I'm calling complete bullshit on that second paragraph. That's the classic "you just don't understand" defense from the most hardcore Lynch fans on the internet, or fans of any director when they see criticism they don't like. I'm addressing what's actually in the show. Where has it ever delved into how "complicated"…

No, I agree, it's especially egregious that she doesn't notice. It's absurd. I think people find her endearing because it's Naomi Watts and aside from her obliviousness to Dougie stands up to criminals and such.

True. Basically everyone around Dougie is oblivious that he's brain damaged, even the fucking doctor was like "he's fine!".

This is what I was going to post. Murdering Miriam could have been done off-camera and established through his phone call to the cop.

It's more about Janey-E, I think. I don't know where that character can possibly go if Coop doesn't decide to continue a life with her, and it would seem impossibly cruel even for Lynch to have her killed off. Coop just isn't the kind of guy who would abandon her.

Thank you. And that was my exact take on it too, It felt like too much even though I was well aware what to expect going into the season. Richard kills a girl, stops her letter from being delivered, shortly after beats an elderly woman and calls her a c**t, and then Amanda Seyfried gets verbally assaulted, etc. I…

Already surpassed Joffrey territory.

I'm still kind of undecided on Diane. If she's basically a servant of Mr. C as Albert seemed to imply, that would be hugely disappointing. Till now she seemed like a wounded victim of his and I thought if she had an arc where she overcomes that, it would be powerful, but now I don't know. As for Constance, you're…

Fair point, but I don't see why that has to mean there are no female characters that stand on their own, are powerful themselves, or are even really drawn out that well. Janey-E is the only one that comes to mind as decently well written and who actually stands up to people. For all the time spent on the casino…

Laura in FWWM was probably one of his best written and realized female characters, actually. I just wish there was more of that in this season. Janey-E is pretty good but still kind of a thinly drawn character that just reacts to Dougie.

Right, I've never thought he wants to hurt women or anything like that, just that his worldview is frankly kind of sexist at times. I also haven't even gotten into how he fetishises the disabled during dark or creepy scenes like in the first episode of S3, that by simply having a disabled person present during an…

lmao. "No criticism allowed." I said at the end I love the show and I love his work, this isn't a deal breaker for me, but I felt it was worth pointing out.

Lynch has always had problems in his treatment of female characters, between fetishising them and making them the victim, but this might have been the worst 1 hour block of it I've seen from him. Women being murdered, beaten, being called c**ts, being lorded over by their employers, used as arm candy (Tammy), the list…

edit: nevermind

I liked the Sandor stuff, and Arya, but generally this is kind of what I expected in that this season is going to mainly be focused on preparing for the white walkers and wrapping up the loose ends like Littlefinger and such. I'm just not really as excited as I was for prior seasons now that we know what to expect for…

Better late than never. If an alcoholic who fucked up a bunch of peoples lives and drank for 30 years steps into AA, I'll begrudgingly accept him in in the hopes one day he does something good for someone, rather than tell him to fuck off into oblivion.

Being cruel and petty doesn't make you sound cool, it makes you sound like a moron.

I get that Lynch is a perv and wanted a hot actress strutting around everywhere for him to do his scenes with, but couldn't he have found someone better than this?

Rise was completely mediocre outside of Andy Serkis's performance. Dawn was damn amazing, and I'm very excited for War. Since there's still presumably quite a lot between the end of War and the beginning of Planet of the Apes proper, I wonder if they'll try to get some more movies out of this or just do a time jump in…

There's no chance Lynch is showing up, even if he did he won't answer a single question. It'll probably be Mark Frost and the main cast.