Yeah I thought I read somewhere that he wasn't going to physically be in the new series, along with Bowie's Jeffries and ONtekan's Truman, but I was very happy to see him here, reprising my second favorite role of his one last time.

Albert was the perfect choice for this scene.

Love how they've honored the old motifs without repeating them. I can recall exactly one donut joke for all six episodes, but it wasn't even a donut; it was a picture of a donut.

Full disclosure: I carried on like a fool when this happened. I think I jumped and hooted at the TV like that in 1983, the first time I saw Michel Jackson do the moonwalk.

Yeah the "damn good joe" line was like that. You're 4 episodes into Twin Peaks, which so far has barely been in Twin Peaks, and you're waiting for a reminder that you are in fact still watching a show called Twin Peaks. Then it's not even the right line, like "Yippie Kay Yay My Friend." 25 years ago I might've only been 9 years old and had no clue what my parents were watching, but somehow it sunk in and this feels as familiar as Mayberry

Suburban pervert -> private eye -> kwisatz haderach -> FBI investigator -> damned spirit -> wandering vegetable -> lotto winner -> insurance claims investigator is a surprisingly common career path for those with the right education.

the lotto winnings were barely covering my student loans and then they told me I had to repeat the haderach part. Like they expect me to pay for my own gom jabbar? I was like Fuck that jazz!