"Let a smile be your umbrella!
It's fascinating to see the season continue to branch out after the Laura Palmer mystery is solved- was the second season supposed to last only as long as the first season did, with the rest of the season added on? Because, I have to say, it sort of feels like that... but absolutely not in a bad way.
The Major's disappearance isn't dwelt on, but I like Hawk's bit about the White Lodge and the Black Lodge. Then there's the subplot with poor Josie, as we learn about her past, only for her to be cruelly entrapped into being Catherine's maid... and then, the cliffhanger, her husband is not only alive but in league with Catherine and using his own wife as bait!
Then there's James, whose motorbike riding is always accompanied by rock 'n' roll, meeting a femme fatale in a bar. There's more school antics with Nadine, a very surreal wedding, and more passive aggressive rivalry between Dick and Andy, which Andy seems to be winning by niceness. I'm loving the mixture of the weird and the comedic with, for now, more emphasis on a lightness of tone. Although Ben Horne, for one, isn't having a good time in this episode.
Indeed, even the investigation into Agent Cooper, a seeming frame attempt, goes into the direction of a trans investigator played by none other than David Duchovny with some very 1990 attitudes to LGBT plus issues, albeit with no nasty culture war bigotry. Yeah... it feels so recent, but it was a different time!
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