I definitely don't think Sarah was under the influence of Judy or any other Lodge spirit, or that she was herself evil or malevolent, during the events of FWWM and the original series. At most, *maybe* she could have done more to figure out what Leland/BOB was doing to Laura, but I don't think she r...

IMO "What did this contribute to the plot?" is the wrong way to look at the Las Vegas scenes. They're in there because they contain moments of staggering beauty via Dougie's glimpses of self-assertion and lucidity, and they don't really need any more reason to exist than that. I'm unlikel...

This might actually make for a satisfying interpretation in my book. It doesn't negate any one timeline or another as "not real," it doesn't require us to view the series as partly or mostly taking place inside the mind of Cooper, Cole, Jeffries, Monica Bellucci, or anybody else, and it p...

Now that it's all over, I think the biggest disappointment for me was that all the Las Vegas material really amounted to very little. While I did develop a certain affection for Dougie, Janey-E, and Sonny Jim, I'm not sure that all the time spent on them was worth the trade-off in terms of how littl...

What if the "dreamers" are the supernatural entities exerting an influence on our world that they themselves don't fully perceive or understand either? Maybe, just as they seem oblique and confusing when characters like Cooper, the rest of the Blue Rose team, and Briggs encounter them, our...

Has it been established whether Frost spent much time on the set and if he was involved in the editing process at all? I'm just wondering how much he knew about how the episodes were being put together. I'm assuming that he at least saw the finished products before they aired. As much as I like Lync...

As for reconciling the two...I don't necessarily see one as negating the other as long as you assume that either these are alternate realities or the two realities can coexist in some fashion. Laura is wearing her hair "Carrie"-style when she appears to Cooper in the Red Room in Episodes 1...

My interpretation of ending is that Coop, perhaps across many timelines (or worlds or whichever) is trying to save Laura. He thinks saving her means preventing her death, for he can't come to terms with the idea that her life was what she needed saving from, not her death. Thus, every time he tries...

Somewhat off topic, but I always found Lynch's dismay about the killer-reveal pretty petty. Leland's confession was one of the strongest episodes of the show, and apart from that: Never revealing the killer wouldn't work at all. I mean the core focus was Cooper's investigation all along! Maybe they...

It seemed like Albert softened a little after his "I love you, Sheriff Truman" scene in the original series. Maybe he hadn't fully grasped, prior to that, the extent to which his brusque manner contradicted his stated ideals and started to give people like Harry (with whom Albert definitel...

This is all one reason I find the "angry, bitter Lynch has lost his faith in the world and made this work to express his fury" readings a bit wild. In a sense, except for the late 80s (when Twin Peaks was first conceived) Lynch has never had it better. It did seem like Lynch was on a traj...

But Laura's remark can just as well mean she lives in a parallel universe which is not inconsistent with the finale. Relatively speaking there's far more indicating Cooper was fulfilling what the spirits needed him to and was on the right track than whichever version of Cooper being a moron and cau...

The whole rationale based on Cooper having a hero complex has one huge weak point. Cooper did barely anything heroic out of his own nature alone. He was always put on that path by either the people who wanted to be saved by him, the FBI when it comes to Laura's case or the entities from the surreal...

Normas speech rejecting the business world was all about these people are my family. It might well reflect your idea of Lynches business practice, but the fact is that putting family before business comes from a womans mouth, contextualising Norma within a conservative feminine role. Hardly Catheri...

Not an inconsistency, per se, but it's interesting how the book presents the US government as sinister and enmeshed in coverups (in the manner of much conspiracy fiction), but the show doesn't take this tack at all, presenting what we've seen of the military and FBI with the same '50s-style straigh...