Hiya folks. Sorry it took me so long to get back here, I've just been very busy the past few days. Besides, I decided that i'd watch the rest of the series before I said any thing else, and I just finished it last night, and here's my lowdown:
The good: in a word, the setting. Lynch did an absolutely superb job of blending past and present. On the one hand, you've got plenty of i-phones but at the same time you've got a lot of those old-fashioned rotary phones and even some of those early cell-phones, or mobile telephones as they were once called, that were carried in brief cases. So, it looks like the 80s, the 90s, the 20-teens, the 40s, the you-name-it, all seamlessly blended. The result is a world with an ethereal, utterly timeless feel, which I think is wonderful.
The bad: for every one question it answers, it asks 10 more, and of those 10, it leaves at least 9 unanswered, and, as a result, the end leaves you hanging. While the way the original series ended had everyone scratching their heads, the same is true here, only to a far greater degree, and so there's no sense of satisfaction or closure, only a sense of what the...?!?
Well, that's how I experienced it, anyway.
The ugly: in a word, Audrey!!! OMG what went so wrong?!?! I mean in the original, she was so gorgeous you couldn't believe it; now, she's uglier than a bucket full of you-know-what. And it wasn't just getting older. Monica Bellucci (who I was pleasantly surprised to see here) is still, while I know she's close to 50 now, she is still knock-your-socks-off gorgeous; but Sherilyn... well, to say she hasn't aged well is putting it nicely. Very nicely.
