessman comes to mind).

Oh, right, I always forget about that scene with Pete. Yeah, she's probably haunting the Great Northern, so to speak. I wish Joan Chen had stuck around on the show, because I felt like Josie's storyline had so much potential that ended up utterly squandered.

Yeah, that slightly long beat after Wally finishes his insane rambling monologue and then the sheriff is just like, "All right then, bye" - I actually laughed out loud.