Oh man. I loved Poi Dog Pondering at uni.

I could not hang with Fire Walk With Me. I remember thinking that all the quirk and humor that I loved in the show was not present in the movie at all. I'm so not good with jumpy-outy horror stuff, so I'm probably not the best reviewer.

But being a mad fan of Micheal J. Anderson (especially on Picket Fences), I could not NOT watch it.

eta: Oh my. Just googled M J A and discovered that the cheese seems to have slipped off his cracker since the Picket Fences day, which is why he is not in the TPeaks reboot.

Sad now.

When I watch American Gods - I feel like I'm in a fever dream.

Speaking of dreams, I watched episodes 2–4 of the new Twin Peaks last night. I went to bed thinking about it and drifted seamlessly into dreams. When I woke up it was really hard to figure out where my memories of the show stopped and the dreams began.

I mainlined old Twin Peaks this week. there were a lot of episodes I didn't see the first time through. Then I watched Fire Walk with Me. What an awful movie!

still, I want to see the new stuff, so I wanted to be ready.

Besides the fun of spotting the famous actors in tiny roles, is anyone else really bored, or maybe impatient with the new Twin Peaks?

This blew my mind. Mad Sweeny = Pornstache (from Orange is the New Black).

American Gods - I still don't love it, but I can't stop watching it.

The Leftovers - Blows my mind every single week. I might just cry after the last episode airs next week.

The Handmaid's Tale - So good! Difficult to watch sometimes, but so good!

I am loving American Gods but not in a "Oh, I need to go and post about it immediately" kind of way. The visuals are mind blowing and the acting is top notch, but not much has really happened in the story so far. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm happy to ramble through this world with these characters, but the show doesn't have a lot of narrative drive. It's been a long time since I read the book, but I seem to remember that it was the same. Still, I'm willing to settle in for the long haul. Plus, the cast is very pretty. There's always that.

This blew my mind. Mad Sweeny = Pornstache (from Orange is the New Black).

OMG! I knew he looks vaguely familiar, but I would never have figured that out without looking it up!

I too am addicted to the handmaid's tale. I was certain that Elisabeth Moss would get the Emmy for best actress, until I watched the last ep of the leftovers. OMG, Carrie Coon. Wow. She's been knocking it out of the park since the first season of this show. Gone Girl was lucky to get her. (She played the Ben Affleck's character's​ twin sister.) She is so good in everything, but boy howdy especially in the last episode.

I'm here to post this link, for anybody who binge watches the leftovers in the future and wants to geek out over how that perfect last ep was made. It's long and detailed and very interesting.

People who are into music may appreciate, that towards the end of the article, the 200 possible songs the music supervisor had provided to the producers at the start of the season that were not used are linked-to. I'm not a music person, I did not listen to them... It looks like you could hit play and it would go through all of them, but I could be wrong. [link]

Carrie Coon is currently the lead in S3 of Fargo, and she's fantastic.