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Season 2, Episode 2 felt like the weakest of the Lynch-directed episodes (I've no doubt the finale will leave up to at least some expectations, so I'm calling it now). In my post on s2e01 that I've fudged, I noted having had the same inevitable gripes with his style of discourse and connecting with me as a watcher - for which "hey man, you couldn't see stuff like this on television back in those days" argument is just not sufficient -- but in retrospect now, I'll take even that heavily stretchmarked scene with The Waiter over much from this episode. The most notable stuff was probably the scene in which James, Donna and Maddy sing a song and I've no idea what that was for at all. Or the times BOB shows up - who seems to be pushed to "shit-getting-real" levels now - another thing I mentioned about s2e01 that was lost was how 2spooky its last two minutes were.
Season 2, Episode 3, 'The Man Behind the Glass'... mucho mejor. Firstly I thought the screenplay was really sharp, with lines and moments that just stuck on landing. That Albert-Truman exchange was just what the shit. Even Hawk's snarky quips together with Lucy and Richard caught me chuckling. Characters were introduced in a way that was explainable -- except for maybe that Asian stalking dude (Lynch, bro, if you're going to add a tertiary Asian strange character, you need to have him steal the show right away and then vanish... look, like The Coens did).
Bless you, James, it took you three episodes to notice stuff about Donna changing, that I did ever since the first episode of the season. On that note, the new J - D - M love triangle is not something I'd label as desirable, but I suppose it is inevitable for the soapy substrata of this show (and lo and behold, they plunged right into it this episode) - also probably speaks of how people start reflecting the image of Laura onto Maddy, or how Maddy herself might get enamoured with being the substitute of her lookalike icon, who knows.
Audrey being stuck for so long at One Eyed Jacks is also something I'm not enjoying to the fullest, mostly because I feel Audrey is a character needs to be out there, everywhere, anywhere, the way she was in season 1; on the other hand, she's probably now used as the female token descending in the same dark place as Laura once did. The plot advance here is just too slow, simply because Cooper is dumb or distracted at figuring out (surely the tuxedo bit should have tipped him off that he wore it not only at the Northern), with nothing truly alarming happening to Audrey in the process either. Oh, she was gagged this episode? And nothing else? Oh my, what danger.
Holy frak that Nadine scene. Finally something to remember her other than the Tarantino throwback (or is it... throw-... forward?).
MIKE's reappearance in the episode only reminded me of the most bugging question that I forget about from one episode to the next... where da hell happened to Mike?
Honestly, one of the best eps overall from those I've watched.
Season 2, Episode 3, 'The Man Behind the Glass'... mucho mejor. Firstly I thought the screenplay was really sharp, with lines and moments that just stuck on landing. That Albert-Truman exchange was just what the shit. Even Hawk's snarky quips together with Lucy and Richard caught me chuckling. Characters were introduced in a way that was explainable -- except for maybe that Asian stalking dude (Lynch, bro, if you're going to add a tertiary Asian strange character, you need to have him steal the show right away and then vanish... look, like The Coens did).
Bless you, James, it took you three episodes to notice stuff about Donna changing, that I did ever since the first episode of the season. On that note, the new J - D - M love triangle is not something I'd label as desirable, but I suppose it is inevitable for the soapy substrata of this show (and lo and behold, they plunged right into it this episode) - also probably speaks of how people start reflecting the image of Laura onto Maddy, or how Maddy herself might get enamoured with being the substitute of her lookalike icon, who knows.
Audrey being stuck for so long at One Eyed Jacks is also something I'm not enjoying to the fullest, mostly because I feel Audrey is a character needs to be out there, everywhere, anywhere, the way she was in season 1; on the other hand, she's probably now used as the female token descending in the same dark place as Laura once did. The plot advance here is just too slow, simply because Cooper is dumb or distracted at figuring out (surely the tuxedo bit should have tipped him off that he wore it not only at the Northern), with nothing truly alarming happening to Audrey in the process either. Oh, she was gagged this episode? And nothing else? Oh my, what danger.
Holy frak that Nadine scene. Finally something to remember her other than the Tarantino throwback (or is it... throw-... forward?).
MIKE's reappearance in the episode only reminded me of the most bugging question that I forget about from one episode to the next... where da hell happened to Mike?
Honestly, one of the best eps overall from those I've watched.