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It seems destined that we're not going to get Cooper back (or Audrey) until the very end of the season. Worse, we may not get them "back" at all. If that happens, will everyone just give Lynch a pass? I'm having a big issue with it as a fan of the original series. If TP is going to be something different, at least bring closure to those elements, otherwise it's just intentional audience manipulation IMO.

When the Blu-Ray comes out this episode will be titled "Deleted Scenes". They even recycled Au Revoir Simone at the end. Awful.

Ugh. Just ugh.

Oh please. That's as pretentious as Sunday's show.

It's not fan service. It's the only coherent narrative the show runners have given us to latch onto. The rest has been music videos and unrelated vignettes. I'd argue the old cast cameos are much more fan service than anything we've seen with the Cooper thread.

All of the Return episodes are not available making this episode particularly ungrounded and frustrating until the others are released.

Where did I say it wasn't allowed to be manipulative? It can be anything it chooses to be. However, that doesn't make it compelling or good, which IMO it was wasn't.

I get why some like this, but as a viewing experiencing of an episodic show it was beyond frustrating. It would be one thing if all the episodes were available, but they're not. It's manipulation, especially as they continue to dangle the Cooper thread in our face each week just to jerk the rug out from under us to go on some free form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd. Jesus, if I wanted a NIN video I'd Phillip Jeffries back to 1994. If I wanted 2001, I'd pop in the Bluray. This was Lynch letting his uneditable ego run wild, and now we have to wait TWO weeks before we get anything of narrative consequence, or more likely 22 minutes of Norma flossing her teeth which many will claim to be brilliant.