This is incredible. I don't even know what else to say. It's just so good, from top to bottom.

This is gorgeous. It feels like a page out of an old children's book. The textures you were able to get on the clothes are amazing.

Brain Damage/Eclipse from Dark Side of the Moon is the best closer of all time.

I think this is a really fair point. I feel like sometimes it's not always necessarily fair, at least with some shows, to compare the worst parts of the show to the best parts of the show, at least if you're only comparing it like that and not comparing it to other shows at all.

Yeah, ultimately, solving the mystery was a mistake and it's the kind of seismic shift that's really hard for a show to just kind of... keep going after.

But I really think that season 2 gets a lot more hate than it deserves. There's definitely a rough period after they wrap up the solving of the mystery, but I think they did manage to rebound after a certain point, and there's a lot of good after that point. There are still flaws, and it's not as good as season1, but it's still pretty good television. The stretch of episodes that really struggle is not as big as many make it out to be.

And yeah, The Return is fantastic. The Secret History of Twin Peaks and The Final Dossier are also a lot of fun. They work as a great story, and the format, the structure of how the story is told, is so interesting and works so well. They do, of course, work best in tandem with the series. There are some bits in the book that can make you kind of obsess over "is this just a mistake, or is Frost trying to tell us something about what's happening in canon" that end up being kind of frustrating, though.

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes are also really interesting additions and quite good.

I'm no going to get involved in the discussion about whether tv ratings are real or not. I'm just going to say that I think you might be making a mistake in thinking that tv ratings can perfectly line up with the tv ratings that share the same letter ratings. I imagine that whatever criterion they do or don't have for television ratings is probably different in a lot of ways to the criteria for film ratings.

I really enjoyed this. I put it on Sunday morning knowing absolutely nothing about it. Saw it on Amazon Prime, saw it had Peter Capaldi in it, and I started watching it. I got sucked right the hell and breezed through the whole thing in one sitting. The performances are definitely the high point of the show, but I thought they did a really good job of delivering a mystery that was weird, spooky, and sci-fi-ish all at the same time. I wonder if the ending was hook for a second season or not.