I’m sorry she feels that way. I’m also not sure WHY she feels that way. The other artists this season got a full performance over the closing credits, sure. But her performance came at this incredibly climactic moment—it was beautifully framed, portentous and haunting. It reminded me of the sycamore tree song in the…

I’m assuming lodge entities don’t call it Judy, which is why he was confused.

Parks and Rec is wonderful from beginning to end, but never managed to top the Office in its prime. The first 4ish seasons of the office regularly combined some of the best humor on television with genuine pathos, heartbreak, elation. Parks and Rec was always just kind of...nice? So I would say Parks is a more…

Your “how’s Becky?” comment made me remember my fear that Cooper won’t acknowledge Annie after all this time. I do like the fact that he apparently learned quite a lot in his 25 years in the lodge, so he’s probably had time to come to grips with that. But as an audience member, I need closure on those iconic last…

I don’t think a piece of pop culture has ever made me smile that hard. Every single thing Kyle Maclachlan did was perfect—every nuance, every word. All culminating in the perfect line: I am the FBI.

I’m always down for TP podcast recommendations! I thought I had heard them all but this is new for me. I’ll check it out!

Somebody’s finally given me a reason to talk about all my hot takes on the very niche genre of Twin Peaks podcasts. I think I’ve tried every Twin Peaks podcast. Idle Thumbs’ is by FAR the best. “The Gifted and the Damned” comes out the quickest, but the two have exactly one “bit” they do, and their dynamic is…

Not to spoil anything but I can’t quite tell what’s up with that picture, because they’re definitely not ghosts in the actual episode.

My favorite sound design choice this season was the slow reintroduction of Badalamenti’s score. The first episode was almost entirely ambient. In the second and third we got some hints at brush drums. Then full blown Laura Palmer’s theme in Episode 4, and we’ve had more and more ever since. Many people have remarked…

Glaring omission: Freddy the Fist from Twin Peaks.

I’m still in denial, so I have no idea what you’re talking about

You mean downSTAR

Wait a minute, if you rearrange the letters of Caitlin Rosberg it spells “James T. Kinja,” the founder of Kinja.com!

I mean...it’s an incredibly influential game. But the open-world structure of GTA *still* defines most AAA non-FPS blockbusters to this very day. I wish Bioshock had been MORE influential, quite frankly.

I think I basically have abandoned my old AV Club legacy account. Once they did the switch to Disqus I basically HAD to use disqus, as the AVC login only worked about 40% of the time. Oh well. Farewell, pre-disqus-Skull Kid. Your Community and LOST-recap comments will forever exist inside my heart.

That's gotta be Judy, right?

As much as I'm loving this season, and as much as I loved this episode, I find myself really wondering what Lynch/Frost's original script was like. Because I feel that some moments which could have been incredibly powerful have lost their impact because of the overall structure of the season. For example, Chad. Seeing…

I might be in Venom.

I guess I don't tend to poke for plot holes in superhero movies. I'm not good about noticing them in general. Most of your points are valid aside from the first two—Bruce Wayne didn't put the cowl back on for all those years because he was afraid to, not because he couldn't. Last time he lost Rachel. Most of his arc…

How could you possibly not mention OK Computer?